Young Aspiring Artists is my first-ever podcast. I gained the inspiration for this show from watching past news footage of Taylor Swift from back when she was in high school. It made me wonder: could a student at my school become the future's biggest pop artist? Could they create the next decade's blockbuster film? Hence, in this podcast, I interview student artists from my school about their work and their plans for the future. It serves as a keepsake of their progress as well as a way for people to find emerging artists to support!
Find my podcast on Scot Scoop or on Spotify.
Throughout my journey making podcast episodes, my goal was to gradually shift from a strict interview style to a more conversational tone. This episode is a good reflection of that! I learned how to be more flexible about where the conversation went, adding my own comments responding to Rhianna Barbe's explanations, giving the episode a more casual and engaging effect. This episode was also much more fun to record, as I was able to more fully immerse myself in the conversation freely instead of keeping quiet and simply asking questions.
Read episode description here (part 1) and here (part 2)
As the time limit for Scot Scoop podcasts is 15 minutes, my editor suggested I split up the episode into two parts. However, I still struggled to edit the audio down to 30 minutes for two episodes. Through this experience, I learned how to decide what elements are most essential and interesting to the episode's story. For example, listeners would be more interested in hearing about the art than the college application process.
Read episode description here (part 1) and here (part 2)
When I was creating questions to ask Samantha Roberts for my second episode, I began to focus more on why people should listen to my podcast in the first place. Roberts wanted to pursue screenwriting, for example, so I created questions to shift the conversation towards the importance of screenwriting in society.
This was my first podcast episode, so I had to get over the learning curve. I had to figure out my set-up, how to use Premiere Pro, and how to conduct a podcast interview. As a result, the conversation was more of an article-interview style, but I'm glad I was able to push myself out there and learn about Sienna Hubert's experience singing and writing songs.