time: 11am - 5pm, Saturday 30th October (audio)
11am - 5pm, Sunday 31st October (video)
venue: CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow
entrance: FREE (but ticketed)
Audio workshop
The audio workshop will cover the basic audio production process from gathering material through to editing and distribution. It is based primarily around production for online radio but will be applicable to other areas of audio and sound work:
Unit 1: Preparation. Starting with a look at the different kinds of speech based radio - both conventional formats, such as documentary and drama, and some creative alternatives its will aim to help participants decide what they want to make. This unit will also cover planning and research techniques, the purpose and shape of potential programs and what makes for good radio
Unit 2: Gathering Material. This unit looks at how you go about gathering material for a radio program. This will include a look at content such as scripted material, and common techniques like interviews, vox pops and discussions. Practical skills taught in this unit will include microphone techniques and an introduction to sound recording.
Unit 3: Editing. This unit will look at one of the most important practical techniques Ð sound editing on a PC using both found, and the participant's own materials with a particular emphasis on speech. For this unit we will be using Rezound Ð a powerful and intuitive single track audio editor.
Unit 4: Putting it all Together. We will look at how you assemble a radio program from the different elements you have gathered together. It will cover topics such as the use of background music, blending sounds and shaping material. In this unit we will be covering multi-track editing using Audacity to assemble the different parts of a radio program.
Unit 5: Distribution and Broadcasting. This unit looks at the different ways students can use and distribute their material and will look at using Icecast and Muse as a way of setting up your own net radio station Ð for free. We will also be looking at the difference between live and pre-recorded radio and studio techniques.
Presented by Paul Munday.
Audacity
Icecast
Muse
Rezound
Video workshop
Plugincinema.com is an independent website devoted to the creation, production and distribution of films online. For the last five years plugincinema has championed an alternative to the Hollywood System. We focus on the emerging area of web-films because it is here that we find a new aesthetic and consciousness emerging. With computers and DV cameras as a production tool, and the Internet as an exhibition, distribution and communication tool the dream of having the tools in the hands of the makers can be realised - the democratisation of film is here!
The workshop will start by discussing the concept of web-films and will move on to look at the tools available and ways of making appropriate content. The session will also cover the various distribution models open to people as web-filmmakers. For more information on plugincinema.com and web-filmmaking see www.plugincinema.com or 'Plugin&Turnon: a guide to filmmaking for the Internet' (available from all good bookshops or directly from the site).
Prsented by Ana Kronschnabl and Tomas Rawlings.
Plugincinema
