Daliah Smagarinsky

At the end of Term 3, the Year 9 and 10 Hebrew classes joined together to attend a professional podcasting and radio course at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School (AFTRS) as a part of the Kol Ha-Ivrit/Yachad radio Hebrew program.

Here is Daliah Smagarinsky’s account of the experience:

‘Write for the ear, not for the eye’. This is the advice we were given.

It is important to pinpoint our audience and cater to them, we were told, and we were made aware of the need to create interest and engagement for our listeners.

Day 1
We discovered how best to record sound by getting close to the source of the sound and removing as much background noise as possible, and we got to practise and apply what we had learnt.

We then moved into the studios and learnt about the equipment and how to properly use it. I learnt a lot about the professional audio tools, and it was such a unique experience to have been fortunate enough to use it!

Day 2
We paired up and picked a topic to interview each other on. I was interviewed about my love of languages, and I interviewed my friend about her passion for baking. Our challenge was to create a set of questions that were engaging to the listener, yet informative enough to gain an understanding of the interviewee’s insight on the topic. We put our learning from Day 1 into practice, and the results were great!

Now to business! It was time to work on our podcasts that we had written back at school. After tweaking it a little, we implemented some techniques that we had learned at AFTRS and then it was time to record! It was so amazing to have experienced recording our podcasts in such a stunning space!

Editing can make or break a podcast. We had the chance to edit our podcast separately on a program called Audacity, where we were able to fine tune our recording and create a finished final product. Wow, that was tricky, but we are very proud of our podcasts. 

Here they are:

• Year 9 YaCHaD Podcast 2
• Year 10 Kol Ha-Ivrit Podcast 3

Going to AFTRS was an incredible experience that we are so lucky we had!

It was so much fun to spend the two days together as a group of Hebrew students, learning new skills to aid us in our radio course back at school. Thank you so much to our incredible teachers, Morah Harvey and Morah Heitner, as well as our teacher from AFTRS, Jess, for making this experience unforgettable! We can’t wait to expand our skills further next year!

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