Story Assignment: Audio Package

Purpose

Now that you have written your first story, we’re going to begin to explore how to adapt those stories into different genres, media, and formats. For this assignment we’ll look to adapt, expand, or extend your story into an audio package in the format of a short radio spot.

Format

In a traditional print story, writers and editors utilize language, structure, research and interviews to convey a message, tell a story, deliver a report or explore an idea. In the realm of audio or radio, producers and recordists utilize different means to achieve the same ends. A radio or audio package utilizes many different types of recorded sound (including interviews, ambient sound, and pre-recorded audio).

The audio package you produce should be no shorter than four minutes and no longer than eight. In the package, you must include at least one clip of pre-recorded sound (intro/outro music, clips from other media, or even sound effects), an introduction and sign-off that you record on your own, ambient sound recorded for atmosphere, and interview (either an extended single interview or a vox pop).

Due Date

Have your recording done by February 11 and your first mix submitted on February 13.