The Pragmatic Producer WIP Podcast

PP WIP Week 06 - Keeping in the Game

Flexibility can be good to help deal with uncertainty and the unknown (e.g. complexity, it takes 3 hours not 1, missing a resource etc.) Consistency is also powerful. Building one brick at a time is the proven way to get results. Both approaches take discipline. Flexibility is not laziness. It is measured and intentional. Why I like flexibility: Sometimes it’s what keeps you in the game. Rigid, black & white can mean you are failing or succeeding.

PP WIP Week 05 - Resourcefulness

This fortnight’s progress: - Design becomes storyboard - fill in the details. Live action and screen capture. - The Grind has set in, resistance to productivity, but flow happens eventually. - A little tired, on the verge of the next phase - production. Resourcefulness - Creating good live action video is not simple. Lighting, camera quality, room sound, and everything DIY can be hard to manage and do well.

PP WIP Week 04 - Discover and Play

Welcome to the Pragmatic Producer work in progress podcast episode 4   This weeks progress: - New website! For the tutorial series. - Project Milestones diagram - planning elements and timeframes. Topic Discover and Play - I wanted to create a diagram in GoogeDrive and noticed you could make a website document. Intrigued I allowed myself 10mins to go on a tangent and check it out which lead to an ad-free and easy to create web page.

PP WIP Week 03 - Scope

Welcome to the Pragmatic Producer work in progress podcast episode 3 Where I let you in on my creative process and challenges while working on a project. Scoping: Last week was about not being overwhelmed, or psyched out. How to do that? Many of your great ideas should be scoped out of the first phase.

PP WIP Week 02 - Working with the structure you get

Work in progress podcast episode 2 where I let you in on my creative process and challenges while working on a project.  The project is a video tutorial series on podcasting using the free and open source software Audacity.  This podcast is about the process and reality behind it. Two points: * Working with the structure you get * Not psyching yourself out