Evaluation

Creating three radio jingles on a new piece of software was a bit of a challenge. To begin with, it was hard but I got the hang of it in a short amount of time. The software that we used was called sound booth, which I had never used before, but top be fair we did get to learn how to use it before making our jingles. Last year I used a program called adobe audition which was simple and less complicated. The only bad thing about it was, it was frustrating because even though we learnt how to use it we were still learning how to use it when we were making our jingles. What I planed to do was to make three jingles for radio. One which was for the news, one which was for the radio show and one which was for the radio station. I planned to make these short and snappy which I thought would take a short amount of time. This didn’t happen, it took longer than I thought and what I ended up doing was making three short jingles in a long amount of time. The effect of this made me frustrated, although in the end, it was worth it because the jingles were good and finished. To make it so I wouldn’t take long making jingles, would be to browse software more, spend longer on it and I’ll eventually be quicker on it. Which is what I would do, if I were to do it again.

What I found hard was the first jingle I did because I was still learning how to use the program. I also found a particular jingle hard as well which turned out to be the news jingle. This was hard because finding the right music was difficult. It wasn’t easy trying to find music which was news related. In the end I did find music for the news but I was not pleased with it. I was pleased with the other music I had on the other two jingles because they related to the subject. What I could of done was be more organised and bring my own music, which I did but I forgot my USB connection so had to borrow someone else’s memory stick which was worrying because you don’t know what music the other person is in to and because you’ve all ready planned the music you want to use, it’s harder to plan new music, so it takes longer.

The procedure for recording was very simple. All you had to do was press the record button on the bottom of the program and talk to the computer. The microphone was on top of the screen the only issue was you had to speak loud enough in order to get the volume into the yellow because that is where it is meant to be. If it is on red it is to loud. If it is on green it’s to quiet. So it was important. So because I have now had experience with the microphones, I know, next time, I have to speak louder.

What I’ve learnt from this is be organised and know in advance what is ahead of you. So overall I thought I did OK.