Recording

6 Ways to Relate to Others

8 September 2010

Update – This was 5, but is now the 6 ways to relate to others due to a new understanding. How we relate to others is paramount for us to achieve what we desire as an outcome especially as we are when we are recording a Life Story. I avoid the term ‘Interview’, as it [...]

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Episode 12 : Recording Technique

3 August 2010

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Just before and after you press Record! Click to share on Twitter 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 [...]

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Episode 11 : Choosing and Creating the Best Recording Location

27 July 2010

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Setting the Location for a Great Audio Recording Click to share on Twitter Noise, noise, noise! The number one bane of my existence in recording audio is finding environments that are suitably relaxing and quiet. Pleasant environments like cafés are inevitable noisy with coffee grinders and espresso machines, crashing plates and ruckus conversations. Often with [...]

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Episode 10 : Conversational Interview Technique – Let’s Have a Chat

21 July 2010

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Directed Conversations – What we do when we’re interested in others. Click to share on Twitter It’s easy when we’re fascinated with what they have to say. Are you prepared with all the questions that you’re going to ask and do you have a good expectation of what answers you’re going to get? Are you [...]

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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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Episode 6 : Start Recording a Life Story

22 June 2010

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Start Small, Just Record Click to share on Twitter With any new project, like recording a Your Life Story, it’s important to start! Filling your life with the preparation is often a form of procrastination. For that reason it’s important to get underway and seeing results as quickly as possible and here is a simply way [...]

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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. Click to share on Twitter 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 [...]

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How to Record a Life Story

17 May 2010

Recording Life Stories free e-Book is the perfect introduction to the ideas of recording an audio Life Story and then how to publish and share with family or the world.

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Something to Say?

7 April 2010

Well, have you? Sure you have, you wouldn’t be here if you didn’t have something to get off your chest or something that you want to say. I’m sure you have things to share with the world or at least stories that would fascinate your family. That’s what this site is about, this is a [...]