Each member of the team did some research to help with the project. This was done before and during the production of our piece, to help give us inspiration but also find out how a podcast should be formatted. We had no legal or ethical issues to research, which is rather different from our drama last semester which required an extensive insight into these areas. We did however need to research the genre, which is of course podcasts and this was done by listening to some, while our audience research came about by examining how podcast sites were designed. The topic research was done by analysing articles that looked at how people could learn skills and pass them on. In terms of technical research, we didn’t really need to look into anything as all we needed to use was a zoom microphone, a standard studio set up, and adobe audition. We did occasionally require help in the studio as there were sometimes technical faults that were beyond our control, but the only real thing in terms of research was the range of different mic set ups that Dylan talked us through, which can be seen below.