Final Draft Post-Audition

For the final draft I took some advice from the comments and critique I received and made some changes. I first added some background music which I found a free to use song on YouTube that I felt would fit. I then made it fade in at the intro and fade out at the outro. I also wanted to add some kind of radio intro. So I did my best deep cliché voice that we always hear on the radio for my introduction to the show. I kept the old post content, which was already spliced and fit together to keep the flow of the conversation going. There were a lot of pauses and dead space that really made the interview sound choppy. So I deleted some of the dead space and filler words to make it smoother. I wanted to take some of the techniques I learned from the tutorials and apply them to my draft.  So I recorded myself giving a quick description of what each sound clip was about. I feel that my computer microphone seems to be a different quality then my smart phone microphone which is the only thing I didn’t really like about my post. Though I wanted to keep sound quality changing to demonstrate my ability to fit different recordings together. The last part of my clip is just myself talking about the week 7 of the NFL season which was a wild one. I wanted to add a plug for my show at the end. So I recorded myself with my pitch and had the music return to add some character to the recording. I basically used different clips and tied them in all together to make them sound the way I wanted them too. I think with a little more practice with this program I can make some good quality recordings in the future.

The music in the background I got from a free to use source on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hW8w1H3f3M

Audition Story Draft

The audio attached is a interview with a casual fan of the Seahawks Jake Carney. I wanted to get a perspective on the Seahawks from someone that is not a huge sports fan. I find it interesting on how the team and players are viewed from someone that doesn’t follow the team as closely as some of the other hardcore fans who can name the starting offensive line and the back ups and even throw out names of players that the Seahawks should pick up. With the second part of the recording I used a sample of a take from my show about the NFL. I talked about how surprising and unpredictable the season has been. I recorded myself introducing each clip, because that was what I learned in the tutorials. I wanted to get one interview and one narration as to demonstrate a contrast in what radio broadcasters may play on air. I also edited the interview to cut out the spaces in between responses and explanations so it would be more fluid and not stagnate. Though this is just a draft, I have another show coming up this next Tuesday so I may collect better material. I also am thinking about adding some music tones I find in the commons to kind of simulate a radio ad you may hear and use it to plug my show on KUGR.  I not all the way satisfied with the content I collected so I might go and maybe interview a writer and student broadcaster for WSU at the football games for my final draft. My goal with this is to give some insight in what it takes to prepare to call games or do a radio show. Also to help me grow as a interviewer and broadcaster. I look forward to working on this project further.

Raw Audio Footage

These were some takes on the NFL this week that I did on my radio show Sports Take on KUGR on Tuesday. In the future for this assignment I will try and get an interview, but these were just some key points on the sports topics today on the radio.