My brain tingled while interviewing Dan Grech for this Saltcast. Dan is the News Director at WLRN in southern Florida. He’s also a producer for the station’s public affairs program Under the Sun.
Early in 2010, Dan produced a story about four doctors who traveled to Haiti soon after the earthquake. One of the doctors videotaped part of the trip and captured a remarkable moment in a medical tent. Dan viewed the tape and said “Radio story!” So he interviewed the four doctors and mixed the interview tape with audio from the video.
But, Dan thought the piece needed a bit more sound. So, he added some tape recorded at a Haitian airport and from the medical tent — sound recorded long after the day of the video tape recording. And that begs the question: Can you do that? (Hence, the brain tingling.)
On this Saltcast, Dan and I discuss that very question and a few related ethical issues surrounding what could be called “mis-appropriated sound.”
Have a listen!
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My brain tingled while interviewing Dan Grech for this Saltcast. Dan is the News Director at WLRN in southern Florida. He’s also a producer for the station’s public affairs program Under the Sun.
Early in 2010, Dan produced a story about four doctors who traveled to Haiti soon after the earthquake. One of the doctors videotaped part of the trip and captured a remarkable moment in a medical tent. Dan viewed the tape and said “Radio story!” So he interviewed the four doctors and mixed the interview tape with audio from the video.
But, Dan thought the piece needed a bit more sound. So, he added some tape recorded at a Haitian airport and from the medical tent — sound recorded long after the day of the video tape recording. And that begs the question: Can you do that? (Hence, the brain tingling.)
On this Saltcast, Dan and I discuss that very question and a few related ethical issues surrounding what could be called “mis-appropriated sound.”
Have a listen!
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