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SESSION C.1 : EXERCISES
SCAVENGER HUNT
We have termed this exercise 'understanding your community'.
It takes you outside the learning room, with a portable recorder
in hand and aims to introduce you to two things:
1. Your recorder, and
2. Your community.
Both are complex in different ways, but both can be learned about
and both respond to tender, loving care.
You and your colleagues have been asked to collect the following
'sounds'. You can decide how and where to collect them. You can
also decide which of the group actually records each segment.
(Everybody should have an opportunity to record, and ideally interview.)
Please record in the sequence listed, as we will be listening
to and discussing as a group, the sounds you bring back.
Also, identify each item on sound before you begin to record
it.
e.g. 'item one sound of our busy community.'
Let the hunt begin!
Record
1. The sound of our busy community.
2. The sound of an event that is occurring, and narrate
the event.
3. The sound of our quiet community.
4. An interview with an elderly resident about the area
in times past.
5. An interview with some young children about their views
on the locality.
6. A narrated observation on a community location. (Identify
and describe what you see.)
7. A short interview with a member of a community project
about that project.
8. A short 'soap-box' speech by a member of the community
on some current topic, and at least two
30-second editorials by members of the
team on the speech.
9. A series of short 'vox pop' interviews on the subject
of intolerance. Ask each person the following
questions, 1) when, where, and how have
you experienced intolerance? And 2) what are you intolerant of?
10. Finally, something the team felt was interesting to
LISTEN TO, by itself.
