Introduction to Audio and Podcasting › blog › wp-content › uploads › 2018 › 0… · Why...
Transcript of Introduction to Audio and Podcasting › blog › wp-content › uploads › 2018 › 0… · Why...
![Page 1: Introduction to Audio and Podcasting › blog › wp-content › uploads › 2018 › 0… · Why audio works • Portable - listen in car/office or walking to class/lunch • Intimate](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022052802/5f1e80da70d5790c6b64b6b2/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
Introduction to Audio and Podcasting
J31 Multimedia Lab | Chris Snider
![Page 2: Introduction to Audio and Podcasting › blog › wp-content › uploads › 2018 › 0… · Why audio works • Portable - listen in car/office or walking to class/lunch • Intimate](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022052802/5f1e80da70d5790c6b64b6b2/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
Who are you?• Name
• Where you work / go to school
• What you do (want to do in the future)
• What you hope to get out of today
• Favorite podcast (if you have one)
![Page 3: Introduction to Audio and Podcasting › blog › wp-content › uploads › 2018 › 0… · Why audio works • Portable - listen in car/office or walking to class/lunch • Intimate](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022052802/5f1e80da70d5790c6b64b6b2/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
What I hope you learn today• The elements of a great audio story
• The tools you need to tell an audio story
• How to record using external microphones
• How to edit in Adobe Audition
• How to get your podcast published
![Page 4: Introduction to Audio and Podcasting › blog › wp-content › uploads › 2018 › 0… · Why audio works • Portable - listen in car/office or walking to class/lunch • Intimate](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022052802/5f1e80da70d5790c6b64b6b2/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
Why audio works• Portable - listen in car/office
or walking to class/lunch
• Intimate - people often listen alone with headphones
• Easy to create as one-man-band
• Available sources: 911 calls, phone calls, reporter tape recorders, iPhone editing tools
![Page 5: Introduction to Audio and Podcasting › blog › wp-content › uploads › 2018 › 0… · Why audio works • Portable - listen in car/office or walking to class/lunch • Intimate](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022052802/5f1e80da70d5790c6b64b6b2/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
What needed to be recorded to tell this story?
http://iowapublicradio.org/post/beloved-drake-mascot-dies
![Page 6: Introduction to Audio and Podcasting › blog › wp-content › uploads › 2018 › 0… · Why audio works • Portable - listen in car/office or walking to class/lunch • Intimate](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022052802/5f1e80da70d5790c6b64b6b2/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
Elements of an audio story• Interview(s)
• Voiceover / Narration
• Ambient sound - the sound of the room/location
• Sound effects / natural sound / music
![Page 7: Introduction to Audio and Podcasting › blog › wp-content › uploads › 2018 › 0… · Why audio works • Portable - listen in car/office or walking to class/lunch • Intimate](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022052802/5f1e80da70d5790c6b64b6b2/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
How do you hear Ambient sound and sound effects being used?
![Page 8: Introduction to Audio and Podcasting › blog › wp-content › uploads › 2018 › 0… · Why audio works • Portable - listen in car/office or walking to class/lunch • Intimate](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022052802/5f1e80da70d5790c6b64b6b2/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
What makes this an interesting audio story?
![Page 9: Introduction to Audio and Podcasting › blog › wp-content › uploads › 2018 › 0… · Why audio works • Portable - listen in car/office or walking to class/lunch • Intimate](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022052802/5f1e80da70d5790c6b64b6b2/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
How is the narrator making her voice interesting?
