The end is nigh

This term has been very exciting and very challenging in many aspects. I'm from a print background, so radio was something completely new and different for me. It was a different experience, because I had a big ass marantz and earphones and a microphone to play with. I felt like a grown kid on Christmas playing with all the supergeeky equipment. Finding 10 voices in Grahamstown was tough, I'm naturally quite reserved, so I really had to push myself to speak to people who were not just my peers.
The editing was frustrating. While I was recording I thought I had such great stuff and when I sat down often I felt like I was trying to swim through mud. Many of my interviews turned out to be very issue-based, which wasn't the brief of the assignment. The purpose was to find personal narratives to make creative sound bites. When you listen to my sound you're supposed to really feel like you know the person I interviewed. In some cases, like with Tummy and Lauren, I feel that I achieved this. In others perhaps not so much.
When all was done and I had 10 one minute clips I realised that in my endeavour to have perfect quality sound I've somewhat neglected the content, and my pieces are a tad boring. I think the sting makes it sound more exciting.
Using Adobe Audition has been challenging. It has also been very rewarding. In second year we has a semester long radio course, but it's too long ago to be an expert. However most of it returned to me as I went along.
I really enjoyed the whole process. I enjoyed recording people, editing the audio, taking coffee into the Radio labs, scouting around the journ department for hot water, shivering through the cold, bitching through the heat, and above of all, lsitening to the end product.
In future I like the idea of combining radio and print to do something amazing. I'm not big into the idea of online media, I like kicking it old school, and this was a valuable experience, because I learnt the nitty gritty inner works of recording and editing.