Audio Stories: Create Narratives with Sound
How to Imagine a Character for a Non-narrated Piece
A course by Ana Cecilia Calle , Writer, Editor, and DJ
About the video: How to Imagine a Character for a Non-narrated Piece
Overview
“Here I will talk to you about the point of view of the story and you will begin to ask yourself questions about imagining a character who is real and who must narrate his own story.”
In this video lesson Ana Cecilia Calle addresses the topic: How to Imagine a Character for a Non-narrated Piece, 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
“How to imagine a character for a non-narrated piece In this lesson I will help you imagine your character for your non-narrated audio piece. As I told you in the previous lesson, we are going to work on a special form of sound narrative which is called the unnarrated form. In that unnarrated way, our character or interviewee You have to tell us your story without our intervention. All the words we'll hear they will be of that character. So from now on it will be super important start thinking about who might be a good character and why. Our lesson is going to orbit between choice and intent...”
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Course summary for: Audio Stories: Create Narratives with Sound
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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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