Podcasting and Audio Storytelling

Catalog description

This course is an introduction to podcast production and is designed for students to become better communicators and storytellers by learning about and producing work in the podcasting form. Students will study various types of audio podcasts and will learn the skills necessary to produce their own broadcast-quality podcasts. Topics include media ethics, storytelling, sound gathering and interviews, scriptwriting, workflow and organization, construction and structuring episodes, audio editing, postproduction mixing, and scoring. Students will study great podcasts and use typical storytelling structures to create their own podcast segments. Students will leave this class understanding the mechanics of audio storytelling and can expect to end this course with the start of an audio portfolio.