Video Podcast: Best Practices for Successful Podcasting

Course details

Are you ready to film great, viral video Podcasts for your audience?

Do you look at your video recordings and wonder how you could get more 'Wow' into them?

When you watch your videos, do you think: 'The sound quality is terrible. Why did I even bother to record?'

You are in the right course!

With smartphones and particularly, iPhones, turning into multimedia devices, both for producing and watching, Video Podcasting is showing strong growth. According to industry experts, there are over 2 billion smartphones being used every day.

iTunes has a dedicated section just for Video Podcasts. They announced recently that there are over one billion subscribers of podcasts worldwide.

If you want to improve your film-making, then this course is for you!

In this course, you will learn:

• How to deal with lighting issues that could ruin your shots
• How to cut out irritating background noise
• Stabilization tips for better quality shots without the 'shakes'
• Why 'Selfies' are here to stay
• Shot planning
• What angles work best

and much more!

Some lectures are a discussion between your instructors about video production concepts and others at 'in the street', recording and dealing with the issues that come up.

Award-winning documentary film director, Paul Jenkins, has been responsible for many high profile films for the BBC, ARTE, Channel 4, FR2, PBS, NHK and other international channels.

In a career spanning more than two decades, his films have been distributed and often co-produced by television broadcasters internationally. They have drawn positive reviews from the national and international press, and been screened at international think tanks, major film festivals and museums.

Currently he is development of a major international film on climate change, funded by the French-German broadcaster ARTE and the Centre National de Cinematographie (CNC).

This course does not deal with how to set up a podcast or technical issues, such as what camera to buy or software to edit with. This course is about quality video production in today's instant news environment using the equipment you already have - your smartphone!