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Summary: Get a life!
Review: 'This Americian Life' brings new perspectives into the the mind of listeners every week on NPR. Buy this comic to get a new perspective on 'This Americian Life' itself. Jessica Abel wonderfully illustrates the process of making this weekly radio show.
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Summary: Get a life!
Review: 'This Americian Life' brings new perspectives into the the mind of listeners every week on NPR. Buy this comic to get a new perspective on 'This Americian Life' itself. Jessica Abel wonderfully illustrates the process of making this weekly radio show.
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Summary: C'mon - it's only 4 bucks! You'll like it!
Review: Hi everyone, My staff and I decided we wanted to do thiscomic book because we are asked so often "How do you put thatshow together?" People were curious. Also, we wanted to proselytize. Radio is relatively cheap to do, and relatively easy to learn, and we wanted to encourage other people to try it. I think there are lots of funny, smart, creative, ambitious people who don't have a place to do interesting work, and it always seems like a shame to me that they don't know how easy it is to get into radio. And what a great gig it can be. So. I'd seen Jessica Abel's cartoons. Some of her work falls into the odd category "documentary cartoonist." Magazines and newspapers send her out on assignments, like any reporter; she interviews people, notices little things, makes sketches, records quotes, then draws it all up as a cartoon. She seemed like a kindred spirit. So my staff invited her to spend some time with us - and document how to put together a radio show. We try to explain everything step by step so you can actually use the comic book as an instruction manual to make your own radio story: how to interview, how to edit, how to write, how to recognize what a good radio story would be. We tell you where to find free audio editing software on the web. We give advice about where you might find a job doing this...
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Summary: Taught me what a didn't know I needed to know (fun too!)
Review: I recently started a one-man show on a community radio station. I quickly learned it isn't hard to do, but its very hard to do very well. Wanting some tips on the cheap, I found this book. It reads like a good Ira Glass story - the small picture blending seamlessly into the big one. I particularly appreciated sections on how to interview effectively, and basics of how to edit tape on a home computer. If you love This American Life, or want to try your own radio show, or both, this is the best four bucks you will ever spend.
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Summary: Taught me what a didn't know I needed to know (fun too!)
Review: I recently started a one-man show on a community radio station. I quickly learned it isn't hard to do, but its very hard to do very well. Wanting some tips on the cheap, I found this book. It reads like a good Ira Glass story - the small picture blending seamlessly into the big one. I particularly appreciated sections on how to interview effectively, and basics of how to edit tape on a home computer. If you love This American Life, or want to try your own radio show, or both, this is the best four bucks you will ever spend.
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Summary: Great inspiration and reference
Review: If you have ever entertained the notion of trying to slow society's slide into stupor by giving your take on things some sort of voice, this is a great manual for using radio as your format. The format, as an iluustrated guide, takes on the feel of a Boy Scout manual or some other type of DIY instruction. and you can't beat the price. Ira Glass' walkthrough of producing his show "This American Life" for NPR is boiled down to a primer on first focusing on the work to be presented, then the techinical aspect of broadcasting it - an itemized list that can be applied to nearly ANY endeavor with a little metaphorical flexibility. Jessica Abel is a very competent caricaturist and graphic artist, whose presentation of a very technical (and occasionally wordy) subject matter added greatly not only to the understandability, but made it an enjoyable read and browse. I pick this up and look at it all the time. I have to give it four stars because it's not really for every body - BUT! If you are thinking of doing radio because you love it and you can't imagine not doing it (because there's no money, apparently) this is a great map to set you on your way, and a sensible guide to assembling tools and techniques. If you are a fan of "this American Life," maybe this is the final factor in your own transition from radio listener to radio contributor.
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Summary: Illuminating
Review: The use of the comic book medium to portray the production of one episode TAL is uniquely informative. Not only does this book explain the essence of TAL, it also inspires the reader to sinthesize TAL with his/her own ideas to bring thoughtfull brodcasting to local radio.
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Summary: Illuminating
Review: The use of the comic book medium to portray the production of one episode TAL is uniquely informative. Not only does this book explain the essence of TAL, it also inspires the reader to sinthesize TAL with his/her own ideas to bring thoughtfull brodcasting to local radio.
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