Why did you want to become a Vocalo Storyteller?
Becoming a Vocalo Storyteller fed into my goal of creating an audio story at some point over the next year. More specifically, I love the way a radio story can draw you in. The narrative and music give you a little bit more of a boost than can reading a book. But without the often tacky and single-minded vision of many movies. In other words, radio stories fall in that blended space of a Book Reading vs. Movie/TV watching Venn Diagram.
As a performer, I wanted to give people something to listen to. Something to excite them in hopefully the same way radio stories excite me.
Your piece in 20 seconds:
Aleah is an amazing and complex person that you really have to hear more about to understand what exactly that means.
Why did you decide to tell this story?
It's what was chosen? No. That's the answer jerks give. I wanted to tell this story because I wanted more people to hear about this person who is so engaging and has amazing stories to tell and loves to tell stories. It's one thing to talk to other people about this person. It's another thing to be able to bring her to them through a story.
In what ways are you a better storyteller and/or producer?
I much better understand how to go into a story and what the expectations should be. For example, your story will very likely not turn out the way you wanted it to and that's ok. Go with what you have, be open to change, and it will be ok.
I also now know that there isn't enough editing you will be able to do. You can get it as close to perfect as you can or know how and at a certain point you'll just have to let go and let the editor. It's going to be fine.
I am also MUCH more conscious of what a room sounds like and mic usage.Thank you to everyone from Vocalo and WBEZ. This is just the beginning of my Storytelling journey.
