Introduction:

For this project, I decided to create a slightly satirical 1980’s – like radio talk show where I interview a man who created a new video game (to incorporate the project to my course topic). The person I interviewed was my roommate Thomas (we decided to keep our actual names). In the beginning of the audio I decided to add an effect that gave the feeling of someone changing the radio station until they ended up on my talk show. I came up with the idea while not being productive in my computer science lab and was able to write the entire script there.

How it happened:

My roommate and I recorded our lines when I got home from the lab. While recording, since I only have one microphone, we decided to record our lines separately. I would read my lines to him then he’d record his response. When he finished his lines I just read my lines separately. If you’d like to hear the lines before the editing, go here. For the static sound you hear, I used this YouTube video. And finally, for the music, I used a non-copyright instrumental of “Fly Me To The Moon” Frank Sinatra which I sang over. Since I was going for an old radio show sound, I went looking online and found this YouTube video which showed me how:

I messed around with the FFT filter until I was contempt with the sound of the audio. Building the audio took me the most time. I had to splice out every bit from each recording that I needed and combine them with spacing that would make the conversation sound natural. When I was finally done with the editing I ran into a problem that I don’t really know how to fix: the project is 30 seconds over the limit. Hopefully I can find a way to patch this up without altering the original idea of the project.

After I got my feedback from the other students I realized a few things:

My rough draft was over the 2 minute limit, and that I could easily cut out parts that didn’t need to be in the story. I began to cut parts of the intro song I made because it did not make sense to have 10 seconds of singing when I was 34 seconds over the time limit. After that, I skimmed through my entire interview and cut snippets out of the draft to see if the story would make sense without them in it. After about 2 hours of editing, I came to my final draft. I hope you enjoy this 1980’s satirical radio sketch of an interview!