Advanced Podcasting

3 credits · Undergraduate

This course will teach students to develop, refine and pitch a concept for a serialized narrative or documentary-style podcast. Students will focus on writing for audio and incorporating interview clips, sound, scenes, and music. They will practice those skills by producing a pilot episode and an outline for the remaining episodes of the series. Students should have basic audio editing skills, or be available to arrange additional tutorials to improve those skills. There will be instruction in more advanced sound design. The focus of this course is how to bring storytelling elements into a podcast for compelling listening. PREREQUISITES: JOUR 3002.03 or permission of the instructor. EXCLUSIONS: This course is not available to students in the Bachelor of Journalism Honours program.