Media student starts podcast series with Focus on the Family
Posted by The Skyliner on March 25th, 2009Kyra Alexander
Staff Writer
Kevin McCreary’s internship with Focus on the Family inspried him to pursue his dreams in a world of new media through entertaining podcasts. (Photo by Trey Lancaster / The Skyliner)
Kevin McCreary, senior broadcast media, has his own podcast, which is a combination of audio and/or video that is made available for download.
“I have always loved audio work, ever since I was a kid I was recording stuff on cassette,” McCreary said. “So I guess early on I had a passion for dramatized audio.”
That is the main reason he got into broadcasting, to further himself in audio recording in any way he could.
It all started last year when media professor Andy Stevens approached McCreary and asked if he would be interested in an internship at Focus on the Family (the producers of Adventures in Odyssey), because Stevens had gotten an email from one of the people there looking for interns from college.
McCreary jumped on the idea and applied right away. He was accepted and went to Colorado Springs for the summer and worked for Focus on the Family.
“That is where I started Tadpole Radio, [a] media group dedicated to bringing quality audio entertainment through new media outlets, primarily podcasting right now. We currently have three podcast series we are putting out,” McCreary said.
The first podcast they started is called The Ceiling Fan, and it is a comedy show parodying the obsessive nature of Adventures in Odyssey fandom and it centers around one kid who claims to be the biggest Odyssey fan ever.
The second show they have started is called The Tadpole. The first episode was released earlier this month and is available at thetabpoleseries.blogspot.com. It is a comedic show about two college guys and their everyday lives on the campus of a fictional school called Northward University. They even have voice actors in other states that are helping them out
“It has been amazing how many people have been willing to help with these projects, from ideas to voices to writing,” McCreary said.
One of the new shows they have coming out is called The Man Outstanding in his Field, which is a little more serious show and it was McCreary’s father’s idea. The show is hosted by a character named Sam Allan, who is a farmer who takes a look at current issues from a common sense perspective. That one should be out in the next few weeks.
You can find out about all these shows and more at Tadpoleradio.com
One of the hardest things about all of this for Kevin is balancing time and money. As a student here at NGU, he has to focus on his classes, and that is why he tries to delegate his ideas to others.
“The downside is that I have to be willing to let someone else be creative with my ideas and to make changes as they see fit,” McCreary said, “I also have to be careful because we currently don’t make any money off of these shows.”
He is still producing and editing the Official Adventures in Odyssey Podcast every now and then and gets paid for that.
Wow! That’s awesome!