Camtasia Audio Drafts

Text on screen: Comparing initial narration recordings.

Callout on screen: The outline for the initial voiceover.

Text on screen: The first recording worked from an outline but used extemporaneous voiceover to develop an initial script.

Voice narration plays: 

So this is my memoir.  I’m glad to say that it’s a work in progress. I hope it progresses for a while. It's going to be pitched a little bit as a history of Computers and Writing. I know that’s going to be partial. It doesn’t go back as far as it should. And like any history it only reveals certain perspectives, but it’s good to lay these things out. 

I just brought up some music. And I’m going  adjust this a little bit. So this is a work in progress and because the zoom of reflection is like any kind of focus, the more we click the magnifying glass, the more the details emerge until we get magnified too tightly and things get blurry and we start to lose a sense of context.

So we need to keep things in perspective.  We need to zoom in and zoom out and also stop and ask some questions about the current state of our field. . . .

Text on screen: The improvised voiceover was transcribed, and then revised into a script; the second full audio recording was read from the script.

Voice narration plays:

So this is my memoir. It's going to be pitched as a history of Computers and Writing. Let me get started by grabbing some sound. I’ll just call up some music here. Like any history, this will be partial. It covers certain times, certain perspectives, but it's good to lay these out. Let me adjust this a little bit. So I'll zoom backwards, but so that the details don’t get too focused, become too blurry, I'll pepper in some claims and questions as we go along. I'm playing with this image right here just messing with what I want to say with these random flows of material. Words. Layers. Shapes that launch us into memory.

 When I was about six I went to the Twelve Gates Free School and this was in 1968, 1969, hippie school, and the only rule was that the teachers couldn't tell you what to do. We wandered around downtown Albuquerque. Hiding by the hospital receiving ramp. Asking the Coke truck driver for samples. Learning to be rhetorical. Exploring. But I soon had to go to public school and this was in first grade, public school, and the first thing I did was say shit or some other powerful word and had my mouth washed out with soap.

Callout on screen: But the narration drifts later when talking about the projects.

Voice narration plays: So this is a piece from 1994. It takes up the perennial question of Mac versus PC but it’s really grappling with the electromechanization of text. Here we see some people thinking about the movements of texts.

And also at that time HyperCard and and hypertext projects. . . .