How to Create an Effective Podcast
Training Organisation: Media Players International
Delivery: In person or online
Programme Description:
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 your research and and can make a big impact on various audiences.
What strikes us about academic 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 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 or to us at mediapie@gmail.com 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.
Learning Outcomes:
• To understand the challenges of attracting online audiences
• to be able to pitch a podcast correctly to the intended audience, including non-specialist ones
• to know how to tell a good story in a podcast
• to know how to plan, structure and present a podcast
• to know how to interview colleagues for a podcast
• to be able to record a podcast in both straight talk and interview formats