Introduction to Course

In week one of the course I had an introduction and insight into the work that I will be doing over the following weeks. I was informed that for my portfolio that I needed to hand in two practical pieces.Firstly, I am required to plan, research and produce a two to five minute ‘audio soundscape’ or ‘acoustic portrait’ of a geographical place of your choice. Secondly, I am required to submit a three-minute edited interview with a single individual of your choice for presentation on local radio. After being informed what I was going to be doing over the course, I had an introduction to Adobe Audition- the first sound software that I have used. I downloaded 4 sounds and attempted to put them together to create a piece where the sounds sounded relevant to each other. However, as I was new to the software I found this very difficult and so I decided to just work with the sounds I had and try to put them together whilst using basic effects such as fades at the beginning and end even if the sounds didn't fit together properly. This session helped me to get used to Adobe Audition, however I need a lot more practice in it and so will research some tutorial videos and keep using the software to further my abilities on the software.