Radio Interview

Radio Interview

I had to record my radio interview with Beth Hicks twice as the first time the sound levels weren't loud enough and she waffled away from the topic 'The importance of students in Brighton'. Second time round I made sure to brief her in greater detail about what I wanted to be discussed and she re thought her answers accordingly.

Over all I think I met the brief of interviewing someone with something important to say that relates to Brighton. My scripted intro and questions lead to an informative and engaging interview that I believe would keep my listeners of 18+ interested.

Radio Interview title : 'Students In Brighton'

Topic: The Importance of students in Brighton

Interviewee: Beth Hicks

Relation to topic: Student promoter (From The University of Sussex) 

An example of the questions asked : 

"Do you think clubs would survive without the students from the two major universities in Brighton?" 

                 

Radio Interview editing

When editing my interview with Beth Hicks (a student promoter from the university of sussex) I had to cut a few 'Erms' from Beth's answers to make it sound more professional and the it fade in so that it sounded smooth.

Soundscape

In the end I'm pretty pleased with how my soundscape turned out . I didn't end up including the song by 'The XX' as I felt it didn't fit with the piece or reversing my sound effects as it didn't sound as good as good as I had hoped for.

If I could re-do my soundscape I would .........

1. Pick a different video (so I could chose more abstract sounds and play around a bit more)
2. Include a keynote sound that would run from the beginning to the end of my soundscape

Soundscape editing

I found editing my soundscape quite easy , as you can see I added layer upon layer of sound effects to create a fully fleshed out piece that sounded whole and together apposed to empty and disjointed.

For this section in my soundscape (from the above image)  I decided to use an archetypal sound of a heart beat thudding as the colour red have the connotations of : pain, love, passion and hearts. Apart from this most of my sounds are a literal interpretation of whats happening on screen.

Getting Sound effects

Sound Effects for Soundscape :) 

For my soundscape I've used a few of my foley sounds however after a minute or two into editing I realised that I would need more. After checking the FX sound effects library on my mac I came to the conclusion that I should look elsewhere as it didn't have the sounds I wanted or thought I needed. 

While browsing I came across this website : http://www.freesound.org/people/veevee1231/downloaded_sounds/

Freesound have a great selection and variety of sounds effects which lets me be as creative as I want !