Final Draft of Audio Story

Get to Know ME

                In my final draft I took a lot of the comments into consideration.  They had a lot of constructive criticism.  I changed the song from just the beginning to running throughout the whole story and turned it up at the end to exaggerate the lyrics in the song because life goes on and on, which reflects the title of the song by The Avett Brothers, “It Goes On And On,” from their album I And Love And Love You.

                From the beginning this project kept me on my toes getting material to work with was difficult because I was interviewing people I see every day but at the end of the day I’d remember I forgot to ask them!  They were all willing participants when I asked them to describe how they knew me and what they thought I would be doing after I graduated from Washington State University.  I then constructed my piece putting in introductions by me between the different people I interviewed for the project.

                I really like how the song ended up sounding in the piece I think it brings it together and helps creates a singular story rather than a bunch of different interviews.  I’m happy with my work, even though I know I’m not an Audition genius I worked hard and learned a few tricks along the way.  One of the shortcuts I learned was that pressing the ‘r’ key changes the cursor to a razor and pressing the ‘v’ key changes the cursor back to the move tool.  I cannot describe how much time this realization saved me!

                Thank you for listening and I hope you’ve learned more about me and what I might be doing after graduation.

Draft of Audio Story

First Draft of Audio Story

            Audition a word I once associated with theatre arts and my time spent in Daggy Hall, I now associate this word with the time I spent bent over my computer trying to create an audio masterpiece.  This assignment wasn’t as stressful as the past assignments but it took me a little longer to understand the basic pieces of the software.

            I started with the intention of just interviewing my friends with questions and piecing together their various answers.  After interviewing my little sister, Meagan Wilson, I decided this wasn’t the direction I really wanted to go.  The only question I want to ask is, “How do you know me (Heather Wilson)?”  My blog is about my life after graduation and I thought it would be fitting to interview the people who have shaped my life while studying at WSU.

            To interview my friends at WSU I’m just going throughout my day and asking influential people in my life how they know me.  By doing this I want to show through an audio story where and how I’m involved on campus through my friends.  I think it’s better for other people to speak of your involvement, rather than spouting out a long resume and losing your listener because it’s monotonous.

            For my draft, I interviewed Meagan and my friend/co-worker Samantha Hege.  For my final version I plan to include my supervisor from Residence Life, Matthew Jeffries, one of my co-workers from UREC Marketing and possibly someone from my club the Association of Women in Communication.  I think this would create a well-rounded audio story.  I want to also underlay the audio story with music through the whole interview.  I only placed a small section of music at the beginning and I don’t know if I like it.  What do you think?  Hopefully you’ll enjoy my draft and help me to make an even better final version.

Raw Audio Interviews

Self-Interview:

Little-sister Meagan’s Interview:

Watch out for the audio story coming soon!

Audition Tutorials

Tutorial 1:

Tutorial 2:

Enjoy!