The Soundtrails Academy
At Soundtrails we have been producing high quality, professional audio walks since 2012.
We love locative audio experiences and we love knowledge sharing.
We now share our knowledge, our tech platform, our experience and skills.
In this Section
What is the Soundtrails Academy?
The Soundtrails Academy offers a learning environment with videos, practical tasks and access to a robust audio walk platform. You can teach how to design and build audio walks to your students or upskill members of your organisation.
- We provide the platform.
- We offer student cohort management and allow for oversight and archiving of their works.
- We are a trustworthy and approachable Australian business.
- We showcase the best audio walk productions on our Soundtrails App and offer a pathway to becoming a professional audio walk producer.
Who is the Soundtrails Academy for?
- Schools, Colleges, Universities
- Creative Industry organisations
- Heritage and other cultural organisations
- Demonstration Farms and Gardens
- Tourism organisations
- Any organisation holding knowledge in context of the land
What does the Soundtrails Platform offer?
- We offer a robust and user friendly audio walk builder, for creating and experimenting.
- A mobile app for experiencing the work, for testing and reviewing.
- Cohort management for inviting students into the backend.
- Projects including audio and image files and choreography can be downloaded and archived.
What is the video content like?
Here is Module 1 to give you an idea what the videos are like.
Send us a message below and will demo how it all works and we can answer any questions you may have.
Access all Modules here >
What topics are covered in the Modules?
Topics
- A Brief History of Audio Walks
- An Array of Audio Walk Apps out there
- Locative – what does this mean?
- Places and stories around us
- The Soundtrails Platform: An overview over the backend
- The SOUNDTRAIL Tab: About your Soundtrail project
- The HOTSPOT Tab
- The SHARE & ARCHIVE Tab
- Log into the builder
- Set up a new Soundtrail
- Hotspots
- Testing
- Making invisible hotspots visible
- Genre
- Audience
- Compelling Proposition
- Duration – shelf life
- Voice
- Selecting a Site
- Start mapping
- Accessibility
- Length of the Suggested Route
- Shape of the route
- Start and finish point
- Along the Route
- Building Relationships & Trust
- Requirements & Scope
- Door Openers
- How to work with Door Openers
- Site Access Permissions
- IP & Copyright
- Hotspots Tab
- Hotspot Type
- Advanced Options
- Layers
- Custom Type
- Standard Hotspot
- Behaviours in detail
- Background Hotspot
- Behaviours in detail
- Instructional Hotspot
- Behaviours in detail
- Caution with
- Advanced Options
- Good to know
- Choreography
- When to use Background Hotspots
- Filling in gaps between points of interest
- Slowing down and acknowledging country
- Prepare for next Point of Interest
- Layering three hotspot types together
- Resources
- From simple to complex
- Microphones
- Recorders
- Editors
- Editing
- Working with Files
- Montages
- Organising your Project
- Clipping out – naming
What does it cost?
- Terms apply. Prices are excluding GST. We reserve the right to make changes to our pricing.
- We charge an initial set-up fee of $500 once in addition to the seat charge per person/per annum below.
- Independent Producers with an approved project are invited to the Academy Program for free / as part of the package.
The Full Academy Program
Video Modules and Use of Platform-
Use of the Soundtrials Platform
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Intro Session for Teachers
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Access to Video Modules
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Virtual Classroom Sessions / Q&As
Interested? Send us a message
We would love to demo the academy content to you. We usually get back to you within a couple of working days.