Fernheimer: WRD 112: 020 “Writing Jewish Kentucky”

Project 4: Final Team-authored Audiocast

• Final Audio essay Script 4a (due 4/9) worth 5% of overall grade
• Rough Cut 4B (due 4/18 )worth 10% of overall grade
• Final Cut 4C (due 4/30 by noon)

Final Project Script and/or Storyboards
For this assignment, you want to create a full-length working script for the audio essay you will record. For a 10-15 minute audio essay, you will need approximately 5-7 written pages (most people read one typewritten page of about 250 words every 2 minutes).

Before you begin drafting, you’ll want to answer the following questions as part of your group invention:

Topic:

Research Question:

Exigence:

Way that your proposed audiocast or short documentary answers the research question:

Rhetorical Purpose:

Audience:

Use of the aural/audio medium (i.e sound, music, effects):

What is your rhetorical purpose in making the audio essay? Do you hope to inform a specific audience about a particular issue or little-known fact about Kentucky Jewish communities? Do you hope to raise awareness of a specific Kentucky Jewish custom or practice? Do you want the audience to take some kind of action or change their mind about something?

Who is your audience?–What can you presume they might reasonably know or understand about what you hope to communicate? What will you have to teach/explain?  What is the best arrangement/organization of the material to ensure listen-ability and audience engagement?

Remember, in order to make life easier for yourselves when it comes time to actually record the audio essay, you want to have the most well-articulated script you can. You want to make notes about what types of sounds and/or music you want to include, what kinds of voice emphasis you hope to have, what pacing/tempo you want to use for both, and any other audio effects you plan to include.

You have the added requirement that your audio essay needs to include clips from some of the interviews you indexed or conducted (clips from a minimum of four-five separate interviews), and they need to be appropriately introduced and framed to show how they fit into the larger story your group is telling.  You also want to draw from the research you conducted for the annotated bibliography and use it to help set the context and tell your story. It is very likely you will need to do additional research once you have a more clearly defined idea of your audio essay and how you want to frame it—that may mean listening to additional oral history interviews and/or more secondary research or both.

Remember all the things you noted when we listened to audio essays/podcasts in class and keep them in mind as you plan:

Voice emphasis matters–both the way it emphasizes (is it monotone, does it get louder, softer, something else?) and how fast someone speaks (i.e. tempo)

The tempo, pacing at which someone speaks and information is included…

The use of silence or audio space to create emphasis..

The length and introduction of audio clips…

Conversations were more engaging than one person talking

On Tues. 4/9  Audio essay  Script Due
Please share a Googledoc with your group’s working script so that I can respond directly and you can all see my comments. Please use this naming convention:

WRD112_F17_FinalProjectScript_Topic

and make sure your names appear somewhere in the document (ideally at the top) as authors!