Kyra Brettle (Week 10 Guest Speaker)

In todays lecture, Kyra Brettle gave us an amazing speech on sound and sound production. Kyra went over so much information, and even though to an extent, it was slightly overwhelming, it has also eased my mind a little bit regarding PB4. Kyra asked us whether any of us listen to podcasts, but I didn’t raise my hand. I have listened to podcasts in the past, but I can’t say I’m an avid listener, and I definitely don’t actively follow any podcast creators.

One part of Kyra’s talk that I found really interesting, was when she compared sound production, to music. I grew up around music, listening to it, and playing it, so linking something that I am not hardly at all familiar with, to this topic that I understand really well, made everything just a bit clearer for me. Another element she spoke about was ‘expectations of narrative’. For me, I link narrative to film and television, I would never think to link it to a podcast. This sounds really dumb when I think about it now, because I guess, like everything, a podcast still does have a beginning, middle, and an end. Duh.

With everything Kyra mentioned and made links to, i’ll admit, I zoned out at moments when I began thinking of new ideas, and techniques to incorporate into my final podcast. She highlighted multiple times how important layering is to add texture to our piece. My group, we had planned a few different ideas for how we were going to add texture to our piece, so this definitely gave me, and hopefully the others, a much needed confident boost, regarding the direction we had planned, and were already going in. I’m really looking forward to putting all of Kyra’s tips into place, and see how much our audio piece can evolve from here.

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