Luke Headland recorded audio for a story using Audacity then edited it by ordering clips, adding music and sound effects. He synced the music to match the tension in the audio, using calm then dramatic music. Adding sound effects was easy but one had issues. He listened to the final audio and fixed issues like misplaced audio before exporting the final MP3 file.

1. Production Reflection
Luke Headland

2. Process
• I first begun recording my voice in
a audio software called ‘Audacity’.
The recording process was very
easy, I recorded each paragraph
separately, and was able to cut out
any audio that I did not like or
audio that was bad. The
microphone I was using was able
to pick up my voice very clearly,
and I was lucky enough to not run
into any technical problems. Once
my audio recordings were
complete, I exported the audio to
MP3, and went on to editing.

3. Process
• After my audio recordings were
complete, I then begun the
editing process. I first begun by
ordering and syncing my audio
clips. Syncing the clips and
making them sound like one long
clip was also fairly simple. After
cutting and syncing my audio, I
then proceeded to add the
appropriate music that I had
chosen for my story, and also
made that fit the audio.

4. Process
• When I was adding the music
to the audio recording, I had to
make sure that the music
synced with audio, for example,
during a tension building part
of my audio, I had to have
tension building music.
Throughout the beginning of
the story I used very calm, but
creepy music, to set the tone of
the story and towards the end
of the story I used very
dramatic and tense music.

5. Process
• I next started to add sound effects
to my audio. It was a lot easier to
add after I had finished syncing
the music, and I was able to get
the sound effects from YouTube,
as well as making some of my
own. Making the sound effects
play at the right time was also
fairly easy, however I did run into
a problem where one of the
sound effects would cut every
time I played it, so I had to re-
record the sound effect and it
worked.

6. Process
• After all of my audio was
complete, I went through and
listened to it to see if it sounded
right and how I intended. If there
were some missing / badly placed
audio I took care of it, and after I
went through and refined my
audio, I exported it as an MP3. I
did however run into a problem
where my audio would sound
different / miss placed after I had
rendered it, so I went back each
time changing little things to fix
it, and then it was complete.