Summer Classes at KBVR

This summer my Program Director and I led 3 classes a day for 2 weeks for the 'Adventures in Learning' and 'Outside the Box' pre-collegiate programs.

Out of these 3 classes two radio plays were produced, one about a prediction about a train crash called the 'The Strange' and another one about strong man and his trip to the zoo.

The Strange

Stevie Goes to the Zoo


The classes spent the first week working on music, SFX, and rehearsal and the second week on recording and editing. For sound effects we took a mobile sound recorder boom mic and headphones searching for the best sounds, and managed to spread that equipment between three students at a time. The best catch was when we heard a train going by and ran outside to get the opening sound for 'The Strange'.

After the recording was finished we had only 3 days to edit, after 1 and a half days of clip editing the advanced class and myself managed to finish the sequencing in time for broadcast on the last day of class.

The work was tedious and vast, it was quite an undertaking not just to produce two radio plays in two weeks but to instruct 30 students on the process. The most rewarding part was the dailies, every class would end with the class coming together and comparing their efforts for the day and voting for which SFX or which clip to use.