Final Play.

LOOKING THROUGH MY EYES.

I start saying that looking at the title now it looks quite.. a bit too much... stupid? All the story ended up being silly because my script had to not be too long as the play would have been just 15 minutes maximum long. So I had to skip some part of the story and the result is this. (click on the button to listen to it)

I wasn't excited at all when I found out what the 5th unit was going to be about. I'm bilingual and I knew that writing a story was going to be hard for me. I tried to be positive on the writing part. Somehow it was actually going well until my teacher said how long the play had to be. Bad news. I had to review my story, cut out lots of details and at the end it turned out being 10 pages of beginning-conclusion, giving a quick explanation from the character view about what happened on her journey. The story is written in first person, so it feels like the reader/listener is in Arya's mind. There are some dialogues with a colleague, stranger and her father by the end of the script.

Recording was terrible. I tried to act as much as I could but it turned out to be a kind of posh accent and my English pronounce as bilingual is just awful and I hated this task a lot. Unfortunately I had to produce it anyway and so I apologize to those who will listen to the play because of the list above. My voice was horrible but I enjoyed using the mic and headphones to hear my own voice, though I will not record something ever again I think this part of the task was the coolest.

The worst part came with the editing. As program this time I used Audition, which is similar to Premiere but only for audio edit.

I was late on presenting it so I had just a few hours to record it, edit it and post it. As I was late on recording it, I cut out the dialogue with her colleague to make it simpler.

I had to cut out a few parts where I was saying something wrong while recording and after listening to it quite a few times I can say that it's not that audible though some of the audios are quite lower than others. The green bar is my voice recorded while the fuchsia is the music I added after, which as I said before it is the one from Into the Wild movie. I didn't add any sound effects because in the story nothing really happens for me to add effects, I kinda like anyway the way I used the music. Also, from my researches, I wanted to keep it quite simple by adding just my voice telling the story. I tried anyway to match the songs to the monologue so that it could give a bit of effect to the play. The first part of the play is terrible, I had to add one of Sheeran's song because I wrote like that on my play. Once finished to edit, I listened to it a few times and I can say that it looks terrible because it doesn't really match with the part.

A good thing that I found out was how to raise and lower the volume of an audio, which seems quite easy to do it but before this time I had no idea how to change it. Previously I had to cut all the audio and then lower/raise the bar depending on what I needed, shown in the image above.

This is something that I will use to improve the audios on my next works.

I tried to edit it at the best, but that's the material I had, so I couldn't do much.

I particularly didn't like this unit because it's not my kind of thing, I don't like my voice so recording it was a bit scaring, but I'm really happy with my researches. I can see how easily my story went through thanks to the researches I had done, I could find out more about the idea I chose to use and develop it in the best way I could. For my next works for sure I will work better on my researches as I did for this unit, to have better final works. Also if I will never have to record something like this again, I will probably try to make something different such as adding some audio effects and by acting better than this time! *ashamed*