Interested in learning how to make your own podcast? Join us on our 2018 workshop dates in Windmill Lane Studios:
*March 4th SOLD OUT
Athena Media is an award winning digital audio agency and it’s the force behind Podcasting Ireland. We’ve been making podcasts since 2006 and have run sponsored audio podcast channels in both music and speech.![]()
Our podcasts include The Family of Things hosted by Helen Shaw who will lead this workshop and our regular radio/podcast shows including Pantisocracy, Wilde Stories and Vocal Chords.
This one day workshop is designed for podcast beginners and will take participants from idea to online, showing people how to get their own audio show together and online.
The workshop will cover how to record using a mobile recorder like a Zoom H4 and participants will be encouraged to bring a mobile recorder to the workshop.
It will introduce people to basic editing and show people how to release their audio online.
Podcasting 101 covers:
1 – What’s a podcast? How effective is podcasting as a communications tool?
2 – Your basis starter podcasting kit – the tools you may need and where you can source them.
3 – How to find and tell audio stories.
4 – Basic recording techniques and recording interviews.
5 – Basic editing software and what you can use.
6 – Releasing your podcast – using online platforms like Soundcloud and Audioboom.
7 – Using visual content and images with your podcast.
8 – Legal and copyright issues. A content creator’s checklist.
9 – Monitoring and measuring your podcast.
The Athena Media team delivering this workshop is Helen Shaw & John Howard
Their audio work has won six Golds at the New York Radio Festival and besides podcasts they make award winning audio for radio broadcasters including the BBC, RTÉ and Newstalk.