Garageband tutorial 1: Making a jingle
Here’s a quick guide to making a simple jingle. Udemy’s Garageband Tutorial: A Beginner’s Guide to Garageband is here And here are even more!
Creating Jingles in Garage band
Create jingles in garageband Open up GarageBand by clicking on the guitar icon form your dock or finding it in Applications. Click on “Loops” and press choose. Name your file and save it somewhere where you will be able to find it again in future, then click “Create” Spend some time listening…
Multilingual International Shows!
There are some great resources here about using more than one language in a broadcast. Scroll down and find the downloadable file in your own language or open the page using Chrome as your browser.
Storyboard resources
Templates for Google-docs for collaborative story-boarding Printable story-board templates
Community Journalism Course
Cardiff University’s free open online course in Community Journalism starts on 14th April 2014. Follow the link below to sign up https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/community-journalism “The course is open to anyone with an interest in journalism and in connecting their communities online. No prior qualifications are required. Core essentials of journalism principles, skills and practice are covered as…
Pre-records and podcasts tutorial
This is a blog post about producing a podcast, you can use all of the tips and ideas when producing pre-recorded content for your show. LEARNING OBJECTIVES At the end of this section you will be able to: Say what a podcast is. List the equipment you need to make a podcast. Explain how…
Music by someone you’ve heard of
All this licence-free public domain and Creative Commons music is great but sometimes you want to play something a bit more “commercial”. Fear not, here’s a list of better known bands, artists, tracks and albums which have been published with Creative Commons licences. Again, remember to check the small print! Nine Inch Nails actively encourage…
Useful links – creative commons and license free music
The Internet Archive has a huge section for community music http://archive.org/details/audio most of which is public domain or share alike by attribution. Check each file for details. They also have http://archive.org/details/netlabels which is a collection designed for streaming on internet radio or editing to make backing tracks. The public domain review has lots of useful information about finding…
Public Domain Music
There is a very good site called public domain review which explains everything you need to know about finding music which is in the public domain. “Works in the public domain are those whose intellectual property rights have expired, have been forfeited, or are inapplicable. Examples include the works of Shakespeare and Beethoven, The King James Bible, most of the early silent films, the formulae of Newtonian physics,…
Frank Nora
Lots of music here which can be used as you like. http://mcs.franknora.com/ is “55 hours of public domain music you can use any way you want, with no strings attached.”
Woody Guthrie
Woody Guthrie dedicated his work to the public domain so you are free to use, re-use, edit and re-purpose his music as you wish. “This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright # 154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin it without our permission, will be mighty good…
Your show…
Rauk professionalising from angela rees
Radio Jargon
Ad Lib The presence of mind by a presenter to improvise when; 1) another presenter fails to start on cue 2) the normal progress of the programme is disturbed 3) lines are forgotten anchorman /presenter / host Often used to refer to the presenter or host of a programme. Sometimes the person who does…
Useful links – Jingles, Loops and Stings
How to make your own sound effects http://pinterest.com/sfxninja/i-see-sound-effects/ Royalty free and Creative Commons music http://pinterest.com/angelarees/license-free-creative-commons-music/ Also check out http://www.opsound.org/index.php
Writing News
(Adapted from the News Department, CJAM Radio, University of Windsor, 1981). Radio journalism is similar to storytelling. It is conversational in style. The choice of words must be similar to the listening audience’s vocabulary. The sentences should be short and uncomplicated. Use very few adjectives and stay away from quotes (people can’t hear quotation marks)….
Writing Content
The Basics Good writing is good writing. Whether you’re writing for radio, print, TV or the internet, a lot of the same basics apply. Clarity, good organization of your thoughts and themes and a vocabulary that your listeners/readers/viewers will understand are all important. But there are a few things that are specific to the medium…
Presenting News
Reprinted with thanks to CJAM, University of Windsor Radio. 1981. There is no one style of announcing that is superior to all others. A guaranteed step-by-step plan for perfect news announcing simply does not exist but there are lots of things you can do to ensure a strong delivery. There are differences between the way…
Music Show Basics
Doing a show involves research, organization and thought. Besides finding the music you will play, it also means planning what you will say and scripting some of it. If you plan on doing a show for any period of time, you will find yourself tiring of the same old favorites quite rapidly. There’s a lot…
Being Professional
These guidelines are from a handbook about Community Radio a. Prepare for The Program A radio program must present new ideas, information and points of view. Hence, an announcer should always read, research and secure information from reliable sources. He/she must organize the program well before going on air. b. Do Research The community broadcaster should look for…
Interview Techniques
BEFORE GOING ON THE AIR: Know why you’re doing the interview. This is also known as “focussing” your interview. What exactly do you need to know from the person you’re interviewing? The clearer you are about why YOU think this is an important subject, the clearer it will be for your listeners. Listen to your…
Workshop and Training Objectives
These are the session objectives that we used for the Trainer workshop. However, it is unlikely that the length and format of the training you do with young people will follow the same pattern. The following suggestions are ‘building blocks’ that can stand alone or be combined in different ways. What is internet radio? At…
Example training programme
Programme Rationale The programme is roughly divided into 4 parts. The first day will develop the skills needed to stream a live broadcast on the second morning of the programme. Following the live programme there will be an opportunity to debrief and evaluate the content of the programme and also the production process underpinning it….
Aims and Objectives for a typical training workshop
Aims: To equip youth workers with the skills they need to support and train young people to run an internet radio station To identify ways in which internet radio can be used to develop young people’s social and life skills and improve employability Overall objectives: At the end of the training participants will be able…
Audacity Tutorial 1: Voice Recordings
Radioanywhere have produced a series of simple tutorials. Follow the link below for one on voice recording using Audacity. Audacity Voice Tutorial Audacity is free, open source recording software for Windows, Linux or Mac and can be downloaded here.
Video killed the radio star
Bet you thought that getting the radio on your TV was a modern idea. Here’s a combined television-radio from 1949!
