Got my audio story done, at least as good as I can make it in under 4 minutes. I realized I have a harder time slimming down the good 'uns because he said so damn much that I felt was worthy of getting plopped in. I had to snip a couple things due to time restraints that I otherwise would have liked to work into a print story, but alas, can't win 'em all. I also decided against putting in a voice-over narration because I want to transmograph this into a Soundslide, and I feel a voice-over would go against what I've been picturing in my head.
Here it is. Be gentle.
"Larry Brickner-Wood: Drum Circle Maestro"
So the basic idea is that Larry Brickner-Wood is a campus minister and puts on a dinner-and-drum-circle event on the first Friday of each month. People show up, hit things, and have a jolly good time. I chose this story because I find it infinitely interesting that UNH has a drum circle, however unofficial it might be. I dunno, not something I'd really expect from New Hampshire.
Rip it apart in the comments.
4 comments:
Great audio story; especially if this was your first complete piece. The drums work well in the background and I can definitely picture this as a Soundslide story in the future. I've been to this drumming circle before and believe you've captured a good part of what takes place. Nice work.
Jon that's great! I don't think you need any narration with it. The drumming in the background is perfect and the dialog you picked out was fine. I know there's probably more you'd like to put in, but for somebody who doesn't know what more they're missing of the interview, it sounds great. Good job.
p.s. Mine won't play - feel free to leave media advice comments! Thanks.
Jon,
Couple of things haha. First really good job on your audio project. Loved the drums and the guy you interviewed was really funny and interesting. I'm interested to see what the pictures will look like with this. It should be a pretty cool project.
Second, I saw you have a Mac so maybe you can help me. i just got a Mac last week and I can't figure out how to install Lame on to it. I've downloaded it a bunch of times but when I go to tell Audacity to use it it like can't open it or let me click on it. How were you able to do it?
And I tried to post my audio on my blog with my old pc and it came out chipmunky. Any thoughts other than I'm doomed when it comes to technology?
Thanks all!
Cat, it's been a while since I installed Audacity but this is what I think I did. I downloaded LameLib from this place (http://spaghetticode.org/lame/), extracted it and put it in the Audacity folder. When I tried to export to MP3 in Aud (File>Export to MP3), it asked me where i had the LameLib file. I pointed it out in the little box thingy and bam, MP3 files.
As for the chipmunk thing, I haven't had that problem yet so I don't know what to do about it. I think someone was supposed to post a tutorial on their blog about what to do about that, so keep an eye out for it.
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