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COMS333 examines podcasts as a media form, and develops techniques of podcast making. You will explore the technologies that lead to podcasting, along with histories of audio storytelling. You will develop a collaborative podcast project. This is not a distance course. It teaches practical skills and requires students to create and share work with others, in order to learn from and support each other. In COMS333 you will advance core skills in audio production, textual analysis, media archaeology, collaborative work, networking, creativity, writing and presentation.
Knowledge gained from this course:1. Recognise the particular media form of the podcast2. Understand theories of sound and storytelling3. Recognise the key features of successful podcasts – and identify their success in relation to content, technique, and storytelling, as well as audience response. 4. Understand connections between the form, content and techniques of podcasting5. Understand the production contexts of podcasts from a range of local and global producers Skills gained from this course:7. Audio storytelling techniques8. Interviewing8. Audio recording of interviews, speakers, and field recordings9. Workshopping production ideas, pitching them, giving, receiving, and accommodating feedback10. Planning and researching a podcast 11. Producing a coherent and well executed podcast12. Writing a funding application to support the podcast, identifying audience, platforms, promotion, and creative value13. Clearly describing, understand, and analyse the form, content, and techniques of other podcasts in writingPersonal attributes gained after taking this course:13. experience in audio production14. development of written communication skills15. Development of sound-based communication skills using words and other sounds 15. Sharpened organisational skills in planning and carrying out an extended and complex project
15 points at 200-level in COMS. Students without this prerequisite but with at least a B average in 60 points of relevant courses, may enter the course with the approval of the Department Co-ordinator or the Undergraduate Co-ordinator for COMS.
Students must attend one activity from each section.
Zita Joyce
Domestic fee $1,788.00
International fee $8,200.00
* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.
For further information see Language, Social and Political Sciences .