Final Audio Story

soundcloud url: https://soundcloud.com/logan-goetz-105956919/final-audio-story-mixdown

For my final audio story, I decided to stick with my same format but add a few additions. I kept the same interviews from Alysse, Elsa, Liz, and myself because I liked their responses and they were all different. In addition, the interviews are all still in the same order, back to back. As for my introduction, I erased the one I had in my draft audio story and re-recorded a new one to take the advice from my peer (Emily W). Now, I introduce the people I am interviewing and the question they are answering. I listened to more NPR’s like I did for the draft because I like how they get the information across and it is to the point. Although I liked the format of the NPR examples I listened to, I still needed to add elements to make it more interesting and engaging to the readers. I kept the horse sound effect in the beginning because I got so many compliments on it and it is a fun way to open up the audio story. I then decided to add background music beginning after the horse sound effect. To do this, I went to the orangefreesounds.com website that I found the horse noise on (it is familiar and easy to use), and then I searched through the background music. After I picked one I liked, I checked the creative commons license to make sure I could use it an download it. I uploaded it to my Audition project and put it in the track and used the razor tool to trim it to the right time. Then I used the fading in/out tool to fade it in the beginning and out at the end. Then I adjusted the volume of the middle, so it was not too loud over the people talking. I added points by where it faded in/out and dragged the in-between part down. I also adjusted the volume of Liz and Elsa’s interview (last two speakers) because they have quieter voices and the volume needed to stay consistent throughout the entire story. Finally, I added an ending phrase just to wrap up and let the listeners know that the audio story is finished. The part I struggled with the most on the final was editing the volume to make it even, along with cropping out background sounds from the interviews and still having it sound smooth. The best solution I found to this issue was zooming in all the way on the wavelength that I was working on so that I could really see where the volume went up or down. It made the razor tool a lot easier to use as well.

 

Horse Sound:

Creative Commons License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

Website: http://www.orangefreesounds.com/category/sound-effects/animal-sounds/horse-sounds/

 

Background Music:

Creative Commons License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Website: http://www.orangefreesounds.com/easy-listening-electro-song/