MM 3314 Week 3 Prep

Hello, all.

Week 3 is here, and we have two significant deadlines in place for Wednesday evening's class.

First, the eight field recordings as part of Soundwalk Part 2. One edited field recording for each of the following sites:

1. Small room
2. Large room
3. Cafe or restaurant
4. Store or mall
5. Exterior, urban
6. Exterior, nature
7. Quietest ambience possible (very early morning?)
8. Other space (gymnasium, pool hall, tunnel, cave, church, nightclub, etc.)

These are to be posted as links to MP3s hosted on your own server or site, or as submissions on Dropbox.com (with a share invite to me) or sent via YouSendIt.

You will also be filling out a sound log for each of the eight recordings and posting these logs in a comment to this post on the Course Blog:

http://mm3314.blogspot.com/2010/07/soundwalk-part-2.html

Also due tomorrow is a rough draft of your outline for your Audio Portrait Podcast. Again, this is just your estimate of how the podcast may unfold, not a finished script. But you should definitely be using the format at the following link as a guide:

http://www.radiodiaries.org/transcripts/NewYorkWorks/cowbellmaker.html

Post your Podscast outline as a comment to this post on the Course Blog:

http://mm3314.blogspot.com/2010/07/podcast-script.html

Needless to say, you should have already chosen your subject by now and scheduled some recording sessions for this weekend and into Week 4. This should give you plenty of time to edit the recordings into a finished, polished podcast by Week 5.

Tomorrow will include a Critique Session on the Soundwalk field recordings, a lecture on Acoustic Ecology and the Soundscape, as well as more examples and discussion of the Podcast Project. We will also have Chris share an example of interesting Sound Design.

As always, let me know if you have any questions.