Season 6: Episode 6

Title: Meet the Podcast

Summary: In this episode, UAlbany students Arely Gonzalez Hernandez, Asia Harris, Bianca Zazzarini-Leon, and Alexa Crespo discuss their experience while working on the podcast. They talk about their favorite moments and episodes, their plans for the future, and the creative and editing processes of the podcast. The four of them reflect on how working on the podcast helped them grow together and individually. They also give advice to future teams on how to schedule, how to come up with ideas for each episode, how to create a title, and how they repurposed an idea from last season’s team.

Warning: Explicit Language

Time Stamps:

00:00 Introduction

00:35 Introducing the team

01:21 Why we joined the podcast

04:51 Our favorite moments/episodes

07:38 Editing

09:08 Advice for women in editing

11:30 Tips for next season’s team

15:27 The team’s plans for their futures

17:23 Editing while not being technologically advanced

19:54 Resources in teams

21:16 The creative process

22:14 Bianca’s experience between different seasons

24:33 Creating titles

25:44 The experience of being a smaller team

28:17 Stepping out of our comfort zones

32:32 The microphones

33:04 Making a schedule and coming up with topics

34:28 Growing with the podcast

39:28 How Bianca helped guide us

40:15 Making old episode ideas our own

42:46 What we think our most popular episode will be

43:27 Reflecting on our work

44:52 Thanks for watching! See you next season!

Contributors:  

Arely Gonzalez Hernandez (Co-host), Asia Harris (Co-host/Editor/Marketing), Bianca Zazzarini-Leon (Co-host), Alexa Crespo (Co-host/Editor), Carmen Serrano (Editor/Executive Producer). UAlbany Student Stories, Season 6, Episode 2 [podcast]. Music from El Pañuelo de Pepa by Javier Colina and Pepe Rivero. José Cruz, Executive Producer.  

Special thanks to Ryan C. Clow, Digital Scholarship Center Training Specialist, for allowing us to use the equipment and recording studio.  

Email Carmen Serrano: cserrano4@albany.edu  

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