Nick Brewer

I guess “Audio Guru” is a fitting title since I've been living in the editing bay for the past few weeks. I've had a blast being able to take all the material everybody came back with and turn it into little snapshots of the race. Listening to these characters, Mark Sass bragging about his son (musher Brent Sass) and Louie's accent is just great.

The first few weeks were easy, importing a few hours of audio is a cakewalk. The hard part began when we divided up into groups. There are five different groups, with five very distinct concentrations. I had maybe a dozen quality interviews to get all our material for the project. It was a challenge to come up with five audio tracks that didn't recycle the exact same people for all of them.

I wasn't the only one to take on an audio project; Megan Sullivan did a great job editing the Ham radio operators and saved me a ton of time when it came to the crunch.

Although I was not able to join the class on the trek out into the wilderness for coverage of the Quest, I feel as if I was right there with them only without the scars. I've heard all the results of their work over and over for the past few weeks. For a class of photographers, a lot of great audio came back.

My favorite was the class troubles audio track. I'm a big fan of conflicting information and the fact that nobody brought a thermometer cracks me up. I have over a dozen people telling me the temp ranged from 20 to 60 below zero. Nobody was lying when they answered the question, but I didn't think I would get such a wide range.