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The 2005 Third Coast Festival Conference Sessions
Here's a listing, along with descriptions, of the 2005 TCF Conference sessions. Click on each image and enlarge
the resulting pop-up box to get a good close look at presenters.
General Sessions:
Ready, Set, Go! Presenting the Third Coast Festival ShortDocs – Stories about GAMES
You Had Me at Hello: The Art of the Pitch
Voice with a Capital "V"
Radio Across Time Zones
Breakout Sessions:
Anatomy of a Radio Piece
Ask Away!
Sounds Loved and Sounds Lost
The Future of Radio is Now
Music: A Force for Good (and Sometimes Evil)
Explaining the World in Four Minutes
Podcasting: Believe the Hype
A Sense of Place
*All photos by Stu Mullenberg (stuphoto.net)
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 Ready, Set, Go! Presenting the Third Coast Festival ShortDocs - Stories About GAMES
Once again the TCF has commissioned four audio works for a new batch of ShortDocs and this year we got a little bit playful with it, asking producers to submit ideas for stories about games. We received exactly 100 proposals, from the US and far beyond, and chose four that we felt approached the topic from varied and unusual perspectives. Here’s your chance to hear the 2005 ShortDocs, and what their producers have to say about them.
Moderated by Michele Norris (NPR)
with Blake Eskin (independent producer / writer), Michael Kavanagh (independent producer), Melissa Robbins (independent producer) and Judith Sloan (audio artist / Earsay)
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You Had Me at Hello: The Art of the Pitch
What makes one story pitch so irresistible it's "yes" halfway through ... and the next doomed for rejection?
Three commissioning producers will share real pitches they've received, as they explain the art of getting your work on the air, including tips to take and traps to avoid. They'll also respond to a handful of pitches from the audience.
Moderated by Neil Sandell (CBC's Outfront)
with Jeremy Skeet (Weekend America), Julie Snyder (This American Life) and Chris Turpin (All Things Considered)
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Voice with a Capital "V"
Most of us use our voices in our work, but finding our "Voice" is an often overlooked part of our creative development. Hear what professionals from a variety of different fields have to say about this elusive aspect of our craft.
Moderated by Dean Olsher (The Next Big Thing)
with Marty Goldensohn (producer / professor), Ben Yagoda (author) and Pamela Z (performance/sound artist)
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Radio Across Time Zones
Radio transmissions are heard all over the world, from the largest urban centers to the smallest mountain villages. But what defines radio from a particular place, and what makes it different than radio from elsewhere? Radio professionals from four different countries—Australia, Belgium, Canada and the United States will play examples and talk about public radio broadcasting from their respective homelands, touching on issues of style and essence, general strengths and weaknesses, what epitomizes a country’s radio identity and where radio might be headed in the not-so-distant future.
Moderated by Julie Shapiro (TCIAF)
with Edwin Brys (VRT), Torey Malatia (Chicago Public Radio), Robyn Ravlich (ABC) and Steve Wadhams (CBC)
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Anatomy of a Radio Piece
Imagine three producers from two continents working on one radio piece. Hear how this collaboration took shape despite editorial, logistical and production challenges, by listening in on the tracking session, reviewing editorial decisions taken—and not taken—and hearing different versions of particular sections. Along the way, producer Emily Botein will also reveal some useful tips about making radio,including: why not to whine; getting star-struck ... and getting over it; how to hear a story when you're not sure what it is you're listening for; and using what you do know to help you along.
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Ask Away!
Come hear about asking the smart, dumb, informed, innocent, baggage-laden question, and how to decide when each is appropriate. Susan Stamberg, who figures she's conducted some 30,000 interviews in her brief career, plays and discusses samples of good and bad ones —hers and others'.
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Sounds Loved and Sounds Lost
This session is...
- A brief survey of field recording by that and other names, with an emphasis on non-pragmatic applications of recording technology such as musique concrete (last century) and phonography (this one).
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Also, a myopic and highly personal review of the ethics, tactics and tools of the contemporary field recordist (especially, one on a woefully inadequate budget).
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Accompanied by a related set of favorite recordings (or particularly noteworthy failures), with many unnecessary departures and irrelevant anecdotes, all of this brought to you by Aaron Ximm.
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The Future of Radio is Now
Teenagers are making some of the most engaging radio out there! Their refreshing perspectives and creative techniques are lighting up the radio and signaling good things for the future sound of the airwaves. With moderator Czerina Patel (WNYC's Radio Rookies), youth producers from around the US share their work and talk about their experiences telling stories with sound.
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Music: A Force for Good (and Sometimes Evil)
Radio makers have many techniques at their disposal for crafting each story they tell, including one in particular that gets used and abused more than any other: scoring. Music can lift a dreary voice or sink an entire piece, connect listeners to the emotional life of a story or leave them feeling manipulated ... and pissed about it. Radio Lab producer and host Jad Abumrad offers his perspective on how music can help or hurt a story, and in doing so, will quote smart people and play examples of scoring triumphs and tragedies.
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Explaining the World in Four Minutes
When David Kestenbaum tells people he covers science for NPR, they often say something like "it must be hard explaining such complicated ideas in such a short amount of time!" Well, it is. Learn how to get great tape from people who use phrases like "renormalization group theory," how to tell tangled stories in a compact way, how to find unusual narratives in usual stories and how to find a scene when the backdrop appears as dull as your own cubicle.
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Podcasting: Believe the Hype
Join podcast pioneers and radio producers Benjamen Walker and Tod Maffin to discover how podcasting has, in less than one year, changed broadcasting forever. Learn how independent producers can use podcasting to market their work, change the sound of public radio and build an audience on the Internet. You'll hear a variety of podcast and broadcast audio, and have the chance to discuss the mechanics, aesthetics and economics of podcasting and the future of Internet broadcasting.
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A Sense of Place
Washington Post reporter Anne Hull shares thoughts about how to capture an environment that reveals the world of a particular subject to your audience, by paying attention to detail and hopefully avoiding familiar cliches. She'll play tape and share readings, both of which will demonstrate strong examples of communicting a 'sense of place.'
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