I like the perspective of this documentary, from two young people who experience the environment they are showcasing first hand
You hear their lives through the radio show, alongside the commentary of the two boys in their separate lives.
Monday, 30 November 2015
Ghetto Life 101
1993 soundwalk/ portrait radio broadcast from two 13 year old boys living in the south side of Chicago, a radio documentary
I like the perspective of this documentary, from two young people who experience the environment they are showcasing first hand
You hear their lives through the radio show, alongside the commentary of the two boys in their separate lives.
I like the perspective of this documentary, from two young people who experience the environment they are showcasing first hand
You hear their lives through the radio show, alongside the commentary of the two boys in their separate lives.
Saturday, 28 November 2015
Interview techniques
-Open questions
-maybe warm up with subject first, asking general questions to ease them into the interview
- Find a microphone distance which is comfortable and gives clear sound (make sure to test this before interviewing)
- Make sure you use a pop shield
-maybe warm up with subject first, asking general questions to ease them into the interview
- Find a microphone distance which is comfortable and gives clear sound (make sure to test this before interviewing)
- Make sure you use a pop shield
War of the worlds
I found the production on this very interesting
Thursday, 26 November 2015
New podcast I thought was really cool
https://soundcloud.com/roman-mars/99-invisible-43-music-of-elevators
Lighthearted and endeering, this podcasts focuses on the wonders of escalators. Taking apart the sounds of broken escalators and discussing them with a backdrop of the actual sounds
Thought this was really interesting and cool, theres something very personal and niche about this podcast. It begins with a joke. And talks about how and why escalators are great, which is a strange concept to grasp - you don't find a lot of people sitting around talking about escalators
Monday, 23 November 2015
Thursday, 19 November 2015
Interview Test
Learning to use the equipment in the vocal booths, through interviewing a fellow student on their university experience. This clip is unedited as I feel it is important to look back closely to then be able to spot what parts of the material needs to be edited for example there are a lot of long pauses in this clip and a lot of mumbling and ums and ahs which would have to be edited out to keep the piece nice a tight.
https://soundcloud.com/user-35970585/interview-1
US Radio podcast
Cool radio show 'Song Exploder' where an artist pulls apart one of their songs and describes and explains how they created it and the ideas behind it, very interesting to listen to
http://songexploder.net/baths/
http://songexploder.net/baths/
Radio Broadcast discovery
I came across a radio show called the moth, which is an american radio show, where real people tell their stories in broadcast. These are brilliant, live story telling, the fact that it isn't a video makes it more more enjoyable as my imagination was much more stimulated throughout. One in particular caught my attention
http://themoth.org/posts/stories/a-dish-best-served-cold - This podcast was hilarious and well produced
http://themoth.org/posts/stories/a-dish-best-served-cold - This podcast was hilarious and well produced
Interview questions: Initial question ideas
- Did you always want to be a record shop owner?
- What motivate[d] and inspire[s/d] you to do so
- Do you feel that the music scene in Brighton offers the right kind of environment for your business?
- How would you describe the music scene in Brighton?
- What kind of atmosphere does this create?
- What is it like running a business in such a vibrant, diverse place?
Radio Shows - FIRE IN THE BOOTH
Charlie Sloth runs a Friday night show called Fire in the Booth, where he showcases and interviews some of the upcoming UK artists. Aired on BBC Radio 1Xtra. On the show Charlie Sloth, creates comedy through obvious and stiff sounding scrips which mock todays youth culture in a light hearted way. One of my favourite shows of his includes a comedy skit group from London, who run a Youtube channel with all of their sketches. They are very clever in the way that they address the audience, using comedy which relates to the youth culture of today. This style of interview is very interesting to me. The interaction between the interviewer and the interviewees takes place during their performance as part of a sketch. I really like the laid back nature of this radio broadcast and how the features were having fun and it was clear, there was no set questions it was very conversational.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fel6u0WaKJI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fel6u0WaKJI
Thursday, 5 November 2015
Soundscape research
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7s2FOBfM5Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnVGObxGrYQ
I looked into some vlogs of festivals and focused on the sounds being picked up to get an idea of some of the sounds I would need to recreate
Sounds to consider:
-talking
-shouting
-laughing
-birds
-rain
-distant music
-nylon tent material in wind
-zips
-gas fires
-smoking
-campfire
-walking through mud
-walking on rubbish
Interview Idea
Resident records- http://www.resident-music.com/aboutus
I would ideally like to interview the owner of Resident records, which is an independently run LP shop in the North Lanes. I am personally interested in records and I thought given Brighton's vibrant and music loving nature. i thought this kind of interview would be very fitting.
Here is the email I have sent them asking if they would be interested in being involved in my 3 minute interview.
I would ideally like to interview the owner of Resident records, which is an independently run LP shop in the North Lanes. I am personally interested in records and I thought given Brighton's vibrant and music loving nature. i thought this kind of interview would be very fitting.
Here is the email I have sent them asking if they would be interested in being involved in my 3 minute interview.
Hello Derry,
My name is Ella Dowling and I have just started a media degree at Sussex university.
