This week I got into contact with my interviewee David Elphick and organised a time with him that worked for both of us to record the interview. As well as this I also sent him a brief run down of the sort of questions I would be asking him about just to give him an idea of the type of thing we would be talking about so he could prepare a few things in advance in order to make the interview go more smoothly.
On Wednesday (9/11) I picked up the sound equipment after my lesson and got the train to Costa in town where I met up with David. We both got some drinks and got settled whilst I set up the kit, and we got into the interview fairly quickly. I had planned all the questions beforehand and written them on the notes on my phone so I placed them infront of me so I had some key questions to refer back to and asked any others that came to my head whilst carrying out the interview. The interview went really smoothly, so much so we shot it all in one take. I listened back through the recording quickly and I thought that the quality was really good and I felt like I managed to cover everything I intended to ask so we left it there. Before packing all of the equipment up I checked how long the recording was and it turned out to be just over 7 minutes, so I was definitely sure that I had enough footage! I'm really happy with how the interview went and recording it in Costa was really effective as the background sounds of the baristas made a nice actuality bed for the piece.
In this weeks class (11/11) I imported my recording into Adobe Audition and put it through multiband compression, and normalised the audio to make it sound that little bit more crisp. After that I cut out all the parts where you could hear me speaking, where I was then left with just David's audio. As I had just under 7 minutes worth of recording (after cutting out all the parts with me speaking) and the finished piece is meant to be 3 minutes, I had to go through and carefully choose all of the parts of the interview that weren't as interesting/relevant as the rest and cut them out. After a while this became more and more difficult and I had to ask my tutor to help me identify remaining parts of the interview that didn't need to be included. By the end of the lesson I managed to complete editing the bulk of the interview I just had to create an intro and outro and then the speech based package would be complete!
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