{Street Interview Edits}

Now that we've recorded our Street Interviews and (hopefully) gotten a wide range of opinions on the subject your group came up with, it's time to start editing the audio down to a short segment that would be appropriate for the radio.

Here are some guidelines:

• No profanity - This doesn't mean you can't use segments that had profanity. It just means that you need to edit out the offensive words.
• Try to get the audio as clean as possible - Not talking about bad language here, we're talking about the quality of the audio. The best audio is well recorded to begin with (even volume levels, not a lot of background noise). But if you have audio with certain problems (e.g. wind noise), you should really try to work to clean it up in Pro Tools. Clean edits are key (crossfades!!!).
  
• Keep your sound bites short - Your audience doesn't necessarily want to hear every single word an interviewee said. Keep the interview moving by cutting between different people's responses. Don't let anyone go on for longer than 2-3 sentences max.
• Try to give the interview a certain flow - There are lots of ways you can do this. One way is to group similar responses together. Another would be to juxtapose really different responses. You can go in a lot of different creative directions with how you put this together; try to make it feel like it's not just a bunch of random sound bites all mashed together.

The Final Interview must:

1. Be ~ 2-3 minutes long.
2. Have a music bed underneath it.
3. Have a paragraph (text document) that explains:

• Who was in the group.
• What the interview topic was.
• What kinds of responses the group got to the questions.
• Whether these responses were consistent with what the group thought they would be.

The Final Interview should be bounced out of Pro Tools as a WAV file (44.1 kHz, 16-bit, Stereo Interleaved). Label it like this: "Interview_(subject) 6-23-08".

An example would be: "Interview_Music 6-23-08"

Copies of the WAV file and text document should be distributed to each group member and to the instructor. Put both of these files in the Media Share folder (Media Share>Student Work>Street Interviews>Final).