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Title: Best practices for Podcasting


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Best practices for Podcasting
  • Tate Britain October 8th 2007
  • Martyn Green The National Archives

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What Im going to talk about
  • Introduction
  • What makes a good Podcast?
  • Equipment preparation
  • Recording
  • Editing post production
  • Publishing
  • Further steps

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A little background
  • Multimedia developer at The National Archives
  • Over 10 years of industry experience
  • Produce the Podcast series (24 events)
  • Public lectures, talks, seminars
  • History, genealogy, research
  • Public, academics, students

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Flavours of Podcasts
  • Podcasts are recordings of audio events
  • Talks
  • Interviews
  • In-the-field reports
  • 60 second news digests
  • Demonstrations
  • and more
  • They are published to a wide audience

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A few stats
  • Autumn 2006
  • 10-20 members of public attending (1 dog)
  • 3 Podcasts online
  • 400 hits per month
  • 1 to 2 days editing time
  • 30Mb downloads

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A few stats
  • Autumn 2007 (almost)
  • 10-20 members of public attending (1 dog)
  • 24 Podcasts online
  • Regularly see 20,000 downloads
  • 2 to three hours to prepare
  • 9Mb download

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Starting out
  • Im not a professional sound technician
  • Im still learning!
  • But, you can get good results if you
  • get the right equipment
  • do some planning
  • follow some (relatively) simple procedures

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What makes a good Podcast?
  • Make something people want to listen to
  • Dont be boring
  • Educational, Funny, Entertaining, Informative
  • Interesting audio - as well as the content
  • Be appropriate for your audience
  • Sound professional

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Some of my challenges
  • Some of the talks have been boring!
  • Some presentations have been long
  • Presenters use slides
  • Equipment
  • Publishing

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Preparation
  • Keep a production schedule
  • Get to know the venue
  • Brief the presenters be their friend!
  • Gather details about the event in advance

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Preparation
  • Record intro and ending titles in advance
  • Make sure you have the right equipment
  • and know how to use it

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Studio
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Wax Cylinder
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On the day
  • Get there early
  • Make a test recording
  • Set the recording levels
  • The evils of ALC

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Recording quality
  • Always record at the highest quality
  • Uncompressed WAV format
  • Much bigger files
  • No loss of quality

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Original image (53k)
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Processed JPG (12k)
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Nasty original image (59k)
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Processed JPG (29k)
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During the recording
  • Stay and listen!
  • Monitor the recording with headphones
  • Check the levels
  • Listen for inconsistencies or audio problems
  • Keep notes
  • The edit starts here

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Afterwards
  • Re-record any problem parts before the speaker
    leaves!
  • Make a back-up

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Editing and processing
  • End up with a recording that is easy to listen
    to, well paced, engaging and concise.
  • Tell a story
  • Sound professional
  • Use a template
  • Bumpers can make a real difference
  • Remove unnecessary pauses and content

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Spot the errmm
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Spot the errmm
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What next?
  • We have a final edited version
  • Export as an mp3
  • Add meta-data
  • Publish!

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Publishing
  • Links from your website
  • RSS
  • Podcast directories

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Publishing
  • Ive already got an mp3 player but do I need an
    i-pod to listen to podcasts?

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Further steps getting better
  • Go on a course
  • Practice
  • Listen to old recordings youve made
  • Take note to feedback from others
  • Listen to other podcasts
  • Follow developments in the industry

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Examples
  • Some interesting, real samples of recordings

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Thank you
  • Martyn Green
  • mgreen_at_nationalarchives.gov.uk
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