Family Interview

Here is the final product for the family interview. The hardest part of this assignment was hands down having to choose what parts of the interview to actually use. My mom and I talked for a good while. Even after cutting out stammering, repetition, and filler words the full runtime would still have been somewhere around 20 minutes. On the topic of editing the audio, I cut this thing to hell and back. The rough draft version of the interview audio was chopped into somewhere around 230 separate sections. Considering how many slices there are, I am extremely pleased with how well her speech flows through the entire thing. Every time she laughed, the volume would peak so I had to automate the volume levels perfectly in order to not peak but still maintain the even level between regular talking and laughing. I decided to focus on her childhood in the 60s and how her family reacted to the happenings of the world. There were many other stories I could have told, from her days as a teenager in Pennsylvania to the way she remembered much of the media of the 70s. For the music, I tried going with something that could sound like it was from the 60s or 70s. The track I ended up going with gave me an AC/DC vibe which fits very well considering the Australian rockers are my mom’s favorite band. Unfortunately, my mom had left her window open because we recorded in her car. Simultaneously there was a practice going on at the lacrosse field. So at a couple points at the beginning you might be able to hear the noises of the team. Similarly there was a section where apparently a plane had gone overhead. In both cases, I had not even noticed the sound while it was happening.