ServicesDance instruction for the meaning-makers of podcasting
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Story ConsultingWhat are the best approaches to turn your ideas into a story-- Into a sound rich experience both for you and a listener?
I consult with reporters, producers, editors, organizations or anyone with an idea to find the best angle to pursue…help you find the tree when lost in the forest of a topic. Consulting in the early stage of production is about workshopping an idea into a story, wrestling passions, ideas, hopes, and tape into a manageable and insightful experience. Production-stage consulting can involve interviewing strategies to get the best tape and how to get the right tape pulls to will support your final story. Critiquing and evaluation of produced pieces is also available. |
Story EditingStory editing is consultation on a deeper level. It involves close guidance at any step of the production process, from initial idea, through interviews, to line scripting, episodic structure and narrative plotting.
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Instruction and organization consulting
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What it costsI will send a worksheet for you to fill out that will also give us an idea of where you are in your story and where it needs to go. Together we will create a production plan, and from that develop a costs that suits us both. Every project is unique.
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Sample work as Story Editor
Besher grew up in Syria till the war forced him, and his family, to flee.
This non-narrated portrait follows his journey from Aleppo to California and finally to Stanford Medical School. Featuring Besher Ashouri |
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A touching and honest non-narrated produced portrait of one of the first people to be detained at JFK under the initial Trump travel ban order. Stanford PhD student traveling from Sudan.
Featuring Nisrin Abdelrahman |
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Living with mental illness means living with the mysterious and mundane. Caretakers of loved ones with depression, anxiety or psychosis must come to grips with both sides, and resist the tug of their own demons in the process. This is an ongoing story about a mom, her daughter and the everyday work of love.
Producer: Sarah Jiang |
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From the rhyming styles of breakbeat poets and Bronx backyard jams of the 1980s, hip-hop sprang from the heart of urban black culture. The rhythm of resistance.
Then the radio waves traveled across the sea. In the 1990s, young Cubans living in the barrio of Alamar resonated with the rhythms and attitude in the music and adopted the art form as their own. Moving through this rich oral history and into the present, hip-hop brought these two cultures together in a perfect storm. Producer: Nya Hughes |
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What does a war taste like? Tracing the history of U.S. military combat ration in Korea, the podcast tells the Koreans’ bittersweet encounters with America.
Producer: Won-Gi Jung |
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You’re six years old. Child protective services removes you from the only life you’ve ever known and placed you in state custody, into the foster care system.
Producer: Rachel Vaughan |
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