Choose your communication major based on the car that goes with it

1. Journalism

2. Advertising

3. Media Production

4. PR

What car do you think a PR person should be driving? Imagine it here: 

My first podcast is about my favorite podcasts

It may not be pretty, but it's a podcast. And it's the only one I've got!

If you're interested in hearing it, just press play. If you're not interested in hearing it, just press play. 

If you're interested in recording a podcast of your own, here's how I put this baby together:

1. I recorded the theme music and "chipmunk intro" on my iPad using the GarageBand app - a most impressive app that's well worth the $5 it costs. Get it!

2. I saved the theme music to iCloud. However, when I signed in to iCloud on my computer, the files were not there - it looks like you can save the files to iCloud to save space on your iPad, but not to access them from the Web (unlike other Apple apps).

3. So, I emailed the files to myself, saved them on my desktop, clicked on them, and they opened in iTunes.

4. I launched the GarageBand program on my Mac laptop, and imported the files from iTunes. 

5. I plugged in my USB headset (Logitech) into the laptop and recorded the rest.

6. I selected "export to iTunes" in GarageBand and the file opened up in iTunes, as promised. In iTunes, I selected "Advanced" from the pull-down menu and "Create MP3 Version." iTunes generated a copy, and I dragged it from iTunes onto my desktop.

7. I imported the file into my account on Box. I selected "share" in Box, got the embed code and pasted it into the HTML view on this blog.

8. Then I posted my blog, and that was that.

Next time: I stop smacking my lips, saying "umm," and letting GarageBand automatically set the recording levels. I start singing the theme song, cursing, and saying what I really think. Or not!

Enjoy!

 

Apple's new Podcasts app. Nifty!

Radio ads from about-to-be grads

And now, a word from our sponsors.

Fresh back from their three-week work placements at HOT 103 and CHUM respectively, I give you ad majors (and soon-to-be grads) Megan Blanchette and Jennifer Twardowski's radio creative and voice work.

Megan Blanchette:







Jennifer Twardowski:







If you work in the Winnipeg communications industry, and would like to host a second-year Creative Communications student for a three-week work placement in April, drop me a line at klarsen@rrc.mb.ca.

Now you scream - a disturbing Halloween radio vignette

Nothing is scarier than...a tree!

Time for another Monster Chiller Horror Theatre!

Tonight, I give you...a spooky Halloween vignette from the demented minds of Advertising majors Maeghan Heinrichs, Berea Henderson, and Jennifer Hanson, written and produced in Cathy Hanson's diabolical radio class.

Scary stuff, kiddies. 

You've been warned...click the link and... now you scream!

Update!

And if you thought that was scary...here's another Halloween vignette. Click here if you dare!