Podcasting 2: Finish Your Podcast Episode 1

Is it your dream to create the next Serial, This American Life, or Startup? If so, this is the class for you! In this five-week San Francisco Podcasting 2 Class, “The Intersection” Podcast host and producer David Boyer will teach you how to take your pilot outline and ideas for your podcast to the next level, using the tools of this engaging new storytelling form. Through informative craft lectures, targeted in-class feedback, deconstructing successful podcasts and hands-on technical training you will learn season and episode structure, how to write an episode script, production planning, how to get what you need from interviews, how to manage and organize tape, and how to tighten episodes.

In addition, you will explore tools of the trade such as advanced interviewing techniques, audio editing basics, use of archival audio, miking and field recording techniques. By the end of the class you will have thoroughly developed an idea for your own podcast and have a solid rough cut of an episode by the end of class and the tools to finish many more. Pulitzer not included.

Required Equipment:

1. A WIFI ready laptop, onto which you’ll need to download a free audio editing software like Audacity or Garage Band or a paid program like Hindenburg.
2. An inexpensive audio recorder, or an iPhone or cell phone with a good voice recording app.

Prerequisites: 
Podcasting 1 (Start Your Podcast) at Writing Pad or elsewhere (if you haven't taken Podcasting 1, please email a sample to [email protected] for review).