Podcasting
Posted by Paddy on October 25, 2009 – 11:22 am | 3 Comments
Well – it was Halloween weekend!
Our broadcast of fear was a great success. (follow the link to listen again)
We will be putting up a range of material as podcasts during the next week or so. In the meantime – follow the link to listen again to all of the weekend’s broadcasting.
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On Saturday we started our new series of word-based broadcasts. Each month we will be taking a theme and putting together a series of linked features; including poetry, prose and drama; interviews and the best of community journalism; together with music that itself reflects the theme.
This month we investigated Fear. Listen again to part 1, and then part 2, a whole range of material from an interview with Lars Svendsen, author of ‘A Philosophy of Fear’ to some of the spookiest short stories ever!
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On Sunday we returned to our regular monthly music-based broadcasts – Everybody Loves Fabulous Music. The focus was, as always, on local music with as much live content as possible:
1-2pm Everybody Loves Folk Music
This month presented by singer-songwriter James ‘Bar’ Bowen James will be playing some of his favourite ‘under the radar’ acoustic artists as well as wielding his own guitar. Lots of local talent will be on display, along with some stonking tunes and a bit of banter.
2-3pm The Fruit Tree Project presents…
We’ve enjoyed our collaboration with Dave Evans who does a fantastic job putting together Garforth Arts Festival. On Sunday he returns to play live in the Disco Dungeon with the Fruit Tree Project
Take a listen to their fantastic hour
3-4pm Scene to be Heard
Another great friend of ELFM’s gives us an insight into what makes her tick (musically). Lucy Barker is one of the founders and key organisers of the fabulous Moor Music Festival.
4-5pm Junior Disco Dungeon
We return with live performances from some great young people. This week in the dungeon are The Marmozets and rapper Butcher
You can listen to our podcast here
5-6pm Hi-Fidelity
A round-up of all that is happening on the local music scene peppered with a slew of new releases that we have been given special permission to feature.
6-7.30pm Disco Dungeon
The lovely Jenny Smith returns to the dungeon. With her debut album, Love Holds Strong, on release – she will also be talking to us about her recent trip to the Tbilisi Music Festival with Georgian choir Samzeo. Also on were brand new local band Germain, with their first ever radio performance
Click for Jenny Smith’s podcast, and for the excellent Germian
Get involved
If you want to get involved with the broadcast we are running training sessions on Thursday and Friday this week (29th and 30th October). The sessions are open to everyone and run either between 2-4pm or 6-8pm. On the Thursday we will be creating material and on Friday focusing on presentation skills for the Saturday broadcast – so if you can come to two sessions, then that would be perfect. All training and broadcasts will be coming to you from our brand new studio at ELFM Towers
For more information – email: info@elfm.co.uk or call Adrian on 07973 172 433
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Posted by admin on October 29, 2007 – 10:03 am | No Comments
Do you have something to say that is not covered by mainstream radio?
Do you want your opinions to be heard by a worldwide audience?
Do you have an idea that you’d like to share with others?
If your answer to any of these is “yes” then podcasting could be for you!
So what is a Podcast? Wikipedia describes a Podcast as:
“A podcast is a series of digital-media files which are distributed over the Internet using syndication feeds for playback on portable media players and computers. The term podcast, like , can refer either to the series of content itself or to the method by which it is syndicated; the latter is also called podcasting. The host or author of a podcast is often called a podcaster” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PodCasting
In reality a podcast is a means for you to get your voice heard by a worldwide audience. The word “Podcast” is based on Apple’s well known iPod but you don’t need one to be able to listen to a podcast. If you are reading this then you probably already have the means to listen to any podcast. All you need is a PC, an internet connection and a media player, such as Windows Media Player or iTunes. Once you have these then you are ready to listen to podcasts. Once you start listening to podcasts you will see what is out there, and perhaps get an idea for what you could do. East Leeds FM is always interested in listening to your podcasts, why not get in touch? You could easily end up on the internet and being listened to by the world!
For information on making your own podcast see “How do I make a Podcast?”
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Posted by admin on October 29, 2007 – 10:00 am | 1 Comment
So you want to make your own podcast? Where do you start?
First of all you need an idea. What do you want to get across to your listeners? Do you want to express your opinions on a particular subject or do you want to interview someone interesting and make this available on the internet?
