Organised by A New Direction
Applications now open for free 6-week training programme for young Londoners
(Deadline Tue 07 June)
Power up your podcast skills, build your network and get job-ready in one of the fastest-growing media industries out there.
About Creativity Works Podcasting
Creativity Works: Podcasting is a full-time six-week blended, immersive training programme taking place between Mon 04 July 2022 - Fri 05 August 2022.
Over six weeks you’ll learn everything you need to know about production, from storytelling to editing & presenting to growing a following and how to keep putting out exceptional content.
You’ll receive training from leaders in audio and broadcasting production. The programme will combine online and In Real Life (IRL) sessions out of our physical space in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, The Good Growth Hub.
Creativity Works is a Mayor’s Fund for London programme.
Applicants must be:
18-24 years old
From a London borough
Not be in full-time employment, education or training
Key dates
Selection day: Applicants must be free for a selection day on the week commencing 13 June 2022.
Programme dates: Mon 04 July - Friday 05 August 2022 (week days / full time)
Participants will also need to be available on Thur 08 Sep (listening party) and Fri 05 Sep 2022 (final session).
The course will include:
- A live industry brief to produce your own 5–10 minute podcast
- Use of a Macbook pro and the Adobe Suite for the duration of the course
- Access to industry leaders and mentors
- Industry talks and masterclasses as well as practical workshops
Curriculum will include:
- Editorial: Finding Your Story
- Development: Perfecting an idea and standing out
- Recording and Editing (Sound & Quality)
- Storytelling through Sound
- Producing it & How to be a host
- The Independents & The Big Platforms
- Podcasting with Sensitivity
- Brief to Broadcast: How to Make Ideas into Top Podcasts
- Money & IP: Making it Pay - owning your ideas
- Press, Artwork & Promotion
Why apply?
There are over 1 million published podcasts globally and half of all young people in the UK listen to a podcast every month. It’s a media powerhouse and it's only set to get bigger. So, we want to help young people tap into this opportunity and discover the jobs available.
We'll be working with:
Sony Music Entertainment Global Podcast Division
Migration Museum
The Podcast Show
Dialled In – the award-winning art & culture festival celebrating and showcasing the South Asian community
We will also be working with award winning freelance producers from:
Jessie Ware’s Table Manners
Who We Be Talks
Vice
BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 1Xtra
Apple Beats
6Music
Renowned sound designers like Axel Kacoutié, broadcaster/journalist
STANCE Podcast Founder Chrystal Genesis
East London’s Dutchie Studios founder Nicole Logan
What past participants are doing now:
Full time paid roles in content agencies and production companies such as Somethin’ Else, Bauer Media, Sky Creative, Oglivy, being mentored by Capital Xtra's very own Robert Bruce, and working on original content for their own independent podcasts as well as for radio stations including No Signal Radio and BBC Radio 4’s Short Cuts Series.
Application deadline - Tuesday 07 June 2022
Apply by 6pm
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