My audio project was on the “Boom Mafia”, which tails some of my previous works. In some of my critique I realize it is not clarified exactly where the “boom” comes from. As I was unable to do a second interview, I will use a few sentences to explain. We are a very small population in the United States Air Force. We are enlisted, compared to commission, basically meaning we do not have college degrees; for the most part. We do aerial refueling, which is explained in the interview. I feel that was the basic piece missing from this interview.

Andrew helped me do this interview over a computer program, similar to Skype, called TeamSpeak. My microphone is not as good as his and it was evident in the interview. I was much quieter and a little raspier than Andrew. We interviewed for about 10-12 minutes and it was difficult to whittle that down to 2 minutes. I used a lot of splicing and rearranging our original content to make the interview.

Following the most common narrative in my critiques, the difference in volumes, I found a nifty tool in Audition. As an effect on each clip, I could raise and lower peak and true volumes. This helped me change what was once Andrew’s loud speaking and my quiet tone as one even decibel. I think this really improved my audio overall. Secondly, I was told I needed to ask intro and outro music. This was some what confusing, as I do have intro and outro music. The intro and outro music are short because of the amount of content I had to work with. Here I chose substance over ambiance.

There was more I wish I could have added if the time requirement allowed me but overall I was happy with the finished product I was left with. I was going for a more natural interview feel, much like NPR. The music was much related, as the horns are familiar to early war as trumpets blew for battle. This was some license free music I found online from the reading. Truthfully, I feel I could do interviews like this in the future to help build a narrative around the many jobs in the military people are not familiar with or are misconstrued. It is valuable knowledge for anyone that may be interested in joining the military.