Adventures in Podcasting

Occasionally the rollercoaster ride that is Blockstack TV, takes a dip. The dip was the realisation that we had made another dud. The first recording of Episode 5 was so bad that even with 10 minutes chopped off the end it was still unwatchable. YAWN.

Problems included:

• Too much self indulgent banality
• Me and Steve fighting to have the last word (Steve usually winning)
• No energy
• We look bored
• Even Clary wasn't very funny

Sometimes it may not seem like it but we do want to be professional in some ways, so we made the tough and time consuming decision to film it again.

That was last night at my house . Here's how it went.

• Tom goes to post office to fetch new adapters to simplify mic cabling
• Steve arrives with the rest of the crew
• Test new mic adapters - thumbs up
• Put camera on charge
• Talk about loads of stuff, none of it related to show (iMac, growing tomatoes, blah blah blah)
• Drink
• New member of crew arrives
• Have nice meal, more drink
• Call Clary
• Mic up and plan show (Do you think we should have done this earlier???)
• 10.45pm start recording show
• 11.20pm Battery goes flat
• Check video to see where it got too, realise there was no sound all night!
  
• Decide that we are going to do this thing if it kills us, more drink
• Some crew goes home, rest of crew concede that staying over is unavoidable and get stuck into more drink
• 12.15am Start recording show take 3
• Nail it
• 1.30am Play Star Wars Lego on XBOX 360
• 2.00am Go to bed

Of course for every dip in the rollercoaster there is a high point too. The episode is good, Clary is brilliant, we had great fun making it.

I'm editing this one so look out for it coming up very soon.

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