![Page 10: Introduction to Audio and Podcasting › blog › wp-content › uploads › 2018 › 0… · Why audio works • Portable - listen in car/office or walking to class/lunch • Intimate](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022052802/5f1e80da70d5790c6b64b6b2/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
Emotion = Good Audio• Tone of voice (friendly, upset, annoyed)
• Intonation (rise and fall of voice while speaking)
• Pauses
• Pace of the voice
![Page 11: Introduction to Audio and Podcasting › blog › wp-content › uploads › 2018 › 0… · Why audio works • Portable - listen in car/office or walking to class/lunch • Intimate](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022052802/5f1e80da70d5790c6b64b6b2/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
Let’s train our voices
![Page 12: Introduction to Audio and Podcasting › blog › wp-content › uploads › 2018 › 0… · Why audio works • Portable - listen in car/office or walking to class/lunch • Intimate](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022052802/5f1e80da70d5790c6b64b6b2/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
Read one of the scripts as…• Cowboy
• Toddler mid-tantrum
• Carnival barker
• “Valley girl”
• Bugs Bunny
• Eeyore
![Page 13: Introduction to Audio and Podcasting › blog › wp-content › uploads › 2018 › 0… · Why audio works • Portable - listen in car/office or walking to class/lunch • Intimate](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022052802/5f1e80da70d5790c6b64b6b2/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
![Page 14: Introduction to Audio and Podcasting › blog › wp-content › uploads › 2018 › 0… · Why audio works • Portable - listen in car/office or walking to class/lunch • Intimate](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022052802/5f1e80da70d5790c6b64b6b2/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
Equipment and apps
![Page 15: Introduction to Audio and Podcasting › blog › wp-content › uploads › 2018 › 0… · Why audio works • Portable - listen in car/office or walking to class/lunch • Intimate](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022052802/5f1e80da70d5790c6b64b6b2/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
What you need for a podcast• Microphone
• Something to record with (phone, computer, recorder)
• USB interface or mixer if two or more people
• Headphones
• Editing software
![Page 16: Introduction to Audio and Podcasting › blog › wp-content › uploads › 2018 › 0… · Why audio works • Portable - listen in car/office or walking to class/lunch • Intimate](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022052802/5f1e80da70d5790c6b64b6b2/html5/thumbnails/16.jpg)
Microphones
$450$64
![Page 17: Introduction to Audio and Podcasting › blog › wp-content › uploads › 2018 › 0… · Why audio works • Portable - listen in car/office or walking to class/lunch • Intimate](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022052802/5f1e80da70d5790c6b64b6b2/html5/thumbnails/17.jpg)
Zoom H4N recorder
$200
![Page 18: Introduction to Audio and Podcasting › blog › wp-content › uploads › 2018 › 0… · Why audio works • Portable - listen in car/office or walking to class/lunch • Intimate](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022052802/5f1e80da70d5790c6b64b6b2/html5/thumbnails/18.jpg)
Mixer$100-500
![Page 19: Introduction to Audio and Podcasting › blog › wp-content › uploads › 2018 › 0… · Why audio works • Portable - listen in car/office or walking to class/lunch • Intimate](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022052802/5f1e80da70d5790c6b64b6b2/html5/thumbnails/19.jpg)
Shureplus Motiv
![Page 20: Introduction to Audio and Podcasting › blog › wp-content › uploads › 2018 › 0… · Why audio works • Portable - listen in car/office or walking to class/lunch • Intimate](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022052802/5f1e80da70d5790c6b64b6b2/html5/thumbnails/20.jpg)
![Page 21: Introduction to Audio and Podcasting › blog › wp-content › uploads › 2018 › 0… · Why audio works • Portable - listen in car/office or walking to class/lunch • Intimate](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022052802/5f1e80da70d5790c6b64b6b2/html5/thumbnails/21.jpg)
Let’s look at some audio options in this building
![Page 22: Introduction to Audio and Podcasting › blog › wp-content › uploads › 2018 › 0… · Why audio works • Portable - listen in car/office or walking to class/lunch • Intimate](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022052802/5f1e80da70d5790c6b64b6b2/html5/thumbnails/22.jpg)
![Page 23: Introduction to Audio and Podcasting › blog › wp-content › uploads › 2018 › 0… · Why audio works • Portable - listen in car/office or walking to class/lunch • Intimate](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022052802/5f1e80da70d5790c6b64b6b2/html5/thumbnails/23.jpg)
let’s Test out zooms and external microphones recording a voiceover
![Page 24: Introduction to Audio and Podcasting › blog › wp-content › uploads › 2018 › 0… · Why audio works • Portable - listen in car/office or walking to class/lunch • Intimate](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022052802/5f1e80da70d5790c6b64b6b2/html5/thumbnails/24.jpg)
