How To Prepare and Deliver Effective Podcasts
13th May 2021 9:15am - 14th May 2021 1:00pm
Places on this workshop are limited, and in order to take part you should have an interest in recording a podcast for Technecast (the Techne student podcast) and be prepared to do so in future. You may also be interested in attending our Sound Editing Workshop alongside this one which will introduce technical skills needed to edit podcasts.
To attend this course please book on Inkpath. Inkpath is an app available to all Techne students, if you're not already using please click here to find out how to get started.
This
workshop run by two ex-BBC journalists and experienced programme-makers will
give you the skills to create effective and engaging podcasts about your
research. Podcasts are the most accessible “windows” to view your university
through, and yours need to reflect the quality of your institution.
What strikes us about university podcasts is that although the production quality
is important, it is the communication
skills of the podcaster, and his or her ability to tell a good story, that makes the podcasts effective and helps them
stand out among fierce online competition.
Our course
will enable you to get the best out of whatever technical expertise or
resources you may have. We help you to pitch your podcast correctly to the target
audience, to organise your thoughts and consider the best ways to present them.
We will give you the skills to present the podcast in a talk format, and the interviewing skills to make an interview/conversation style podcast.
During our workshop you’ll have the opportunity to practise both formats, an audio talk and an on-camera interview. If
the majority of participants are planning to create audio podcasts rather than
vlogs, we will provide them with an opportunity to record both podcasts in the
audio format.
This workshop DOES NOT cover purely technical skills in using recording and editing software, as technical capabilities differ from university to university and from person to person, but we will provide you with a list of useful links to ‘DIY’ podcasting. As experienced ‘radio hands’ we will also give you tips on how to make your audio podcasts sound professional.
It’s important for us to know your research topics before the workshop, so we ask you to fill in a provided short questionnaire and email it to the organisers a week before the course date.
We also
ask you to make an outline draft of a 3-min straight talk practice podcast before the workshop on a topic
of your choice.
The Objectives
The course enables participants
- to communicate effectively in their podcasts
- to pitch their podcasts correctly to the intended audience
- to choose the best format for their podcast
The Learning Outcomes
- Knowing how to tell a good story in a podcast
- Knowing how to plan and structure a podcast
- Knowing how to interview colleagues for a podcast
- Being able to record a podcast in both talk and interview formats
THE AGENDA
Day 1.
0915
Introductions. What makes an effective podcast. Communication: getting through
versus giving out. Pitching correctly to the audience. Telling a good story in
a podcast. Discussion of podcast examples (what works and what doesn’t)
1100 Coffee break
1115-1200 Podcast as a ‘conversation’ with the audience. Tips for
interviewers in interview/conversation
type podcasts . Getting a conversational tone in a talk format. The role of sound/video illustrations. Preparing and
structuring a podcast
1200-1300 Preparation in pairs for recording an interview podcast
Day 2 (participants work in two separate Zoom meetings)
9.15 – 11.00 Recording
and playback of a 4 min interview type video/audio
podcast in pairs. Discussion and feedback.
11.00-11.15 Tea/coffee break
11.15- 13.00 Preparing, recording and playback of a 3 min talk
podcast (video/audio). Discussion and feedback
Training run by Tim Grout-Smith
and Lily Poberezhska - Media Players International