spring2013 week 4 slides

7/29/2019 Spring2013 Week 4 Slides

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Multimedia

Storytelling

JOUR 203Audio Week 4:Structuring Audio StoriesAudio Ethics


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Discussion

Did you get

good tape?


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Comments on Homework

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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Comments on Last Homework


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Comments on Last Homework

Tip:

* Look for scenes as well as justambient sounds.

* Variety, variety, variety.


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Ambient Sound


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Todays Goal

Produce a profilepiece that brings ineverything wevelearned so far and hasa narrative arc.


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Todays GoalBe thinking of a personyou might want toprofile

(You will pitch today inclass)


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Story Structure


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Story Structure

Building Blocks of a Story

The anecdote sequence of actions The hook (bait) Raise and answer questions Moment of reflection point of the story


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Story Structure


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Profile Example


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What Was the Structure?

Building Blocks of a Story

The anecdote sequence of actions The hook (bait) Raise and answer questions Moment of reflection point of the story


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Homework

Audio Assignment#4 (50 points) Audio Profile Produce a profile of a person you do not know well w/

story pitch approved in advance.

Must have at least 2 interviews, 2 ambient sounds. Must have hook and story arc. At least 2:00, no longer than 3:30. Post to the blog by 11 pm Thur (remember, Export from

Audacity, post the .wav file to Soundcloud.com, thenPaste the Embed code into a blog item on the classblog)


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Pitching the Story

Focus statement say what story is about in onesentence.


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Pitching the Story


So what factor.


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Pitching the Story


So what factor. Who do you imagine will be main characters in

your piece?


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Pitching the Story


So what factor. Who do you imagine will be main characters in

your piece?

Think about

wherethe story will be reported.


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The PitchRight now: E-mail pitches [email protected]

Focus statement say what story is about in one

sentence.So what factor.Who do you imagine will be main characters in

your piece?Think about where the story will be reported.


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Time to Redo Homework

Spend the rest of the class collecting ambientand natural sound from a scene on campus.

Post a couple of clips to the blog along with asentence about what the context was.

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