Tuesday, May 8
Radio College - Speaker Series Reply to Phil Easley's question about hearing good tape.
Phil, if you can be moved emotionally by other people's
stories, then you are capable of being moved by tape that
you gather yourself. If you have some tape that doesn't
seem to be doing anything, then go get some more, either by
re-interviewing the same people and asking the questions
that you really want answers to, or by finding somebody
new. "If the wine is no good then throw it
out"--Charleston Heston in "The Agony and the Ecstasy" (I
think). The process is usually painful. Another piece of
advice, from the writer Charles Bowden--"Do what you want
to do", meaning, first figure out who you are, and then
don't be swayed by other people's opinions and rules. Ask
yourself, What do I have to lose? In radio, the answer is
usually, not much.
Scott Carrier
Wonder if this works for research.
Phil, if you can be moved emotionally by other people's
stories, then you are capable of being moved by tape that
you gather yourself. If you have some tape that doesn't
seem to be doing anything, then go get some more, either by
re-interviewing the same people and asking the questions
that you really want answers to, or by finding somebody
new. "If the wine is no good then throw it
out"--Charleston Heston in "The Agony and the Ecstasy" (I
think). The process is usually painful. Another piece of
advice, from the writer Charles Bowden--"Do what you want
to do", meaning, first figure out who you are, and then
don't be swayed by other people's opinions and rules. Ask
yourself, What do I have to lose? In radio, the answer is
usually, not much.
Scott Carrier
Wonder if this works for research.
