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Duration: 1 day
Public Course: £275 + VAT
Individual tuition: £420 + VAT
Course Times: 10am - 4.30pm
   
Commencing:  
14th Sep Waterloo Book Course
8th Oct Highbury Book Course
9th Nov Waterloo Book Course
8th Dec Highbury Book Course
     
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Podcasting: Introduction

Podcasts provide a simple and effective method of communicating to thousands of people who are either visiting your website or are visiting dedicated podcasting sites.

This is a practical course that will teach you to create, edit and deliver podcasts. The course also provides useful hints and tips from industry experts on producing professional and effective results.

Who should attend

Anyone who wishes to produce podcasts/

Key Topics

Preparing to record
Recording your podcast
Editing and adding music
Methods of output
Promoting your podcast

Course Content

Introduction

What is a podcast?
• What can you do with podcasts?
• Example podcasts

Preparation
• Recording software options
• Audience need
• Writing scripts

Recording a podcast
• Vocal delivery
• Recording your material
• Which microphone to use?
• Microphone best practice
• Including sound effects
• Using audio software

Post production
• Editing software
• Basic editing techniques
• Editing tips and tricks
• Production values
• Adding music
• Different file formats
• Compression techniques

Outputting a Podcast
• Saving to different media
• Uploading to a website
• Understanding data rates
• Security issues
• Subscriptions
• RSS feeds
• Using an RSS template file
• Ready-made Podcast solutions

Promoting your Podcast
• Using PR
• Using iTunes to publicise your podcast
• Podcast sites

Questions and answers