4-18-2011

Today was a VERY productive day in my eyes. (SN: Happy 87th Birthday Grandma! :]) When I first came in I remembered some audios that could use work so I sat down and got right down to editing. One of the pieces was a track that was denied approval by Ms. Meaderds so that was my first priority. She and I had a phone conference on Friday to better discuss what all needed to be done so I pulled out the notes from that convo and also looked at what she had written on our standard audio review form that goes with each audio piece when revised. After taking a few pre-listens I understood what all needed to be done and I immediately began deleting from the track and inserting "dead" audio selections everywhere (dead audio is just silent sound to make the audio sound more normal). By the time I finished the piece was almost 2 minutes shorter! Overall it sounds SO much better and I'm hoping it'll get approved this time. The second thing I worked on is the minute piece for our "stinger reel" which will feature ten one-minute selections from our 10 interviewees. I have felt that I was finished with that one for a while but it never hurts to give a once-over again. All I did was a little more deleting and some copying and pasting of audio. I really hope this one gets approved too so we can keep moving forward. I'm just worried about time crunch if we stay on one thing for too long.