Radio trailer

I created my radio trailer on Ableton Live lite 11, a music production software where mp3 clips can be used as well as allowing for recording into the software with the use of a microphone. I created a unit 20 rushes folder on my personal desktop to house all the downloaded audio clips that I needed as well as the audio clips I recorded myself.  Some of the clips I downloaded for the trailer needed certain editing such as shortening the clips of cutting out the middle of the audio to shorten it which I did for the sound effect of a can opening and pouring. The beginning of my radio trailer included downloaded audio of running footsteps and panting, these clips needed editing by speeding the clips up since this made them more in line with what I wanted to demonstrate the horror elements of my show in the radio trailer. In the creation of the radio trailer, I created multiple audio tracks on the timeline to have clips simultaneously playing at once. The choices I made in the edit of my trailer were changes such as the audio levels of the components where I made sure to balance the volume of the clips to make sure there was emphasis on certain audio such as the voice lines or a scream. I made editing decisions such as the use of silence after the opening sequence to further emphasise the demonstration of the horror aspect of my TV shown by letting the listener sit in silence after the scream before the radio trailers continues. For the creation of my radio trailer, I had to consider legal and ethical issues to consider. I created talent consent forms for my voice actors as written permission to use them in my radio trailer. My trailer used many outsourced audio sound effects, I used pixabay for these to ensure they were royalty and copyright free so there was no fee and created an assets table to centralise my clips. For the recording of my clips, I showed the voice actors the script beforehand so the actors could practise to make sure they were correct and had the correct intonation and that parentheses were correctly used. I used a quiet room for recording the voice lines and tested volume levels to make sure it was not peaking so the clips did not become distorted. The final export was 48khz with a bit depth of 16 which is industry standard. I exported the radio trailer to an Final Cut pro and added a BBC3 logo for an MP4 version of my trailer that can be used on Youtube and instagram and compressed it into a H264 to make it easier to embed and transport.