BACKGROUND:
Crowded is a radio show made entirely from audio solicited from workers on the crowdsourcing website, Mechanical Turk. It was commissioned by Rhizome.org in 2009. Each episode will have a theme or a mechanism around which the crowdsourced samples are gathered. This episode is about fostering camaraderie between MT workers. One of the great things about MT is the diversity of the workers and the diversity of the experience that they bring. How can we use this to benefit the workers, not just the requesters.
ASSIGNMENT:
I need someone to take the collected files (link below) and edit it together into a 25-35 minute show. You will notice that a few of the samples are "intros". I would like to use some percentage of all of these intros. The rest of the clips can be edited and mixed together however you see fit. There are only 33 minutes of audio samples in total, but I imagine there will be some musical interludes.
One of the challenges of this episode is going to be sorting through the material and matching the 'questions' with the 'answers'. This will make more sense when you download the files. Obviously, the clips should be arranged so that the questions precede the answers. Please also feel free to go to the crowded.fm website - some of the titles of the post could be helpful. See links below.
There are also some clips with great ambient sound in the background. It would be great for the music to drop out in some of these points so that we can hear that background.
Also, please note that, just because I have included a clip in the ZIP file doesn't mean it is completely usable. If a clip is unintelligible, please try to clean it up. If you still can't understand what is being said, please don't use it.
If there aren't enough answers to one of the really good questions, please let me know and I will gather more from the MT workers.
The workers seemed to really want to talk about issues relating to MTurk itself, but this makes pretty boring radio, so in the latter half of the gathering period, I asked them not to talk about their problems with MTurk itself. Please use these clips, but sparingly.
Please submit a 5-8 minute sample of how you would handle the editing of the show. A winner will be chosen from this sample and asked to complete the project. The deadline for submissions is March 16. This is supposed to be the February episode, so I am a bit behind on the deadline. If you have any questions or need more material, please contact me.
All submitters will get a link to their site on the Crowded.fm website. The winner will be featured on the site.
INSPIRATION
I am looking for a cross between This American Life and Joe Frank. There should be soft instrumental background music through much of it, but not necessarily all of it. I also like the slightly experimental quality of Radiolab. But this should be subtle - keep the focus on the content, not the effects. (links below)
LINKS:
Episode 1: http://www.crowded.fm/episodes/episode-1/
Episode 2 Info: http://www.crowded.fm/themes/episode-2-part-1/
Information on Mechanical Turk
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Mechanical_...
Inspirations:
Joe Frank: http://www.joefrank.com/cast/
This American Life: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/
RadioLab: http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/
Files:
Questions: http://www.crowded.fm/category/raw/ep2-raw/
Responses: http://www.crowded.fm/category/raw/ep2responses/
All files zipped: see attached
Background Music should be legally legit - please use either your own music, or something you find on one of these sites:
http://www.freesound.org/
http://magnatune.com/
http://ccmixter.org/olpc-berklee-sample-pool
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sound_samples
http://www.archive.org/details/audio
Prize: $350.00 - The prize has been prepaid to Minimum Noise.
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Owner: jefftimesten
Category:Mixing
Status: Closed
License Model: Exclusive
The project owner will obtain an exclusive license to the audio material. Participants cannot submit material that is used elsewhere, and if they win, they cannot license the material to anybody else, on this site or elsewhere.
Reference files:
| Episode 2b.zip |
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| more_responses.zip |
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| intro.zip |
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