Audio Profile

1. Describe your interviewing experience. How did it feel to interview someone using an audio recorder?
   1. My interviewing experience went as planned. I have interviewed people a lot in the past so there wasn’t really anything that was new to me. Although it was different for the fact of the set of questions that were asked. Normally when I am interviewing someone, I have a set of questions that are on a set subject and I have to do my interview around that. For example I do job interviews, I’ve done interviews for past essay’s. So it was nice having a little bit of free range on this interview. I have used an audio recorder on a good majority of my interviews as well so I have gotten used to that as well. Although I do like to use the audio recorder because it is easy to use.
2. Describe your audio editing experience. What did you enjoy and not enjoy?
   1. My audio editing experience was a little different than normal. I am use to using Adobe Audition for my editing through past classes and for my current internship at the Hits 106 radio station. So it was a little challenging learning how to use a different program this time around. I did enjoy how it was a little bit more simple for me to do because of my experience. I did not enjoy the process of actually editing. I have never been a big fan of that. It just gets to be time consuming in my opinion.
3. Be sure you embed the portrait photo that you took of your interviewee. Insert a one or two sentence caption as well. Use complete sentences and use AP Style for the caption.

1. Describe the experience of taking a portrait photo to go along with the audio story.
   1. The experience of taking the portrait photo was not as difficult as I anticipated just because over the course of the semester I have gotten more comfortable asking to take photos of people.
2. Did anything surprise you about this assignment?
   1. Nothing really surprised me as I thought it would of been more difficult for me to do when I first started this assignment.
3. Do you wish you could have done anything different? Or do you wish something went more smoothly?
   1. I do wish that my interviewing could go a little more smooth if I had to change something. This is something that I normally always struggle with, so I do wish that I could do better with that. I feel that my interviews are choppy and do not have a flow to them when I conduct interviews.
4. How might you or could you use audio in your future? And please don’t just say, “not at all.” Even if you go into agriculture communications, or public relations, or advertising, there are ways to use audio. Think creatively.
   1. Assuming I am going into radio for my future career, which as of now is what I envision myself doing, using audio will be a very common thing for me. In my current internship with the Hits 106 radio station, I am already creating and producing ads that play live over the radio and have been for the past several months. My goal with my internship is to create this into a career for me and to also be able to do a live, on-air show of some sort within the radio station. Voice tacking, producing ads, editing recordings will all be included with this in this type of field. I do see myself dealing and using audio in the future in this retrospect.

Audio Profiles:

5 minute unedited: https://soundcloud.com/austin-perry-27/audio-profile-5-min

2 minute edited: https://soundcloud.com/austin-perry-27/audio-profile-2-min