Jessica created an audio book by recording a script on her phone and adding sound effects in Adobe Premiere Pro. She found importing audio and sound effects to be simple at first but encountered difficulties when trying to edit across multiple computers without consistent software. Errors caused lost work that had to be redone. To extend the length past 2 minutes, Jessica added more of the script recording and restructured the audio timeline. While proud of her editing skills in Premiere Pro, Jessica aims to speak more formally and develop storylines further for future audio projects.

1. Production Reflection
Jessica Crosland

2. Process
I began my process by using my phone to
record my audio book beforehand I
created a script so it was a lot more
helpful when recording, once I had
recorded I was unsure if it would be over 2
minutes but I began editing to find out.
After I emailed it to my college email I
opened up premier pro and began a new
project and imported the recording.
Although it wasn’t 2 minutes I then looked
for sound effects therefore this will
increase the time. I found this process
quite simple so far because I have
experience from premier pro using it with
my other projects. Therefore it was a lot
easier and I enjoyed this part.

3. Process
• Next, I collected most of my sounds
on sound bible and YouTube for
background music. I downloaded
the sounds as a mp3 and saved
them into my file so they appear
when changing computers, I then
imported them and fitted the in-
between the sounds for this I mostly
used the erase tool to cut out any of
the recoding which I didn’t want in.
This part of the process was starting
to get a bit stressful because I had
to move my main audio and break
it apart to fit the audios in although
finding the sounds effects was
simple because in my other
PowerPoints I had sounds effects
saved to make it easier for me.

4. Process
• At this point of my process I had
been changing different
computers and the updated
premier pro wasn’t on some of
the laptops so it made it a lot
harder for me because some
sound effects hadn’t saved so I
had to re download them, this
took up a lot of my time and all
the sounds got mixed up so I
had to restart and add them all
in again this part of my process
was very stressful and I had lost
a lot of the work due to the
having to use blackboard for the
new premier pro and converting
my work into this didn’t work
out too well.

5. Process
• Within this process I had added all
the sounds effects and soon realised
my audio wasn’t over 2 minutes so I
had to add too my script in the
middle of it this made it a lot more
confusing and I recorded on my
phone and emailed it. Once I
imported it and tried to add it in I
was finding it difficult as everything
was messing up and it was all in the
wrong audio, therefore this was
when I opened up a new project and
imported it all again and this time it
was a lot better, when I listened to
it, I finished off editing and erasing
a lot to make sure it all was correct
and my storyline made sense.

6. Process
Overall, this is my final outcome of my audio book this turned
out exactly how I had it planned within my other PowerPoints
and I am proud of my editing because I added in different
fades in premier this made my audio sound a lot more
professional and it flowed better I also changed the volume of
each sound effects so my audio sound increased and the
backgrounds sounds decreased. I stuck to the same sound
effects and added in intro music therefore it was definitely
more realistic. With premier it isn’t my favourite aspect of
focusing on but I can now use it effectively and have learnt a
lot since I first used it. However next time when creating a
audio I want to try and put a lot of my time in the audio and
speak more formal towards my audience. As it was 2 minutes
and near 40 seconds to improve I would have wanted to extend
my storyline and added more to make it a bit more longer
because for some of my audience this could be quite difficult
too understand.