For the audio history project, I was really excited to get the ball rolling for this project. Originally I was going to interview a family member back home during the thanksgiving break, but instead I came across a very interesting older man who works at the deli at the Pullman Walmart. I got to chatting with Tom Schumacher and the conversation went on a good while almost 15-20 minutes just there at the deli. Then it occurred to me I could interview him, so I went back and asked him if he was ok with me doing that and he was really excited for it so we planned it out from there.
So after watching a few examples of interviews on the StoryCorps website I got an understanding how I wanted to go through with my interview. I wanted to keep it personal and at first ask questions about the interviewee to give listeners context and understand him and where he comes from. Then with the ready player one questions I couldn’t really ask him in depth questions due to I don’t know if he’s even read the book. So I kept my questions surrounding the topic of his experiences throughout the years with technology.
I was able to get a 20-minute interview with Tom and now I was to edit it down to 5 minutes. This was the hardest part of the project taking out a lot of valuable stuff was really hard to do. I got it down to a solid 7 minutes and I know I exceeded the required 5 minutes but I couldn’t really take out a lot without taking out a huge chunk of content. I really liked what I have with the 7 minutes It starts off with getting to know a bit about Tom and then the rest of the project is his experiences and view of technology. I used Adobe Audition and this was the first time I was using it and it was pretty explanatory after watching a few tutorials. Also added a bit of sound at the beginning and end of the project to give it a bit of the StoryCorps feel. Learned to fade in and out different sounds and that was interesting to do.
Citations
“Sky Loop”
https://freesound.org/people/FoolBoyMedia/sounds/264295/
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