For this project, I created an interview about my first band. Amy was kind enough to play the role of the interviewer and asked some great questions, which were very fun to answer. This idea relates to my course topic as the theme of the course topic is music, specifically my music career.

Design influences for me were all the great interviewers that cover music, particularly bands in the niche genres that I listen to, as well as podcasts like Metal Talks on Spotify. I listened to other interviews in a similar space to this as well as read articles of the same nature to understand the elements that they used to answer similar questions. The main difference between the final and the draft is there are recordings of songs from my first band playing in the background, all applicable to the time period in which I’m talking about.

The design process started with doing an initial self-interview. I asked for some feedback and when talking through the idea, it became obvious that it was less coherent than I wanted. I wanted to tell a story that had a narrative arc, which is difficult to do in less than two minutes.

I created the audio tracks using my iPhone 7 and the voice memo app. The process for constructing the recording in Adobe Audition was to place the interview questions, place the answers, they chop them up to fit within the time frame. I mainly used the razor tool in order to edit the track.

I had no issues with the program itself, I’ve been doing audio engineering for 15 years, this is a relatively basic version of the programs that I typically use. I tend to prefer more expansive toolsets, like those found in Pro Tools, but for doing a basic edit job with single tracks, not having to work with racking or layering, it worked well.

The interviewer in this recording is Amy Johnson, who approved of me using her voice in the interview. The rest of the interview are answers provided by me. I also played the tracks in the background which are acoustic versions of tracks from my first band.