A podcast is basically an mp3 file that is posted on the internet for others to listen to, therefore you need to have a means to create that mp3 – this is not as hard, or technical, as you may think.
What do you need?
1. A computer, either a PC or Mac will do – if you’re reading this then I guess you probably have one of these already!
2. A way to record sound. This will need both software and hardware. You will need a microphone of some description, this could be your mobile phone or a headset you already use with your computer. You could also get a “proper” microphone, the choice is yours. You will also need software to record your voice. Personally I use Audacity although others are available. If you choose to use Audacity you will also need the LAME mp3 encoder which is available via their website in order to post your podcast.
Once you have recorded what you want to say you may want to edit it before you post it. Again this is not as hard as it sounds, it can be as simple as getting rid of the inevitable “ums” and “arrs”. If you have interviewed someone then you can also use the editing process to put together something that tells a story, rather than it being a direct reproduction of your conversation. Whilst it is not good to change the context of what an interviewee says, it is sometimes helpful to alter the order of their answers so that what they say makes more sense as sometimes when being interviewed people do not always say what they mean straight away.
Remember that what you record could be heard by anyone, therefore you need to make sure that what you want to get across is clear.
Please be aware that ELFM will not tolerate anything that could be considered as racist, homophobic or otherwise offensive to listeners – this includes swearing of any kind, no matter how harmless you might think it is.
Finally, including music may seem to be a good idea however it is essential that you do not. Most publicly available music is subject to copyright and using it online without permission is illegal.
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Posted by admin on September 27, 2007 – 6:25 pm | No Comments
Once you’ve created your podcast and saved it as an mp3 file, you need to create a post on the ELFM site and upload your podcast. First off, you need to have a user name and password – contact us if you haven’t got one…
Then go to www.elfm.co.uk/admin
Type in your username and password
This will take you to the admin side of the ELFM website. You will be on the Dashboard page and will immediately be able to see details of recent activity on the site. You can take your time and have a look round the different menus, change your user details, that kind of thing. But then let’s get down to it…
The important thing is the Write Post page (you can get there either by clicking on the Write menu or by the direct link on the Dashboard page). This is where you create your post and add any material you want to it – audio, visual, text etc.
There are four parts to it…
1) At the top Title and Post: This will be the title that people will see on the website – short and snappy is best. Your post can be as long as you want. You can format it – bold, italic etc and you can put in web-links by using the icons at the top of the Post window. When you’ve written the text, you can also include images – see section (4) Upload below.
2) Next down – Podcasting: This is where you upload your media files (eg .mp3 .mov etc) – not image files like .jpg – that comes under section (4)
3) Then – Tagging: this is how you leave keywords so that people can search for similar material via the tagging system. For example, if your material is about a specific place in East Leeds you might tag it Seacroft or Halton Moor etc. Or if it is a particularly type of material eg music or crime. You can either choose from some of the top tags below the input box; or as you start typing, you can choose from a pull-down list of similar tags; or you can make up new ones (but don’t tag excessively – doesn’t help anyone!)
Important: We also use the tagging system to identify where the item will appear. The main ones you need to know are podcast and home news. Podcast will place your post in the podcast list on the home page, send it to itunes subscribers etc. Home news will place your post in the latest news section on the home page.
4) Finally Upload for images, pdfs etc. You can either browse all the pictures already uploaded to our site (that’s the top ‘browse’ and ‘browse all’ links- in the blue header) Or you can upload your own pics, images, from your computer – best to keep them to about 500 pixels wide. This time click the browse button next to the File box and find the file you want on your own hard disk. Give it a title and click Upload. What you get next depends on the type of file, but generally leave the options as standard and click on ‘Send to Editor‘. This will put a thumbnail of your image in the post where you have put your cursor (people will be able to see the full-size image by double clicking on the website). You can check by scrolling up the post page to Section One and move the image around by dragging it as necessary.
Once you’ve done, click on ‘Save and Continue Editing‘ at the bottom of the first section of the page (Title and Post). Then click on ‘View’ (on the right of the page just below your Post Title). That will open a new window allowing you to preview what your post will look like.
Then normally you would click on Publish – what I would suggest for the first time is that you leave it as a saved draft, email us at info@elfm.co.uk; we will check it’s all ok, let you know if there are any problems, and then publish it to get it on the website.
It’s all pretty straightforward once you know – just get in touch if you have any problems…
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