Monday March 23: adding yet MORE resources to your shows!

greetings, Traffic Dodgers!



Thus far, most teams are off to a good start creating your second show for the month of March. Most of you have chosen a topic and posted it, along with some sort of rough outline to our Discussion group. Most of you have created a "trailer" as sort of sneak preview of what's coming up for your broadcasts. Most of you have also created a brief description to go with this trailer And of course, by now almost all of you have conducted interviews with people who are outside of this class, as part of our ongoing effort to create greater student involvement with what we are doing. This has added some new qualities to your broadcasts, and now it is time to take another important step.



Oftentimes, broadcasts in the real world will use footage gotten through outside sources. One way that you can access material that could be of use to is on YouTube. Contrary to accepted thought, YouTube is not all fun and games: there are often serious issues discussed. For example, I did a little digging about the dictator of Zimbabwe, a man named Robert Mugabe. (One of the teams in this class just did a broadcast on this very topic). I found a very interesting video here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdWKzUOTw0s



OK, so maybe you're thinking: "great Mr. L, but that's a video: what's that got to do with an audio broadcast? Well, as luck or fate would have it, one of your classmates in the other Radio class put me wise to a great little site called Listen to YouTube, found here

http://www.listentoyoutube.com/



This site allows you to input the address of a YouTube broadcast, and then launch a process which extracts the audio from the video, after which you can click on a link named
"download MP3" When you click on that link, you can start downloading the mp3, AFTER YOU RENAME IT (of course)



Here is a link to the audio I extracted:

http://www.box.net/shared/mychs8yo8y



And here is what I want you to do:



A) Using the website listed above, extract the audio from at least one YouTube video per team member. The video must have direct relevance to your current project; for example, if you're doing a broadcast about "March madness", it would probably be easy to find soem videos about that on YouTube.



B) Include at least one of these audio extracts in your upcoming broadcast. Please identify it as such in your broadcast, so people will understand what it is, and state that you got it from a Youtube video. You also need to include the source for this video; in the example I found, it was "sky news". You will find this in a link at the right hand side of the YouTube webpage you're using.



C) upload your new improved broadcast to me by the end of class.



When this task is completed, you may then tend to other aspects of working on your broadcast, including any assignments you currently owe to me. Remember, grades are coming due soon!



Cheers,

Mr. L