Student Spotlight, Audio Edition

Conducting and editing an interview for the ear — an interview that’s actually listenable — is more than a matter of pressing a few buttons. Doing it right takes a considerable amount of reporting and technical skills, attention to detail and careful preparation.

I like both of these interviews for similar reasons: The content is compelling, they’re recorded properly, and they’re tightly edited.

Devery Sheffer of the San Francisco Film Lover blog talks with SF State cinema professor Julian Hoxter:

Carrie Cassie Harwood of the Bay Area Bookends blog talks with Book Zoo’s Erik Lyngen:

Devery and Carrie Cassie would make great radio reporters, don’t you think?

(Photo by Flickr user Yvonne in Willowick Ohio)

Storytelling with sound, continued

[“Interview for Gazan Radio” via Internews Network]

Now that students are proficient with field recording, basic sound editing and uploading audio interviews to their blogs, we’re taking things a step further: namely, learning how to craft an audio piece with multiple voices and narration. Such pieces are the bread and butter of radio journalism.

By this evening’s class they’ll have conducted and logged two new interviews; in class they’ll be writing their scripts, and, if there’s time, voicing narration.

Next comes some more editing in Garage Band and, finally, mixing it all together.

Once you’ve mastered this process, you’re well on your way to filing stories for actual radio programs.