Following today’s in-class critique and listening to Taylor Reeh’s KBIA story “MU Works to Combat Identity Theft,” I realize how much I have yet to learn before mastering creating a story from audio. Reeh’s story about shredding old hard drives, disks and CDs from MU employees was well done, because he expanded the subject from just cut and dry information to a piece that brings the listener straight to the place where the destruction of the files occurs, the shredder, through natural sound.
A more technical aspect I noticed from the piece was the clearness of voice and enunciation Reeh conveyed. His voiceovers were crisp and concise and gave the listener enough information so more opinions from the sources could be included. The one thing I would have wanted from the story was a source that brought files to the shredder or was a victim of identity theft. While the journalist localized the story, I think it could have been more personalized if he wished to expand the topic. As I gain more and more experience with audio, I realize how many possibilities for storytelling exist in simple sound.
-Abbie Schmid
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