This week the only homework is to pick a favorite piece of audio and share the link with the rest of the class using the blog. Please post by Thursday at noon so we can have time to listen to a few before we meet. We will discuss these at the beginning of next class.
To get things started, here's mine:
One of my favorite audio profiles was done by John Hodgman, who you might have seen on The Daily Show or on Apple commercials (playing the PC guy). He's been doing radio for a while, and this particular piece ran on This American Life. It's the first piece on this episode. He interviews an aspiring actor who ends up as a party-instigator/spokesperson for Jose Cuervo tequila. It has such strong writing, great on-the-scene audio reporting, and it tackles interesting issues and gets at what makes this character tick. Plus it's a fun piece -- it's about 16 minutes, but the time always flies by when I listen to it.
One other thing to start working on -- not this week but next week, you'll have to turn in a proposal for your final project. So you should start to think about what you want to cover in that project -- which can be a video or an audio slideshow that mixes skills from each slice. The project itself won't be due until the end of the semester, but we've found that it's best if people get an early start on planning their project. We'll talk a little more about final projects in class this Friday.
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