{"id":213,"date":"2017-12-14T21:22:58","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T05:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimsonpages.org\/kathleen-zimmerman\/?p=213"},"modified":"2017-12-14T21:24:19","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T05:24:19","slug":"explanation-of-my-audio-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimsonpages.org\/kathleen-zimmerman\/2017\/12\/14\/explanation-of-my-audio-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Explanation of My Audio Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

For my audio story<\/a>, I chose to interview my mom about her experiences with technology. I made sure to ask questions related to Ready Player One<\/em>. A few questions I asked included: Did you play any video games as a child, like Pac-man etc? Which ones? Where do you think technology is headed? What do you see life like in the next 10-20 years? Etc. I made sure to focus specifically on technology. In Ready Player One<\/em> many video games were referenced from the 1980s. In my interview, my mom spoke about Atari, Pac-man, and Donkey Kong which were also things mentioned in Ready Player One<\/em>. I also asked her how she saw technology in the future since Ready Player One<\/em> is set in the future.<\/p>\n

In the StoryCorps <\/em>project, the interviews focus on stories people have about certain topics, their personal antidotes. In my interview, I included personal stories from my mom (about her grandfather and father) like they do in the StoryCorps<\/em> project.<\/p>\n

I chose to interview my mom because she grew up in the 1980s and is familiar with the time period of the novel. I asked her questions related to the novel as well as questions about technology in general. A lot of our conversation about technology was focused on technology in schools since both my sister and I are both in college. My mom is observing how technology is affecting our learning in college compared to when she went to WSU. I had a list of about 12 pre-written questions which I asked my mom. I then edited it down to fit within the time constraints as well as to create a smoother flowing story.<\/p>\n

I was already familiar with Adobe Audition, so I knew the basics going into this project. I had also already worked with my audio recorder, so that made the process simpler and enabled me to focus more on the interview itself. In editing the interview, I first split up the track into individual segments where my mom answered a specific question. I staggered each segment onto a different line in Audition which helped me visualize as well as edit the track better. After I had chosen the tracks I wanted, I edited them individually, taking out long pauses or excessive filler words. I then put in music to the beginning and end of my story and made sure to fade-in and fade-out the music.<\/p>\n

I decided to find creative commons music to introduce and end my audio story. I chose music that eluded to the sounds of a video game which I thought was fitting. I only added one sound to supplement my interview because I didn\u2019t want the sounds to detract from the interview itself and I also wanted to follow in the footsteps of the StoryCorps<\/em> project where they usually only use an intro and outro song.<\/p>\n

Creator: Mativve<\/p>\n

Title: Cheerful Song<\/p>\n

URL: https:\/\/freesound.org\/people\/Mativve\/sounds\/391538\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Creative Commons License Name: Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0)<\/p>\n

Link to Creative Commons License: https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/3.0\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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