Sayre will guide you through his experiences with creating his award winning podcast episode: “The Quevedos”, the story of Sayre’s journey to discover his family history. Listening to excerpts from the podcast, he will present examples on the ways each element showed up at the producing, production, and post-production stage of the audio story.

This class is for anyone working with non-fiction and storytelling, whether you are advanced or simply beginning, this class is an important guide for storytellers to find the soul of the story, and to find patience in the process of creating complex and complicated narratives. What you can expect:

• • Learn the four elements and apply them into your process

• • Understanding your own pace

• • Finding your WHY, why is this story important

• • Learning how to record interviews organically

• • Understanding the importance of collaboration in documentary

• • Using archival, mix media

• Editing in your head