My idea for this project was a one-time podcast or audio story time that would discuss the effect that one’s environment has on working out. I looked at this specifically through a college student and the effect of their environment on their physical activity.
This relates to my topic by discussing the idea that nature has an influence on someone’s drive to work out. Nature is an influence on one’s physical activity, this can have an effect when one is deprived of this aspect in their daily life.
The idea of a podcast had a great influence over my idea for my audio story. Podcasts have a very casual tone to them and thus I thought this would add an element of honesty into my audio story.
I have recently been listening to a wide variety of podcasts and thus have influenced my ideas for my audio story. The podcast gives an honest idea to the concept that nature has an effect on one’s will to engage in physical activity.
In order to create my audio story, I interviewed people on how nature is an influence on one’s physical activity. I asked questions specifically about their involvement in sports before college. I asked questions such as “Do you consider yourself physically active?, Do you work out or do any type of physical activity regularly?, Did you play sports in high school?, Do you think that the college environment we are surrounded by has an effect on your physical activity now?, and, Do you think our natural environment that surrounds us has an effect on this?”
After I interviewed those who were able to answer the questions in an honest manner, I then uploaded the interview to Audition. Once I did this, I was able to edit the background noise out and to make the interview as smooth as possible. I cut out the unneeded phrases that made the interview informal and choppy. Once this was done, I edited the Free to use music and was able to manipulate it to sound as an intro and outro to my one-time podcast. The only advice that I wish I would have known before recording would be to always record in a quite space that is not distracting, whether this be the narration or the actual interview.
The feedback I received was to edit the interview and to add an introduction. I struggled with this and was able to make some changes but was not able to completely add an introduction as the time constraint prevented me from doing so. I was only able to make little edits due to the time restriction.
References:
Lindsey's COM 210 Blog 
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