Halloweekend in Pullman
So I know I’m super late with posting my pictures but this was a hectic week with school and every other time I attempted to upload I kept getting an error message. BUT, here are my photos from friday night. I got out pretty late on Saturday night due to my night work schedule on halloween, so I didn’t get a lot a lot of photo opportunities on halloween but on Friday I still got out for a few hours and had a great time with great people. I met a bunch of cool and interesting new people. I definitely want to party with them again.
Here is a recap of my night. 🙂
Final Audio Project
This project was a fun one to capture and to edit. Again, I didn’t receive a lot of feedback saying the things that I should change other than raising some of the audio levels and adding in more audio. I think my interview would have been a lot more interesting and fun to listen to if I could have my project be longer than 2 minutes. So unfortunately I couldn’t take my classmates advice and add in an outro. It was already so hard trying to narrow down what had to go and what got to stay, that I couldn’t possibly add in more audio. I also wanted to use the WSU fight song but I didn’t know if there would be any type of copyright issues with the lyrics so I just went without it.
For my audio, I used an audio recorder I downloaded on my cell phone. This works as an advantage because you don’t need to purchase an extra mic or lug around any extra equipment.
All of the footage that I recorded at the game and put on snapchat erased after 24 hours so I was left with no additional audio to play with. I searched the internet and found a video online of crazed fans screaming ” go cougs” after a WSU VS. USC game. So I tracked down the author to get their permission to use it in my video.
One of my biggest issues with this project was trying to find a space that I could record good audio in. I live in a noisy apartment complex that has music playing at all hours of the day and night. Another complication that I had with recording at my place was that I have hardwood floors and the sound would bounce off of the floors and walls, giving me a lot of feedback in my recordings.
Aside from turning the audio up I faded the crowd in and out as well as took out a many of the “Um’s” that I could without ruining the audio. It’s also pretty obvious that I cut the interview down so I could make the 2 minute limit.
Being honest, this isn’t my best work… and I’m happy to admit that. I don’t really like the way this sounds and I know that I can produce better audio work than this. Unfortunately, due to my school load right now I didn’t have the time to go back and re-record the audio. So I had to make due with what I had. A few years ago one of my teachers told me “ A true editor can take the crappiest footage and turn it into gold”. I’m hoping this is at least bronze. :-p
I love editing video so I can’t wait to start working on the next unit! 🙂
Audio Draft- Interview
For my audio assignment I decided to focus in on interviewing and sports. Recently I was admitted for training with the Pac 12 Network so I decided that I should get started with my experience in sports interviewing to get ahead of the game. I chose to interview Marcellus Pippins, a cornerback on the Washington State Cougars Football team, for the focus of this assignment. This past weekend they had an amazing blowout against Oregon State and I had a great time at my first cougar football game so I thought it would be fun to report on it.
I had 2 major issues with the completion of this draft. 1 all of the footage from the football game that I had posted on snapchat was deleted after it’s 24 hours of being online. This left me with no ambient sounds to add into my recording. I searched the internet for hours looking for something similar to the type of footage that I had. I came across a youtube video of when the cougars beat USC and the excitement and joy sounded the same as the video I had posted to my snap timeline. I quickly got into stalker mode and tracked down the creator of the video and asked them for permission to use the audio off of their youtube video. Problem Solved.
My second issue with putting this project together was finding somewhere quiet enough to do all of the audio recordings. I did my recordings in 2 separate places and didn’t realize the difference in sounds of the room until I had already recorded both of them and left. After I started editing the project into one file I noticed how different the backgrounds sounded. I plan on adding some kind of background music relevant to the story but not too energetic. I hope that this added in audio will drown out the background noise difference in the two locations and make all of the audio flow more smoothly.
I have a few more things that I want to tweak on this recording.. I may even do the audio recording of myself over again with a new background to solve the problem. This is frustrating.
Raw Audio Footage
Adobe Audition Tutorials
This assignment was fun to do. Especially the interview portion. I sat with my crazy roommates and asked them 4 questions about me. The video was only supposed to be 2 minutes but it ended up being over 4 because of their responses. What I love about this interview is the audio of the 4 of us is really our personalities and how we are on a daily basis. Click below to listen to our hilarious 4 minutes of Me and my crazy household.
Roomate Interview Raw
Of course I had to edit a few funny moments out of my interview but I left what was needed. The raw version was far more comedy.
Roomate Interview Edited Final
Counting Mixdown
Counting Final
Im Seattle's Randi 