Gabby Sparro ENGL 339 Blog

     Wow, I cannot believe this. This is my final blog post. It seems like it was only yesterday that I was writing my first blog post to introduce myself. This has been a wild ride and I am so happy with all the work that I have done.      But we are not done yet. I still have two more episodes to go! I posted my first episode at about 5:45 pm on Tuesday. However, that was only because I had a meeting until 5:00 pm after class so I wasn't able to finish editing until then. The first episode turned out better than I imagined. I have to thank Abigail and TJ for that. I can only do so much in post but I could never make the characters as alive and real as they did with their voice acting.      I am on page three out of seven/eight of my episode two script and I have one and a half pages of the episode three script, though that is just Gale and Terrance's lines. Cassandra's lines tend to be harder because she is driving the main plot of the stor...

        After recording both my lines on Saturday and my friend's line on Sunday afternoon, I was planning to edit Sunday evening. However, I had one too many assignments to get done before Monday. On Monday, I did not have much to show for my episode either. I only was able to go searching for audio files that I wanted to incorporate as background music or as sound effects. Before going to bed, I did, however, make a plan for myself. Tuesday morning, I would wake up, make myself some breakfast and just edit. Do nothing else but edit until it is time for class. I did not expect to finish but I still wanted to have enough to show for our per review session. My goal was to have at least five minutes.      About 30 minutes before class started, I had 13 out of 15 minutes completely edited. I was completely shocked. This went by a lot more smoothly than my first audio essay went. I feel like that has to do with a better understanding of how Audacity w...

           Writing and producing an audio drama has been an interesting experience. Despite knowing exactly what kind of story I wanted to tell, it was still hard figuring out the specific details. In my head, I had a handful of lines that I wanted to be in my audio drama but not what happens before or after those lines. The best way I found to solve this is to write out those lines and try to imagine what would make the most sense in a casual conversation.      As I was nearing the end of my script of the first episode. I was not so sure of my introduction. I felt like I needed something more at the beginning. Originally, I had just only two characters for this story. Cassandra, our killer radio host, and the police chief she is going to interview in the second episode. After going over ideas on what I could add to the beginning, I decided to add two more characters, Terrance and Gale. I said before that I wanted the episodes of Cassandra to...

      Interesting title? I hope so, I like it much better than my first one. It tells the story of a famous radio host who is secretly a serial killer. Now you must be wondering how I came up with this idea. Unless you are Dr. Gerding and have heard me tell this story twice already. Well, here is it a third time! One of my favorite series is Hazbin Hotel. It follows the princess of Hell Charlie trying to rehabilitate sinners so that they can get into Heaven. One of the people helping her is a demon Overlord by the name of Alastor. Alastor was once a radio host on earth who was secretly a cannibal before he died and became an Overlord in Hell.      Even at the beginning of the semester, I knew that this was going to be the story of my podcast. I tend to go with the first good idea that comes to mind because I can't let it go. I have the whole story in mind, beginning to end. My only worry is that I might have a hard time getting what is in my head on a recor...