Part A

For the challenge I want to learn how to conduct a good interview, record it and edit it for a real online radio station. My challenge will be learning how to prepare for an interview and use an mp3 kit and mic and how to use the software audacity better for voice editing. Some day I hope to be a music producer and I think it’s really important understand all kinds of editing.

THE TASK:

Pretty early on Vicky talked us through what makes a good interview. I made notes and put this into practice when I interviewed graffiti artist Casper Carr. I've learnt that sounding engaged and eye contact and body language are important for getting the interviewee to open up. Asking 'open questions' questions that require more than yes or no answers are the best kind where possible and they usually start with the w's and how or if, like what, where, when, who.

Using the mp3 kit and mic was really easy. Vicky did a demonstration, then we practising by interviewing someone else we didn't know in our group. That was good for practising questions. And making sure we were at the right distance to record and getting used to being an interviewer.

From the experience I've had with audacity I have learnt how to cut out unnecessary spaces, for example when the interviewer asks a question and the other person stops to think or says 'erm' to make sound natural but more immediate. One trick is to take out am ‘uumm’ but to add some sound that is silent so there is still time taken before someone talks.

I’ve also found out that the program is free to download so in the future when I do some interviews or recorded stuff with my diploma group I could always use audacity to improve the quality of them. Plus you can put a number of tracks together and have different sounds on different layers. For example a tune on one track and an MC on another.

You can use audacity for anything really I would like to have a go using it for making backing tracks to go in a video or if I had to edit any types of recorded work that I have done, it can be use to mix two different tracks together like a mixer or it can be use to shred bits out of songs or tracks you can also change people’s voices so that if they don't like their voice in the in the interview you can speed it up a bit (sound younger) or slow a little (which sounds deeper and older!)

I feel really confident about this process now I've done it. If I had to do it again I think I'd jump at the chance. I'm really proud of the way my final interview sounds too. Check it out here:

Day four

ill and wasn't in :(

Day Three

Day three at the site gallery has been alright but today was more chilled out than the last two days. we started off by just finishing off our blogs and went straight on to how to use Photoshop and learn to edit the photographs that we had taken from yesterday in the studio. I found this good because I liked editing the photo's because as Vicky pointed out, it’s a really good skill to have and good for when I do things on my diploma and for the future.

After we did some research on what types of art we might like to choose for our projects and Vicky gave us a quick talk on the things we would have to do and what types of projects we could do, who to interview and where we'd be going to see different gallery's for the arts award we would be receiving when we left work experience.

in the afternoon Vicky tried to get us talking by making us research and finding out different types of ideas we could come up between us for our art projects and to be able to work together. Then I carried on researching artists and different types of photographer's that take picture of landscapes and iconic places. i've found today more chilled out and less to do which were good because we have done quite a bit for the past 3 days.
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Day two

Today is the second day of my work experience, the first day was pretty boring because it was a lot of talking for adults and just getting the hang of everything so I was alright with it but today we’ve started doing more ourselves writing our blogs then had been paired up to do some photography like, face portraits of each other which I found pretty good specially using actual photography equipments. The second part of the day we just worked around things and discussed what images we liked in some books and what the images were like how it made us feel. I learnt quite a bit about composition in photography and look forward to getting the chance to use my new skills.

After dinner a film maker and producer called Rob Speranza came in to tell us a little bit about what he does for example he started the South Yorkshire Film makers Network five years ago. It first started through him meeting a few people in a pub having a chat sharing ideas and creating little films and then more and more people started to get involved so then he soon realised this was what he wanted to do. He also went through his background and told us how he never gave up even after being rejected a fair few times he carried on and tried different things to achieve what he wanted to do.

In the afternoon we met Jeanine Griffiths the Deputy Director at the site gallery who co-curates exhibitions. She showed us around the gallery and told us a little bit about the artist and why they had done that particular layout of the exhibition. She had also talked us through what the artist did to the piece of art which were clips of random things happening like a car dragging a tree and two dogs watching. I found the work a little strange and different to what I as expecting because I didn't quite get how it was art but as Jeanine went through what the artist did it made more sense to me.

Richard Bolam came in after and talked us through his video's and what he likes to film as being an opportunist he likes to have a camera with him everywhere he goes in case he sees something thats interesting or he thinks he might use in future to make a video about something. He also told us what types of jobs he does and the different types of technology skills he has to be able to make good short films. After this I went out with a few others to try and capture good footage of different places in town (reflecting ‘the passing of time’) and take a few photo's.

Day one

For the first day at the site gallery we pretty much got to know everything and what we were about to do for the two weeks and information about the gallery and the people that work there also knowing a little bit about them and their job roles. Then we went on to visit the rooms in the gallery and introduce ourselves.

After we had a break and taking so much information in we had been paired up with a random person in the group to interview them, asking some questions that we came up with after Vicky gave us some training of how to do a good interest. It was a good way to get to know each other a little bit about them which were really good because after I felt like I knew the person I interviewed and it was a good experience.

In the afternoon Leslie Guy an artist Co-director of Bloc Artist Studios introduced herself to us and told us about her background and the subjects that she had studied and done at college and university also carrying on studying now. She gave us a quick brief on what contemporary art was about and how artist expressed themselves in the work they’ve produced, she also showed us some of the types of art that interested her and inspired her to do what she does.

An artist that she spoke to us about was John Stazeker, he combines a portrait and adds a picture on the faces to create a scene and he also collects images. The second artist that we had looked at was Susan Hiller she took very dramatic pictures of waves and bad weather in various places but she also collected story’s off people that thought UFO’s were contacting them through their TV’s.

The third artist was Micheal Borrmans he was a painter and his paintings were about people and what they did with their hands to create an illusion. The other artist that she presented to us was Chris Ofili a young black artist that expresses his feelings about racism and what he went through in his art work. Most of his art work is based on the black culture.

Leslie showed us some of her art work which I found very different, I didn’t like the fact that she drew over people that had died but it was her type of creativity, overall I found the first day good but there was too much to take in! :)