Voiceover• Write a script
• Keep it short
• Don’t write in inverted pyramid style (pull the listener in and make them want to stay until the end)
• Warm up
• Be conversational
![Page 25: Introduction to Audio and Podcasting › blog › wp-content › uploads › 2018 › 0… · Why audio works • Portable - listen in car/office or walking to class/lunch • Intimate](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022052802/5f1e80da70d5790c6b64b6b2/html5/thumbnails/25.jpg)
Voiceover• Identify most important words and emphasize them
with…
• Volume
• Pitch - high or low
• Rhythm - pause before or after words (or both)
• Tempo - slow down to emphasize areas
![Page 26: Introduction to Audio and Podcasting › blog › wp-content › uploads › 2018 › 0… · Why audio works • Portable - listen in car/office or walking to class/lunch • Intimate](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022052802/5f1e80da70d5790c6b64b6b2/html5/thumbnails/26.jpg)
Record a voice over using one of the scripts provided
Pick the one you want to use
Emphasize key areas
Work in pairs and take turns recording
![Page 27: Introduction to Audio and Podcasting › blog › wp-content › uploads › 2018 › 0… · Why audio works • Portable - listen in car/office or walking to class/lunch • Intimate](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022052802/5f1e80da70d5790c6b64b6b2/html5/thumbnails/27.jpg)
![Page 28: Introduction to Audio and Podcasting › blog › wp-content › uploads › 2018 › 0… · Why audio works • Portable - listen in car/office or walking to class/lunch • Intimate](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022052802/5f1e80da70d5790c6b64b6b2/html5/thumbnails/28.jpg)
Let’s put it together and record a story
![Page 29: Introduction to Audio and Podcasting › blog › wp-content › uploads › 2018 › 0… · Why audio works • Portable - listen in car/office or walking to class/lunch • Intimate](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022052802/5f1e80da70d5790c6b64b6b2/html5/thumbnails/29.jpg)
The interview• Location - somewhere quiet with good
acoustics
• Home or office is good
• Living room > Kitchen
• Coffee shop or busy area not good
• No squeaky chairs / clicking pens / etc.
• Anything making noise you can turn off?
![Page 30: Introduction to Audio and Podcasting › blog › wp-content › uploads › 2018 › 0… · Why audio works • Portable - listen in car/office or walking to class/lunch • Intimate](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022052802/5f1e80da70d5790c6b64b6b2/html5/thumbnails/30.jpg)
The interview• Prepare your subject
• What is the story?
• Who is the audience, and where will they go to listen to the finished story?
• How long will the interview be?
• What kinds of questions will you ask?
![Page 31: Introduction to Audio and Podcasting › blog › wp-content › uploads › 2018 › 0… · Why audio works • Portable - listen in car/office or walking to class/lunch • Intimate](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022052802/5f1e80da70d5790c6b64b6b2/html5/thumbnails/31.jpg)
The interview
• Test your audio levels
• Ask them what they had for breakfast (or what they wish they would have had)
• Wear headphones
![Page 32: Introduction to Audio and Podcasting › blog › wp-content › uploads › 2018 › 0… · Why audio works • Portable - listen in car/office or walking to class/lunch • Intimate](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022052802/5f1e80da70d5790c6b64b6b2/html5/thumbnails/32.jpg)
The interview• Keep quiet
• Instead of “un-huh” and “I see” simply nod
• Pause before asking next question
• Feel free to ask questions again
• Mark the best spots while interviewing
![Page 33: Introduction to Audio and Podcasting › blog › wp-content › uploads › 2018 › 0… · Why audio works • Portable - listen in car/office or walking to class/lunch • Intimate](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022052802/5f1e80da70d5790c6b64b6b2/html5/thumbnails/33.jpg)
The interview
• Have them introduce themselves
• “Could you introduce yourself? Tell me who you are, where you live, how old you are, what you do.”
![Page 34: Introduction to Audio and Podcasting › blog › wp-content › uploads › 2018 › 0… · Why audio works • Portable - listen in car/office or walking to class/lunch • Intimate](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022052802/5f1e80da70d5790c6b64b6b2/html5/thumbnails/34.jpg)
The interview• Gather natural sound
• Are power tools being used? Is it a busy office with lots of chatter/phones ringing? Is it outside and you can hear birds chirping?
• Record uninterrupted 15-second increments
![Page 35: Introduction to Audio and Podcasting › blog › wp-content › uploads › 2018 › 0… · Why audio works • Portable - listen in car/office or walking to class/lunch • Intimate](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022052802/5f1e80da70d5790c6b64b6b2/html5/thumbnails/35.jpg)
Natural sound / Sound effects
• Natural sounds help the listener see things with their ears
• Nat sound can be anything - weather sounds, phone ringing, crowd noises, machine noises, whatever’s happening in that particular setting.
