Voice out to the world: My Podcast Adventure
Updated: Jan 14, 2021
The most critical thing I've learned for the first 5 weeks at RMIT in the Making Media course is: “How to make a decent podcast from A to Z, step by step”. Firstly, I learned how to form a group, Diem Quynh and I are two core members of this team as we found similarities in the way we work & our personalities; then we politely made friends with most of the peers in this class to know more about their capabilities, interests, and characteristics. Eventually, we found two matching members: Tram Anh & Minh Bach. I now understand deeply that working with others is quite challenging even though they are the same age as I am. Integrating everyone into a synergy team is not easy at all because each of us is a unique individual with different personalities, real-life experiences & perceptions, working & learning methods.
Secondly, after 2 days of mild argument, my team finally decided to choose "Speak Easy pubs" as the topic for our next 2 course's assignments. We all saw eye to eye in talking about the most basic information of SpeakEasies in the podcast: Definition, History, Stand-out Features & some Hardships, Discrepancies that SpeakEasy's owners must tackle when transferring this model from the US to Vietnam in our magazine. This topic is crucial since the SpeakEasy pubs model is not very common in Vietnam, yet it is becoming an indispensable part of certain Vietnamese customers' entertainment life. In addition, not only do we want to disseminate accurate information about SpeakEasies to the general public, but we also want to highlight the fascinating cross-cultural aspects of a nightlife model that penetrates from Western to Eastern cultures, especially how it works to blend in well with Vietnamese culture.
Thirdly, I’ve acquired one of the most vital soft-skills from my exposure to the Creation of an Advertisement: Problem-Solving Skills. At first, my advertising script was too long that exceeded the maximum duration allowed for an Ad, I had to shorten it but still based on my initial expectations of making a perfect Advertisement. After so many times of re-writing and recording the Commercial, I eventually figured out the best way to do it is to simply cut out all the redundant parts of the script. I've realized the key point here: In urgent circumstances, don't overthink, over-react and complicate things up, because sometimes "Simplicity is the best policy !" - Just keep it simple and all issues will be resolved!
Last but not least, I've learned & felt a lot of admirable things from my teammates: Tram Anh-a reliable & trustworthy team leader, a well-organized person; Diem Quynh-a very good friend of mine who is very kind and caring, dynamic and inspirational at the same time; Minh Bach-a humorous guy with some good technical skills. Also, our team has made many significant improvements in our time-management skills due to the fact that we need to set up a strict schedule and an exact timeline to follow in order to keep track of this course and meet the deadlines as well.
All in all, I'm so thankful that I’m taking the Making Media course this semester and learning from an awesome lecturer: ms Linda Austin-who has given me lots of insightful knowledge about Making actual Media products. I've obtained countless skills here, both theoretically and practically that will be very helpful in my future career path!
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