In celebration of 60 glorious years of the New Elizabethan Age, here’s a small tribute to Her Majesty on this interminable Jubilee weekend from the staff and various Hell’s Angels hangers-on at the offices here at Freelance Unbound. For the record, I actually hope everyone has a lovely time. I just can’t quite take all […]
Having successfully managed to spin out a week on podcasting to almost a month, visitors will be relieved to hear that this is the end of it. For anyone who fancies access to the whole series in one, handy audio file, here it is – the Freelance Unbound guide to podcasting. Thanks to multimedia content […]
In the sixth of a series of podcasting guides, former Granta editorial director and freelance multimedia content producer George Miller discusses how long you should allow for an example podcasting project. 5. Workflow timings Podcast: Play in new window | Download PreparationBased on a podcast for the book The Time Traveller’s Guide to Elizabethan England, the project took half a day’s […]
In the fifth of a series of podcasting guides, former Granta editorial director and freelance multimedia content producer George Miller discusses working with video and how this differs from audio podcasting. Key tip: Video is more of a performance – and people are aware of this. They become more self-conscious, so part of the challenge is managing this. […]
In the fourth of a series of podcasting guides, former Granta editorial director and freelance multimedia content producer George Miller discusses the editing process. Key tip: The better the original source file and the less editing you do, the more likely it is you will end up with a natural sounding result. 4. Advice on editing Podcast: Play in […]
In the third of a series of podcasting guides, former Granta editorial director and freelance multimedia content producer George Miller offers advice for interview preparation. Key tip: This is the kind of interview preparation all journalists should be doing anyway. 3. Preparing your interview Podcast: Play in new window | Download Know what you want from the sessionWhatever your brief of circumstance, […]
In the second of a series of podcasting guides from former Granta editorial director and freelance multimedia content producer George Miller, we’re looking at the equipment he uses. Key tip: don’t fetishise your kit. 2. A guide to equipment Podcast: Play in new window | Download MicrophoneAudio Technica £100 level microphone Main audio recorder On the advice of a BBC sound […]
Journalists are increasingly being called upon to produce multimedia content, so, for the next couple of weeks, Freelance Unbound is all about podcasting, and video interviewing. Former Granta editorial director and now freelance multimedia content producer George Miller is in the chair for a series of interviews, in which he shares some of his tips for getting […]
Print is dead? Not in Bath, it seems. Which makes sense – it is a heritage city, after all. Debating the motion Digital is killing the print industry: the presses will stop running in ten years, last week’s D:Bate event at the Bath Digital Festival saw print nostalgics and digital evangelists slug it out to win over an […]
I don’t know about you, but I want President Obama to explore all the table options in his mission to prevent a Middle East nuclear arms build-up. Maybe the Gateleg Initiative would bear fruit. Or how about a fresh Coffee Table Plan? Something for the BBC’s crack international correspondents to chase up, I feel…