Hella Solutions blog: "Document. Share. Inspire."

[appended: 2/12/08] Below is a post I started back in August 2007. I was unemployed, frustrated and venting and because of that I just started a draft and apparently forgot about it. It’s interesting for me to look back at this six months later (today is 2/12/08). Anyway, instead of deleting it or even finishing it I offer it here as a way to document my mental landscape as I venture out as a establishing audio documentarian. You will read the beginning of what is a somewhat harsh criticism of the Social Documentation program that I graduated from in 2007. There are some truths to where I’m coming from but I’m largely very happy that I was accepted into the program and for what I learned in it. I will offer a more detailed account in the not so distant future…here’s to seeing ourselves in the past as we move into the present:

Okay, so the feedback hasn’t necessarily been flooding in but what I have received confirms my own feelings…I’m new at this audio thing! I have no technical training in audio documentary. The program I was in at UCSC (Social Documentation) provided zero technical training in audio documentary. I did learn documentary theory and basic construction but nothing specific to documentary audio and definitely not anything technical. While I did venture outside the program for as much technical advice I could find but alas I’m left with a project that is lacking in many respects and the radio folks I have talked with have been helpful in pointing the problems out. I’m not trying to ‘dis’ anybody but just…

NoahC documentary studies