DONE

I write in celebration because I have finished my editing, my writing and basically... everything... I do still have to burn my two CDs but that takes a majority of two minutes.

I just feel relief because after yesterday's crucial mistake, I seriously doubted my ability with the Epiroll. I figured I would have had about 25 raw vox pops if all of them had worked. Now I have 17. It's funny, I ended up taking most of the interviews from the last outing I made... so I think it shows how much I felt I had improved in my questioning.

The editing process was quite simple- I basically followed the guidelines on the internet and what I had previously learned in class. It didn't seem to be that much of a problem.

I ended up going four seconds over, and I know that if I had cut out a lot of the "ums and ahs" I would have decreased the time to the limit. But when I tried to do this, it would really affect the quality of the recording - there would be either a really awkward "pop" or it would just sound ridiculous.

I still have a few of those "pops" in there, but they are scattered throughout so don't sound too bad.

The only other thing I had trouble with was in multitrack editor with the volumes. As much as I tried - I couldn't get everything consistent. It just wouldn't work. The last person quoted in my vox pop package is very low, and I just don't know how to bring it up. I tried adjusting the volume levels and it just won't work. Most of the other interviews are consistent though.

I ended up enjoying this assignment. At first I was slightly dreading standing on a street and asking random people, but when I got there all the fears just melted away. It's like having a simple chat. I learned that you really have to choose your location well if you want people to speak to you. Simply bouncing on people leaving shopping centres was definitely the wrong approach - I got the most knock backs there.

In contrast, Garema Place, where everyone was just walking around peacefully, was easy. Most people were willing to talk and even seemed happy to contribute.