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- Dmae Lo Roberts
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- "Don Hunter, Cataloger of Sounds"
- Summary: A profile of Don Hunter, who has been recording sound in the Eugene area for 70 years.
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Review of Don Hunter, Cataloger of Sounds
Dmae Lo Roberts
Posted on January 04, 2005 at 08:51 PM
A piece about sound should start off with sound. Instead this piece saves its best sound for a montage at the very end. A piece about a sound recordist might have been more creative and make use of collage and montage more within the piece. Reporter Angela Kellner shows promise but this piece needs one more edit and restructuring. Right now it's a straight forward report that almost puts the subject on a bit of a pedestal rather than examining the nooks and quirks of a man whose hobby is recordiing unusual sounds. The actualities are also a bit hissy, and the ambience hiss is clipped. The montage at the end would have been better mixed into the piece rather than ending with the non-stellar slide show. This piece could have been cut down to a seven to eight minute story at most with more creative use of sound. There is a minute of music at the top and a host intro that needs to be edited out if any station wants to air this piece.