5.

1
Creating A Multimedia Platform

Choosing A Platform
● Multimedia
○ Any digital content that combines different forms such as:
■ Text
■ Images
■ Sound
■ Video
○ Can create out content with own device and software
○ Shared by sending files or sharing access to file share or cloud storage
sites.
○ To share content with a wider audience.
○ Bring together different content types to make true multimedia
product
○ Multimedia platforms are spaces that we can use to make, share or
view multimedia content
■ Examples are:
● Website hosting services that provide easy templates for
text and image pages
○ Have widgets to add audio, video and social media
to web pages
● Social media services such as facebook, twitter, weibo and
instagram.
○ Lets you add text, video, audio content
○ Might restrict the way you show your content
● Offline applications such as microsoft powerpoint of prezi
○ Designed for presentations
○ Allow you to add audio, video to pages
■ When choosing platform, think about:
● Who is the audience and what is your content?
● How well will your content work on the platform?
● What is the cost and availability of the platform?

Setting up your multimedia platform

● Set up multimedia platform by creating new account with email address
○ Go to sign up page
○ Enter details
● Choose a template for your multimedia platform that lets you add:
○ Posts
■ Separate items you can add on a scrolling page
○ Page
■ Separate pages for items that you want to stay visible
● Choosing services for media content
 ○ Some platforms let us upload material other than text and images
○ Let you save media like video and audio files in media library
○ However, they might need you to pay to upload that
■ Better to use media hosting services

5.2
Creating News Stories

Creating text for your project

● Many different ways to write text for your project launch
○ We can write in the:
■ Page templates
■ Slide templates
■ Word processor
○ Word processors are good because they have more powerful editing
capabilities than other applications.
■ Have proofing functions, such as:
● Spellcheck
● Thesaurus
■ Word count function
■ Tracking functions
● Track changes
● Commenting tools
● Editing as team
○ How to work with team for text:
■ Use word processor to collaborate with others
■ Share your document while creating it
■ Share document with email
■ Use shared drive
■ Store it in the cloud
○ Some collaborative editing tools
■ Track changes
● Help make suggestions for changes to shared document
■ Comments
● Help share ideas and thoughts about parts of text
■ Find and replace
● Help to quickly make global changes to words or phrases
○ Proofing text
■ Final proof
● Check spelling
● Check formatting
● Use word processor tools to do:
○ Spell check
○ Grammar check
● Adding content to project platform
 ○ When we have final version of text, add to project.
○ If we using online platform, add text as new post or page
■ Use post is text is news item.
● Will appear at top of site’s main page
● Any new posts published later appear above it
■ Use page is text is item that you want to keep separate from
main page
● Could be an:
○ ‘About us’ page
○ ‘Contact us’ page
● Adding images to text
○ Add images to text by uploading them to media library
○ Add images to post or page using platform’s function
○ If we using offline platform,
■ Add images using ‘insert’ menu
○ If we using online platform
■ Add a new block and select image type

5.3
Plan and record school podcast

Make an outline plan

● Intro
○ Explain who we are
○ What show is about
● Jingle or ‘sting’
○ Short piece of music
○ Help people recognize or remember podcast
● Topic segments
○ Use one or more segments to cover chosen subjects
○ Segments have different content types
● Closing remarks
○ Thank audience for listening
○ Encourage them to listen to the next episode

Steps to plan podcast

● Write script
○ Most podcasts sound informal, conversational
○ Can be useful to write script for some segments
○ What to remember when writing script:
■ Remember to write like speaking
■ Short sentences
■ Avoid jargon
● Jargon is specialist words, abbreviations
● Music
 ○ Ideas about type of music to include
○ Questions to ask when planning
■ Where do you want to use the music?
■ What kind of mood do you want to make?
● Set up, record show
○ Follow these steps
■ Studio or indoor recordings:
● Set up recording equipment in a quiet place.
● Do sound and quality check.
■ Outdoor or outside recordings:
● Use voice recorder app on smartphone or tablet
● Do sound and quality check.
■ Practice each scripted segment
■ Record segment.
● Record audio segments
○ Use DAW software to record on device
■ DAWs present project as series of tracks from top to bottom of
screen.
■ Audio content in each track is shown as waveform along
timeline.
■ Sections of content are sometimes called clips.
○ Set the recording levels
■ Make sure that microphone and speakers or headphones
correctly set up.
■ Activate input level meter.
■ Make test recording.
■ Make sure meter stays in green area and does not turn yellow or
red.
● If meter goes into red area,
○ Recording may be distorted.

5.4
Edit and Publish your audio content

Editing audio in your DAW

● Trimming track starts and ends
○ Trim tracks to delete unwanted silence at beginning and end of tracks
■ Select an area of track to delete by using mouse
● Editing audio in a track
○ Quickly fix mistakes by editing a track
○ Use playback controls to play your audio file and listen for parts you
want to edit.
○ When found part to remove, select with mouse and delete it.
● Moving audio in a track
○ When we edit audio in track, track no longer lines up with other tracks.
 ■ Move audio in track to line it up again.

Mixing your final audio

● When we edit recordings and put in right order,
○ Can mix sound.
● How to mix sound?
○ Change volume level of each track so that whole podcast sounds right.
○ Need to find right balance between volume levels of different parts of
project:
■ Speech
■ Music
■ Sound effects
● To balance audio volume levels:
○ Play audio and use level sliders to increase volume of individual tracks.

Exporting Project
● Export project from DAW software.
● Create sound file that can embed in another project or stream online.

5.5
Plan and create video content

Agree content and style

● How the content should be recorded?
○ Technical standards
● What should be filmed?
○ The content
● How the content should look?
○ The style

Technical Standards
● The screen format (or ‘aspect ratio’)
○ Most video cameras and editing software can work with different
formats.
○ 16:9 format is the most common high-definition (HD) widescreen
format.