Final interview

https://soundcloud.com/user-35970585/derry-williams-interview-two-faced-records-final-interview-mixdown

Background music for my interview

I decided to use a song for the backdrop of my interview that was relevant to the discussion within that interview. So i chose a song by an artist that my subject talks about, Emperors of ice-cream's "Fires I wish I'd seen" as Derry makes a clear reference to them as a band in our interview and talks about how they will be making an appearance in the near future.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZmr_E4VGvQ

Personal experience

One of the reasons I chose to produce a sound walk through a festival campsite was down to my personal experiences with such events. Part of the task is the research side and I took resource from my own memory. Camping at festivals has been one of my loudest auditory memories and I find that there is nothing more exciting than the sort of environment where so much is going on that you find yourself blocking out half of the sounds in order to focus on the ones closest or loudest towards you

Style of soudwalk

Taking inspiration from both Janet Cardiff's very abstract and unrealistic work and also from Max Neuhaus' very organic and natural work. I decided to use elements from both.
I have used choppy editing alongside lo-fi clusters of natural sounds such as wind, birds, trees to create an atmosphere that challenges my audience in their perspective of reality

I hope that this will remind them throughout that they are listening to a creation and are aware of the piece not being a representation of reality but a reflection of it.

Janet Cardiff

http://www.cardiffmiller.com/artworks/walks/bathroom.html

Looked into Janet Cardiffs work as I like the vocalisation she uses throughout. Her narration gives prompt to the story. In some ways it reminded me of a audiobook. Takes away from sense of realism- you are reminded throughout that you are listening to a piece of art.
I like this aspect and will look to possibly use this in my piece

All questions asked in interview

Did you always want to be a record shop owner?
How would you describe the music scene in Brighton?
Did it provide the right backdrop for setting up your business?
Do you work with the local venues?
Whats behind the name of your shop?
How does your business compete against digitalisation and online streaming?
Do you find that you struggle with record sales?
What do you think is behind the comeback of vinyl?
What attracted you to Brighton?
If you could only listen to three albums for the rest of your life, what would they be?

Interview evaluation

When planning my interview, I was apprehensive about the organisation of the interview as I had originally emailed four record selling businesses within Brighton and got no response besides Derry, who was very flexible and easy to communicate with. One of the problems I faced initially was timing, we had to film outside of Derry's long work hours so it took considerable emails back and forth to finally book in an appropriate date for the interview to take place. We spent an hour talking before the interview began which I found was very helpful in helping me determine what questions would actually be most appropriate and it really helped us to both relax in one another's company which is very important- if someone is on edge you can usually tell through the fluidity of their voice. We were both prepared, Derry bought a small notebook with all of his notes in and I had an extensive list of questions and also was ready to ask any follow up questions if i heard something appropriate which I should ask more about for the benefit of the listeners. 

Derry was very talkative and open in his answers which meant that I came out of the interview with fifteen minutes of recording. This wouldn't have been a problem if the brief had stated that the interview should be just three minutes long! So I knew I had a challenging editing job ahead of me but I was content with the engagement within his answers so I tried not to cut Derry off when he was mid speech. 
One of the most charming things about the interview was derry's strong cockney accent which despite him residing locally within Brighton has stayed with him. I liked that it was clear where he came from and this will be clear to the listeners without even hearing him talk about moving to Brighton.