The course aims to train professionals in podcasting who are responsible for creating original audio content from conception to distribution on platforms by applying storytelling with a focus on certain narrative genres.
Course in original podcasts: design and audio storytelling
Blended - Online and In-Presence in Rome
What you will learn
The candidate will learn, through specific skills and technical knowledge, to apply the rules of storytelling to design original audio files to be listened to on-demand.
Programme
- What is a Podcast
- The national podcast landscape
- The target market and the numbers
- Players and trends
- Storytelling
- Narrative structure and models. Creating an effective narrative with classroom practice
- How to choose a story: from idea to script
- How an idea is presented and what characteristics the podcast must have in order to be recommended to the listener
- Distribution: platforms, promotion and legal aspects
- Focus on genres:
The journalism podcast: why use podcasts to do journalism?
The narrative podcast: fine-tuning the text to make it suitable for audio enjoyment
The documentary podcast
Branded podcast: brand storytelling, hints at strategy and marketing
- Publishers and the professional recording studio: with Emons books&audiolibri, individual voice setting practice to learn how to transpose, also on an emotional level, a content and correct use of the equipment in the studio supported by director and sound engineer (at Tracce.studio, Rome)
- Podcasts and radio, two media that influence each other
- Radio: from news to daily
- The audio documentary
- Voice and sound: music and storytelling
- Recording modes: studio and home studio, indoor and outdoor with output and live recording practice. Re-elaboration of audio material in the classroom.
Job opportunities
The course in Original podcast: design and audio storytelling by the Italian Design Institute is designed for those who, through the guidance of experienced professionals in the field, wish to become podcast designers.
The opportunities to work in this field today are growing: the knowledge acquired during the course will enable the student to successfully pursue the profession, entering the market as a freelancer, or within private or communications companies.
A profession that is destined to develop more and more.
Phases of the course
Propaedeutics: Textbooks, audio listens, e-learning platform
Classroom phase 44 hours: 24 hours online (2 appointments of 4 hours per week) + 20 hours in full immersion
Project work: 45 days to develop an original podcast following the outline provided by the lecturer
Dissemination of the professional profile nationwide
Facilitations
Possibility of financing the registration fee
Video CV realisation
Reworking and updating the CV for dissemination to companies in the sector at the end of the training course in the country.
How to apply
Fill out the information request form and we will contact you within a few days. In the selection of candidates the scholastic CV, work experience and motivational letter will be considered. It is possible and advisable to send a portfolio of previous works. The examining commission, considering these elements, will communicate the result of the selection and the admission to the Course by filling the application form.
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Course in original podcasts: design and audio storytelling
COURSE PHASES
Propaedeutics: Textbooks, audio listens, e-learning platform
Classroom phase 44 hours: 24 hours online (2 appointments of 4 hours per week) + 20 hours in full immersion
Project work: 45 days to develop an original podcast following the outline provided by the lecturer
Dissemination of the professional profile nationwide
Video CV realisation
Reworking and updating the CV for dissemination to companies in the sector at regional or national level
CERTIFICATES
Certificate of Attendance classroom phase.
Certificate of Project Work.
COURSE FEATURES
The course aims to train professionals in podcasting who are responsible for creating original audio content from conception to distribution on platforms by applying storytelling with a focus on certain narrative genres.
PROFESSIONAL OUTLETS
The course in Original podcast: design and audio storytelling by the Italian Design Institute is designed for those who, through the guidance of experienced professionals in the field, wish to become podcast designers.
The opportunities to work in this field today are growing: the knowledge acquired during the course will enable the student to successfully pursue the profession, entering the market as a freelancer, or within private or communications companies.
A profession that is destined to develop more and more.
TRAINING COURSE
PROGRAM
- What is a Podcast
- The national podcast landscape
- The target market and the numbers
- Players and trends
- Storytelling
- Narrative structure and models. Creating an effective narrative with classroom practice
- How to choose a story: from idea to script
- How an idea is presented and what characteristics the podcast must have in order to be recommended to the listener
- Distribution: platforms, promotion and legal aspects
- Focus on genres:
The journalism podcast: why use podcasts to do journalism?
The narrative podcast: fine-tuning the text to make it suitable for audio enjoyment
The documentary podcast
Branded podcast: brand storytelling, hints at strategy and marketing
- Publishers and the professional recording studio: with Emons books&audiolibri, individual voice setting practice to learn how to transpose, also on an emotional level, a content and correct use of the equipment in the studio supported by director and sound engineer (at Tracce.studio, Rome)
- Podcasts and radio, two media that influence each other
- Radio: from news to daily
- The audio documentary
- Voice and sound: music and storytelling
- Recording modes: studio and home studio, indoor and outdoor with output and live recording practice. Re-elaboration of audio material in the classroom.
