60A Podcast Assignment Pt 2

Overview

Now that you have some raw content recording in your Podcast Assignment Pt 1, let's pivot our focus to some music! Podcasts often utilize production music libraries to grab theme music, transition music, and/or segmental music. Another option is to contract a musician/producer to create exclusive original music. As home studio producers, we are going to hire ourselves! For this assignment, we want you to make theme music specially for your podcast. Aim to create something that fits the tone and feel of your content (Ex:ominous and brooding for investigative journalism, upbeat and bright for a light-hearted conversational format.) We will be using this theme music for the intro and outro of our podcasts!

Instructions

1. Create a short piece of theme music
   • Can be an multi-pieced instrumental, a simple beat
   • or a special jingle with vocals
2. Aim for maximum 20 seconds
   • Keep in mind if you want it to fade into dialog
   • OR have a hard ending before dialog starts
3. Mix the music to the best of your abilities
   1. balance, compression, EQ
   2. effects
   3. overall volume with limiting
4. Bounce/export your audio file
5. Upload to an audio file sharing service
   • YouTube, Mixup, Spotify, SoundCloud, etc.

Submit in Canvas

1. Post the direct link to your audio file
   • Make sure it is a functional hyperlink (not just plain text)
   • Please make sure your sharing permissions are set so anyone with the link can view
2. Tell us about your theme music
   • How you produced it and why it fits your podcast