Audio Interview Draft – Photography by Giaus

This project I found was super intriguing. When I started this project, I knew that I wanted something that is something I was also interested in, and I follow a bunch of people on social media who picked up photography during COVID and I just think that pictures have come such a long way that I knew I wanted to do something involving this type of art. I have not used Adobe audition a lot in the past I think in one of my other classes during my bachelors I used it but it’s not something that I used a lot. I use voice memos on my iPhone for most of my recordings that I’ve done throughout school, so I continue to use that it’s been the most comfortable for me and then I just saved it and put it into Adobe audition, and I started editing it. When I was trying to figure out who I was going to interview I did reach out to a few people that I follow on Instagram that live in the area I am in but no one really got back to me so I went to work and we were in the process of hiring a photographer for a new add that we are going to be doing for our summer program coming and I remember seeing him come in and out of the office a few times so I just asked him when he walked by me if he had anytime during the week if he would feel comfortable doing an interview with me. He actually agreed which I was super excited for and we set up a time and I set up some questions to ask. The one thing that I struggled with is the two minute mark. I was so interested in what he was saying and answering the questions that I found it really hard to keep it all within two minutes and try to edit out the questions, like the ones that I thought were important and needed to be in the recording but his answer was just too long to put it in there so I had to cut a lot of the interview. I used the cutting tool in Adobe and I tried to mix it while trying to put music in the background. I really wanted to try different types of music but I found one that seemed very like calming. It was like a calming interview we were in a room where there wasn’t much noise, and I had a microphone hooked up to him that I bought off of Amazon. I did not like the way that my voice sounded because I had my air pods in and so he was using the microphone, and I had my air pod, so the sound was different and it’s something that I’ll probably fix for the final. I wish that it could have been a little longer. I also felt like while I was editing it and trying to mix it and do a sound at the end, so it didn’t just like cut out it felt rushed. I don’t think that an interview with something that is an inspiration to us should be so rushed but these are all things that I’m learning, and I will try to narrow down my questions and narrow down the answers for our final portion of the project. I’m looking forward to doing more editing and getting more feedback so it can be my best project.

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Just a mom, passionate about learning and educating on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.