AUDIO JOURNALS

Your first production task will be to record audio journals.  These recordings involve you simply talking into the recorder and reflecting on your experiences.

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Everything you need to know about recording these was covered in in the Recording Basics section of this website and during training on August 17th.

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Below we offer a few tips for creating audio journals as well a few strong examples from a project Robert and Dave completed a few years ago.

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Features that make audio journals strong...

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**Add details.  Specific examples of of things help.  We saw a great example of this in training when there was talk about how being a non-traditional student could be overwhelming and then the statement was brought to life with mention of learning Powerpoint and and Google slides.

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**Share emotions (as comfortable).  Let the listener know how something made you feel.  

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**Be Yourself.  Just let yourself talk.  Don't try to sound a certain way.  Try to sound like you.

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**Tell Stories.  When appropriate and they work (and they often do).  You may wish to look at some of the storytelling tips on a different page of this website.

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**Have depth.  Let yourself talk some.  Each answer will probably be around a couple minutes.  Let answers breath some.  

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As mentioned in training, Robert and I had students do audio journals several years ago.  We encourage you to listen to ten more more of these.  These are edited by us, but are examples of audio journals (and sometimes recording action)

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Dreaming by Degrees on Soundcloud

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One last thing.  Ideally you will repeat the question at the start of your answer.  Feel free to talk it through.  Try not to say "question three" or something like that since a listener would not understand why the question has a number.

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