![Page 36: Introduction to Audio and Podcasting › blog › wp-content › uploads › 2018 › 0… · Why audio works • Portable - listen in car/office or walking to class/lunch • Intimate](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022052802/5f1e80da70d5790c6b64b6b2/html5/thumbnails/36.jpg)
Ambient sound• The pervasive sound at a location. (E.g. Traffic on a
road. Doors slamming. Sounds of a demonstration. Birds and wind in a forest.)
• Can be used by itself or mixed under narration or other interviews. Also known as “ambi” or “nat sound.”
• Ambient sounds help pull the listener in close
• Record for 30 seconds - ideally more
![Page 37: Introduction to Audio and Podcasting › blog › wp-content › uploads › 2018 › 0… · Why audio works • Portable - listen in car/office or walking to class/lunch • Intimate](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022052802/5f1e80da70d5790c6b64b6b2/html5/thumbnails/37.jpg)
Let’s record an interview• Wear headphones
• Slate the tape - record the following: the date, the location, the name of the person you’re interviewing, the subject matter.
• Ask what they had for breakfast to set audio levels.
• Have them introduce themselves. “Tell me who you are, where you live, how old you are, what you do.”
• One question: What are you most looking forward to this summer? (at least a 20 second response)
![Page 38: Introduction to Audio and Podcasting › blog › wp-content › uploads › 2018 › 0… · Why audio works • Portable - listen in car/office or walking to class/lunch • Intimate](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022052802/5f1e80da70d5790c6b64b6b2/html5/thumbnails/38.jpg)
![Page 39: Introduction to Audio and Podcasting › blog › wp-content › uploads › 2018 › 0… · Why audio works • Portable - listen in car/office or walking to class/lunch • Intimate](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022052802/5f1e80da70d5790c6b64b6b2/html5/thumbnails/39.jpg)
Let’s get a voiceover• Listen to the answer to your question
• Write a script / Keep it short
• Write both an intro and an ending
• Don’t write in inverted pyramid style (pull the listener in and make them want to stay until the end)
• Warm up
• Be conversational
![Page 40: Introduction to Audio and Podcasting › blog › wp-content › uploads › 2018 › 0… · Why audio works • Portable - listen in car/office or walking to class/lunch • Intimate](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022052802/5f1e80da70d5790c6b64b6b2/html5/thumbnails/40.jpg)
Voiceover• Identify most important words and emphasize them
with…
• Volume
• Pitch - high or low
• Rhythm - pause before or after words (or both)
• Tempo - slow down to emphasize areas
![Page 41: Introduction to Audio and Podcasting › blog › wp-content › uploads › 2018 › 0… · Why audio works • Portable - listen in car/office or walking to class/lunch • Intimate](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022052802/5f1e80da70d5790c6b64b6b2/html5/thumbnails/41.jpg)
![Page 42: Introduction to Audio and Podcasting › blog › wp-content › uploads › 2018 › 0… · Why audio works • Portable - listen in car/office or walking to class/lunch • Intimate](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022052802/5f1e80da70d5790c6b64b6b2/html5/thumbnails/42.jpg)
Let’s edit in adobe audition
Audacity is a free program, but not as pretty
![Page 43: Introduction to Audio and Podcasting › blog › wp-content › uploads › 2018 › 0… · Why audio works • Portable - listen in car/office or walking to class/lunch • Intimate](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022052802/5f1e80da70d5790c6b64b6b2/html5/thumbnails/43.jpg)
![Page 44: Introduction to Audio and Podcasting › blog › wp-content › uploads › 2018 › 0… · Why audio works • Portable - listen in car/office or walking to class/lunch • Intimate](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022052802/5f1e80da70d5790c6b64b6b2/html5/thumbnails/44.jpg)
Planning and publishing your podcast
Let’s plan your podcast (or your pretend podcast)
![Page 45: Introduction to Audio and Podcasting › blog › wp-content › uploads › 2018 › 0… · Why audio works • Portable - listen in car/office or walking to class/lunch • Intimate](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022052802/5f1e80da70d5790c6b64b6b2/html5/thumbnails/45.jpg)
Format• What’s your podcast going to look like?
• Podcasts can take many forms: one-man shows, cohosts, guests, call-in, etc. Metafilter founder Matt Haughey, who has put in hundreds of hours on podcasting, recommends that your show involve two or three hosts.
![Page 46: Introduction to Audio and Podcasting › blog › wp-content › uploads › 2018 › 0… · Why audio works • Portable - listen in car/office or walking to class/lunch • Intimate](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022052802/5f1e80da70d5790c6b64b6b2/html5/thumbnails/46.jpg)
Content• What’s your podcast going to say?
