Media Training is becoming a very important part of general education, as it helps students develop valuable skills in self-expression and the ability to present these to an audience. Many schools and colleges are now installing quite sophisticated media centres to assist with this training.

Indeed, some schools and colleges, especially those which have courses in the field, have studios and equipment which allows very professional video and audio production.

The presentation skills acquired by students from a Media Training Course will be extremely valuable and useful in a wide variety of future careers, whether that be as a professional radio journalist or presenter, or to simply call in these skills in sales and marketing, corporate management, or even choose a career where public speaking is essential – such as a politician!

Audio and video editing
vs. music recording

As the saying goes, there are different strokes for different folks. Here we are most interested in the equipment and techniques used for sound recording and more specifically, recording of interviews, audio editing and radio-type presentation.

Video recording and editing requires a different set of equipment (although the audio component might share some of the equipment we are looking at here). Recording of music, whether groups or soloists, is yet another specialised area which requires yet another type of equipment and skills. In fact, music recording is best described as "Audio Engineering" – somewhat outside the scope of what we are describing here.