LO4: Producing my radio show

 PRODUCTION SCHEDULE

SETTING UP EQUIPMENT AND RECORDING MY RADIO DRAMA

 Here are some images of my voice actors recording their parts for my radio drama. Before they entered the recording studio, I had to make sure that I had set up all of the equipment needed. I first set up the microphone, making sure that the stand was stable and the wind guard was in place. The wind guard was there to make sure that there was not any harsh sounds made from certain letters. I also made use that the guard behind the microphone was in place as this would absorb any other background noises, even though I was in a soundproof studio.  I did not set the height of the microphone until my voice actors was in the studio as I needed to make sure that it was the right height meaning that this was individual to all. By doing this, it would ensure the best quality. I used Adobe Audition to record and edit my radio drama. I liked using this software as it was easy to pick up and meant that it would create a profesional product in the end.

OFFLINE EDIT

This is the offline edit of my radio show. This is what I the first two scene of the radio drama sounded like before I added in any wild sound or sound effects. The idea of this this edit was to sound what the narrative was like once I had pieced it together as I recorded each characters lines alone. 

SCREENSHOTS OF CHANGES

     The first thing I did when editing my radio show was piece together my radio show. Here are all the different tracks that I used. As my radio drama consisted of a lot of different audio clips, I spread these over a lot of different tracks. Some of these contain the characters lines whilst other have wild sounds and background music. Other feature sound effects.

Here you can see how I changed the audio levels of the radio show. this was to make the audio louder so that each piece of audio matched the same level of volume. I turned down the audio levels of the wild sounds and sound effects as I believed that these were overpowering the audio of the actual narrative. 


I also added effects to different parts of the audio. I knew that I wanted the audio to sound different for the phone call, and this is something which I wrote in my script. I used the FFT filter and chose the option "telephone voicemail", I believe that this gave me the effect I desired. Also for the audio for the part of the show where Lewis is shouting to the dad. To get this effect I used FFT filter, and also added reverb and mastering. For the presenter at the beginning I used the preset effect called "radio announcer voice" to make the announcement sound professional. 

FINAL RADIO EDIT