In this weeks class (18/11) I had a fairly easy job, I had completed the majority of the interview edit the week before so in class I went down to the foley studio in the Media, Film & Music building with a couple of students from my class as well as my tutor in order to record our intros and outros. I was the last one to record my intro and outro which actually worked in my favour as I was able to watch the process beforehand to get an idea of how it all worked and how my peers were doing theirs. I wrote down a brief script of what I wanted to say so that when I got into the booth I didn't have to panic and think of what to say off the top of my head.
I found the recording process really interesting as I had never been/worked in a studio like that before, so being able to experience it for the first time was great. I had to record my intro and outro a couple of times due to the fact that I tended to rush through what I wanted to say really quickly, I think that I can confidently say that this was down to nervousness! Despite this, after a couple of trial runs I managed to slow down my script and animate my voice so that it sounded more 'radio-esque'. It was really scary being in front of the microphone and having two other people behind a big glass screen watching me speak but it was an interesting experience nonetheless, and I'm quite happy with how both my intro and my outro turned out.
After coming back from the foley studio I took the recordings from the USB that we used and transferred the recording to my media for drive. I put the recording into Adobe Audition and cropped the clip, leaving just my part of the recording in the timeline. After listening to my recording back I noticed that I have a lot of sibilance in my voice, so I put the recording through the effect 'de-esser', just to make it sound a little less sibilant. I then went on a website called Bensound to find some royalty free music that I could use as a backing track for my intro and my outro which would transition nicely into the interview. I found a track called 'Happiness' that I really liked and thought would fit nicely with the tone of my interview so I downloaded it and put it into Audition. I faded it in and out at the beginning and end of my interview in order to create a nice flow throughout the piece.
I was really happy that I managed to shoot and edit my speech based package so quickly and efficiently without any problems. I expected this project to go a lot less smoothly than it did so that was definitely a nice surprise! The whole editing process was fairly simple when I got into it which made things a lot easier. After I completed the edit I sent a link to David to show him the final product and his feedback was very positive! He said "The recording sounds very professional and as this is your first ever individual sound project I am truly impressed, well done!". I'm really happy with the result of my speech based package and I thoroughly enjoyed the process.
My speech based package can be found here.
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