For my design process I chose to tell my volleyball story from when I first started and talk about the struggle I went through to be where I am today. I also talk about how much I love the girls on the team and how this program here at Washington State volleyball is more like a family rather than just a team. When I first received this project idea of an audio story, my first thought was to tell my story because I feel that personal life stories on how people became who they are, sends a very powerful message to those who see them. In high school I would watch the 30 for 30 videos of professional players and hear their life stories. Those videos made me feel inspired and made me want to do my very best in my sport.
For my audio elements, I chose two different sounds to go along with my audio story that I recorded. I wanted some light guitar background music playing softly during my audio footage because I always hear soft music playing in the background of interviews with sports players. I looked up on the site of free sound to find some backgrounds sounds for my track. This site was the same site used in other audition tutorials to play some sound waves. I picked two different guitar sounds; the first one is softer paced and the second is a more up beat one. The reason for this is because I made sure the upbeat one changed once I said I arrived to washington state and my fear was gone. I used the loop tool to have the sounds repeat as long as I stretched them out to. I then lowered the volumes of each of the sounds to play softer and raised the volume on my voice to make sure the music doesn’t trump my speech.
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I love the perseverance you exemplify through your audio story. I think it would be nice if you tailored this up for a certain audience. If this had another purpose other than your grade in this class who would it be directed to? Maybe you can direct it to little girls out there who are into volleyball and just getting started with their volleyball career. You can start out with something like “Welcome to the __(sports team name)___team, a couple year ago I was in your shoes and was told (explain your coaches pessimistic views).” I think it would really tie your story together if you did that. Then at the very end transition into thanking the little girls/audience and wish them the best of luck or something around those lines. I also couldn’t really tell the difference between the two guitar tracks but don’t think it’s a big deal unless you really want the audience to know the difference.
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I really like your audio story and I think you did amazing! I like your story of how you were scared at fist to join the team, and then after practicing and training, you are doing great now and also feel like home with all the team sisters. I can see that you are making a lot of effort and I admire you for putting in so much effort into your team. I like your voice in the audio and also the quality is very good. Your voice sounds very smooth and calm, gives the listener a comfortable feeling. The suggestion I would give you to improve your audio story even better is, to raise up the background music a little bit more to make it balance with your voice volume. Because right now I can’t really hear your background music. Another suggestion would be maybe you could include an interview in your project, you could ask your coach about her feelings towards your performance or your team members about their feelings of first time seeing you play, this will make your audio project more complete. Overall you did a great job!
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Hi Ellla, I really loved the simplicity of your audio story. I think you picked a story that many people can relate to on an athletic level, but also because of how inspirational and determined it is.
You hit a lot of the important points along your story and it is very concise and cohesive. I really loved the style choice to add the guitar music as it really does enhance the listening experience.
My suggestion to you would be to rehearse your story just a bit because it didn’t feel as clean in the actual narrative part. There was some stumbling on words that can be easily polished. My other suggestion is just a matter of pacing. Don’t feel hesitate to take pauses or control your breathing because it will create a better tone and overall rhythm to how you tell your story.
Those suggestions are pretty minor because I really did like your audio story and I look forward to seeing the final product.
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I really enjoyed your volleyball story because I can easily relate to your story and so can a lot of other audiences. I also do very much agree that personal life stories send a strong message to the audience and I also watch 30 for 30 because of that reason. One thing I would suggest is to give more enthusiasm into your story. Though it was a very good story of your volleyball career I think maybe a little more excitement in your speech especially when you are talking about your accomplishments that were once just a dream to you. Another thing I would suggest is maybe lower the music just a little bit more.
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