- Prepare a written critique of your own work and of another broadcast artwork, to be published on your blog. It could be something you’ve heard recently or a historical work of note. This should summarise your thoughts about what is uniquely characteristic of the medium of radio.
Broadcast artwork: Last Transmissions by Melissa Dubbin and Aaron S. Davidson.
“Last Transmissions (2005) by Melissa Dubbin and Aaron S. Davidson includes sign-off broadcasts from former radio stations, last addresses of public figures, and last radio contacts with planes, ships, and satellites. These transmissions mark times of crises and cultural importance and they often register as more significant than all previous transmissions.[2]”
http://hyperrhiz.io/hyperrhiz17/essays/4-barber-radio-art.html
- Meet with your group, discuss and plan a realistic workplan leading towards hand-in. Be candid about the amount of time you can dedicate to the project. Please do not agree to a commitment that you will not be able to deliver upon.
In this review and revision section, me and my group had our final discussion about the project. We finalise the details about names of the characters and what each name represents. Inside there are many details that symbolises our setting of suppression that made my higher status and riches.
The very next section is our recording day. Me and one of our teammates have participated in the broadcast recording. I realise the emotion of the character is the most important thing during the recording. We have recorded multiple times and realise this was while I act as the side character and lead the record actors, the recording was more realistic and emotional.
We also tried multiple distances between the microphone and the actor, we explored how the shouting was recorded better with the further distance between mic and the actor. They can express the emotion better and the microphone could catch more without being damaged or over-modulation.
During Easter I have recorded the rest of the character in our script with my old friends, I have compared different voices, tones, and accents to see if it is suitable for the character.
Through comparison I realise the voice density will be better with the second track, where the tone is performed better with track one, however we like the space between each sentence in the second track where the Spatialization allows the audience to take a breath. Especially in the track for the character James, we recorded with different distances when the character that is having conversation with is placed in a far distance. Overall, there are many details that I have compared and contrasted with to finalise the track we wanted to put in the final sound radio.