Elevating sound to tell a story
Podcast- and radio-makers fear dead air. This class is a guide to elevating the beauty and curiosity of ambient and field sounds into your mix. Instructor and radio artist Joan Schuman will help you consider how to tell a chunk of your story beyond voice, through stereo panning and pushing sound to the front while the voice falls further back for longer than a few seconds. Joan will teach you to move beyond the pre-sets and to experiment with effectively altering sound to offer a deeper feeling or understanding to listeners, building depth without confusing them. Found sound and field recordings will be focused on beyond online libraries as it gets us to listen more fully, both for the radio-maker and audience.
This is a two-part workshop where students will receive feedback on their work. Be prepared to arrive with a work-in-progress, idea or scene you want to experiment with and complete by the end of the second class.
- Class is capped at 12 and will meet for two Thursday sessions at 12pm EST, beginning August 15th. The second session meets Thursday, August 22nd
- Registration comes with a free, three-month license for Hindenburg audio editing software.