Topics Covered

Does your organization want to make media that matters? Learn the audio and radio production skills you need. The following topics can be covered in half day, full day or week-long sessions.

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If you want to:

• Create a Public Service Announcement (PSA)
• Create a radio documentary or oral history
• Create news stories
• Create a vox pop, other sound collage, or audio slideshow

Intro to Radio Documentary

• The art of story telling
• Communicating ideas through sound
• The good, the bad and the exceptional in the world of radio

Radio Recording 101

• How to use a mic
• How to use a digital recorder
• Techniques for broadcast-quality recording
• How to record interviews, speakers, events

Interviewing for Radio

• Interviewing basics
• Planning for an interview
• The art of asking good questions
• The art of conducting field interviews

Feature Planning

• Story-boarding a radio project – including potential interviews, natural sounds, narratives, etc.
• Interview planning
  

Digital Editing & Logging 101

• Editing basics on Adobe Audition or Audacity
• Basic interview logging techniques

Scriptwriting and Editing

• Write a documentary script based on interviews
• Create a parallel audio version of your paper script
• Broadcast-writing style

Storyboarding

• Begin creating a story based on the interview logs
• Use the storyboard to determine additional needed sound and interviews

Voicing for Radio

• How to come across clearly
• How to use your voice to tell a compelling story
• How to connect with your audience

Audio Slideshow

• How to add photos to your audio production
• How to publish your slideshow online

Publish Audio Online

• Basics of posting audio content on your website, and elsewhere online
• How to save your audio as a compressed file for fast loading