Broadcast skills - radio and TV
| DURATION |
1 day |
| DELEGATES |
4 people |
| 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 |
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| 9.30am |
Welcome, introductions and outline of the day
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| 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
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| 11.00am |
Refreshments
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| 11.15am |
Audio editing tutorial
|
| 11.45am |
Edit your audio – practical workshop
|
| 12.30pm |
Playback audio interviews
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| 1.00pm |
Lunch
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| 1.30pm |
Preparing for a TV interview
• The TV soundbite
• Presentation skills
• Body language
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| 2.00pm |
Video interview – demonstration
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| 2.45pm |
Video editing tutorial
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| 3.00pm |
Refreshments
|
| 3.15pm |
Editing video – demonstration
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| 4.00pm |
Playback and feedback
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| 4.30pm |
Questions and close
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Sample course programme. Timings are approximate |