Despite some variance among the different interviews, StoryCorps follow a fairly predictable and clean formula. It opens on light music with a narrator giving 10-30sec of background information, or it cold opens on an interviewee with no music, usually if its a particularly striking \u201chook.\u201d While I initially thought that many of these were more soft, slice of life, I was surprised to find almost all of the ones I listened to to be dealing with heavy topics of death and separation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The pacing for Storycorps is deceptively lean — it sounds more conversational and natural due to leaving more \u201chuman\u201d elements and speech quirks in that typically would be cut from say a news interview, using a very clean editing style. These 2-5min blurbs were certainly pulled from 10-60 minutes of interview footage, but it doesn\u2019t sound chopped up much at all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The audio quality varied from story to story but of course was professional grade throughout. Some interviewees had a very warm, full sound like you\u2019d hear in a podcast while others seemed like an omnidirectional mic was placed in a living room with the ambient sound edited out. Many of the interviews do this audio cleaning technique I wish I had a name for but I hear a lot — when the sound very obviously cuts out to pure silence in between talking, presumably to eliminate ambient noise. I find this technique to be obnoxious when its really aggressively cutting from speaking to silence, but I understand why its used (and its frequently not noticeable).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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