Composing my audio story for Unit 3 of Multimedia & Content Creation was both challenging and fun at the same time. I have never really done a podcast/ interview with a program such as Audition, but the Audition tutorials helped guide me through the program so that I could continue to familiarize with all of the tools. In the past I have edited music using the program Garage Band so I think that helped me pick up the instructions for Audition relatively easy. At first I wasn’t sure how to execute the draft of this project, but I ultimately decided to go with an interview with my 14 year old brother Carson. Figuring out how he can relate to my blog topic through things he is encountering was fairly easy because we are both students. We are 4 years apart in age but we can relate on multiple things we battle with in school such as subjects we struggle in, how missing class can cause you to fall behind, and the importance of test preparation. Being siblings we share the same views on a lot of things and we also have developed similar habits regarding schoolwork and studying. We both also share the same concept of how hard it can be to figure out what you want to do with your life. Granted we are both at very different points in our lives, but we both can agree that certain challenges you may encounter day-to-day can cause you to sometimes feel discouraged. After I collected my raw audio footage and transferred it into Audition, I knew I had a lot of editing to do. Using mainly the razor tool, I cut out any unwanted fragments of our interview. I struggled with the deciding what pieces to keep was rather difficult because the total time of the session was well over 2 minutes. Finally I was able to taper it down to 2 minutes on the dot! It was made aware to me by my group feedback that there were some parts where my voice didn’t sound natural or I begin to say “umm,” so my first step of my revision process was re-recording those parts. When I re-recorded my introduction, my voice was significantly louder than the rest of the interview so I needed to properly adjust the track volume of that particular part. I also ran into the problem of going over the two-minute time limit again. There were many pauses I was able to cut out blank audio from in order to compress my project length. Then to finalize my audio story I exported my entire multi-track session to an .mp3 file and uploaded it to sound cloud account.

Composing my draft audio story was both challenging and fun at the same time. I have never really done a podcast/ interview with a program such as Audition, but the Audition tutorials helped guide me through the program so that I could continue to familiarize with all of the tools. In the past I had edited music using the program Garage Band so I think that helped me pick up the instructions for Audition relatively easy. At first I wasn’t sure how to execute the draft of this project, but I ultimately decided to go with an interview with my 14 year old brother Carson. Figuring out how he can relate to my blog topic through things he is encountering was fairly easy because we are both students. We are 4 years apart in age but we can relate on multiple things we struggle with in school such as subjects we struggle in, how missing class can cause you to fall behind, and the importance of test preparation. Being siblings we share the same views on a lot of things and we also have developed similar habits regarding schoolwork and studying. We both also share the same concept of how hard it can be to figure out what you want to do with your life. Granted we are both at very different points in our lives, but we both can agree that certain challenges you may encounter day-to-day can cause you to sometimes feel discouraged. After I collected my raw audio footage and transferred it into Audition, I knew I had a lot of editing to do. Using mainly the razor tool, I cut out any unwanted fragments of our interview. I struggled with the deciding what pieces to keep was rather difficult because the total time of the session was well over 2 minutes. Finally I was able to taper it down to 2 minutes on the dot! I’m aware there are some parts where my voice doesn’t sound natural, or I begin to say “umm” but I plan on re-recording those parts when I create my final audio story.