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!
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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!
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…
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…
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,…
Rauk professionalising from angela rees
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
(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)….
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.