Podcasting Course for Beginners

Learn how to start a podcast with our Film, Video & Audio courses in Sydney.

What’s your story? Why do you want to podcast? Maybe you want to make an audiobook, create a radio serial, record family and friends or add some narration/voice-over to your videos. The ability to make professional quality recordings has never been easier! In this Podcasting course you will learn how to plan a recording, set-up your equipment and use professional software to record, edit and enhance your recordings to share with the world. Whether for personal use or to kickstart a career this podcasting course is designed to be practical, easy and fun and will take you from an idea to a well-structured show, book, serial or voice over all in a compact 2 day Podcasting course! Tell the world your story, explore your passions and build your listening community!

Course outcomes

By the end of this Podcasting course it is intended that students will understand or be able to:

• Understand correct microphone usage & set correct sound levels for recording
• Understand optimal recording environments & troubleshoot in less than optimal environments
• Be able to record quality audio using a DAW and audio software
• Be able to fix common audio flaws such as background noise from your recordings
• Understand how to to edit audio recordings and export in various audio formats

Ideal for

This Podcasting training course is for total beginners and anyone interested in the following:

• Hobbyists looking to start a podcast to share their favourite topic
• Small business owners looking for new channels to spread their ideas
• Writers and journalists looking for a new medium to share their work
• Anyone interested in learning how to record and edit basic audio for distribution

Course Content

Introduction

• An overview of audio recording; what you need to do in all phases of production
• How microphones work and what types are best for voice recording
• Essential audio terminology
• Signal-to-noise ratio and its impact on quality recording
• What minimum equipment required to start recording
• Essential script elements that guide your recording and post-production editing

Recording

• Preparing your recording space
• Microphone placement
• Audio levels and their importance
• Projecting your voice, confidence in your delivery, breathing
• Using pro level digital recorders (DAW) to record your segments
• Using Adobe Audition to edit them together into your finished programme for distribution
• Fix common audio issues like bells ring, squeaky doors opening etc.

Post Production

• Splicing your recorded elements together
• Removing flaws and noise
• Adding music and effects
• Ducking audio under your voice
• Exporting in appropriate formats for master recording - .wav .m4a .mp3 .aiff and .mp3
• Formats required for distribution

Please bring to class

• Headphones
• A portable storage device for taking home finished recordings (optional)

Other information

This Podcasting course runs in our computer lab, fitted with 27-inch Apple iMac systems as well as Dell computers running the Windows operating system, both types of computers have the latest Adobe apps installed. Adobe products function the same on both Windows and Macintosh computers except for minor differences with keyboard usage and where files are located within the computer.