EVALUATION

Section 1:

My service is a podcast service about many different sports, all around the world, hence the name, ‘The
World of Sports’ Podcast. I created this podcast service, as I am truly fascinated by the ever so fast-
growing world of podcasts, and as our technology grows daily, so does the use of podcasts. I'm a great
admirer of sports, no matter what the sport is, I'm always up for a challenge and enjoy watching and
discussing details with my friends. As my intention was to create a new product/ service, I thought
what's the most enjoyable thing for me, and the first thing that came to mind was podcasts. The second
most enjoyable thing for me is sports, and the two put together, gives you the best combination in order
to entertain a large number of audiences. 'The World Of Sports Podcast' was designed to give the
audience, an insight into the major sports all around the world. We discuss major topics that relate to
sports and athletes, whilst interviewing different athletes every episode. To make sure our audience is
entertained, we discuss a different topic each and every episode, such as football news, boxing news,
basketball news, etc. It is our job to keep our audience up to date with each and every sports detail that
happens all over the world. The publishing of the first episode was incredibly successful and efficient, in
many terms. Firstly, I demanded that there be no more than £100 spent on the podcast, and there was
only £10 spent on the first episode. This clearly shows the efficiency of our work towards reaching our
main goals. Secondly, one of the most important goals and fulfillments was to ensure our audience was
entertained and amused by our discussions within the episode. Our survey after the publishment of the
first episode, shows that the majority, if not all of the audience was entertained by our podcast episode.
Lastly, another goal of the podcast service was to grow and build our service up to new audiences. We
have now achieved this by the use of social media promotions as our followings on social media show.

Section 2:

I believe I achieved and fulfilled my aims to the best of my ability's. Of course, I was limited to less
budget, less equipment, and a rather less timescale due to COVID regulations. All of these listed, were
bumps in the road leading to the success of my podcast episode. However, I can confidently say that I
have overcome these bumps and setbacks by self-evaluating each and every aspect of my aims.

Within my statement of intention, I had mentioned this: The target audience for our podcast consists of
young explorers and aspirers, from 13-18. However, our podcasts are suitable for all ages, especially for
those with a passionate side for sports. We chose young explorers and aspirers due to the fact, our
podcast is not only entertaining, but educating. I can now agree that I have fulfilled my aim to keep
young explorers and aspirers, aspired by my podcast episodes. Although you could disagree that our
podcast can be viewed by any age groups, I have put the emphasis on 13-18 by adjusting the topics of
discussions in each of my episodes. For example, I have achieved this age group for the first episode,
due to the fact I have spoken about youth development, and U19’s football, which may be aspiring to
many young teenagers who would love to make it professional in the coming years.
Although I was unable to receive much teacher feedback, Ms Harrison gave me advice on putting
emphasis on creating a different podcast episode to my competitors. She discussed how I could change
my podcast to be different to our competitors and ensure that my podcast stood out ahead of my
competitors. By her kindly discussing this, I managed to create a different type of podcast, such as rather
than talking about just general football, I once again created emphasis on one certain topic of
discussion, which also benefited my target audiences age group. Furthermore, her advice of changing
my way of podcasting, by ensuring my podcast was different from my competitors, made me edit
further by adding borders onto my footage, short clips, background music, and my own custom-made
logo.

Section 3:

WWW: I believe many things went well within the production of my podcast, from the management, to
the recording, to the editing of my podcast. I feel really confident in my creation of the podcast, as it
matches and hits the majority of my goals I had set before I created the footage.

For my statement of intention which was written a few months before the footage was recorded or
even planned, I had written: Our purpose is to discuss different details and news on numerous sports all
around the world to a wide sports-based community. Our goal is to discuss sports events, news, and
details whilst interviewing great athletes, in order to entertain our audience and create a great
community all around the world. At 'The world of sports' Podcast, our goal is to build a safe place where
all true sports lovers can come together and discuss topics based in and around sports.

Now on the 30/03/2021, I can confidently say that I feel happy and confident in achieving this purpose
efficiently.

EBI: There were many things that could have been better for the production of my podcast. One main
setback was the COVID situation. Without the COVID situation, I would have been able to create a
longer, better, and more efficient podcast footage, as I would have had more time to plan, and develop
my footage. I believe this is a major setback, but you could also call it a benefit as without this situation,
I may not have decided to create the zoom podcast meeting, although I am not publishing it to the
audience.

After I had filmed the footage, I had numerous issues with the editing software I used. The editing
software I used was Premiere pro. Although premiere pro is a great software, I believe my PC does not
have the right graphics card for it, which meant it made the software slower and it didn’t work as it
should have. This was a very big set back, as the majority of the time I could have edited, was spent on
the Not Responding page. I believe it would be even better if I was able to edit on another software, or
even better, another computer, which would have resulted into my editing being done much faster, and
more better.