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Karen and Georgia meet
Podcast hosts Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark meet at a Halloween party, and realize their common interest of true crime. They toss around the idea that other people probably share their fascination, and joke about doing a podcast. -
Georgia brings idea to fruition
Georgia calls Karen, and together they decide to actually try to start the podcast on the Feral Audio network. They throw around ideas for episode structure, concepts, and possible segments. Karen and Georgia contact Dustin Marshall, director of Feral Audio. From Feral, they can borrow sound and recording equipment such as microphones, sound mixing equipment, and a computer program to edit sound files. -
Design
Feral Audio's graphic designer, along with Karen and Georgia, design the logo and cover design for the podcast. The process takes about 3 weeks to perfect. They consider the topic of the podcast (true crime) while coming up with the "ransom note" magazine cut-out design concept.
Tools used would be a paper and pencils for initial drafts, and graphic design program such as Adobe Illustrator or InDesign. -
Research
The premise of the podcast is that each week, Karen and Georgia tell each other about a murder or murderer in history. They each spend about a half hour to 45 minutes discussing their topic, so the research is pretty in-depth. The research typically happens two or three days before the episode is set to record.
The tools used to conduct research are newspapers, articles, and various online encyclopedias. Their notes are almost always either handwritten or printed out from a word processor. -
Recording
The first episode was recorded in Georgia's apartment's living room. Also there was the podcast's sound engineer, Steven Ray Morris. The first episode is approx. 90 minutes long, so the unedited recording is probably somewhere between 2-2.5 hours. The equipment used were microphones, a computer, a sound mixing board, blankets and rugs to dull excess noise, and headsets. Here, Karen and Georgia spoke into the microphones about the murders they wanted to discuss that week. -
Editing
The show is edited by the sound engineer, Steven Ray Morris. Editing an episode takes around 3 days. The equipment used is a computer, headphones, and a sound editing program. Editing involves cutting out dead space in the recording, as well as editing out anything that may have been said that doesn't pertain to the topic at hand. The editing process begins by listening to the raw audio, marking where the cuts need to be, cutting those out, smoothing the transitions, and listening to it again. -
Airing an epsiode
The first episode aired January 13th, 2016. The podcast was published onto Feral Audio's website, iTunes, Stitcher, and Spotify. It was published through Feral Audio. Each episode also goes through the same research, record, edit, and publish cycle. The podcast has progressed to performing live shows, so occasionally an episode will feature a live audience.
