Unit 14 & 16: Radio Drama: May 2019

Thursday, May 9, 2019

We will be using an AIFF Sound format to export our sound for our radio drama. This is because an AIFF file is an Apple proprietary format and lossless. As we are using an Apple iMac, this would be most suitable for us. It directly copies the original audio and maintains high quality sound. Therefore, our radio drama will have high quality sounds.

We will store our sound file on a cloud drive on the iMac. Cloud drive is a web-based service that provides storage space on a remote server. An advantage is that stored files can be accessed from anywhere via Internet connection. Therefore, it will not be difficult to gather all of our sounds together for editing. Also, all cloud storage services have desktop folders for Mac’s. This allows us to drag and drop files between the cloud storage and our local storage.

We will be also using an Upward compression.This involves processing that squashes the quieter elements while leaving the loud bits alone. In our radio drama, most of our sounds will be loud, therefore these sounds will still be heard in the drama.