Posted by: Justin Grotelueschen on May 29, 2005 07:53 PM | Comments (0)

Is conveying information what radio does best? Chris Brookes, on the left, who according to Nadene is the only true independent producer in Canada because he is the only producer able to support himself financially, doesn't think so, because everything comes by the ear/mind once. And then it's gone. Did you know that the sense of hearing is the first that we acquire in the womb? Chris says so, and that sound develops the imagination first, creating imagery, and for some unfortunate reason we've historical linked radio with delivery of facts. And in a radio story, the interviewer and an interviewee play an equal part in creating imagery. The interviewer fishes for details, the interviewee paints for the interviewer, and the process continues until a group of pictures, like frames in a film, is created. Then the producer merely displays the fruits of that discourse. Steve Wadhams, who by default is on the right, and not by default has been a producer for the CBC for 31 years, says those pictures need to flow in the same direction in order to be effective, to make that story lodge in the listener's brain and linger. It's the interviewer's job to make sure the pictures the interviewee is painting are pointing the same way.

Speaking of painting pictures, I'm painting slightly distorted pictures by not using a flash in my photos. I like it that way. Just because this is an audible weekend doesn't mean we're not creating imagery.

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