Media Film 160 – AKatz – Fall 2017

Before importing: 1. Create new folder on your hard-drive called “Media 160” 2. Create sub folder titled “Project 01” 3. Create two sub-folders within Project 01 titled “Media” and “Project Files.” As your project progresses, you will also need to create sub-folders called "Audio" and "Exports." If you'd like, you can also put numbers in front of your folders so they can be in an order that makes sense to you. I generally like to have all of my media up top (audio and video), followed by the project files, then my exports, and then any additional folders I need per project will come after that, like graphics, stills, and transcripts. 4. Create a folder within “Media” titled “Card 01" 5. Pop your memory card into the back of the computer. 6. Drag the “PRIVATE” folder from the memory card into the “Card 01” folder on your drive. Do not rename this folder, or restructure any of the files!! 7. Once the card is finished copying, eject it from the computer (...

Artist and Scholar Hildegard Westerkamp's guide for how to do a soundwalk. Follow the top half of the article for things to keep note of as you explore an NYC neighborhood or environment: https://www.sfu.ca/~westerka/writings%20page/articles%20pages/soundwalking.html Soundwalking By Hildegard Westerkamp originally published in Sound Heritage, Volume III Number 4, Victoria B.C., 1974 Revised 2001 published in: Autumn Leaves, Sound and the Environment in Artistic Practice, Ed. Angus Carlyle, Double Entendre, Paris, 2007, p. 49. A soundwalk is any excursion whose main purpose is listening to the environment. It is exposing our ears to every sound around us no matter where we are. We may be at home, we may be walking across a downtown street, through a park, along the beach; we may be sitting in a doctor's office, in a hotel lobby, in a bank; we may be shopping in a supermarket, a department store, or a Chinese grocery store; we may be standing at the airport, the train station, th...

Podcasts are a relatively new medium that builds off of the form of radio. These can be a great source of inspiration for new ways of telling a story with audio only. Here are some examples of podcasts that you may find inspirational for your Audio Interview piece: This American Life  – this is kind of the standard bearer for radio/podcast journalism these days. Hosted by Ira Glass. I recently really enjoyed listening to their episode “ Private Geography ” RadioLab  – another heavy hitter in the audio world - they generally have one theme per show and explore it in various different ways. It started out as more science based topics, but they definitely have expanded and explore lots of different "big" topics. They are known for their extensive sound design (Host Jad Abumrad even won a MacArthur Genius grant for it). Hosted by Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich. My favorite episode is an older one called “ Cities ” There Goes The Neighborhood  – From The...

Blog Assignment 2: “What I Hear” Note: This exercise has 2 parts. Part 1. The Soundwalk Spend an hour doing a “Soundwalk” around a particular neighborhood in NYC. “Soundwalk” is a term invented by R. Murray Schafer, a musician and professor at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. Schafer noticed in working with his music students that most of them, when asked, couldn't remember even five sounds they had heard earlier that day. He created the soundwalk, a kind of walking meditation, as an “ear cleaning exercise,” a way to increase sonic awareness. In An Introduction to Acoustic Ecology, Kendall Wrightson writes, “In order to listen we must stop, or at least slow  down – physically and psychologically. We need to try to be human beings, instead of “human doings.” So – during your sound walk, do not answer your phone, text, browse, read or do anything but be, and listen. The goal of this exercise is to “open your ears.”  New York offers a rich sound environment. Close your...

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