One of my first tasks is to produce a short interview with a Brighton resident who will have an interesting perspective on how Brighton as evolved in recent years.
I want to put a bit of a spin on this and focus on Brighton's music lovers. Having been subjected an upbringing of punk, reggae and new wave vinyl and many trips to Sister Ray Records in Soho over many years this feels the natural way to go.
Your passion for music and Brighton make you the ideal subject and I would love to explore your statement "Brighton couldn’t have been a better place for establishing our business – culturally rich, loads of live music venues, bands forming in every pub corner – the perfect environment for us 2 music lovers to get back to what really makes us tick" and how you have seen this evolve and change over the decade you have been established. I would also be very interested to hear your views on what is behind the resurgence of vinyl.
The thought of interviewing someone who has managed to maintain the integrity of the independent record shop for over a decade against a backdrop of competition from soulless chain stores and Amazon seems very exciting so please say yes.
It would be really great if you could help me with my first project and I promise not to be disruptive! I would be very happy to come along to the shop and discuss in person if that would help my case.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Ella
Festival camping idea
After watching various camping videos and clips from festival camping, and from memory of my festival experience, I am looking more closely at this initial idea
From one festival (Boomtown) I have found a few walk through styled clips which have really helped me to visualise and understand what I am trying to produce in my soundscape.
One of the first essential sounds I will need to record is the sound of people in a mildly busy outdoor place. I will use this a base for my soundscape. One of the things I think will be important to consider in this project is the consideration for difference in the distance between the microphone and the people whose voices I am planning on recording. It is very distinct in the clips I have been watching.
By watching clips I am just gaining insight in the kinds of things going on, the clips are not audio clips, so the quality of sound isn't as effective but it still provides a feel for what kinds of things I'm looking to recreate.
From one festival (Boomtown) I have found a few walk through styled clips which have really helped me to visualise and understand what I am trying to produce in my soundscape.
One of the first essential sounds I will need to record is the sound of people in a mildly busy outdoor place. I will use this a base for my soundscape. One of the things I think will be important to consider in this project is the consideration for difference in the distance between the microphone and the people whose voices I am planning on recording. It is very distinct in the clips I have been watching.
By watching clips I am just gaining insight in the kinds of things going on, the clips are not audio clips, so the quality of sound isn't as effective but it still provides a feel for what kinds of things I'm looking to recreate.
Initial Ideas for my portfolio: SOUNDSCAPE
For my Soundscape/ audio portrait, I have come up with a few key ideas:
- A football match
I could attend a few football matches and pick out small elements from this to record such as individual conversations, people arguing, chants, a vocal buzz from the crowd
I would also create the sound of the ball being kicked around
- Could make it into a sound walk and move into the inside of the stadium where people are ordering drinks and the TVs are on
There would be quite a few problems with this as its quite a loud and very busy environment so it might be too hard to create and not very effective as a sound walk, audio portrait
-A Fairground
This is quite a suitable idea as there are lots of things going on in this kind of environment that would be interesting to explore in creating this as a sound walk.
I could build into the elements of the fair ground rides, people walking around, ball games, music, circus atmosphere
-making some of these sounds from scratch will be quite challenging though, as they are mainly machinery
-Camping at a festival
This could be just a soundscape portrait or it could be a sound walk of someone waking up at a festival in the campsite.
This kind of environment is brilliant for this as there is so many elements
-I would build up from a vocal buzz of all the other people in the campsite and work on little elements like the crackle of a campfire, the sound of nylon moving in the wind, tent zips, sleeping bags shuffling around, laughter, faint music, somebody's portable speaker, shouting, a gas cooker, frying of bacon, the boiling of a kettle, birds tweeting, opening of beer cans.
-quite challenging to create a realistic recreation of this environment
- A football match
I could attend a few football matches and pick out small elements from this to record such as individual conversations, people arguing, chants, a vocal buzz from the crowd
I would also create the sound of the ball being kicked around
- Could make it into a sound walk and move into the inside of the stadium where people are ordering drinks and the TVs are on
There would be quite a few problems with this as its quite a loud and very busy environment so it might be too hard to create and not very effective as a sound walk, audio portrait
-A Fairground
This is quite a suitable idea as there are lots of things going on in this kind of environment that would be interesting to explore in creating this as a sound walk.
I could build into the elements of the fair ground rides, people walking around, ball games, music, circus atmosphere
-making some of these sounds from scratch will be quite challenging though, as they are mainly machinery
-Camping at a festival
This could be just a soundscape portrait or it could be a sound walk of someone waking up at a festival in the campsite.
This kind of environment is brilliant for this as there is so many elements
-I would build up from a vocal buzz of all the other people in the campsite and work on little elements like the crackle of a campfire, the sound of nylon moving in the wind, tent zips, sleeping bags shuffling around, laughter, faint music, somebody's portable speaker, shouting, a gas cooker, frying of bacon, the boiling of a kettle, birds tweeting, opening of beer cans.
-quite challenging to create a realistic recreation of this environment
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