Multimedia 'Palette'

Lecture
This week's lecture was taken by Daniel Cunliffe again, at the start of this lecture we were told we would be receiving marks for our blogs up until January. The main topic of this lecture was covering another part of the multimedia palette, the new topic that we were starting was audio. The aim of the lecture was to compare digitally created sound with recorded sound. To do this we started discussing using audio:
-Only way to convey certain information.
-Can be a large production effort.
-Compromises are usually needed.

We then moved on to design factors that have to be taken into consideration such as where the sound is going to be used, what kind of sound is going to be used and where the sound is acquired from.

Tutorial
This weeks tutorial we were given a hand out on how to use Audacity, to start this tutorial we had to download sound files from blackboard and open them with Audacity. The first file we opened was an interview with 2 speakers and we were required to split the two. Once we had split this we were given instructions on how to add effects to the audio file, examples of effects added are:-
-Bass boost.
-Amplify.
-Fade in/out.
Following this we were instructed to try mixing audio, playing tracks over other tracks. To do this we were instructed to download 2 other files from blackboard of which we could play over each other to combine them making it sound like one file.

External Reading
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/tutorials
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_recording_and_reproduction

Reflection
I thought this weeks lecture was really good, I was surprised we were given a mark for our blogs but was really happy when i discovered I had achieved 100% so far on the assignment. I enjoy the topic of audio and audio editing is going to be a helpful procedure for the coursework that has been set, I am looking forward to getting into this website coursework. This weeks tutorial was interesting, I had never really done any sound editing before, doing something new is always good fun, and I found the instructions we were given really helpful to introduce me to the use of Audacity.