Lisa's ds106 experiment » AudioAssignments83 http://lisahistory.net/wpds106 a reincarnation of a previous posterous blog Fri, 01 Nov 2013 16:02:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Three Days of the Condor http://lisahistory.net/wpds106/2011/01/29/three-days-of-the-condor/ http://lisahistory.net/wpds106/2011/01/29/three-days-of-the-condor/#comments Sat, 29 Jan 2011 01:43:00 +0000 llane http://lisahistory.net/wpds106/?p=51 This radio thing made me nervous because when it comes to media, I’m visual. I listen to the radio only in the car, and the stereo only if I’m doing something else. When I was in college, I didn’t have the radio on while writing papers — I needed the tv in the background. But [...]]]> This radio thing made me nervous because when it comes to media, I’m visual. I listen to the radio only in the car, and the stereo only if I’m doing something else. When I was in college, I didn’t have the radio on while writing papers — I needed the tv in the background. But I remember movie lines. A lot of movie lines. And story lines. I keep thinking I don’t know stories, but I do. Hollywood stories.

Or in this case a story from a book called Six Days of the Condor by James Grady, which was made into the 1975 film Three Days of the Condor (oh, the attention spans), which I present here for radio ds106 in a little over 7 minutes:

I’m learning about sound, having done this with two films now. You can’t just pull the soundtrack. I have to focus on particular scenes, then cut out dead space when it didn’t add any suspense. I have to pay attention to background sounds, and how they set the scenes (this film has a lot of electronic sounds: teletype, phones, machines). The ambient sounds were more important here than music. I’m getting a whole different perspective on movies, and learning to listen.

I was originally inspired by the Night of the Living Dead trailer on ds106 radio, then encouraged to do it again by Grant Potter‘s comment in Twitter. Tools: MactheRipper, Cinematize, Audacity.

 

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