The mixing process for the programme was certainly an interesting one to say the least. The kind of mixing I’m used to usually has many channels playing at once, however in this radio programme it’s rare there was more than 4 playing at any one time. This by no means made the mix process easy as I encountered quite a few issues…

Once all the sounds were recorded it was time to start arranging the programme. All the audio files from the various recording trips were uploaded to a shared cloud drive. As you would expect, we didn’t make the recordings in the order they would be used in the programme, so we had to organise them again later. We…

After refining our concept, we now had to go about gathering our recordings. We made multiple trips to collect sounds, but they weren’t massively constructive or successful. The problem was we weren’t being specific enough when we went out to record, by just saying to ourselves ‘let’s go and get some recordings’ we ended up getting a little bit…

After having so much sucess in the student bar we were certain we wanted to make the most of university spaces, and the people, in our project. There is also a second UAL bar at the Central Saint Martins building that we could also use for our project. This did mean we still had to find two other pubs for our…

After encountering quite a few issues trying to get interviews for our concept, we had to readjust our approach in order to get as many interviews and, most importantly, pieces of audio as possible within a releativly short period of time.   After re-writing our interview questions we went to test them in the university’s student bar. This proved to be an incredibly…

We set off to west London to examine our first pub. Arriving in Hampstead for around 4pm we set about finding a good first location, after walking down through Hampstead for around 20 minutes we found a nice ‘old man’s pub that looked like it ticked all the boxes. Creaky wooden floorboards, rows and rows of beer taps and…