This blog clearly displays all of my evidence whilst making the Radio Drama. When starting my Radio Drama I had to begin recording all of my dialogue and and sound effect so I could put all of my sounds together and begin using the editing software Garage Band. This was an offline edit as I could alter and adjust the audio tracks as I went along. I operated my audio recordings with the USB Microphone as I was the voice actress for Siena, to record straight onto the software so the sound would be clear and crisp. I used pitch correction and EQing to change the tome of Siena's voice for some tracks as I wanted her to sound like a narrator for her diary voices compared to her regular voice. This needed to have more of an echo sound around the voice.
I also recorded some sounds in my bedroom with the voice recorder, when I was not in the room to record. This was to gather all of my sounds quicker and not wait to use the iMac only to record all of my sound.
The footage I recorded was saved on a Flash Drive, therefore I had to drag the contents into Garage Band as I could not directly import all of the sound straight onto my saved project. This was quick and easy and all of my sound files did not reduce in sound quality.
For each sound I had to keep creating new tracks as I did not want any of the other sounds being affected when adjusting the sound levels of each sound clip. This was because on some of the sounds I wanted to alter the actors voices to an echo or reverb sound. This was effective to add on the sound as it varied how the audience hears the voices and makes it clear as to what is going on in the Radio Drama.
An example of where I used an echo sound on the voice actors clips, was to convey that Siena - the main character - could not hear anyone around her and denoted she was not present in the room/world as a state of shock from her experience of Cyberbullying. It also displayed the sound of her family being muffled to convey that Siena can not hear anything they are saying. To clearly represent this, I added in a copyright free high pitch frequency sound effect to portray what she actually hears whilst she zones out.
To cut any log recordings, I used the short cut controls Command T to cut or crop any unwanted sound or to decrease the duration of the sound file to make it accurate and easy to place in the order according to my script. When adding in the audio tracks, I was important for me to always refer back to my script so I knew which sound goes where and in what order. It helped me be more organised with my Drama.
This photo below clearly displays how I changed the sound levels of each of the sound clips. I used the Automation tool to fade sounds in and out by clicking the cursor and creating control points on the yellow line. Then repeat, another one. I will then lower down the automation points to how quiet I want the volume or raise them up to increase the volume. I do this at the beginning and ending of the sound files to create a fade effect. This also manipulates the individual tracks volumes by creating and dragging the control ↗ points anywhere in the audio. ↙
When exporting my Offline Draft of Dear Diary, I exported it as a AIFF file format as this is for Apple softwares only and I was using an iMac computer. Also, I preferred to export as AIFF as it is a lossless file format and directly converts the file directly from the audio source.
