Three seminars that stream through QuickTime (not for dial-up).
1. Perform - How to sound good in your audio podcasts
Intro
1:30 - Voice is the most important element and introduce Joe
Cipriano
4:30 - Equipment – Choosing a microphone -
Mixing boards and Audio interfaces
11:00 - Is good sound important?
12:00 - Preparing your voice: warm ups – drink water,
not dairy (coat vocal chords, do not yell the day before,
do not be in noisy places before)
13:30 - Speaking on microphone: how close to be – close
as you can to get presence but not so close that you get
wind noises and pops, different types of pop filters and when
to use them, speak across the microphone rather than directly
at it
17:30 - How to edit vocal tracks using Garage
Band (female and male voice tracks)
19:30 - Preparing a room for podcast recording: close
the curtains, sit with back to curtains, towel on table, mic
stand on towel and put 2 pillows angled behind mic to reduce
echo
2. Produce - How to produce a podcast with
little experience
Introduction – Paul Garay
2:45 - Pacing and Length? Each segment about 6 minutes with
musical transitions
3:30 - Sample podcast – what it
looks like in Garage Band
Opening
Theme music
Intro
Sections
Bumpers and Stingers (transitions)
Outro
12:00 Enhanced
podcasts – adding graphics and chapters
13:00 Adding
weblinks
14:15 Websites
for podcasters
14:40 Using
iWeb to publish and maintain website
15:15 Making
a podcast in Garage Band – they take you through the
steps of recording an intro, editing the intro, adding music
to the intro, using ducking (making the music duck behind
the vocal track), using a microphone to record a script,
editing mistakes in the recording, adding stingers, adding
episode artwork, adding other artwork, previewing artwork,
publishing the podcast using iWeb, putting the podcast on
the internet, how to subscribe to podcast
3. Promote - How to publish your podcast on
iTunes
(we are not publishing our podcasts on iTunes so we did not use this information)
