AJMI - Doha

Al Jazeera Media Institute, under audiovisual journalism category, is going to organize a new training course under the title “Entertainment podcast production”, during the evening period from 3 to 7 August.

The course aims to provide participants with practical and theoretical skills in the field of entertainment podcast production, where they will learn about basics of entertainment podcast, entertainment podcast types and relevant audience, in addition to mechanisms of entertainment podcast design and writing of creative and attractive scripts.

The course will also focus on enabling trainees to use various editing tools and adding sound /visual effects to improve episodes quality, in addition to acquiring effective strategies for publishing episodes and analyzing performance to insure reaching target audience.

The training program also includes an introduction to podcasts field and the most prominent types, focusing on entertainment programs characteristics and importance of understanding target audience to meet its aspirations. Participants will also learn about program's preparation, planning criteria from idea selection, episode structure building, visual content preparation to management of dialogue and interviews with guests.

The course also includes practical topics covering the right equipment for filming podcast programs, lighting techniques to improve video quality, as well as audio recording tools and equipment, audio and video editing, color adjustment, noise removal, sound level adjustment and adding effects.

At the end of the course, participants will receive a graduation certificate accredited by Al Jazeera Media Institute, which qualifies them to leave a distinguished professional mark in the field of entertainment podcast production and to meet the growing interest in the field of technology and online broadcasting.