麻豆社

If you've something you'd like to share but are looking for some pointers, look no further.

Alice Dale and Adam Crowther, 麻豆社 Upload presenters

We've been chatting with Adam Crowther, who presents 麻豆社 Upload in the West of England, and Alice Dale, presenter of 麻豆社 Upload in London, to see what advice they have for you:

"We love being able to champion creatives just like you. We can’t wait to showcase your poetry, comedy, spoken word, short stories… You share it, we’ll air it," Alice said.

"If you’re feeling a bit nervous, please don’t be, just give it a go, we love discovering your creativity - whatever it is,” adds Adam.

1. You really don’t need any fancy kit. We’re all for keeping things simple. For audio, it’s perfectly fine just to use the voice notes or memos app on your phone or tablet. Or you can record into your laptop if you prefer. For video and images, lots of our uploads are made on mobile. And for text, it’s as easy as saving your file as a PDF and uploading it.
   
   
2. If you’re uploading something you’ve written we’d really love to hear you reading it, either in full or a sample of it. If you are not up for performing yourself, we get that, and you can upload it as a text document.
   
   
3. If you’re recording audio, either on its own or as part of a video, try to do it somewhere where you have lots of soft furnishings around. For example this could be somewhere with curtains, carpets and upholstery. Recording like this gives your sound a better quality because hard-surfaces in rooms like kitchens and bathrooms make your recording sound "tinny" and we want you to sound your best.
   
   
4. Don’t worry about adding any music, soundtrack or sound effects to your audio or video if that’s not what you would usually do - we can put on some final polish before broadcast if it would add to the audience’s experience of your work.
   
   
5. If you would like to upload something that’s more than around ten minutes’ duration, then please choose your absolute favourite shorter section, scene or passage from it to upload and just let us know on the upload form that it’s part of something bigger.
   
   
6. Don’t worry about what "genre" your upload would fit into – we are open to everything.
   
   
7. We’ll get in touch if we’d like to showcase your content. When this happens be sure to tag @麻豆社Upload on social media so we can help you share the news.