Narrative Project: Sound Process

When we had done our rough script we was advised to cut up the sound from the interview of our chosen grandparent and put it together and edit it to improve the sound as well as seeing if what was said made sense and went together well. 

I was given this task of editing the sound. This process took 4 stages.

Stage 1: The original interview

Stage 2: Cutting the questions out
Stage 3: Cutting any pauses and "umms"

Stage 4: The person talks slowly as she is quite elderly so we needed to speed the sound up a bit so it didn't sort of drag on at points but hopefully the sound still sounds natural.

Narrative Project: Interview to Script Process

At the interviewing stage we decided to change our approach from interviewing older and younger people to just interviewing one person, a grandparent of one of ours. This had to be done over the phone by putting the telephone on loudspeaker and recording the sound with another device. We ended up changing a couple of questions from before and here is the questionnaire we used.

Questionnaire

From the recorded sound we typed up the answers from our chosen grandparent and highlighted some sections that we thought could be useful to start writing a script with. Here are the answers.

Answers from Questionnaire

From above we came up with the first draft of our script. At this point we decided to make it seem like a conversation between two old phones rather than an interview.

Narrative Script (Draft 1)

Narrative Project: Studio and First Thoughts

This is a group project and i have been teamed up with
George Hind http://george-hind.blogspot.co.uk/
and Katy Fosdike http://katyfosdike1.blogspot.co.uk/
Our studio name is Cryptic Pickle and here is a link to our blog http://crypticpickle.blogspot.co.uk/

We have been given a time period from which we are to base our 3D 1 to 1 and a half minute animation on. Our time period is 'The Information Age' 1970-2000. Through research and initial ideas we have decided to work around the subject of elderly people having to catch up with technology and how arguably some are becoming detached from the rest of the world because they do not know how to use technology or want to know at all.

With this in mind, as part of our research we have decided to interview our family and friends on a recording device, asking them questions on technology and how they feel about it so we are able to understand how people of different ages respond.

Here are the interview questions for both elderly people and younger people.

Questions for Teens and Younger Adults

Questions for the Elderly