Radio Journalism Final

For my final in Radio Journalism, we had to write and produce an audio piece about someone who's profession makes a sound. I wrote about my Audio Production professor, Brett Barry.

Here's the link, the text accompaniment, and some photos :)

http://www.mediafire.com/?a7f0pm5kr44ll8h

Brett Barry has been teaching at the State University of New York at New Paltz for the past seven semesters. He teaches two important classes in the Radio/TV Production concentration: Radio and TV Performance, and Audio Production. The latter is a required core class for students. When he is not in the classroom, he owns his own voiceover company called Silver Hollow Audio. Being both the main voiceover artist and audio producer, he’s kind of a one-man band. Ever since he was a child, audio was his passion. He did not pick up a love for audio completely on his own, though. His father, Bruce Barry, was the director for the popular long-running soap opera, Guiding Light, as he was growing up, and that made an impact on what Brett wanted to do with his career. You can hear Brett’s voice in many commercials such as AirWicke, Verizon, and he is now featured on the Zee Network in India.

He knew from the very beginning that voice over work was his calling and quickly made it into his career. According to him, he does not foresee it ever getting to be a job; it will always be fun for him. Despite only teaching two classes, he has managed to make an impact on at least one student in the program. Since I have taken both of his classes, I have made a strong connection with him while I have been at SUNY New Paltz. Brett comes off as more of a personal mentor than a professor. He is always willing to guide rather than just teach. It comes off as fun for him, being able to do so much on both ends of production, performance as well as editing. I idolize Brett in a sense because not everyone can go to their job and appreciate it for what it is.