Thursday, January 29, 2009

Podcasts Before Captain Copyright

This blog was created around the same time as the Captain Copyright video was released so postings of previous podcasts have not been given. I will give some breif information about them here. Where's the Library This was our first podcast. We had not moved into our new building and thought that we had an awareness problem. This podcast proved it! Celebrating Sundance We created this podcast because we wanted to highlight some of our media collection. Celebrating Sundance focused on our Sundance videos. The best part of doing this podcast was that we had the opportunity head up to Park City for the Interview. We spent the whole time up and back discussing our favorite Sundance movies.

Rap up Your Research
Some members of the libcast team thought it would be fun to do a library rap. Well ours only shows you how unoriginal we were. We chose one of the most well known raps of all time to use for our parody. I would say it is right up there with the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air theme.

Plagiarizers Anonymous
This is one of my favorite ideas that we used. It is also the first time we addressed plagiarism. Ben K. did an amazing job on the Lord of the Rings voice. It was pretty cool to hear him do it for the first time. Orgiionally I toying with the idea of having him do the dumb jock and he didn’t feel too comfortable doing it. I agreed with him that his other voice was better. It was kind of outside the box and this wsas the first time we pushed outside the serious role with our podcasts. Lesli was ok with it so we went with it. I thought it worked. J did an excellent job being the moderator’s voice.

Step into the Finals Zone
Can you guess what time of the year it was when we made this one? Yup time for finals! We’d been wanting to do something a bit creepy and well, I can’t remember exactly how this idea came about. We did a podcast survey about this time for our Utah Library Association presentation on podcasting. One great comment we received from a student was how much he/she loved how the creepy voice guy kept pausing and slurping his spit before continuing. Well, that is students for you.

Library Mythbursters
This podcast was my idea. At the time I was way into Discovery Channel’s Mythbusters. Well we thought that since the UVU library and its staff are so unstereotipical we would talk about it. At this point we had just moved into our new library and it was the beginning of the fall 2008 semester. Our new building and library is not like libraries of old and we wanted to highlight the differences.

Science Fiction Frontiers
Once again the highlight is the new library building. We thought that since many students may not be aware of where the library is that a visit from some of the most famous explorers ever would be fun. Originally we wanted to do this one as video, but it didn’t work out and we did it later and rereleased it. This one was J’s baby. Nice job on it J.

Iron(ic) Chef
This idea and script was all Lesli. I had never heard of Iron chef but it turned out to be a fun theme for the podcast. Claudine did an excellent job as the host and J made a fun quirky Finish Chef.

Got Fines?
Once again it is the end of the semester and Christmas is upon us. This is the time of the year when the UVU library does its annual food for fines. We wanted to advertise it so we made this podcast. Carlos had wanted to make more commercials for our podcasts and we thought it might be fun to make movie trailers. Somehow it evolved into a guy flipping TV channels. We each threw in our own trailer or commercial. This podcast was fun because it was so random.

The Captain
Next came Captain Copyright which we recorded late at night during the break. This was our most complex podcast to date. It took 3 days of shooting and took Carlos countless hours of editing. It was also the most fun J and I have had making a podcast.

Updates

Updates are made as new libcasts are released to the UVU library libcast webpage: http://www.uvu.edu/library/podcast.html. Our goal is to release podcasts each month that UVU courses are in session.

Welcome!

Welcome to the UVU library Libcast Blog where the focus is on Utah Valley University (UVU) LibCasts or Podcasts. Libcasts are podcasts created by the UVU Libcast team. My name is Benjamin Wilson. I am a member of the committee and developed this blog to provide additional information about the libcasts.