1 / 15

Today

Today. Go over dates Discuss feedback Listen to audio stories Audio lecture Look at a script example Pitches! 2 group edits?. tagline fb /twitter box links in other windows titles? photos captions about page-- written with voice. . Telling an Audio Story. Audio stories must include:

nikita
Download Presentation

Today

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Today • Go over dates • Discuss feedback • Listen to audio stories • Audio lecture • Look at a script example • Pitches! • 2 group edits?

  2. taglinefb/twitter boxlinks in other windowstitles?photoscaptionsabout page-- written with voice.

  3. Telling an Audio Story • Audio stories must include: ACTS NARRATION AMBI (Photos) (Source List)

  4. Let’s listen to an audio story • A story that’s ALL acts and ambi. How to Talk to Kids Let’s see a regular old story from Marketplace: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1274227 http://www.marketplace.org/topics/business/shoes-are-heart-department-stores

  5. So….what happens when you hit the field….

  6. How to Record Wear Headphones. OK, this may sound silly. Solve the mystery of background noise by wearing headphones while recording. If it’s too loud to get a decent recording, move! Listen for the soda bottle hiss. The loud air conditioner. The beeping dump truck. Popping P’s.

  7. Think in Scenes Places don’t always really sound like themselves. Sometimes you have to think about what kind of sound will help you communicate a place. “the sound of a college campus” might sound just like a quiet street, or a park, or an empty classroom or a bus stop. Think about where you can get sounds of students talking, or a lively classroom, cafeteria, or student hangout.

  8. Record Ambient Sometimes ambient noise will be part of a package: you won’t have a choice to have noise in the background or not. Whenever it’s possible, though, record your interviews in a clean sound environment. And then ask your subject to help you record other sounds to go with your interview. Say you’re interviewing a firefighter, talk to them in the quiet of the station office, and then ask them to take you along on a call while running the siren and narrating the action.

  9. Get Room Tone • To help you smooth over the messy bits!

  10. Interesting Locations Choose interesting locations for interviews. Avoid the Starbucks trap! Try for an office, a person’s home – or ask your subject to show you around a place that has something to do with the story. If you’re talking to someone about their obsession with sailboats, ask them to take you on a tour of their local marina, and show you how the boat works. If you’re talking to a soldier, have them take you around their base. If you’re talking to a local schoolteacher, have them take you around their school. Their showing you around can make wonderful clips for your audio piece, spliced in with cleaner indoor interview cuts.

  11. Keep Running Your Tape! Start recording sooner than you think you should: before you even meet up with your source. Your walking into the building, introducing yourself, or settling yourself down to talk with your source can make for interesting audio. Don’t turn your recorder off until you’re in the car, bus, train, or taxi after the interview. You might want to keep it on then, too, to record your reactions afterwards. Tape is cheap. Getting people to say the perfect thing isn’t. People relax, start speaking in a new voice, or say what they really wanted to say, once they feel that the pressure of the “official interview” is over. You might get your best quotes or soundbites in that after period. DO NOT tell people you are turning off the tape when you’re not. Just keep it on, quietly recording, even after the most formal part of the interview is over.

  12. ALWAYS ask the MAGIC question • Is there anything I didn’t ask you that you think I should know?

  13. Avoid Mmmm-hmmmm-ing • This is very hard. • It is possible to listen to your subject, and help them feel heard, without overlapping everything they say with “mhmmm” and “yes”, and “oh you’re so right”. • Be disciplined, keep your tape pure, make eye contact, smile and nod—and say your mhmms after they’ve stopped talking.

  14. Ask OPEN ended questions • Don’t let your subjects off the hook – a yes or no answer does not sound good on audio. • Let your subject really talk through their answers. Don’t be afraid to ask the same questions twice. • Ask them to tell you how it sounded when that huge dog came running after them. Rawrrawrrawr looks horrible in print but sounds great on the radio! • (Radio Songs Story)

  15. Choose your subjects for your medium Just because someone is the best expert on a given topic, it doesn’t mean they are the right source for your piece. Make sure your subjects have an interesting, intelligible voice. Otherwise, just use them for background.

More Related