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. 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. I asked my classmates for their opinion on the matter and they confirmed that there did not appear to be anyway that I would be able to use the theme song. This lead me 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 two 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.
After I interviewed my brother I went back and listened to the audio to make sure that everything sounded good. I tried my best to clean up places that had long pauses, as well as cut extra wording out.
After all of this was completed I added an outro to my audio story. I had originally formatted the intro and outro as the same song. After my classmates left me comments advising that I change the outro to another song I began to look for something else. I decided to use a similar outro as my intro, that way the theme remained intact.
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 went back through my audio to make sure everything flowed together. There was one part where my brother was discussing a character that Kit Harrington played called black knight that I had to edit because my brother never introduced the character. I recorded another sound bite of him explaining more about the character, and then added it to audition in a separate track. I then did my best to arrange the audio so it appeared to flow together in one sentence.
Once I had finished editing my new sound bite I went back through my audio and took out additional pauses, as well as shortening my intro to save on time. After that I added my new outro to my audio story.
I acquired my outro from the same place I got my intro from, Free Music Archive titled “Xylo – Ziko Phase 2” by Nul Tiel Records, under the creative commons licence. This song is a variation of my intro. After that I edited the volume levels so that the song appeared to be fading out as the video ended. After that I had to go back and play around with the audio a little more because I was already over on my time limit.
Once I was done completing all of this I listened back through my audio a couple more times. Unfortunately I am over my time limit, but I decided to keep the audio the way it is. I think that the content in my audio story is very important to keep, and I was afraid that if I cut a significant amount out in order to make the time I would be loosing a lot of good content. I understand that I will be marked down for going over time, but I feel like it is worth it in order to tell a full and complete narrative.
Sources and Materials
Intro
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/)
Outro
Music from Free Music Archive
“Xylo – Ziko Phase 02” by Nul Tiel Records
freemusicarchive.org/music/Xylo-Ziko
License: CC BY (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
