As we were in production, we had to set up some equipment that we were going to use. I plugged in a USB cable onto a microphone in the Mac computer as we were using a microphone to record our lines.
I was using the microphone here to record my lines. We used Garage Band, which was the main software that we edited our show on, so whenever we said something, it would be picked up on the computer. As we were going to record, we all had the microphone in the middle and we all were around the microphone close enough for the audio to pick our sounds up.
For our radio show, we had two other people come in to record it with us as they had major parts in it. We made sure that everyone was available on the same day so that we could get a lot done together. We made sure that each person knew their lines, or had their script with them so that if there were any bits missed out, they could take a quick look at it.
In total, our radio show was 8:42 seconds. When we finished all of our recordings, we kept every single bit of it to form our rushes video, which was all of our unedited audio. This helped us to know which bits of recordings we should keep and which ones we should get rid of.
We created a first draft, which was an offline edit. This excluded all the sound effects we recorded and only had our voices. We structured all of our audio in order and cut it down to the amount we needed. This was then distributed to a few people for feedback on what could be improved and how it could make our show better. After this, we then went on to add the sound effects that we recorded during our own time. We added music, which set the mood that we wanted to convey to the listeners. Music was mainly added at the beginning for the jingle, alongside a scene where there was going to be some sort of confrontation. As much as we would've got music from somewhere else, we knew that we couldn't use other people's music, so we decided to add music that was on the software. We added a piece of guitar music at times between each scene, which would let the audience know when the scene ended.
We also did some audio adjustments, in which we made some audio louder on some quieter parts to make them louder. In some regions, there were parts where it was loud and in some other parts it was quiet, so we changed the mode to a fading mode, where we were able to adjust the specific section we wanted to change.
Another thing that we didn't have in our draft but knew we had to add was a jingle, in which we had a single piece of sound playing and a voiceover of someone introducing the show, to let the audience know what the name of the show was and what episode it was. We also included an outro, which was just a voiceover of someone saying what day and time each episode of the show airs.
As for the parts that we recorded again, this was mainly the beginning. Referring back to some of the feedback that we got, some said that the beginning didn't sound too natural and that it sounded too scripted, so we did that part again. There were also times when whenever someone was to convey anger, they would speak too close to the mic and this was very noticeable, so we recorded some lines where we would be able to edit it in the piece.
When we finished editing the final version, we exported it to Itunes. Then we opened up Final Cut Pro, where we imported the sound there and shared it as a master file.
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