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The difference music makes

Regina McCombs at Poynter posted this look at the effect that sound can have on a news video story. Watch the three clips below of her story — for the Minneapolis Star-Tribune — called “Mom Goes to War.” The first has only nat­ural sound. The sec­ond two have music loops that she took from the [...]
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Telling stories with sound

There’s plenty to be learned about sto­ry­telling in just audio — like NPR does, and I think that there are some lessons there that we can import into our video pro­duc­tion tech­niques. (Who knows, we could also look into pro­duc­ing audio-only con­tent or pod­casts, so these tech­niques might be valuable.) These lessons once again come [...]
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