Audio Stories: Create Narratives with Sound
Action! Working on the Voice and Space of Your Character
A course by Ana Cecilia Calle , Writer, Editor, and DJ
About the video: Action! Working on the Voice and Space of Your Character
Overview
“I will give you some tips to organize the interview with your character when you are already in the place where you are going to record. You will learn how to listen to the space you are recording in and how to record sounds that can be useful in the editing process. ”
In this video lesson Ana Cecilia Calle addresses the topic: Action! Working on the Voice and Space of Your Character, 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
“Action! Work on the voice and space of your character In this lesson I will give you tips on how to organize the interview when you are already with your character in the place of the recording. So how do you organize the basic space of your interview? First of all, I recommend that you look for the most comfortable place possible. That means a space where there is not much echo, where the chairs don't make much noise and a space hopefully where there is no electronic equipment have a constant noise. If, for example, there is a fridge in the space where you are, you can ask your interviewee...”
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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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