Blog Post #2: Where I'm Forced to Go out and Talk to Strangers ෆ

Introduction

  For this assignment, I asked random people on the street (cue social anxiety) a question I wanted to know the answer to. I recorded the responses and my voice-over, adjusted and edited the clips in Adobe Audition, and posted the final product to Soundcloud.

Developing The Podcast

      The question I chose to ask was, “Why do you think rap music is one of the most popular genres of music today?”

  I took to the street (well, if you count Slane as the street) to start my hunt for potential interviewees. I recorded 4 responses from people who didn’t seem like they'd be annoyed if I bothered their precious lunch hour. After getting my interview clips, I recorded my voice-over where I introduced myself and the question.

  After dragging all of the clips into the multitrack, I realized I only had enough time to capture 3 of the 4 interview clips into my 30 second podcast. What a bummer. I tackled each clip one at a time; first, I deleted the parts of the interviews where I asked them the question, since it took up a lot of precious time. Then I used the razor tool to cut out the many stutters, pauses, and unneeded audio. (Russel, 1:41-2:13) This way, I could get to the most important part of each response without heavily exceeding the 30 second timeframe. I listened to the clips each time I made a cut, making sure it was not noticeable that there were portions cut out and that the audio flowed as well as it possibly could.

      After finally editing each audio clip to my satisfaction, I noticed that my third interviewee was particularly quiet compared to myself and the two others. I used the dial knob on the side of the track to adjust only her volume (Jago, para. 2) so she was audible and at about the same dB as the rest of us.

The Super Cool Final Product

  I exported the final product as a .wav file and uploaded it to Soundcloud.

https://soundcloud.com/leunarie/animegirls 



  Overall, this project was super fun and interesting! I’ve dabbled in FL Studio before, so I knew a bit about using multitrack sessions and editing/cutting clips already. Adobe Audition is a little different than FL, but once I put my hands on the software, it was simple and easy to figure things out.