Production Journey

When I first began the production for my radio show I wanted to find out different ways to capture my recordings. This was by practicing creating different sounds such as walking through the park and triggering different noises to capture the shifting on the gravel to the brushing of leaves. As I had my phone on me at all times, I considered using the voice memo app and the phone's microphone to capture everything due to the convenience, and managed to create good, clear quality of sound.

When recording the various sounds, from dialogue to ambience, I wanted to make sure those were of my originality as I didn't want to get copyrighted. However for the rest of the sound effects I used non-copyrighted sound, imported from youtube to fill in the details of the radio show that bring in the atmosphere and settings more. I would've recorded the sounds myself however I could not find an available time, to which I resorted to the solution of YouTube, and when editing the radio show, it still felt realistic, so there were no problems.

When editing for my radio show on Final Cut Pro I wanted to edit the recordings to make sure the dialogue fit the different settings, like in the beginning of the show, since the characters were enclosed in a room there would be little to no reverb. Whereas, in the park I added slight reverb to make their voices have more of a bigger space and overall make the audience feel like they are there walking and listening with the characters' conversation.

When editing the sound effects for my radio I had to adjust the volume so it was a bit more lower than the dialogue. This is because the default volume was played too loudly over the dialogue, so by lowering it, I was able to make the effects suit the setting and faded them out to have a smooth transition to the next sounds.

After finishing editing the radio, I was able to export the video as an MP4, with the audio format as AAC. This audio file is of better quality to MP3, which creates better listening for the audience.