How do you keep to time?

How do you keep to time?

Danny Kelly (Podcaster) gives expert video advice on: How do you keep to time?

It's much better to get the story done at the very top. If you find 2 or 3 minutes to chat to the person, then you lean forward and say, "I understand you were brought up in India. Tell us about that." The trick, particularly live, is to get the meat and bones of the story out there, because if the story is interesting, the person becomes interesting. They can stay to fill 7 minutes. If you stop boring on about the person and people don't dig them, then they're not 7 minutes anyway. In a podcast, you've got to make your own breaks because you don't tend to go to news and travel and things like that. Rather, you'll have a 5 minute chunk for this, or a 10 minute chunk for that. It's about personal discipline. If a topic starts and it's a really good one, or it's a really good discussion, let it run. If you're really in the middle of something good, you'll often see producers say windup, windup. You've got to have the skill to say, no we're going to carry on here, because otherwise you're pretending the next piece is so brilliant that it can't possibly be cut down. If you're in the middle of something good, do not kill it because you can't guarantee the next thing is going to be any good anyway.