Agenda 3.8 - Lab 6

Watch everyone's amazing Define a Place films (30 min)

Go over assignment 2 (10-15 min)

Pre-Interview your partner for Assignment 2 (1hr)


Review the assignment: Audio Portrait of a Person


You'll interview one of your classmates, then cut the audio and add SFX and music in Premiere. The goal is to create a 5 minute "audio portrait" of this person, focusing on an aspect of their life that has a larger universally relatable theme. In this assignment, you'll learn the following things:


-use a pre-interview to focus on ONE aspect of a person's life that helps us understand a) who they are and b) how it relates to all of us as humans

-how to come up with questions that guide the interview so that a) you can create a story with a narrative arc and b) tap into what makes this aspect of the interviewee's life relatable

- how to record quality audio

-how to make a transcript of the interview, and then use that transcript to cut the audio in a way that drives the story

-how to cut audio in Premiere and how to add in sound effects (SFX)

-overall, how to create a story that doesn't need visuals to be compelling

Assignment Clarification:


1. Once you've decided what to interview your partner about, ask them if they're ok talking about it. (we're doing consensual storytelling in this class, not gotcha journalism)


2. However, the person being interviewed should not prepare what they will say in advance. It is not up to the interviewee to come up with something "interesting" to say. It's up to you whether or not you show your questions to your interviewee before the interview.


3. We're creating audio pieces with only one voice, that of the interviewee. The final product will not be a two-person interviewer/interviewee news-style piece (it says in the assignment on BB that you can create a piece with the interviewer's voice still in it, but we're not doing that)


Timeline:

Today we will pre-interview


Following week (3/15): 2-3 sentences on your plan (what you want to focus your interview on) at least 5 questions, and where you plan to record your interview.  You must find a carpeted, hopefully small (less room for the sound to bounce around) space to record in.  We'll go over the recorder at the beginning of class and then you'll have an hour to do your interview.

Following week (3/22): transcripts due and block/roughcut edits during class


Following week (3/29):peer review and SFX/music edits during class

Spring Break


Following week: final piece posted on blog (it's not considered "turned in" unless the final piece is posted on your blog


Get in Partners and do basic info as well as a few of these questions from StoryCorps:




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