Evaluation Question 4

Here is my Evaluation Question 4 in an audio format:

Evaluation Question 3 - What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

Below I have recorded my response to evaluation question three. I believe that I have learnt great audio recording skills and thought this would be an innovate but also appropriate (to our product) format of presenting my response.

It is 14 minutes 20 seconds in length and includes an analysis of why my chosen institution would distribute our product, but also offers alternatives and justification as to why other institutions wouldn't distribute it too:

Evaluation Question 2

Evaluation Question 1

Evaluation Question 1 from oliviagarnerasmedia

Finished Editing

Today, during my editing of the bulletin, I learned how to change the decibels of the audio within the product, ensuring that it is all at the same volume so the listener doesn’t have to turn up or turn down the volume when listening to the product. 

The decibel changing function at the top of the waveform screen being increased
to make the clip louder

I learned also how to overlap audio effectively as I explained in my editing posts, which I used for creating my jingle and also when editing the stabs into my bulletin, slowly overlapping and fading in our bed underneath the end of the stab slightly before the next audio clip started to ensure a fluid transition between the two pieces of audio rather than having sudden jump cuts in audio and abrupt silences which would appear unprofessional. 

Finally, I learned how to edit audio clips together in the applications multitrack format, learning how to clip all the pieces of audio together, learning to layer in particular, which was useful when I needed to keep  the bed underneath the audio at the correct times whilst there still was a speaker within the audio. This editing format was also vital for ensuring the timing of all the clips in the broadcast was smooth and that the transitions between all the audio clips in my bulletin was as smooth as possible. I also learned how to add reverb and echo to certain parts of audio that required extra depth, such as the rebel in our jingle, and also the voice overs in our stabs.  

The Multitrack format, showing the overlapping and editing together of
the first clips in my bulletin including my jingle, bed , stab and first news reader story.

I learned how much dampening and diffusion to use to make these clips sound more professional and also how to edit the dryness and wetness of the audio to the correct degree, I also learned how to use the spectral frequency display of audio during editing which made it easier to remove unwanted and distracting background noises or recurring sounds from the audio within the bulletin, particularly those recorded in loud locations, such as at the ice rink or our vox pops in the street. This ensured that our news being delivered was always of great clarity. 

I learned how to use the paintbrush and lasso tool to isolate the unwanted audio clearly and use the sound remover (under the noise reduction/restoration effect), learn sound model function to learn the noise that I wished to remove, then, once learned, I used the sound remover function to remove this piece of audio,m without impacting upon the rest of the clip, meaning there were no sudden silences in background noise etc. 

Using the learn sound model function to remove the
background sounds highlighted in white.

Start of Editing

The main program I have learned to use during the construction of this product is Adobe Audition CC 2014.


Prior to constructing my bulletin, I had no previous experience in editing at all, let alone audio editing to the high quality we required for our bulletin. Therefore, I learned how to use the program through trial and error myself, but also through Youtube videos as previously mentioned. Firstly, I learned how to use the clipping tool to remove unwanted pieces of audio, for example, the beginning and end of clips where there was silence before myself or Max began speaking. Also, this skill was vital when condensing the interviews that we recorded for our vox pops and our two-way. I learned how to zoom in and clip the audio to such detail and fluidity clipping using the waveform representation of audio on the screen that it seemed as though the audio had never been taken out in the first place.  Also, I learned how to make the studio recorded audio from the presenters sound more professional as previously explained in my editing posts on my blog, such as adding certain effects (primarily the ‘radio announcer voice effect’) to make this audio seem more professional. Furthermore, I learned how to make the audio sound much clearer, through learning to use the parametric equalizer function on most clips of audio, as it gives you total control over frequency, Q, and gain settings through the graph function within it.  

The clipping tool in one of my clips

The Parametric Equalizer that which I changed to this same setting for
each audio clip for tone consistency.

The graph shows frequency along the horizontal ruler (x‑axis) and amplitude along the (y‑axis) enabling myself to set the audio tone of the presenters to the same frequency and amplitude for each recorded audio piece, even though they were recorded at different times, so the voices would’ve sounded slightly different in tone without myself learning to implement this function via Youtube tutorials.