https://soundcloud.com/joss-utting/formal-edited

This is my edited version of a formal interview for our H2N sound recording exercise in Week 4. Pre-production included a quite and empty classroom, using the H2N zoom function of X/Y (that records only on one side), heightening the clarity of subject’s audio. As this interview was appealing to a ‘formal’ criteria we adjusted our approach in ways such as introducing the broadcast interview, interviewee and interviewer. Further, the questions and answers were discussed beforehand which allowed the participants to hold an eloquent discussion, rather then thinking of answers on the spot which could have made for badly established presentation.

Within Leeuwen’s article of perspective (Leeuwen, 1999), Edward Hall is quotes that “we carry with us a set of invisible set of boundaries beyond which we allow only certain people to come”. When listening to formal interviews such as This American Life and Sereal you can identify such boundaries the subject’s language and attitude, and also physically through editing. It is for such reasons I attached an intro and outro to my ‘formal’ interview as it enhances the the enargia of power relations on a show – such as Sarah Koenig’s position as an interviewer, and her relationship with the interviewee and audience.  When being introduced I allowed my intro to fade out into complete silence in order to grab the audience’s attention as they sit, eager to hear what the show will be about. In conclusion however, I let the outro cross-fade into the final answer creating a smooth exit out of the program.

• Leeuwen, Theo van. 1999, ‘Perspective’ in Speech, music, sound, Macmillan Press ; St. Martin’s Press, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York