Audio Stories: Create Narratives with Sound
Narrating for the Eye and Narrating for the Ear
A course by Ana Cecilia Calle , Writer, Editor, and DJ
About the video: Narrating for the Eye and Narrating for the Ear
Overview
“In this lesson you will learn the basic differences between a narrative made to be read and a narrative made to be heard. Specifically, I will talk about intimacy as the factor that differentiates the world of audio from all other creative media. ”
In this video lesson Ana Cecilia Calle addresses the topic: Narrating for the Eye and Narrating for the Ear, which is part of the Domestika online course: Audio Stories: Create Narratives with Sound. Learn to develop, produce, and edit a memorable, character-driven audio story to share with the world.
Partial transcription of the video
“Narrate for the eye and narrate for the ear In this lesson I will tell you what the differences are between narrating for the eye and narrating for the ear. But first I want to tell you what we are going to do, watch and listen in this course. First I'm going to help you imagine your character for your documentary audio project. I'm going to help you imagine the space it will occupy that interviewee or character in your sound piece. Then I'm going to teach you how to shape your narrative, how to interview, how to edit and how to create a pitch. Upon completion of this course, you will have ...”
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Course summary for: Audio Stories: Create Narratives with Sound
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Category
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Areas
Audio, Communication, Narrative, Non-Fiction Writing, Podcasting, Script

Ana Cecilia Calle
A course by Ana Cecilia Calle
Ana Cecilia is a writer, editor, and DJ who loves telling stories about sound, the body, and pop culture. In 2020, she edited the children's book El Bajo Alberti, illustrated by Dipacho, in Colombia and Chile. She has also published her own work in Colombian magazines like Arcadia, El Malpensante, and Diners, and the Rio Grande Review of Poetry in the US.
She has participated in audio festivals such as Festival Sur Aural in Bolivia and Festival En Tiempo Real in Colombia. She often DJs under the name LaPhDj in the Chulita Vinyl Club collective. Her audio documentary [i]From the Center Out[i], coproduced by Laura Marina Boria, was selected to participate in the 2022 edition of the radio art festival Radiophrenia in Scotland.
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