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In class we spent a lot of time making radio plays. We were split up in to groups of three. My group was with Dustin and April. We named our play The Mystery of the Car Wreck. It was pretty fun in the end!

We used a software called Audiocity. Sometimes it would be a pain in the neck, but there was a lot of things you could do with it. For example, you could make someones voice go really low. But there was no time for fooling around on this project. So we had to get down to business. Our challenges for the project were, when we first started we had no clue to what would happen. Everything when fine and dandy untill we had to save it. The computer would freeze everytime, but it would save. Then the next day we would come in and our files weren’t put together, meaning we would have to delete it and start over. This had happened a lot of times. Another thing was that I was sick for part of it so they couldn’t really do anything without me, making us fall behind. Another problem for us was that our radio play went over the time limit, so we would have to get docked marks. We couldn’t really live without those marks so we had to take out one of the parts in the play. It wasn’t needed anyway. In the end it still was over a couple of seconds. But we got over it. I learned that you shouldn’t get to fusturated over little things and you have to live with things that go wrong. Just keep on going!

The processes in our radio plays were that first we had to write out a a script. There had to be at least one character for each person. It was kind of hard to think of a whole script, but we obviously managed to do it. Next we had to figure out how to work audiocity. Mr. Fisher had helped us with that one. We had to set up the headphones to talk in to. That is a pretty obvious step, seeing as how it is a radio play. Anyways, we had to edit the whole thing and put in our own music and put the whole thing together. That was the final step in to finishing our radio plays.

The literacy in our radio play was that you have to listen to it. There is no script that you can read. In the older days there wouldn’t have been this kind of technology to make a radio play on the interenet. The only way that you could have made a radio play was on an acutal radio. Which would only happen if you owned a radio station.

For the editing and the production choices it was kind of hard to pick what we wanted or what we didn’t want. We didn’t want something that was all crackly or you couold hear someone in the background. We would want something that had a quiet background and it was clear and good. But sometimes the day would end and the next day we would forget to fix it, so we left it like that.

Well, that is pretty much it for the information on our radio play. Please go to Mr.Fisher’s blog to check them out. Thanks;)

Mary<3