Giggling was the most difficult part of this assignment.

It is interesting to have to keep in mind that writing for listening is vastly different from writing that will be read. I changed so much from my first draft to make it sound better, and there is so much more I want to do before my final draft to make it sound and flow better.
Oddly, I found the actual recording of this audio to be really painless, almost to the point where I was worried I was forgetting something. It was just recording it on my phone, transferring it to my Drive, then dragging it into Audacity to fix it up a bit. During recording, if I noticed a mess up I had made, I would pause then restart the sentence, knowing I could cut out my errors in editing and record the whole thing in one go. That I think made it easier for me in dealing with only one track.
I had a friend over last Sunday night when I remembered I needed to record this assignment and get it uploaded. We paused our movie and told my husband he had to be quiet so I could record. Taking out my phone and opening the draft doc on my computer, my friend and I looked at each other and burst out in laughter. I tend to stutter and laugh when I get nervous so getting out all of the giggles I had took me longer than the actual recording. One thing that was amusing was when I was poking around in the effects, and I think I clicked on this thing that would make my voice deeper, and I drug the bar down a bit, and my voice was so low, my friend and I were laughing and almost fell off the couch.

-Britt 

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  1. BballengerFebruary 5, 2018 at 7:36 AM

    Maybe we should all do weird things with our voices in Audacity just for the fun of it?

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    1. UnknownFebruary 5, 2018 at 11:04 AM

      Yes! Like have the option to include like 30 seconds of blooper or something at the end of one of our audios. :)

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    2. UnknownFebruary 6, 2018 at 8:24 AM

      Blooper reel as extra credit on final portfolios? :P

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  2. UnknownFebruary 5, 2018 at 8:31 AM

    You are one of the few people who actually experimented with modulating the tone of your voice. I think it is interesting that, with all of the options open to us, most of us just recorded, reduced background noise, normalized, and called it a day.

    I wonder if most of the other effects are more for music, or if we'll be seeing more creative uses of the effects as we go forward? Obviously, too much dependence on them and we'll be taking away from the stories we're telling, but I'm interested to see if any of them can actually add something.

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