![Page 47: Introduction to Audio and Podcasting › blog › wp-content › uploads › 2018 › 0… · Why audio works • Portable - listen in car/office or walking to class/lunch • Intimate](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022052802/5f1e80da70d5790c6b64b6b2/html5/thumbnails/47.jpg)
Where to host your podcast
• Libsyn - starts at $5/month
• Soundcloud - starts at Free
• Podbean - starts at $3/month
• Buzzsprout - starts at free
![Page 48: Introduction to Audio and Podcasting › blog › wp-content › uploads › 2018 › 0… · Why audio works • Portable - listen in car/office or walking to class/lunch • Intimate](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022052802/5f1e80da70d5790c6b64b6b2/html5/thumbnails/48.jpg)
Getting into itunes• Step 1: Create an RSS feed for your podcasts. If you
upload your files to a site like Libsyn, the feed creation is done automatically for you.
• Step 2: Click on “Submit a Podcast” in the iTunes Store. Open iTunes, navigate to the store, click on Podcasts from the top menu, and the “Submit a Podcast” link will be in the right column under Quick Links.
• Step 3: Enter your feed URL and fill out the other information required (Name, Author, Description, etc.)
• Step 4: Click submit.
![Page 49: Introduction to Audio and Podcasting › blog › wp-content › uploads › 2018 › 0… · Why audio works • Portable - listen in car/office or walking to class/lunch • Intimate](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022052802/5f1e80da70d5790c6b64b6b2/html5/thumbnails/49.jpg)
![Page 50: Introduction to Audio and Podcasting › blog › wp-content › uploads › 2018 › 0… · Why audio works • Portable - listen in car/office or walking to class/lunch • Intimate](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022052802/5f1e80da70d5790c6b64b6b2/html5/thumbnails/50.jpg)
Storytelling
• Every podcast will be better if it tells a story.
• A story should have three elements
• A sympathetic character
• An obstacle (the thing in your character’s way)
• A pot of gold (the end goal or reward)
![Page 51: Introduction to Audio and Podcasting › blog › wp-content › uploads › 2018 › 0… · Why audio works • Portable - listen in car/office or walking to class/lunch • Intimate](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022052802/5f1e80da70d5790c6b64b6b2/html5/thumbnails/51.jpg)
Hold part of the story back
• Don’t give away the story too early
• You want to intrigue the viewer and keep them around
• Your shots should raise questions, not necessarily answer them
![Page 52: Introduction to Audio and Podcasting › blog › wp-content › uploads › 2018 › 0… · Why audio works • Portable - listen in car/office or walking to class/lunch • Intimate](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022052802/5f1e80da70d5790c6b64b6b2/html5/thumbnails/52.jpg)
![Page 53: Introduction to Audio and Podcasting › blog › wp-content › uploads › 2018 › 0… · Why audio works • Portable - listen in car/office or walking to class/lunch • Intimate](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022052802/5f1e80da70d5790c6b64b6b2/html5/thumbnails/53.jpg)
How could you have used storytelling with your
summer story?
![Page 54: Introduction to Audio and Podcasting › blog › wp-content › uploads › 2018 › 0… · Why audio works • Portable - listen in car/office or walking to class/lunch • Intimate](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022052802/5f1e80da70d5790c6b64b6b2/html5/thumbnails/54.jpg)
Let’s BRAINSTORM
• Choose a topic: the not-so-great outdoors OR trouble at birthday partyOR first-date disaster
• Who is your sympathetic character?
• What happens in beginning, middle, end?
• What is the obstacle? How do they overcome?
![Page 55: Introduction to Audio and Podcasting › blog › wp-content › uploads › 2018 › 0… · Why audio works • Portable - listen in car/office or walking to class/lunch • Intimate](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022052802/5f1e80da70d5790c6b64b6b2/html5/thumbnails/55.jpg)
![Page 56: Introduction to Audio and Podcasting › blog › wp-content › uploads › 2018 › 0… · Why audio works • Portable - listen in car/office or walking to class/lunch • Intimate](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022052802/5f1e80da70d5790c6b64b6b2/html5/thumbnails/56.jpg)
Podcasting tips• Ideal length: 22 minutes
• Ideal day to post: Tuesday
• Best frequency: Weekly