Creation of Radio, Explanation.

During this week, we were given the task to create two radio adverts. Within this post I will be explaining and showing how it is Eddi and I managed to do so. I will be explaining how it is that we created our first radio advert, which you can find here: Freshers Fair Ad. 

The first thing that me and Eddi set our heads to was, what we wanted to put in the ad. In terms of the script, we were given a flyer informing us of the actual events that would take place at the fair; therefore from this information we created a script which informed the audience of what the fair is and what they would find at the fair. At the end of the advert, we added a jingle which we created ourselves too. "Freshers fair, for the time you have spare"

In terms of the technology that we used to record our voices we used a Phillips, voice recorder which you can see below. It allowed us to record the voice over for our radio advert clearly.

Uploading the audio to reaper -

When uploading the audio to the application all we had to do was drag it on. As you can see on the audio there are quite a few 'empty' spaces where there is no speech taking place and it's just extended mute. 

Editing the audio, removing the unneeded blanks -

In terms of the original audio, due to their being too many 'blanks' within the audio when we paused the recording and carried on, we had to edit the audio so that the audio flowed with no pauses. As you can see, it has also reduced in size.

Adding a music bed with the audio of me and Eddi speaking; also adding a fade to the music-

After, we finished editing our vocal audio we then added a music bed. The song we chose to go beneath our audio is "Disclosure ft Aluna George - White Noise" we chose this song because it was quite a long intro therefore when being used in the beginning none of the vocals from the song interacted or buzzed out mine and Eddi's vocals.

We also added a fade at the end of the music bed, so that the jingle that we created could be heard over the music.

- Lareb

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