Assignment 3: Audacity

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11537815/kristiedillistone-assignment3.mp3

This one was easy for me because I have worked with Audacity and volunteered at WUSM as a DJ.  I first worked with Audacity in MCJ 111-Introduction to Radio Production.  The instructor made sure we all downloaded the program so that we could use it in the lab section of the class.  WSUM uses it to record voice tracks for public service announcements, news updates and other re-recorded things.  Everything is then put into another program with the music tracks.  All the DJ has to do is record introductions and station identifications and she is good to go. I did the jazz show on weekends, but usually recorded my show on Tuesdays.   Thanks to the wonders of modern technology I was able to live out my dream of being a DJ and never had to give up a single Saturday night to do it.     

This project was also fun because I won free weekend passes to Bayfest!  I went ahead and did the project early because I knew I would have a busy weekend.  Doing a spot for the festival was an easy choice.  I had already looked over the schedule a million times to see which acts were playing.    


I chose several music clips from different acts that were appearing at Bayfest.  There was an amazing variety of music there that weekend. Everything from gospel to heavy metal to country to folk to hip-hop to blues was on the stages.  I selected an assortment of music that represented the widest range I could find.  There was some Motley Crue, a bit of Reba and a touch of Mary J. Blige thrown in the mix along with some gospel and jazz.   Each clip was brought in as an individual track then edited together as a master track. 

Finding the information and selecting the clips was the easy part.  The hard part was coming up with a voice over.  I stopped counting how many tracks I recorded for that part.  Some were a few sentences long.  Others were just short clips. It took me a while to get everything together, but I was satisfied with the final product.

I did do something very wrong on this project.  I was supposed to turn it in as an MP3 on a CD.  Instead of doing this I combined this project with another project on a single data disk.  Big mistake!  It ended up costing me a whole letter grade.