This week we took our recorders to the street to begin learning about editing sound.  Our group decided to combine with another group, because they were missing a group member, to make one awesome super group!  Our topic was the attention young people pay to their media devices.
I found editing this audio to be really quite fun.  We had a lot of content, because we understood that everyone would want to go in different directions when editing, but we made sure that all of the audio related to the story that we wanted to tell.
I decided to take a comedic approach, mostly because of the music I found.  I also find it difficult to hear my recorded voice so making it more comedic made sense in my mind.  The story of ‘Young People and their Media Devices, Grrr’ is so played out at this point that it’s difficult to take it seriously, especially when you are one of the young people.  I was quite surprised with how quickly I was able to edit it together.  I assumed it would take a long time, but it only took about 30 minutes.  While it’s slightly disjointed, I think that that works in it’s favor, helping to play up the comedy aspects while still telling two stories of mobile devices causing issues within society.  I may be seeing this through rose-tinted glasses, though, because I found it so much fun to make.
And I used to hate audio editing.  It’s amazing how much changes in a year.