Idea Inspiration

For this project I decided to do an interview with my brother about upcoming movies and a TV show that he is looking forward to seeing in 2020. My brother is a big film buff like me, so I thought it would be a cool idea to do an interview with him where we discuss upcoming movies. I also thought this would be a good idea considering that my blog is about movies, with a specific focus on upcoming movies scheduled to release this year.

Design Process

I began my design process by first focusing on an intro and an outro. From our online readings I learned that this is a very important thing to focus on. I originally wanted my intro to be the avengers theme song, considering that my audio story is focusing on marvel movies and TV shows. I was unable to use the avengers theme song in fear of copy write issues, so I decided to look through creative commons music instead.

After figuring out what my intro was going to be I already knew that I wanted to interview my brother, but I was stuck on what I wanted to discuss with him. My brother and I have had conversations about movies that have lasted hours, and I only had two minuets to interview him. That’s when I decided that I would limit the interview to three upcoming movies and a tv show that he was looking forward to seeing, and then have him briefly explain each one.

I did a couple of interviews before I decided on the final one that I would use. The one I chose to use I thought was just long enough and detailed enough. The others that I had done were either to long or to short, with a limited amount of information about the movies, or characters that were in them.

Technical Detail

I first acquired my intro from Free Music Archive titled “Xylo – Ziko Phase” by Nul Tiel Records, under the creative commons licence. Next I did a couple interviews with my brother and chose the best one to upload to Audition. After uploading the intro and interview to audition I played with the sound to my intro. I worked hard to make it fade out before my interview starts.

After that I also edited the intro and used it as an outro. I also had to play around with the volume levels in order to give it the appearance that it was fading out evenly, instead of abruptly. Once I finished doing that I tried to take some of the long pauses out of the interview, that way things would flow a little more smoothly then they did in the original version.

Sources and Materials

Music from Free Music Archive
“Xylo – Ziko Phase” by Nul Tiel Records
freemusicarchive.org/music/Xylo-Ziko
License: CC BY (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)