Equipment

Episode 58 : Oral History View of Life Stories

6 September 2011

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Oral History shows the professional methods to a Life Story

Creating your own personal family history, Life Story will utilise some the methods of various different techniques of human communication. In the past we talked about the skills of Storytelling and how to get across the story with the emotional impact that we want. The other discipline …

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Episode 40 : Saving Your Life – Story

5 April 2011

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Loose it and your story ceases to exist

What if you were to loose all those recordings that you’ve worked so hard to produce? All those hours of conversation… gone! As far as future generations are concerned you’d cease to exist. Maybe it’s best to have systems in place so that it doesn’t happen.

Recording your …

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Episode 12 : Recording Technique

3 August 2010

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Just before and after you press Record!

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In Episode Twelve of Create Your Life Story we look at what we are going to do in the actual recording process

We have everything ready and it’s time to actually start recording. You have:

Prepared the person for the recording by telling them about it …

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Samson Zoom H1 the Perfect Personal Recorder

12 July 2010

Back in Episode 5 we were talking about different audio recorders and ways of capturing audio to export to your editing software. Since then Samson has released a new product to extend it’s range of audio recorders to include what I think is a perfect portable audio recorder for our needs.

Previously Samson have produced …

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First iPhone 4 Movie Shows What is Possible.

29 June 2010

I’ve mentioned several times that it’s due to the wonderful digital technology that has evolved in the last few years that we are now able to create quality audio recording of our lives. Just a couple of podcast episodes ago I mentioned that the very technology for you to record an audio Life …

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Episode 5 : Audio Recorders – What You Need to Record a Life Story

15 June 2010

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The recorder you need you may already have and others that you don’t know of.

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This Episode 5 of Create Your Life Story will help you realise what you need to record a life story and the equipment that is open to you today.

When I first decided to start podcasting I thought that I …

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Episode 4 : What do you Want to Achieve with an Audio Life Story?

8 June 2010

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What would you like to see from producing an audio Life Story? – What is your minimum and maximum effort?

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When I started producing Your Story I considered using my iPod nano with a microphone. Everyone said it was just that easy but I soon realised that I wanted to …