What the format is
Reporting comes first: interviews, documents and ambience gathered over time and shaped into a structured story.
How an episode is shaped
A structure that tends to work:
- Plan sources and permissions before recording.
- Record clean interviews and ambient tape.
- Structure the episode around a question.
- Check facts and credit sources.
What production involves
A documentary has many sources, recorded in many places and conditions. The edit has to match them so they sound like one report.
- Match levels and tone across recordings made in different rooms.
- Keep a log of sources and clearances.
- Allow time for fact-checking before the final mix.
How radio.app produces it
You record; we make the podcast. We clean and level the voices, build the intro and sound, edit the documentary format to your structure and deliver finished episodes to one loudness standard. See the production process and the plans.