Spring2013 Week 3 slides

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Multimedia

Storytelling

JOUR 203Audio Week 3:Review Acts and Tracks PiecesFinding Ambient Sound


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Discussion

Write the way

you speak


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How to Sound Like a Real

Person

Keep your sentence structure simple.

Keep sentences short.

Rewrite awkward phrases, even if theyre correct.

Listen for tongue-twisters and oddities.


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Need 1 volunteer


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Print Writing vs Radio Writing

Washington Post article:President Bush yesterday said he takes

responsibility for the federal governments

stumbling response to Hurricane Katrina as hisWhite House worked on several fronts to movebeyond the improvisation of the first days of thecrisis and set a long-term course on a problemthat aides now believe will shadow the balanceof Bushs second term.

Katrina exposed serious problems in our responsecapability at all levels of government, Bush saidat a White House news conference with IraqiPresident Jalal Talabani.


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Print Writing vs Radio Writing

NPR Script for the same story:President Bush says the buck stops with him, and he

takes responsibility for whatever mistakes the federalgovernment made in its response to Hurricane

Katrina.

After days of insisting this is no time for a blamegame, the President shifted his tone a bit. Standingalongside Iraqi President Jalal Talabani at the WhiteHouse, Mr. Bush took a question on Hurricane Katrina,

and answered by saying he takes responsibility for thefederal governments actions. He said he wants toknow how to better cooperate with state and localgovernment in the future. He did qualify his remarks,by saying he takes responsibility only to the extentthat his administration did anything wrong.


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Comments on Last Homework


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Time to Revise or Finish Produced

Piece


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Another Interview Example


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Todays Goal

Produce an audiopostcard that takes

listeners to a locationusing ambient sound.


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Todays Goal

Produce an audiopostcard that takes

listeners to a locationusing ambient sound.

*Reporting by ear

*Ethics


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Deconstructing Radio News


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Classic Acts and Tracks

Two parts:

1. Scripted track by reporter2. Actualities: snippets from

interviews with sources


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Noises (train doors) Scenes (argument on train)


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What Would You Have

Gathered?


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Audio Postcard

The audio postcard is a short format, but ameaty one. Through an elegant layering of

voices and ambient and natural sound, thepostcard allows audio documentary to do what

it does best: place the listener smack in themiddle of the sights, sounds, smells, and mood ofa place or an event.

-- Jennifer Deer, Radio Producer


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Audio Postcard Example


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Audio Postcard Example


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Homework

Audio Assignment#2 (50 points) Audio Postcard Visit a unique place or event and capture it in a short

produced piece mixing narration and ambient sound.

No formal interviews needed here. Just find sounds that bringthe location or moment to life.

Make a produced piece that mixes narration with the ambientand natural sound youve collected. It should be at least 1:00and no more than 2:30.

Post to the blog by 11 pm Thur (remember, Export fromAudacity, post the .wav file to Soundcloud.com, then Paste theEmbed code into a blog item on the class blog)

Make sure to write a headline for your piece.

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