Sound School Podcast

By Rob Rosenthal/PRX/Transom.org

The Backstory to Great Audio Storytelling, hosted by Rob Rosenthal, for Transom and PRX.

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March 10, 2015 Teenage Diaries Revisited: Melissa’s Story
This episode of HowSound features Joe Richman of Radio Diaries talking about his Third Coast Award winning piece, Teenage Diaries Revisited: Melissa's Story.
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March 10, 2015 Teenage Diaries Revisited: Melissa’s Story - HowSound
It’s possible there’s an ethical problem with this edition of HowSound. I have such a radio crush on Joe Richman of Radio Diaries that were I working in a newsroom, I’d be taken off this story.
This is the fourth and final edition of HowSound recorded at the Third Coast International Audio Festival in 2014. I saved the Gold for last. That’s what Joe won for his storyRadio Diaries Revisited: Melissa’s Story.
In 1996, Joe produced Teen Diaries. He gave tape decks to teenagers to document their lives. The result, intimate portraits that, most likely, would have resulted in a very different piece had a producer been present during the field recordings. One of these diaries featured Melissa Rodriguez. It was called Teen Mom. Sixteen years later, Joe handed out recorders again to several of the original diarists, including Melissa.
Even though I was honored to be interviewing Joe about producing diaries and the winning story, the highlight was Melissa Rodriguez, the diarist. She flew out to Third Coast early to be interviewed for HowSound in front of a live audience and stole the show.
Although this is the last live HowSound from Third Coast, I have another live episode in the works. This one will be from an event at New York University where Anna Sale will talk about interviewing. Anna is the host of Death, Sex, and Money, a podcast from WNYC. Keep your ears peeled for that. In the meantime have a listen to Joe and Melissa. And thanks a million to the Third Coast gang for encouraging me to record interviews at the festival.
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46min
March 10, 2015 Teenage Diaries Revisited: Melissa’s Story
This episode of HowSound features Joe Richman of Radio Diaries talking about his Third Coast Award winning piece, Teenage Diaries Revisited: Melissa's Story.
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46min
February 24, 2015 Reporting Dark Matters
A live interview with 2014 Third Coast International Audio Festival Award winners, Luke Malone and Pat Walters.
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40min
February 24, 2015 Reporting Dark Matters - HowSound
A lot of stories featured on HowSound have been pretty fluffy. They’re good stories well told, to be sure, but the subject matter isn’t challenging. I’m thinking about stories I’ve aired on playing the ukelele, for instance, and stories about, zoos, poetry, architecture, hitchhiking across the country…. They’re “easy listening,” if you will.
Other episodes have included stories on more difficult topics. Inner city poverty, war, executions, kidnapping, the aftermath of bombings and plane crashes… But today’s episode of HowSound may feature the most demanding subjects yet: pedophilia and child porn. And while these issues may be “difficult listening,” what’s it like to report on them?
Luke Malone and Pat Walters can answer that question. In fact, their stories on these topics won awards at the Third Coast Festival in 2014. Luke’s story “Help Wanted” aired on This American Life and earned a “Radio Impact Award” while Pat’s “Fault Line,” a Radiolab production, won “Honorable Mention.”
I interviewed Luke and Pat together at Third Coast. Their insight into the reporting on these stories is illuminating. You’ll want to listen twice. So, take a deep breath and press play.
*Thanks to photographer Allison King and Third Coast International Audio Festival for the photo.
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February 24, 2015 Reporting Dark Matters
A live interview with 2014 Third Coast International Audio Festival Award winners, Luke Malone and Pat Walters.
The post Reporting Dark Matters appeared first on Transom.
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February 10, 2015 Barf Draft With An iPhone
Rob Rosenthal talks with producer Bradley Campbell about "barf drafts." A technique for producing radio stories that Bradley swears by. Especially when he's on a tight deadline.
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February 10, 2015 Barf Draft With An iPhone - HowSound
For years, I’ve given this advice: when you’re having trouble figuring out how to write a story, tell it to a friend. Tell someone who doesn’t know anything about it. Just call them up or invite them out for a beer and spill your guts.
As you say the story aloud, notice what you say and how you say it. There’s a good chance the way you told the story to a friend should be the way to tell the story on the radio.
Bradley Campbell agrees completely. But Bradley asks: Who needs a friend when you have a smart phone? Just record your story into the phone, and then transcribe it. He calls it a “barf draft” (a term he borrowed from a colleague).
Bradley is a producer at The World. He’s recorded “barf drafts” into his phone for several different stories he’s produced. He swears by it, especially when he has a short deadline.
Once he’s “barfed” the story into his phone, Bradley loads the file into his computer and writes it out word for word. He says he now has a semblance of a story. And, even though it’s incredibly rough, it’s valuable for a number of reasons. The recording captures your normal speaking voice in a way that just writing narration on a page doesn’t. Second, it often gives you a natural storytelling structure.
Next, Bradley reviews his interview tape to look for quotes to fit into the story. This is the opposite of a more common approach where you find the quotes first then “write to the tape.”
Once Bradley inserts his quotes, he further cleans up the narration he transcribed from the “barf draft,” then grabs his editor and they run through it together. He told me his editors typically only find minor issues with his stories when he uses this method — a tweak here, a tweak there.
The results? Well, listen for yourself. On this edition of HowSound, I feature clips from a “barf draft” of a story Bradley produced about an OK Go video as well as the finished piece so you can hear how his initial draft turned out.
*Thanks to artist Jenny Junker for the illustration.
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February 10, 2015 Barf Draft With An iPhone
Rob Rosenthal talks with producer Bradley Campbell about "barf drafts." A technique for producing radio stories that Bradley swears by. Especially when he's on a tight deadline.
The post Barf Draft With An iPhone appeared first on Transom.
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January 27, 2015 Revisiting Criminal
The podcast, “Criminal” has enjoyed a big jump in popularity. Rob Rosenthal talks with “Criminal’s” host Phoebe Judge about growth—how good press and partnership helps, how doing good work helps, and the “Serial” effect.
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