Storytelling for Radio Workshop

 

In our new Storytelling for Radio Workshop, participants are guided through an exploration of how to tell stories digitally, through sound. The workshop is co-facilitated by CDS facilitators Laura Hadden and Marie Lovejoy, who both have radio backgrounds and hands-on knowledge and experience in finding stories within sound and editing in a way that gives the form an intimate feel.

This particular workshop will be centered around telling a personal story about a piece of audio that you bring to the workshop. It could be the sound of the morning doves that lived in your yard when you were a young girl, or the left-behind recording of your great-grandfather when he was in WWII and got to record a "letter" home, or a message someone left on your voicemail, or the sound of your '67 Mustang. Participants will bring recorded archival audio to the workshop (or they will be given time to go out and record audio – from soundscapes to a short sound), and then will be led in writing and recording a voiceover that will surround that piece of audio or overlay it. With the help of our facilitators, participants will learn a multi-track audio editing software, craft their stories with voiceover, soundtrack, cadence, pausing, and effects to create truly powerful audio stories.


 

 

Examples

Agenda:

Prep
Download Audacity
Record and bring any archival audio/audio material you may want to work with (interview, voicemail, etc.)

DAY 1
Introductions and Overview
7 Steps of Digital Storytelling – listen/watch examples of audio-based stories and group discussion
Story Circle – share your stories (and, if relevant, play archival audio) with the group
LUNCH
Script writing
One-on-One Script Feedback and Voiceover Recording
Homework: Any additional field recording

DAY 2
Electronic file organization
Finish writing and recording voiceovers
Tutorial in single-track audio editing
LUNCH
Digital Story Rough Edit Production
Working with Music Tutorial and Voicover Recording Tutorial
Homework: Music/Effects Selection

DAY 3
Tutorial in mixing multiple-tracks and production time
LUNCH
Finishing Up
Export audio
Afternoon talk about next steps and tutorials for other softwares
Play stories for group and go home with your story.

 

Storytelling for Radio Workshop Schedule

Dates and locations for our workshops are updated on a regular basis. Please email workshop@storycenter.org for further information.

Please confirm registration prior to making airline reservations. If you are coming from out of town, you will need to arrange your own lodging.

The cost of this workshop is $795.

No Storytelling for Radio Workshops are scheduled at this time. Please join our mailing list for announcements of future workshop offerings.


 

 

Please email workshop@storycenter.org for more information and future workshop dates.