I have now organised and chopped some audio samples in my project for my audio paper and planned how I will organise/ talk through the paper. The audio samples are from interviews that were outside an event that I run with a friend of mine called ‘Splayworld’ which is an event that is based around the sub genre that my audio paper is about (splayed).
An issue that has come up that I’ve had to get over is really disliking the sound of my voice recorded and not being that confident of a speaker/ narrator. However one of the ideas for the recording of my voice for this audio paper was to purposefully not use a very good microphone, to give it a human, diy sound and feel, so that it is accurate to the content of the audio paper and to the person who is narrating the listener through the words (me). For some reason I feel a level of comfort in the lo-fidelity means of recording in that it implies to a certain extent that it was done at home just by a person with a voice notes app, like most people have on their phones in todays world (rather than somebody who is doing a podcast as their job with a professional studio and microphone, who is talking from a place of talking being his thing to do, rather than in my case talking from the case of somebody who is doing it at home from his studio flat.
I was recently thinking about something Ingrid had told us in class about the importance of documentaries coming from an honest point of view without agenda, and the countless examples of documentaries that have been narrated and created with a particular standpoint with a white middle aged man talking with a particular agenda. This made me think about the importance of my audio paper being clear about recognising the role I play within the splayed movement and how this places my standpoint that I am telling the information from.