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 my Graphic Collage

Vacation Station

Life Without my boyfriend…

Above is a collage depicting my summer vacation with my boyfriend, Reilly.  My family went to the Oregon Coast and Reilly came along.  It was Fourth of July weekend and I was excited to spend quality time with the wonderful people in my life.

Although, we both had a good time our short-lived relationship took a turn for the worst during the last day.  I proclaimed after three months I was getting a little nervous and wanted to take a break.  Big mistake.   My sister caught ‘the talk’ on camera; the picture that creates the bottom border is when we were discussing how things were going to go.

After being apart for a few months we decided to get back together, but this didn’t happen without arguing.  I regret the decision I made on the Oregon Coast but it did prepare me for decisions I have to make in the far-too-near future.

As you may remember I’m preparing for life after graduation and it’s not just a job I’m losing sleep over.  I’m worried my relationship isn’t going to last if we are separated geographically…

I’ve applied to an internship program in London and Reilly is staying in Pullman, Wash., for another semester.  Since we’ve been dating for almost a year now I’m more confident in our relationship than I was after three months.  But that doesn’t change the fact we broke up the only time we were apart.  Will this happen again?

For now, I know I just need to appreciate the last semester of my senior year at Washington State University.  Lately, I’ve actually started to get excited about life after graduation.