Me alongside 2 other people are in the process of creating a process about the experience of female fans in motorsport. This is a diary that follows the progression of the podcast from the planning stage, through filming to post-production and the final result.
1st February:
Idea development began, we worked through several ideas but every on of them was sport related as it was clear that we all shared an interest in that. As a motorsport fan, I'm passionate about making motorsport content and talking about it, so choosing to do a podcast about F1 was very ideal for me. Also, being a female fan, this subject will be easy for me to relate to and talk about as I am a female motorsports fan.
Then once we decided on the chosen subject, we started developing plans for the segments and what we were going to discuss, beginning research and finding people to contact for an interview. A shared google docs was created where all planning could be shared.
5/02/2024-11/02/2024:
8/02- we planned the podcast more, deciding the talking points for the podcast and starting research for the podcast. Each of us took a segment to research and I started researching the female fan experience in formula 1. I started by finding the size of the female audience of F1 and looked at case studies of when female fans experienced harassment at the Austrian Grand Prix 2022 and F1's response to this with a short video titled Drive it out. I also asked my friend and motorsport content writer for Middle of The Grid to join us for the podcast filming to share her experience as a female fan as a plan B because we weren't able to get a response from previous contacts
19/02/2024-23/02/2024:
19/02- we came into college to film the podcast between 10-11am. We talked with my friend and she shared her experience. We discussed Drive it out, Lissie Mackintosh and the 'tiktokification' of F1.
22/02- We began editing, transferring the audio files into Audition, and we decided to split the footage in half and edit one half each, so we put markers on the footage so we could split it at an appropriate point, before the start of a question about halfway through. We then edited our halves of the footage, I had the second half, and made cuts at certain points where there is silence or some mistakes. There weren't many cuts that had to be made compared to the first podcast, as the second one was scripted more and the talking points and researched was organised so there were less moments of blanking thoughts and we were more clear and directed when recording, so in editing there was less to do. Then once we had finished editing our sections separately, we combined them by exporting our sections as wave files and then both sections were put together and we listened back to it to make sure it was clear. Then it was exported into a MP3 file and then later it was posted on Spotify.
You can listen to it here:
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