{"id":109,"date":"2017-12-15T07:26:05","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T15:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimsonpages.org\/alexa-mckune\/?p=109"},"modified":"2017-12-15T11:03:31","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T19:03:31","slug":"oral-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimsonpages.org\/alexa-mckune\/2017\/12\/15\/oral-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Oral History"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='embed-youtube' style='text-align:center; display: block;'><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text\/html' width='660' height='402' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/D33-VYNfCQo?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;autohide=2&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen='true'><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>From the time my dad was a kid, he loved playing video games.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve heard about the stories when we talked on car rides and now on the phone for hours since I&#8217;m away at college.\u00a0 When I was little, he was the first person to introduce me to games on the PlayStation that we owned.\u00a0 We would play Ratchet and Clank together since my mom disproved of the blood and gore of most video games so my dad compromised with characters that exploded into bits and pieces of gears.\u00a0 I chose my dad as my interview subject because of all the memories with him in the car talking about different stories from his childhood and I knew he loved video games as a child.\u00a0 It was interesting to see how things changed from his perspective as the times and technology developed.\u00a0 I was influence by the main character of <em>Ready Player One<\/em> in my choice of a topic for the oral history.\u00a0 I wanted to focus on video games and thought it would be interesting to hear my dad&#8217;s perspective on them as he played the most when he was a kid around Wade&#8217;s age and grew up in the 80s, which is the the time period that the novel talks about frequently.\u00a0 From the <em>StoryCorps<\/em>\u00a0project, I was able to see examples of how oral histories were recorded and organized.\u00a0 This helped shape how I edited my own recordings and helped me shorten down the audio to the most important elements. With this oral history, I hoped to imitate one of our many phone calls and recorded twenty minutes of audio of my dad&#8217;s stories on the evolution of video games from the first gaming system he owned and his adventures in the arcades to the Game Boy he got for Christmas.\u00a0 I came into the interview with a list of questions, but my dad answered most of them before I could even ask them.\u00a0 In result of this, I decided to cut out my voice since I only asked two questions during the whole conversation.\u00a0 I believe that the recording resembles the way I listen to him talk about his childhood when we&#8217;re together.\u00a0 The struggle was cutting out enough audio to get from twenty minutes to at least a minimum of five, while maintaining the important elements of the stories.\u00a0 When starting the process of editing, I had to search some YouTube videos on how to use the program and found out how to cut out certain audio since I&#8217;ve never used Adobe Audition before.\u00a0 I decided to add the sounds that video games from the arcades in the 80s would make to start off and end my recording.\u00a0 I thought this added element introduced the topic and created an emotional and nostalgic connection with the audience.\u00a0 Here are the links to the creative commons sound effects and image I used:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/freesound.org\/people\/AdamWeeden\/sounds\/157218\/<\/p>\n<p>-https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/brand-name-audio<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Ms._Pac-Man_%26_Donkey_Kong_-_arcade_cabinets.jpg<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the time my dad was a kid, he loved playing video games.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve heard about the stories when we talked on car rides and now on the phone for hours since I&#8217;m away at college.\u00a0 When I was little, he was the first person to introduce me to games on the PlayStation that we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crimsonpages.org\/alexa-mckune\/2017\/12\/15\/oral-history\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Oral History<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5913,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"wsuwp_university_category":[],"wsuwp_university_location":[],"wsuwp_university_org":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimsonpages.org\/alexa-mckune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimsonpages.org\/alexa-mckune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimsonpages.org\/alexa-mckune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimsonpages.org\/alexa-mckune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5913"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimsonpages.org\/alexa-mckune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/crimsonpages.org\/alexa-mckune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116,"href":"https:\/\/crimsonpages.org\/alexa-mckune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions\/116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimsonpages.org\/alexa-mckune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimsonpages.org\/alexa-mckune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimsonpages.org\/alexa-mckune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimsonpages.org\/alexa-mckune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_category?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimsonpages.org\/alexa-mckune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_location?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_org","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimsonpages.org\/alexa-mckune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_org?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}