From Current TV, a four-part vid by TAL’s Ira Glass on Storytelling.

On the basics…

On finding great stories…

On great taste…

On two common pitfalls…

via Gregg McVicar- Undercurrents.

If I ever hear someone say the trite expression, “Think outside the box” I immediately think: Only a person who can’t think outside the box in the first place would utter such a thing. But this now, kind reader, is something entirely different and even amusing so check out this page.

Inside the newly released iTunes 7.3 is an online University. iTunes U, sez Apple, is “giving higher education institutions an ingenious way to get audio and video content out to their students.” Already a dozen colleges offer course materials and podcasts via this new feature inside iTunes Store (link launches iTunes). Find out about “The Future of the Internet” (iTunes) from Stanford University, view the virgin “Mary in Folk Art and Belief” (iTunes) at Otis College of Art and Design, or figure out “Physics for Future Presidents” from UC Berkeley

Free online Journalism Training course from News University, taught by the NY Times multimedia editor: Telling Stories with Sound.

High School Teacher & Slam Poet Taylor Mali on “What Teachers Make”:

Taylor Mali: @HV | Site | MySpace

The fine folks at Duke’s Ctr for Doc Studies asked me to compile a short list of resources for learning radio. It was for some workshops I did at their annual Documentary Happening. This is the list…

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Hearing Voices- Learn Radio LinksHere are the reading/hearings/viewings. The most important are the top two Must and Should categories. Those just starting should know the Basics. Those already producing should have the Tools. And finally, for those w/ lotsa time and interest, there’s a few of the many hours worth listening to from Third Coast Sessions.Radio is a mix of skills: interviewing, writing, editing, storytelling, mixing. Some of the links below are how-to’s; others are more inspirational than instructional.–>MUST SEE/READ: Watch Ira’s training vid, read Jeff’s ProTools primer. These are two concise yet comprehensive production guides…Ira Glass- Current TV: Storytelling (15min video):
http://www.current.tv/studio/survivalguide/?section=storytelling&sub1=interviews&sub2=glass

Jeff Towne- Transom Tools: A Beginners Guide to Pro Tools (primer):
http://www.transom.org/tools/editing_mixing/200610_guide_to_pro_tools/

–>SHOULD READ- TRANSOM REVIEWS: Transom.org Guests’ posts are littered with pubradio insight. Here’s some of my favorite excerpts from their discussions…

Larry Massett- In Search of Aliens (online discussion)
http://www.transom.org/guests/review/200203.review.massett.html

Robert Krulwich- Why I Love Radio (online discussion)
http://www.transom.org/guests/review/200211.review.krulwich.html

Scott Carrier- Running After Antelope (online discussion)
http://www.transom.org/guests/review/200104.review.scarrier.html

Nancy Updike- Better Writing Through Radio (online discussion)
http://www.transom.org/guests/review/200601_nancy_updike/

–>BASICS: Some stripped down primers on pubradio production (a couple written for kids)…

Sound Portraits- Record Your Own Radio Documentary (primer)
http://www.soundportraits.org/education/how_to_record/

Radio Diaries- Teen Reporter’s Handbook (primer)
http://radiodiaries.org/makeyourown.html

Stories1st- How To Produce A Doc- Part 1 & Part 2

This American Life- How To Get On (submission guidelines)
http://thislife.org/pages/faq_extras/howtogeton.html

Transom: Tools: Katie Davis- Shout Out! A Kid’s Guide to Recording Stories (primer)
http://www.transom.org/tools/basics/200501.shoutout.kdavis.html

–>TOOLS: Send (ftp) files for broadcast as uncompressed .wav or encoded .mp2 — do not broadcast or produce w/ mp3s if possible; use mp3 for audition only…

PRX- Member Tools; free mp2 encoder & FTP clents (software)
http://wiki.prx.org/display/HELP/encode+and+upload

Apple- iTunes; a great soundfile format converter & soundfile organizer (software)
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/

AIR (Assoc. of Independents in Radio)- Pitch Page (submission guidelines)
http://www.airmedia.org/PageInfo.php?PageID=21

–>THIRD COAST SESSIONS: The annual 3rdCoast Conference is, from a producer pov, da bomb. Listen to a few of my fave hours from past confs…

Nancy Updike- Die, Mediocrity, Die! (1 hr conference session audio)
http://www.thirdcoastfestival.org/annual_conference_2006_sessions.asp#diemediocritydie

David Kestenbaum- Explaining the World in Four Minutes (1 hr conference session audio)
http://www.thirdcoastfestival.org/annual_conference_2005.asp#id16

Robert Krulwich- These are a Few of My Favorite Things (1 hr conference session audio)
http://www.thirdcoastfestival.org/annual_conference_2006_sessions.asp#favoritethings

Chris Brookes- Ways of Hearing (1 hr conference session audio)
http://www.thirdcoastfestival.org/annual_conference_2003_sessions.asp#id11

Joe Richman- The Invisible Narrator (1 hr conference session audio)
http://www.thirdcoastfestival.org/annual_conference_2006_sessions.asp#invisiblenarrator

links last checked 2007.01.20

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