I was on holiday last week, working in the garden and I did avoid getting sunburnt. Progress on podcasts, or videos was minimal, therefore there is little to say.

I purchased a Rode Lavalier II microphone and a Rode Wireless Go II system with one transmitter and one receiver. This is a neck microphone which will be plugged into the transmitter positioned somewhere on the belt line behind my back. The Rode Lavalier microphone has a Kevlar cable which should make it more durable. During week 29 I’ll be trying this out and hopefully with a microphone about 25cm from my mouth I will get a better sound.

I’ve finished the second Maximo Bite Size video and published it, OK I did it this afternoon, Monday, so not strictly in week 28. I am having trouble locating the video aspect of the third video, I have the audio, but I am thinking I might have deleted the wrong file. I might have said last week that while doing two videos in parallel does seem to be more efficient, so far, I’ve found reasons why that has not been the case, but I will continue to pursue this objective.

I did spend some time on The Diary of a Digital Nobody transcripts, but I didn’t catch up, and I didn’t get around to publishing another podcast episode, although I do have it complete.

With regard to the Maximo Bite Size podcast, I spent more time looking into music for the Intro and Outro. This burns time, and I am thinking that the one piece that I found for the videos on YouTube Studio was just good luck, I found the perfect piece in next to no time, finding the second may take a while. I am now spreading the net further and thinking that I may subscribe, or purchase the rights, but it takes time to do the research and I need to be more methodical at this by making notes as I go, because I have found some artists that are hitting the right notes, but I can’t recall their names or which sites I found them on, or under which genre. I also found a useful YouTube Studio explanation of restrictions in using their music, but now I need to find that article again and this is where I will start.

I am beginning to think that both the Maximo Bite Size podcast and their YouTube videos will both require a trailer. I am not sure I will get around to that next week, but I will need them before announcing the podcast or YouTube Channel. It now feels like they ought to both be launched on the same day and the 1st of August seems like a good day to aim for.

I made no progress on the YouTube banner, but I do expect to make progress in Week 29 as my aim will be to publish the three videos on YouTube to see what else is needed, and the banner will be one of those items.

The objectives for week 29 are:

• Catch up on the recent missing transcripts for The Diary of a Digital Nobody.
• Finish the third video and publish all three to YouTube so that I can see what else needs to be done, particularly around subtitles, the end screen and cards.
• Keep searching for the background to the YouTube banner.
• Continue the search for copyright free music and verify whether the existing music can be used in a non-YouTube context, i.e. the podcast.
• Write the transcript for both the podcast and YouTube trailers.