This is just a very basic video for people who are unsure about how to start recording audio lectures. In this tutorial, I’ll go over some tips to get the most out of your phone, some of the reasons why I think you don’t need to spend extra money on new equipment, and how to perform some very basic edits on Audacity.

Audacity, the free editing software, can be found here: https://www.audacityteam.org/

History Fireside Videos are produced, recorded and researched by Dr Kristopher Lovell. The first and last part of the video was recorded using the Canon 4000D (https://amzn.to/3fNFb6s) and the audio was recorded separately using the Samson SAC02 (https://amzn.to/3211eTx). The footage from the phone was taken using the Huawei P20 Lite (https://amzn.to/2XE5Xre).

As I said, I would avoid buying new equipment if possible. If however you want a relatively affordable way to bolster your sound quality I would suggest either:

This cheap Lapel Microphone: (https://amzn.to/2XGdDJf)

This more expensive but high-quality microphone: (https://amzn.to/30Bi4ai)

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Just a quick History Fireside Video discussing a project that I’ve been working on for the past few months that is inspired by Mass Observation. #RecordCovid19 is a project of mine that seeks to record people’s experiences during Covid19 and life under lockdown in Britain and further afield.

If you are interested in submitting your own anonymous account to this project then please go to: https://kristopherlovell.com/record-c…. It would be great to get as many accounts as possible!

As always, please excuse the lockdown hair – it is getting a bit too wild now!

Still under Covid restrictions so please excuse the unwieldy lockdown hair! This is just a rough video about how to subtitle your video lecutres relatively quickly using an SRT file generated from YouTube and embedding it using Handbrake (free) or Adobe Premiere Pro. This is not meant to be a comprehensive tutorial on subtitling videos but is merely meant to show you one quick way to make sure that audio is accessible. These are just my views and preferences. Some people may prefer transcripts over subtitles, but these are what I think work best based on my experience as a deaf person and my experience as a lecturer.

Timecode Breakdown
01:17- 03:40 Why are Subtitles Important?
03:40 – 04:48 Different Types of Subtitles
04:49 – 05:53 Why transcripts over subtitles?
05:44 – 06:35 Open or Closed Subtitles?
06:36 – 07:28 Don’t Trust Auto-Generated subtitles!

07:30 – 10:12 Using YouTube to edit auto-generated subtitles and get an accurate SRT File
10:13 – 11:34 Using an SRT in a media player for optional subtitles

11:35 – 13:25 Part Two: Burning Subtitles in using Handbrake (Free)

13:26 – 16:55 Part Three: Burning Subtitles in using Adobe Premiere Pro

17:01 – 17:42: Quick Summary of the Steps

Handbrake is available at https://handbrake.fr/

This is my first video tutorial so if you have any comments about how it can be improved, please just let me know. If something needs to be explained please just ask down below.

Dr Devon Simons (Aberystwyth University) kindly agreed to answer a few questions about the CNN Effect for students enrolled on my War and the Media module whilst we were both in isolation in Coventry and Jacksonville during the Coronavirus Outbreak. This is partly why the recording quality is not perfect. But we thought it might be interesting and useful to a wider audience as well. This is the second part of the conversation during which Dr Simons explains how the CNN Effect forces the government to take a foreign policy stance.

After studying at Oglethorpe and Kent, Dr Simons’ was awarded a PhD at Aberystwyth University. Her PhD explored ‘The Media’s War on Terror’.

For more about Dr Simons, her LinkedIn profile is available at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/devonsimons

Dr Devon Simons (Aberystwyth University) kindly agreed to answer a few questions about the CNN Effect for students enrolled on my War and the Media module whilst we were both in isolation in Coventry and Jacksonville during the Coronavirus Outbreak. This is partly why the recording quality is not perfect – although I cannot defend my incoherence. (Even I don’t know what I said).

We thought it might be interesting and useful to a wider audience as well. In this first section, she gives a strong introduction to the concept of the CNN Effect. Subtitles should be accurate – let me know if there is a mistake and I’ll correct them as quickly as possible. 

After studying at Oglethorpe and Kent, Dr Simons’ was awarded a PhD at Aberystwyth University. Her PhD explored ‘The Media’s War on Terror’.

For more about Dr Simons, her LinkedIn profile is available at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/devonsimons