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Multimedia Storytelling JOUR 203: Audio Week 3: Review "Acts and Tracks" Pieces Finding Ambient Sound

This document provides guidance and examples for an audio journalism assignment to create an audio postcard. Students are instructed to visit a unique place, capture ambient sounds, and mix narration with the sounds to bring the location to life in a short (1-2.5 minute) produced piece. Examples are provided of integrating narration, interviews, and ambient sounds. Feedback from previous assignments is also discussed.

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Multimedia Storytelling JOUR 203: Audio Week 3: Review "Acts and Tracks" Pieces Finding Ambient Sound

This document provides guidance and examples for an audio journalism assignment to create an audio postcard. Students are instructed to visit a unique place, capture ambient sounds, and mix narration with the sounds to bring the location to life in a short (1-2.5 minute) produced piece. Examples are provided of integrating narration, interviews, and ambient sounds. Feedback from previous assignments is also discussed.

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Multimedia Storytelling JOUR 203

Audio Week 3: Review Acts and Tracks Pieces Finding Ambient Sound

Discussion
Write the way you speak

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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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 his White House worked on several fronts to move beyond the improvisation of the first days of the crisis and set a long-term course on a problem that aides now believe will shadow the balance of Bushs second term. Katrina exposed serious problems in our response capability at all levels of government, Bush said at a White House news conference with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani.

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 federal government made in its response to Hurricane Katrina. After days of insisting this is no time for a blame game, the President shifted his tone a bit. Standing alongside Iraqi President Jalal Talabani at the White House, Mr. Bush took a question on Hurricane Katrina, and answered by saying he takes responsibility for the federal governments actions. He said he wants to know how to better cooperate with state and local government in the future. He did qualify his remarks, by saying he takes responsibility only to the extent that his administration did anything wrong.

Comments on Last Homework

Time to Revise or Finish Produced Piece

Another Interview Example

Todays Goal
Produce an audio postcard that takes listeners to a location using ambient sound.

Todays Goal
Produce an audio postcard that takes listeners to a location using ambient sound.
*Reporting by ear *Ethics

Deconstructing Radio News

Classic Acts and Tracks


Two parts: 1. Scripted track by reporter 2. Actualities: snippets from interviews with sources

Noises (train doors)

Scenes (argument on train)

What Would You Have Gathered?

Audio Postcard
The audio postcard is a short format, but a

meaty one. Through an elegant layering of voices and ambient and natural sound, the postcard allows audio documentary to do what it does best: place the listener smack in the middle of the sights, sounds, smells, and mood of a place or an event. -- Jennifer Deer, Radio Producer

Audio Postcard Example

Audio Postcard Example

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 bring the location or moment to life. and natural sound youve collected. It should be at least 1:00 and no more than 2:30.

Make a produced piece that mixes narration with the ambient

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

Make sure to write a headline for your piece.

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