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Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
The Power of Podcasting for Storytelling
This online course explored the basic concepts of podcasting and how to go about planning and making a podcast, while avoiding common pitfalls. The course focused on how podcasting is a uniquely powerful form of storytelling, different to other media forms.
2 weeks, 3 hours per week
Siobhan McHugh
Associate Professor of Journalism
University of Wollongong
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Identify ideal conditions and environments for recording audio
- Discuss podcast narrative and genre
- Experiment with layering audio, music, silence and sound effects to create an experience
- Describe experiences podcasting or listening to podcasts
- Investigate how and where audio works best
- Record and share a podcast with fellow learners
- Produce a podcast and publish the podcast on a discoverable platform
Syllabus
- Introduction to telling stories using audio
- The elements of a podcasting narrative and how to combine these elements authentically
- The software and hardware involved in producing a podcast
- Writing a narrative to suit audio
- The common pitfalls
- Different genres of podcast
- Introduction to finding good talent
- The process of being discovered and heard by an audience
Issued on 20th April 2020
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