Final Audio Story

For this project I decided to create a hypothetical radio show of which I am the host. During the segment, I cut away from the music to ask college students about their experience with living with pets here in Pullman. This relates to my course topic because my topic is training a kitten, and much of how a pet behaves can be traced back to how they were trained in some way or another.

One thing that influenced me for this project was the local rock radio in my hometown. I distinctly remember a time years ago that I was listening to the radio in Yakima, Washington when I noticed that callers were bickering with one another concerning which car brands were superior. I find this hilarious to this day, and it came to mind when brainstorming a possible idea for an “interview” type assignment. I did not do any research for this project, however I did spend a good chunk of time searching for the background track that I felt best fit the project.

My design process begun with determining the premise of my assignment, followed by assembling two “radio callers” (interview participants). After doing these things, I recorded myself saying all lines that I would have in the project. Next, I recorded any responses from my participants. After this, I selected some background music (as well as a transitional chime) to play under the interview from freesound.org, a free to remix site. It is worth noting that the creators have given consent for their audio to be used so long as the site is credited. Once having all of the audio together on the project, each in their own track, I begun to balance the volume of each track in a way that complemented the project as a whole. I added fade-ins as well as fade-outs, and I added filters to specific pieces of audio in order to help it all to sound like one piece of work.

I did not run in to any specific issues while creating this project, so I would say that I encountered any specific technical challenges, however I did spend a large amount of time adjusting individual track’s volumes in order to have the entire piece sound seamless. Collecting all of the elements for this project was quite simple being that I was host, able to ask the specific questions that I wanted to many people. I chose the answers of callers whose roommates had cats because I believe that it may remove bias if the person speaking is not the literal owner of the cat.