U14 & U16 - Radio drama final edit

Radio Drama: The Life of Ashley - https://youtu.be/SRZBOk-j33w

Production Log Week 8

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U14 & U16 - Evaluation

U14 & U16 - Production Journey

On my first lesson of creating our radio drama, I created a new project on Garageband (the software that we are editing our radio drama on). We
then started to create different tracks which would include dialogue from different characters, sound effects/music, a jingle, and the
presenters who introduce the radio drama. This would help us to clearly identify the different types of sounds and helps us to overlap sound effects/music with the dialogue.We then started our offline edit by recording the dialogue.

To record our dialogue, we used the USB Microphone, as we thought this was the most effective at recording our voices and would produce the best results. We printed off our script which we prepared during pre-production and gave them to the people who would be recording with us. We got our presenters and small actors to record with us first. After this, my partner and I recorded the rest of the radio drama, as we were the main characters. When recording we made sure that there was no background noises or disruptions. We then uploaded this to YouTube as our 'Offline edit'.

Next, we started our Final edit for our radio drama. From the feedback we received about our offline edit from the audience's questionnaires and our teacher, we wanted to add several features to our radio drama. This includes foley sounds/sound effects, music, a jingle and post credits.
First, we wanted to record some foley sounds for the radio drama to make it sound more realistic and will also help the audience to identify the location of each scene. To record the foley sounds we used a voice recorder, which was easy to carry around with us. The Foley sounds we created includes phone notifications, iPhone ringtone, a bus and a train. The phone notifications and ringtone tells the audience that the character has a phone with them and are receiving messages. The sound of a bus moving was recreated when we went on a bus and recorded the sounds so the listeners would know when the characters are on the bus. We then went to the train station to record the sound of a train approaching. This would be used at the very end of our radio drama when the character is about to die. This helps to create a tense atmosphere and tells the audience what is happening. We then imported the foley sounds from the voice recorder into the Apple iMac and onto our editing software. To do this, we connected the voice recorder to the iMac. It would then show a file on the desktop which had all of the audio files we recorded, which we would drag from the folder and into Garageband.

We then decided to make a jingle for our radio station, 'Chadwell Heath Radio'. To do this, we used a jingle from Garageband. On top of this, we wanted to add a voice saying "This is Chadwell Heath Radio" which had a high pitch tone, so we downloaded an app that allowed us to change the pitch of the audio. We then added this to the start of our radio drama.

Next, we started searching for copyright free music to include at the beginning/end of our radio drama and during our radio drama, to transition from one scene to the next. This informs the audience that the next dialogue is from a different scene in the radio drama. We found music on YouTube, which we then converted to an MP3 audio file so we could import it into Garageband. The music we used helped to build suspenseful atmosphere throughout the drama.

Once we had our jingle, dialogue, music and foley sounds ready. We made sure they were in order and edited them to make it flow better.
We cut or deleted any audio clips that were too long or that had unwanted sounds/disruptions in them. We also changed the volume of the audio on some of the clips, as some were either too loud or too quiet.

We used an AIFF file format to export our sounds for our radio drama, as we thought it would be most suitable for us as due to the fact that we are using an Apple iMac.




We wanted the audio clips be the same volume throughout the radio drama.
We adjusted the volume of the sounds by pressing 'A' on the iMac keyboard. This would show us a yellow line. This is the automation tool where we would be able to increase/decrease the volume and also fade the audio clips to make it flow better. We created several control points along the yellow line. We could either drag these up or down to change the volume. I did this to the beginning and end of the music clips to make the audio fade to the next scene. I also did this to the dialogue of the actors and presenters as the volume was either too loud or to quiet.

After everything was edited and complete, we exported it to iTunes. We then opened up Final Cut pro and added the audio from iTunes. Then we created a photo to be shown whilst playing the radio drama audio. Lastly, we exported the video and uploaded it to YouTube: https://youtu.be/SRZBOk-j33w

Task Allocation - Week 8