Audio and Video Production for the Web

OVERVIEW:

A workshop with plenty of hands-on experience and exercises covering:

• Planning your production
• Writing scripts for audio and video packages
• Voice techniques
• Practical audio and video exercises
• Introduction to podcasting

AIMS:

This session focuses on learning the skills required to script, record and edit audio and video files for your website. Former BBC radio and TV reporter Karen Ainley, who has a background in newspapers, will help delegates understand the difference between writing for print and writing scripts for broadcast, and will include practical exercises, showing delegates how to use audio and video equipment and software to conduct and edit interviews. She will also share some of the voice techniques she learned as a newsreader with the BBC.

PROGRAMME:

9.30am Welcome, introductions and outline of the day

9.45am • Making the most of your interviews
• Difference between print and broadcast
• Audio/video examples
• Voice techniques
10.15am Undertake audio interview - practical workshop

11.00am Refreshments

11.15am Audio editing tutorial

11.45am Edit your audio - practical workshop

12.30pm Playback audio interviews

1.00pm Lunch

1.30pm Preparing for a TV interview
• The TV soundbite
• Presentation skills
• Body language

2.00pm Video interview - demonstration

2.45pm Video editing tutorial

3.00pm Refreshments

3.15pm Editing video - demonstration

4.00pm Playback and feedback

4.30pm Questions and close