Final Audio Story

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. I listened to the interview from the audition tutorials and got a grasp of how an interview should be conducted and had a firm idea of how I wanted my interview to sound like.

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.

After receiving feedback from my draft, I made a few changes to my project. The main feedback that I received was to add a introduction to the beginning of the story rather than a blunt question and possibly, a conclusion. I thought this was a great idea and incorporated these feedback into my final audio story. I started with so ambient sounds created during badminton as suggested to draw in the attention of my audience and to allow them to feel included and faded out towards the end of the recording. This time, I started with an introduction of my experience with badminton and how I am curious how training can differ in different countries. To end the audio story, I placed a quote by one of the worlds’ best badminton player – Lee Chong Wei which read “Skill will win you medals, but attitude win hearts” and concluded that badminton training is not only about skills. It is also preparing us mentally to have good sportsmanship. I

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. I used the fade in tool at the beginning and end of each audio clip to create a smooth flow of sound.
All the materials using in my project was created by myself.