I decided to do something very different today and take notes via this platform (aka on this very post itself). So the following you are about to read is a very raw and a real-time approach for Week Ten’s lecture:

Space

• creating space – they way we are addressed e.g. in radio studies, it is discussed as if the radio is talking to you
• the listener is always in the center of the piece; modes of address is how to position the reader within the space

The Spoken Word

• fantastic on media – very real and raw, perhaps it even encapsulates the essence of the person, their story, their voice
• there many inflections of the VOICE… you can manipulate it in many ways, play around it, etc
• it can cut through so much, including emotions, feelings, etc

Music

• too much music in your piece can ruin your message
• but music has strong cultural associations and can assist your project
• compositional techniques of music is powerful
• cultural baggage of music – how do we perceive music???

ACTIVITY: TYPE OF TEXTURES IN THE AUDIO

Example #1: Babies of Colour

Human voices – ‘reading’ voice,
improvisation in the studio,
establishment of the setting (background noise),
fly-on observational,
location interview – location narration

Example #2: Not entirely sure about the title but it relates to War/Enlistment…etc

Narrator – read voice + scripted
Music: Pre-recorded
Archival sound/atmospheric sound/SFX

It was interesting and definitely a privilege to get insight from Ms Brettle’s experience with radio and being a specialist in audio! There were new terms I’ve learned including archival sound, atmospheric sound and so much more. Other than that, all I can say about Week Ten’s lectorial was that it was uncomfortably stuffy and hot in that lecture room. That’s all.

lyreca