2. In terms of producing our radio trailer we used software on the macs called garage band . Garage band is a ‘streamlined digital audio workstation and music sequencer,’ it can record and play back multiple tracks of audio and is easily accessible allowing for professional recording. It offers a wide range of features that meet a variety of requirements which is unlike any software available on windows computers. In order to produce our radio trailer we started off by editing necessary clips of our voice over in final cut before then exporting them into garage band. We spilt up during this section due to the time scale we had to produce the products. I therefore didn’t get to use garage band as much as I would of liked too, so my skills for this software weren’t as well established compared with my skills with both final cut and in design. Despite this, I was still able to quickly familiarise myself with the basic techniques we used within garage band that allowed us to follow the conventions of a radio trailer. This section allowed us to include different audio from different sources. It also allowed us to turn off different sound so that we could focus on one particular section. This section allowed us to see how long our track ran for, it was a requirement as well as a convention for our radio trailer to be 30 seconds at the minimum The actual garage band screen which allowed us to do all the editing and the actual production of the radio trailer. This allowed us to directly record a track This section is where we choose our sound track for our radio, there was a lot of music to choose from, however we did have an idea of the sort of thing we wanted.
3. Below is the garage band screen of our voice over and sound bed after being exported from final cut into garage band we could then make adjustments that were needed. You can see here we faded both the music and the voiceover out at the end of the clip to serve the purpose of creating a clean cut smooth finish. The fading of the sound was also similar to the fading technique we used in final cut. We dipped the sound levels during certain points so that it didn’t drown out the voice over. Changing sound levels involved a similar process to final cut, we were able to see representations of the sound levels which we could then adjust accordingly. Overall, I feel as we a group we were able to familiarise ourselves with garage band quicker than we did with final cut express. Perhaps because some of the features were in fact similar in terms of how dip and fade sound levels. The software met our requirements in producing a radio trailer that follows the conventions of real life media products, however, I would still like to develop my skills further with this software as I feel as though I only touched on the basics as opposed to really getting a solid grasp of the software as a whole. We used snippets of important interviews which would attract the audience as well as vox pops in between the voice over
4. Once we had completed all 3 products, it was simply a case of exporting each task to a disk which was done through the following processes. In terms of final cut we had to firstly export as quick time movie before burning onto a disk. For garage band we simply had to click share, then export to disk. In terms of our magazine article, this involved saving a JPEG.
