{"id":63446,"date":"2017-11-03T15:30:07","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T20:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/?p=63446"},"modified":"2018-03-06T18:50:52","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T00:50:52","slug":"kjhk-qa-w-garrett-mould","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/2017\/11\/03\/kjhk-qa-w-garrett-mould\/","title":{"rendered":"KJHK Q&A w\/ Garrett Mould"},"content":{"rendered":"

Garrett Mould<\/strong><\/p>\n

Grade: Senior<\/p>\n

Majors: Economics and Philosophy<\/p>\n

KJHK Position: Arts and Culture Director<\/p>\n

\u00a0\"\"<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dakota: Who are you?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Garrett:\u00a0<\/strong>Well my name is Garrett Mould, I\u2019m the director of Arts and Culture at KJHK. I\u2019m a senior at KU and my majors are Economics and Philosophy.<\/p>\n

D: As Arts and Culture director, what is your main duty here?<\/strong><\/p>\n

G:\u00a0<\/b>Um really I oversee the Arts and Culture staff, obviously, and that kind of entails putting together an hour long show on FM radio which happens every other Wednesday. And it\u2019s basically a compilation of stories and podcasts, it\u2019s mainly podcasts, about Lawrence, events going on around Lawrence, events going on campus or KU. And really anything that is affecting the country or the world. So our topics are pretty wide ranging.<\/p>\n

D: How did you come to be the Arts and Culture director? <\/strong><\/p>\n

G:\u00a0<\/b>Well I joined Content staff last year in the middle of Spring semester, so I\u2019m still pretty new; getting the hang of things. It\u2019s funny how it came about. My buddy Abe was on content staff, and he knew I liked listening to podcasts on the way to school and stuff like that. And so he kind of dragged me to one of the meetings. And I ended up like, \u201cYeah I guess I\u2019ll go, I\u2019m not doing anything else right now.\u201d And then I got there and I asked \u201cHey is it possible to make my own podcast?\u201d And Cody Boston, the content director last year said yeah. He showed me how to do it. I was so surprised by all the equipment here that I could use. He then asked \u201cWhat do you want to make a podcast about?\u201d From there it was just thinking of ideas and I kind of ran with it.<\/p>\n

D: Was there anything in the job description that was there that you weren\u2019t prepared for?<\/strong><\/p>\n

G:\u00a0<\/strong>I think I had a pretty good understanding about what I would be doing. Chad Onianwa was the director last year and he was good at laying out stuff. He\u2019s still on staff this year which really helps. If I have questions, I can always refer to him. I\u2019d say the thing that surprised me the most is dealing with people on staff. I kind of knew what the podcast creation and editing process would look like, but I\u2019ve never been the head of a staff before. So I think when you\u2019re dealing with people there will always be challenges. But they\u2019re rewarding challenges, so working with everybody and working through their problems on their podcasts and getting to see the final product is always pretty rewarding.\"\"<\/p>\n

D: What\u2019s the writing process when you try to create a podcast? What do you go through and what type of research do you do? <\/strong><\/p>\n

G<\/strong>: That\u2019s tough. It depends on what I\u2019m working on. So when I\u2019m doing a story with narration-type podcast, it\u2019s a lot of research usually. A lot of it is just writing the script, which is at least 50 percent, or even 75 percent of it. And then I\u2019d say 10 percent of it is actually recording. What\u2019s that leave us with\u202625 percent? I\u2019m bad at math. But anyways from there\u2026It\u2019s 15 percent, I got it. From there it\u2019s like editing, stuff like that, and that is pretty time consuming as well. So a lot of it for the storytelling podcast is just writing the script and doing the research. And when you\u2019re bringing in somebody to interview a lot it is just getting the interview set up, coming up with interview questions and then really weaving together the narration and the interview. So finding ways to put your voice outside the interview and making it a cohesive story and bring bits of the interview here and bits later on and kind of mash it together.<\/p>\n

D: That\u2019s a pretty good behind-the-scenes look in there. What\u2019s the hardest part of making your podcasts?<\/strong><\/p>\n

G:\u00a0<\/strong>For me, it\u2019s kind of like after I have it all done there\u2019s like little things I can still tweak. The little things that I know I could have done better but maybe I didn\u2019t have time. Just doing more and more takes of a certain part. If something sounds weird rolling off the tongue just getting that down to where it\u2019s perfect is where I\u2019m compulsive about it I guess.\"\"<\/p>\n

D: As the current Arts and Culture director is there anything you do that\u2019s different than ones before you had done? Did you come in wanting to change anything majorly? <\/strong><\/p>\n

G\u00a0<\/strong>:Well I think Chad had really done a great job with Arts and Culture staff last semester. Right now I\u2019m working on figuring out what I want to do differently and what our staff wants to do differently. It\u2019s all kind of a combination of what everyone wants to do. I want to get their input and stuff. We are sticking with themes, which is one thing we\u2019d like to work on. I know RadioLabs does this. Last year they did a ghost episode and did 5 different podcasts that had to do with the supernatural and the topic of ghosts. And those can be really wide ranging. And this year we are working on a comfort zone theme. So that\u2019s where we are going to have, hopefully, everybody on staff do something outside of their comfort zone. Get their before and after, what they felt like before they went skydiving or went up on stage to do an open mic. Something that normally terrifies you . One person is scared of flying insects, so he\u2019s going to try to be a beekeeper for a day. So we are going to get an interview with him, hopefully, before he gets in that bee suit and gets around all those insects. Afterwards, we\u2019ll ask how bad it was or how much is in your head. Also I\u2019d just like people working on personal podcasts, stuff they\u2019re really passionate about. Chad did a good job with that so I\u2019ll continue to do that.<\/p>\n

D: Well the bee thing sounds terrifying. <\/strong><\/p>\n

G<\/strong>: Yeah I know definitely. That\u2019s Skylar, he\u2019s going to do that. I\u2019m going to stick with something less terrifying.<\/p>\n

D: Cool, well Garrett thank you for your time.<\/strong><\/p>\n

G:\u00a0<\/strong>Yeah, no problem man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Garrett Mould Grade: Senior Majors: Economics and Philosophy KJHK Position: Arts and Culture Director \u00a0 Dakota: Who are you? Garrett:\u00a0Well my name is Garrett Mould, I\u2019m the director of Arts and Culture at KJHK. I\u2019m a senior at KU and my majors are Economics and Philosophy. D: As Arts and Culture director, what is your main duty here? G:\u00a0Um really I oversee the Arts and Culture staff, obviously, and that kind of entails putting together an hour long show on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20158,"featured_media":64220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8037,15,1],"tags":[1764,4859,7093,7765],"class_list":["post-63446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-about","category-featured-on-kjhk","category-uncategorized","tag-arts-and-culture","tag-arts-and-culture-staff","tag-garret-mould","tag-kjhk-qa"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/lovergurlBLackCat6.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}