Creating an Audio Story

Introduction

For my blog post last week I uploaded a one minute audio clip of my mom telling a story about the time a drunk girl was banging on our front door trying to get in because she thought it was someone else's house. If you would like to hear the story listen to the link below!




Topic of Audio Story

For my audio story I am going to discuss the topic of what intoxication does to our senses of understanding and logic. I am going to interview people on scary stories that turned out to be fine and experts on there understanding of this topic. I think it is going to be really interesting to hear what all these people have to say and I am really excited!

Characters and Experts

For my characters I am going to have my mom tell the story about the girl in the middle of the night. I am also going to have one of my friends tell another scary story related to this topic that happened to her. I think these two stories will add suspense to the audio story and make it interesting for the listeners and bring us back to our major question. Lastly I am going to interview my other friend and ask her, her opinions on this topic and what she thinks about it.

As for my experts I am thinking about interviewing resident life and security here at High Point to talk about how often dangerous things happen to people and why it happens. I am also going to interview my grandpa who used to be chief of police in his town. He has a lot of experience and knowledge with this topic and I think this will definitely help us better understand the topic. 

Music

I think that incorporating music into the audio story will really help tell the story and move it along. Music can intensify and make a story way more dramatic and interesting for the listener as well. 

First Track

For my first track I decided on something kind of creepy and spooky to set the mood for the whole audio story. I think it keeps the listener on edge and will make them want to keep listening. It goes great with this theme. This song is called Cue 1 - Dark-Spooky-Scary (Even In My Dreams) by Soularflair. I tried to copy and embed this track link and paste it to the HTML of this blog post  but for some reason it won't play when I try to embed it on here.

Second Track

Another track I found was called 01. RYOKAN 7 by Gabriel Pereira Spurr. This could be a great outro song for my audio story. I found it in the experimental genres and I feel like it has kind of a mysterious vibe to it and leaves us wondering. Once again I tried to do the embedding but the track would not play.

Foley

When told to make a sound effect for my audio recording I really could not think of anything. All I could really think of was to do banging on the wall that represented the sound we heard from my moms story. All I pretty much did was bang on my wall with my fist. I think this kind of makes you feel like you were there and that you can really hear what the banging was like. (although it was MUCH more aggressive since it was coming from someone that was extremely drunk. After I interview everyone hopefully I will be able to come up with a better sound effect but for now I think this would be cool!





Thanks for reading and listening!!! See you next time.

Who Is She?

Introduction: 

This is a story told by my mother, Jill Treeful, and our very scary experience in the middle of the night getting awoken by aggressive banging and knocking. 

Process:

For this assignment we were told to record someone telling us a story. We then had to take this long audio recording and edit it down to about 1 minute with some voice-over moment of reflections. The story being told in my "podcast" is one of my favorite stories and I thought you all would enjoy it as well. To begin I opened up Adobe Audition and imported all my audio clips onto my wave form. I then dragged my main story clip over to multitrack and placed it in track one. Using the razor tool I cut out some silent moments, "um's and so's and random unnecessary moments. To select the sections I wanted to delete I would use the move tool. After cutting down that long audio clip I dragged all my voice-overs onto track 2, 3 and 4. On tracks 2 and 3 I had to raise the volume just a bit so it hit -12. Throughout the story I used Ira Glass method of Jill's anecdotes and my voice-over moment of reflections. I thought this helped keep the story suspenseful and keep it flowing. After I finished editing I exported it by clicking file, export, multitrack mix down, entire session and then saved it as a wave PCM. 

Unedited Full Story:

https://soundcloud.com/user40194464/interview-unedited-mixdown



Edited Story:

https://soundcloud.com/user40194464/interveiw-with-mom-mixdown




Conclusion:

All in all, I actually really enjoyed doing this assignment. It definitely took me a long time but the more I practice and use the software, the more I will improve. I hope you all enjoyed this story and I'll see you next time!