P A U S E A N D P L A Y P O D C A S T
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Criteria
You will create a podcast/talk radio with a duration of at least 10 mins. You will need to pick a topic of your choosing. You can either speak solo, or have a friend help you to provide a discussion on the chosen topic. What I am looking for is more is a constant, guided discussion about a topic that has no pauses/breaks or speech disfluency (ummm, uhhhh, etc). The voice must be consistent and controlled.
For the written summary, you are to explain thoroughly how you made and edited each sound for the project. Include instruments used, effects, panning, Foley, ambient sound, etc.
For the written summary, you are to explain thoroughly how you made and edited each sound for the project. Include instruments used, effects, panning, Foley, ambient sound, etc.
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For my final project in Sound Design, I plan on doing a short podcast with two of my friends, Paolo and Michael. For our discussion, we had a variety of ideas to pick from, but ultimately we decided on one topic that happened to catch our interest the most: dreams. Simply enough, we wanted to dive into the idea of what dreams exactly are and our own experiences with them. We go in-depth with a few dreams we've had ourselves, whether they are to be nightmares or some of the best dreams that we've ever had, and we also elaborate on the complexity of what dreams are in the first place. This topic can extend to hours upon hours of talking, but we managed to fit in a nice short conversation in roughly 30 minutes. Hope you enjoy!!
P A U S E & P L A Y P O D C A S T
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Featuring Paolo Siapno, Michael Dela Rosa and Nathan Flores
P R O C E S S
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Here are a few screenshots showing the process of mixing. We used one microphone to record. To change up the audio to prevent clipping, I made sure to normalize, equalize, compress, and normalize again. This also helped cancel out any unwanted noise such as background vibrations and any loud fans that could be present in the building. It was fairly simple since Mr. Slavicek went over how to pick out the difference between good sounding audio and bad sounding audio. Ultimately, I feel that with the normalizing, EQ and compressing, the audio managed to sound very clean among all three of us. We were lucky enough to use a Blue Yeti microphone to record the three of us. Without it, the audio would not be well balanced between both sides of our voices (we were on opposite ends while the microphone was in the middle). In the end, this experience has really motivated me to go out and create more podcasts in the future!
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