Allison recorded voice actors reading a script for an audio project and collected other necessary audio files like sound effects. She spent time editing the various audio clips in Premiere Pro, including dividing recordings into individual lines and placing sound effects. Allison realized her initial edit was too long, so she cut out unnecessary pauses and sped up the dialogue clips. Further tweaks like adjusting sound effect speeds helped shorten the audio to the required time of five minutes while maintaining an engaging story.

1. Production Reflection
Allison Hewitt

2. Process
• First of all, I spent the weekend carefully plotting out my script and
making sure it all made sense for my Monday media lesson. Then I hired
a TASCAM recorder from blackboard to take home with me from
Monday to Wednesday.
• When I had the recorder and made sure that the two friends I chose to
voice act for me were available, I went to their home and set up the
recorder in their dining room on a cleared table. I wanted to make sure
the audio was very clear.
• After that, me and the two voice actors sat down and recorded what we
needed. They read from the script that I had had printed at college.
• We recorded for two hours. It was hard for them to take the project
seriously, as both of them felt uncomfortable and nervous so kept
slipping up when reading and laughing uncontrollably. After a certain
time, they both settled down and it became easier for them to read
their lines.
• I recorded two takes where they read the script together all the way
through. And then recorded them each saying all of their own lines
together with a slight pause between each part so the editing would be
easier.

3. Process
• When I came into college the next day, I had a lot of junk files to sift
through and decide which was the ones I needed in my audio. With
some of the files, the actors had started to speaking too soon and the
recorder cut off the beginning of their line. So I had to find a version
of the recording where what they say was clear and edit it to fit in
premiere pro.
• Once I found all the files that I needed, I searched on YouTube for
the two other sound effects that I would need in product: Typing
sound effect and a creepy music piece to play in the background.
Once I found these clips I converted them to an MP3 file and saved it
to my memory stick.
• Next I asked my tutor if she could record some dates and lines on
the TASCAM recorder. Unfortunately the beginning of the audio
jumped and lagged, so I couldn’t use the recording.
• Instead, I hooked up the recorder to a Mac and wrote out all of the
lines in ‘note.’ Then, I pressed record. Right clicking on everything
wrote, I then selected ‘dictation’ so the mac read aloud what I spoke.
This worked perfectly as I needed the voice to sound computerized.
• After, I opened up Adobe Audition and dragged in the computerized
voice file. I played with effects until I found one that made the voice
sound more artificial. It was called ‘on the telephone.’

4. Process
• Once I had all the files I needed, I then started the long process of editing my
work. I opened up a new file in premiere pro and dragged in all of the sound clips
that I had collected.
• I pulled in the files with my voice actors lines on them into ‘audio one’ and then
meticulously went through it with the razor tool – dividing it all into individual
sectors and deleting everything that I didn’t needed. I then pulled them a part
and added a long space between each ‘email’.
• After this, I pulled in the ‘electronic voice’ file into audio 2 and started going
through it with the razor tool and dividing the lines up. I placed them – still in
audio 2 – where they would fit into the complete product. I then had to raise the
volume of audio 1 and lower the volume of audio 2 so that they were similar
volumes. Then I fitted all of the electronic voices from audio 2 into their places
between the ‘emails’ in audio 1.
• This is when I realized that I had made a mistake; my project would have been
too long. It was at a current time stamp of seven minutes and twenty one
seconds. Knowing that I would have to edit it down to fit the five minute mark, I
continued anyway, figuring that once the entire project was completed I could
them make adjustments.
• Following this, I dragged in the ‘type writing’ sound effect into audio 2 and
edited it to play whenever someone was talking. I cut out all of the type writing
sounds when there was blank noise or when the electronic voice was talking. I
turned the volume very low so that the voices talking were the loudest and most
prominent think that you can hear.
• Finally, I placed the music track that I had picked and let it play under the entire
product at a low volume, adding a fade to play at the end.

5. Process
• After speaking with my tutor, we came up with a few ways that I could edit
down my work so it fits the permitted time frame. There was certain jumps
in the speech that I could spend my time editing out and cutting out any
blank spaces in the audio. This bought my time down by almost a minute. I
then right clicked on all of the ‘email’ audio and selected ‘speed/duration’
and marked it 110% .
• After this, I had to go through and fit back all of the pieces together,
editing the type writing to fit the new speed of the audio. This was quite
time consuming.
• Having found this new skill of slowing down/speeding up audio clips, I saw
that I could edit the typing sound to be more slow when it come to shorter
emails, because so much writing sounded silly when only two words were
being spoken.
• Finally, I muted the typing all together to add a creepier effect when the
main character was reading aloud the chant. This, along with music,
created a better ambience.