Breaks4Kids is a YHA led initiative to encourage young people from disadvantaged areas to have the opportunity of their first trip away from home. The YHA asked sounddelivery to record the children's' trip to show to corporate sponsors the difference a break away can make.
Download YHA_Break4Kids_Final_July07.mp3
For many of the children of New Road Primary School in Chatham it was their first opportunity of being away from home. Jude spent two days with the teachers and students to record the audio; a group of 34 young people and 7 teachers and a parent governor. Jude even trained three of the young people to record audio themselves - and a couple of the clips are used here.
But two days away didn't mean the microphone was out all of the time. When working with groups, young and vulnerable people it's very important to gain the trust of all involved before beginning to record. In the end, Jude only had to record 1.5 hours of material.
The audio was edited by Mark at sounddelivery using Adobe CoolEdit, though the same programme could have been delivered using Audacity. Mark was able to pull together the programme you hear here in under three hours. Key to achieving this was a proper audio log of the gathered audio, an appropriate amount of source material and a script prepared for the edit.
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