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Avoid less-than-perfect voice recordings - number 3 of 7 DS no-nos

July 18th, 2008 · No Comments

Get your voice-recording done with a high-quality unit in a quiet room with natural acousics (neither boxy nor echoey), unless there’s an overriding reason to the contrary (e.g. you’re working with an archive recording or in an inescapably noisy environment). As I’ve said here before, the best digital stories can work as radio pieces, so […]

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Tags: tips · capturing assets · audio · digital storytelling

Happy St David’s Day

March 1st, 2008 · No Comments

Happy St David’s Day
Here’s a short clip of a song sung by children at a school in south Wales to celebrate the national day of the patron saint of Wales, sung at Cardiff Castle on 1 March 2008. I’ve obscured the images of the children on purpose. Diolch i chi blant am godi calonnau pawb […]

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Tags: Wales · mobile · audio

Tell your story

October 31st, 2007 · No Comments

Here are three links I wanted to share with you in the area of storytelling, participation and citizenship:
1. http://www.friction.tv/
If you’ve got a webcam and a microphone plugged into your computer, you can contribute to this site. It partners with Channel 5 news and is a managable way to get your point across on video. The […]

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Tags: links · story · audio · digital storytelling

Digital story shopping list

September 5th, 2007 · No Comments

We looked at workshop space in the last post, today it’s the kit.
You want to bid for funding to set up a digital storytelling project, but you’re not sure what you’re going to need? Here’s a list to build from of examples of equipment needed to run digital storytelling and participatory media workshops. The kit […]

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Tags: technology · audio · digital storytelling

Online audio recording tools

October 6th, 2006 · No Comments

If you want to post an audio blog on the move or are desperate to record a voice track for a digital story, but don’t have access to voice recording facilities on the computer you’re using, here are three sites which will let you record audio via your phone:
http://www.gabcast.com - The free package seems to […]

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Tags: capturing assets · audio · digital storytelling