For this project, I created an audio story interviewing badminton club members from different countries and how they carried out training in their country. My course topic is badminton training. As badminton training can be carried out in various ways, it is interesting to know how badminton training can differ in different countries. Based on my experience, there are two types of training; professional and recreational. Personally, I have trained for recreational purpose previously. These badminton club members which I have interviewed have trained to participate in tournaments and it is interesting to see the difference in level of difficulty.
The idea for this project who thought of after going through the list of examples given on the course content page. I wanted to do an interview and I knew that many of the badminton club members come from different countries and have trained for tournaments previously. Therefore, I thought that it would be interesting to interview them and see the difference in training methods from different countries.
Currently, I do not have any ambient sounds or background noise elimination, but I am hoping to record sounds of badminton shuttles being hit and including it in my audio story.
I recorded all the audio records using a smartphone and sent it over to my computer to edit it. I created a new multitrack session and included all the audio files that I record and cut out parts with long pauses of phrases such as “umm” and “like…” using the razor tool. I also used the zoom in and out tool for both amplitude and time to get a clearer view of the cutting points and to decrease the volume of the audio so that it is not overwhelming. As there were many cuts in one audio, I used the tool under effect :match loudness” to make everything cohesive.
I did not encounter any technical challenges in this part of the project as I was using skills taught in the audition tutorial. However, I think that there is the probability of running into technical challenges once I try to incorporate more effects. For people who encounter technical challenges, I would suggest to check out the audition tutorials or search online for audition tool help.
All the materials using in my project was created by myself.
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Fang Yu: I think you’re doing a really nice job with your story. Having read your post, I think you need very little feedback to improve your post, for it seems you would probably improve it without peer review. Your ambient recording will add a nice touch. Here are two suggestions I can offer: 1) Introduce your topic briefly at the beginning with some narration, and 2) remove the first few seconds of the guy from Vietnam’s interview -I don’t think him saying “I’m from Vietnam” is necessary, and removing it would give you a few more seconds to work with while keeping within the time requirements for this assignment. Keep doing what you’re doing. The materials you’ve produced for this and other assignments are some of the nicer pieces I’ve reviewed in this class.
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Hello Fang, I think that your interview is really well organized and was executed extremely well. I think that your Audio Story need an introduction and conclusion in order to create a better flow for your piece. Along with that, when each of your interviewees starts to talk, in the beginning I think it would be beneficial to have then introduce themselves and what country they are from. I think It is really interesting to talk about badminton and to use people from different countries for this project. Your audio quality is really good, and it is well organized. I mostly just think that an introduction and conclusion to your audio story would being it together well so that listeners can have a better idea of who and what they are listening to. Also your interviewers answered your question very in-depth so you could also consider taking out the question you asked in order to create more room in your project.
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Fang Yu Lim,
I am very interested in your topic because I know little about the amount of training and how rigorous it is! I enjoy the different points of view, and that you interviewed more than one person. I think your introduction could be a bit longer, try to set up your topic and not just begin with a question. That way, people can be hooked into your audio story, then pay attention to the questions. Also, you could end with a segment from you, thanking the people you interviewed or maybe give a quote. This was very informative, and I feel as though I am more knowledgeable after listening to your footage. You did a good job by cutting out any filler words, I heard no “um’s” or “uh’s” which was awesome. The interviews line up, and the content within them feed off of one another so it tells a cohesive story. The fact that these people are from different places made your project very original. Great job!
-Emily T
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Overall, I think I had a variety of different content in my audio story and it included a few different people and allowed for my audio story to be informative and had variations. The next step that I would be do is to record ambient sounds created when playing badminton to incorporate in my audio story to bring in people and allow them to better relate to badminton. The main feedback that I got was to incorporate an introduction rather than just starting with a question. I agree with this as it will allow my audience to get a better idea to why I am doing this interview. I am also planning to add a ending if possible to have a better flow to the story.
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