This narrative describes what it is like to be a student athlete here at Washington State University. I chose this topic because I have to live and breathe this lifestyle each and every day 24/7. I started off with this idea because of how well I knew what I was taking about. Being able to lay out everything about our day tends to be super easy due to the fact that we are on a strict schedule and each day seams the same because we tend to do the same things every single day. Our days our constantly filled and we have very little free time. We have to get up early each day to get lifting, go to class, go to practice, get food when we can, get our study hours in, get all of our homework done and we are on the road for 10+ weeks. There are so many things about being a student athlete that is amazing. You are part of a team, which allows you to have so many friends and people to look out for you. You have these friends for life and you will always be able to count on them when you need someone to help. The downfalls of this are all about timing. Being able to have a personal life can be really difficult for some people, so this stage of life is all about time management. For me, in High School, my time management skills were terrible. After my first semester here, my time management skills have been amazing compared to HS. In adobe cc, I decided to lay out my narrative and add the sounds to the beginning and the end of the talking to signal when it was finished. I edited some parts to get rid of awkward spacing, but for the most part, this is unedited.
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Connor after listening to your raw audio draft and looking at what the draft required was that there were to be different voices in such as interviews or in other ways. I like how you gave you daily schedule one thing I would say to change if it fits in with your semester topic would be to maybe interview another student athlete from another sport and see if there daily schedule is similar and look at the different daily schedule of student athletes. Then with the overall sound of the audio when you are talking some things were harder to hear and I don’t know whether or not that was on purpose or somethings seem things sounded as though you were mumbling which also made it hard to understand what you were saying in some spots. I know it is just a draft for the audio, but I feel like your draft just came to an all of a sudden stop. Other wise I like the overall idea of where you are takin the audio part of the project.
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Connor- I really like the general idea of your audio draft, I for one did not know how busy student athletes are and think a lot of other people do not as well. I think you do a good job in narrating your average day for a student athlete but I would throw in some other aspects as well. I think you could maybe interview a few of your fellow student athletes and get their opinion on how busy they are or something along those lines. I am not sure if that is what you are trying to convey in this audio story however I think it could be a good change. Also I think if you throw in some editing you could make the narration better and get rid of some of the gaps between sentences. Along with this in your description of the audio story you said you put some sounds in the beginning and end to signify where the audio story begins and ends but I was unable to hear anything.
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There are a few things that I would like to change about my audio draft. The first would be the sound quality. There are a few times in the clip that the sound quality is poor and that my voice seams to go in and out rather than at a constant volume the entire time. A second thing that I would like to do is to add in the views of other athletes and their take on what they enjoy or what the hardest part of their weeks or seasons are. To finish things off, I feel that my audio draft ended without notice. It wasn’t a smooth transition to finish. I would like to add background noise that has a baseball theme to it without being distracting to the overall message. After adding these things and touching up other places, I feel like this audio final will be much better than the draft
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This is a very good draft, and can be fix up a little to become much better. One thing that I noticed was that the audio at time went from loud and then very low during the voice draft. The sound quality could be much better, I noticed echos in the background. Maybe recording in an open area where sound waves can travel more freely without messing up your recording. The idea of your story is very strong. Your foundation for this finally draft is looking very good just some little more detail to the audio and you will be good to go for the final draft. You could also add more sound effects like how the gym sounds, how the baseball games sound or maybe just the sound of the audience when someone hits a home run. Also, work on the breathing while recording. Maybe try holding the microphone a little back. Keep up with the great work stick with the same story just try to record again or just fix audio within adobe
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Hi Connor-
I really liked the topic of your audio story. Not being a part of the athletic community, it is interesting to get a behind the scenes of what daily life is like for a student athlete here at Washington state university. I really enjoyed how in the beginning you started off with information as to where you were and how many weeks you’ve been competing. I thought that it added to the narrative. Overall, I think there is very little to change, just a few edits here and there to get rid of some awkward pauses. There are a few times that you say “ummm” or leave a few too many seconds after a word. Getting rid of “umm” in the audio story will make the language more professional. By removing the pauses, it will make your audio story flow more cohesively. Otherwise, I think you’re right on track with this project.
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