TEACHERS
Ilaria Gaspari was born in Milan. She studied philosophy at the Scuola Normale in Pisa, then did her postgraduate studies in Paris, at the University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. In 2015 her first novel, 'Etica dell'acquario' (Voland), was published. For Sonzogno in 2018 she published 'Reasons and feelings. Love taken with philosophy'. In 2019, 'Lezioni di felicità. Philosophical exercises for the good use of life', translated in several countries. In May 2021, again for Einaudi, 'Vita segreta delle emozioni', also being translated. He collaborates with various newspapers and Radio3, and holds writing courses at the Holden School and the Omero School.
He has been working as an independent journalist and producer since 2013. She has produced investigations, audio documentaries and reportages for RSI - Radio Svizzera Italiana, La Repubblica, TV2000. She collaborates as a podcast author and producer with the digital platform of Il Fatto Quotidiano, Radio3 Rai and Audible. In December 2016, she won the Marco Rossi prize for best news report with the radio work Lisca di pesce. In 2019, he won first prize with La mia vita al 4Stelle, Dalila's diary (Marco Rossi Prize 2019 and L'Anello Debole prize at the Capodarco Festival 2020). In 2019 he realised the sound specific project Soundscape#1 - Rome @MACRO ASILO in collaboration with Nensi Bego. In 2021, he conceived the sound installation Neural Sound for the Fondazione Ebri Rita Levi Montalcini. For the last few years he has been in charge of the podcast review for the project Giardini del Suono, winner of the Estate Romana 2020-2022 call for proposals.
TEACHERS
A graduate of DAMS in Bologna, since 2001 she has been a journalist and audio producer, author of narrative, investigative and audio documentary podcasts.
Trained between Bologna and Paris, she works and lives in Rome where she collaborates with Radio24, La Repubblica, Audible, Radio Rai3, RSI-Radio Svizzera Italiana and Il Fatto Quotidiano. She has produced sound maps where the territory is told for Isola di Ventotene and Ediciclo Editore. He holds training workshops on the history and practice of podcasting for Rufa - Rome University of Fine Arts.
Silvia Pelizzari was born in 1983 and lives in Milan. She graduated in Journalism and Publishing and works on literature and fiction. She co-edited Finzioni Magazine, a print and online literary magazine from 2012 to 2019 and has written about books on websites, newspapers and online magazines, including Pagina99, Huffington Post, Minima et Moralia, Kobo. Her stories have appeared in the anthologies Brave con la lingua, come il linguaggio determina la vita delle donne (Autori Riuniti, 2018) and Parma, i nuovi narratori raccontano la loro città (Diabasis, 2021). She is the author of the newsletter Autostrada del sud.
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twitter: @silviacardinale
TEACHERS
Audio-documentary and sound designer.
He has directed and produced podcasts for Rai Radio 3 and LifeGate Radio, producing among others the podcasts "Vado a trovare mio padre" and the anthology series "Venticinque. 1997-2022: the years that revolutionised Italian music'. He is also involved in consultancy and training in audio production and podcasting.
Artistic Director LifeGate Radio
He has always been passionate about music and has made this passion his profession.
After a degree in Communication Sciences at the IULM in Milan and a Master in Music Communication for Discography and Radio, he has been involved in music at 360° collaborating with various publishing companies and as a consultant for brands, artists and events. He is currently artistic director of LifeGate Radio for which he follows as author and artistic and executive producer most of the podcast/audio editorial content.
TEACHERS
Humanist, storytelling strategist, co-founder of the'communication agency Pensiero visibile and the podcast factory Storie avvolgibili, author of the book Podcast marketing. Giving the brand a voice for a successful content strategy (Hoepli, 2020) and the Manifesto of Communication for Human Beings.
Nn 2013 he founded together with Alessandro Scardino the'agency Pensiero visibile, which uses storytelling techniques and the tools of the humanities to create communication projects that are useful to people.
Since 2015, he has been betting on the development of storytelling in the form of audio narrative content, founding Rolling Stories, podcast boutique exclusively to the design and production of quality original and branded narrative podcasts.
Information updated to 11/17/2023
Document generated on 04/05/2024
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