Recording Project

In my audio recording project with Danielle Curtis and Sylvia Rosen, we interviewed Sheila Mosley, a house keeper for Smith Hall. I felt that interviewing Sheila is the best source because not only do I have a acquainted relationship with her, but I feel she was a good source to our story. In fact, our recording was a lot better than I thought. Her social background was very interesting and it had a good mix of information, humor and intelligence.

The recording was a little difficult at first because the first recording had no sound. Once we fixed the volume of the recorder, the sound turned out great. Listening was the best part because when I closed my eyes, it brought me back to the successful and fun interview that we had. While my team was listening, we were constantly looking for what can we improve and what we can delete. The editing was also fun because whenever we heard something quirky, we would laugh a little bit and then fix it. We organized an order that fit really well with the story. A couple of times, we had to choose an option of fading in and out between sound and it was better. Editing was the most difficult part because we had to be sure that the sounds worked with each other and whether we should insert sounds in the right places. Once we figured that it, the operation went really smooth.

We were a good team. Each of us contributed equally. Even though Danielle was good with Audacity, Sylvia and I also suggested a certain order of sounds of the interview. The computer was slow at times, but combining our computer knowledge and a couple of staff members in the Parker Media Lab, we overcame that problem. We had fun as a team because we all wanted the same thing with this project: a good story and to learn how to use this kind of journalism.

I have learned that audio recording can be fun because you can listening to what the source is saying. However, as a journalist, I have to be careful on which sounds should stay in or take out. Also, I have to put the story in the inverted pyramid style. After this assignment, I have a slight idea of how to actually use Audacity and how to record. Now, I just need more experience with these instruments.