ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines a few practical tips on how to create audio documentaries, begins with topic selection and focuses on to audio data collection, editing, and finally on to distribution. Audio documentaries are an increasingly common way to share research with broad audiences. Radio stations—traditionally the main media for the dissemination of audio documentaries—have multiplied exponentially with the shift to internet-based and satellite broadcasting. Audio documentation is ideal whenever a research topic and its corresponding life world have pronounced sonic qualities. Audio documentation is better equipped than video to handle certain delicate topics for which being on camera might feel overwhelming to some people. The initial post-production phase of audio documentation has a great deal in common with the initial steps of qualitative data analysis of the thematic kind. Constant gain is essentially a very short but incredibly effective audio fade. Drag it from one effects panel onto every sound clip, both at the beginning and end of every clip.
