Idea and Inspiration

I decided to create an audio story about different outfits my friends have worn and the way these outfits made them feel. This project relates to my course topic, fashion, because styling and apparel production are two main components of the fashion industry.

Design Process

I settled on this idea after researching some different fashion podcasts and fell in love with Glamour’s What I Wore When podcast. They interview different celebrities and have them describe an outfit they wore on a significant day in their lives. I thought this was such a great idea that I knew immediately that is what I wanted to do. I knew I wanted to do three smaller interviews as opposed to one longer interview from the beginning because I felt that one longer interview would not be as much information. My design process began by me writing down some of my ideas and recruiting my friends to be interviewed. Then I discussed with them what outfit they would pick and what questions I would be asking them. I think every element of my design is essential for the audio story to make sense, so all of them are very significant.

Technical Detail

I collected the different audio clips by recording them on my phone and then sending them to my computer. Once I had all of the clips downloaded on my computer, I uploaded them into Adobe Audition. Then, I used the razor selected clips tool to cut off any unnecessary pauses or silent spots in the recordings. I next put them in order of the way I wanted them to be listened to using the move tool. Lastly, I exported the entire multitrack mixdown session as an mp3 and uploaded it to Soundcloud. I did not encounter any technical issues with the Adobe Audition since I was already familiar with it.

Sources and Materials

The ambient music sound byte I found on SoundCloud under the free to use commercially filter. https://soundcloud.com/strange-day/ambient