Radio: Glass and Abel
This was my first collegiate reading in the form of comic book. Seriously, I felt like I was reading ‘Sally Forth.’ I loved it. The reading focused on collecting and editing good audio for a radio story, but was applicable to any audio interview. Glass and Abel said, ‘a story can be told as a sequence of actions,’ and that a character was needed to relate to people and tie the story together.
I agreed with their pre-interviewing tactics: to go in with a general plan with key plot questions and then obtaining details whenever possible. One thing I need to improve upon is asking the subject to create a visual picture: where they were standing, what they were doing before ‘it’ happened, etc.
Lastly, I had never heard of logging and audio interview. I thought editing was listening in Audacity and cutting out the parts that didn’t make sense/weren’t relevant and then ordering it so it told a story. The idea of a log simplifies the process and creates a story automatically. Thank you, comic audio lesson.
Sound in the Story
Not quite as entertaining, but still useful. The reading was a very strict, to-the-point commentary about what to do and not do in an interview. Necessary, but redundant of things we have covered in other classes. Still, the refresher was nice. The components a good audio can piece include: interview, ambience, natural sound, voice-over and supplemental music. I’ve never questioned ambient sound as being inauthentic. The thought that some audio shows may incorporate sounds not from the story is shocking.
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