Fun with Audio

A little project called the Audio Drama was posed upon the AM DMT class. For this project we had to seperate into groups of three or four and then come up with some kind of story that might have been played on the radio back when storytelling was one of those "cool things to do". You know, when there wasn't any TV or anything. So, in order to do this, we all had to write a script and then come up with who would act which parts and then record them with the Zoom recorder. That part wasn't as hard as the actual editing was. So many mistakes were made, and some things (called not saving and then the program killing itself) happened that we wished wouldn't.

My group, with my friends Eva and Mike, came up with the idea of three kids traveling across the United States to see Santa Claus. It gets interesting, with name calling and false injuries along the way. (Not to mention traveling in a wagon with a vacuum cleaner attached to the back).

I think the only thing I really liked about this whole thing was recording. It didn't matter how stupid we looked reading the parts that we ourselves wrote. I had fun up until we had to laugh into the recorder. You can't fake a laugh and have it still sound normal, can you? No, not really. So, we had to wait with the recorder on until there was something funny to laugh about. And even then we kept leaning away from the recorder because that's just how we laugh. That went on for a long time, actually.

Even though I'm really creative, I didn't like brainstorming for an idea to write a script on, nor did I like writing the script either. I guess we know that I'm just not cut out to be a screenwriter or anything like that. I didn't have that much fun doing the script. Every time we stopped writing it was like, "wait....I just lost my idea, where was I going with this?" And that's kind of a downer when you're typing against the clock.

This experience taught me to SAVE EARLY AND SAVE OFTEN, otherwise you will lose everything and have to start alllllll over again. It kind of fails. Especially when you lose everything there is a darn good chance that your project is just to be late, or, you're almost finished. Not my favorite thing.

It's really silly to say, but, everything more or less went right except the part where we, uh, lost EVERYTHING. Yeah, that's...it. Everything was nice except that part.