Corky Scholl

These stories by Corky Scholl were so entertaining and insightful. They may not be the latest groundbreaking stories or contain news vital to our survival, but I sometimes think these are the stories a general audience most likes to hear about. The sounds can have amazing effects on how the story is produced. In the story about the June hail storm, the people narrated what went on and explained why this was such an odd occurrence. We could hear the shovels scraping the ground and water rushing. However, in many of the other clips, we had a narrator to explain bits and pieces and who let the people involved tell the details and bring the emotion. In the clip about the bees, the adults were there to explain what was going on, that buzzing of the bees made us feel like we were right there and we felt emotion from the little kid who was amazed at what was going on. In the handball clip, I could get a feel for the situation because I heard Spanish in the background (just like the frog story, the accents bring so much to the culture of the story), a ball hitting a wall, the squeak of shoes and the grunts from exasperated players. These sounds tell us so much more than a single voice or reading something. I think the one that hit me the most was the field with flags for every American who has died in the war on terrorism. I felt shivers when we heard the man repeatedly say "in grateful memory," and we then heard the full names of many men and women. I could hear the flapping of the flags and felt everything sink as the lone trumpet in the background played. The sounds in Scholl's work are not overpowering or confusing (which I am sure some audio could be) but rather add flavor and emotion and help pull the viewer into the story.