For this assignment, I decided to do a short interview with my friend Ruby about how social media is reacting to the coronavirus. This relates to my course topic, because my whole topic is essentially talking about negativity on social media, and how we can spread more positivity. These days, social media has become a petri dish for false information and negativity, when in regards to the Coronavirus. Don’t get me wrong, as mentioned in the interview there has been a lot of positivity and support. However, it has been easy for people to become hysterical and worrisome without knowing the actual reality of the situation that we are currently dealing with. When making this, I simply grabbed a friend and asked if I could interview her for a podcast for 1 minute. When editing it, I cut out all the parts where she was repeating her points, or pausing in general. Then I went on freesound.org, and found two audio tracks. One was for the beginning to transition into my introduction. The second one, I used for my transition between my introduction and the actual interview. the links to the sound will be below. I then made the music fade in and out, both for the intro and the outro music. Some technical challenges I faced were at multiple occasions, as clear from the audio there would be some mistakes made with speech that I wouldn’t be able to edit. This could be because we were either talking too fast, or their speech wouldn’t blend in with their following sentences if edited. Another challenge I faced was finding music that would suit the interview. I didn’t want it to sound like a news report, but I also didn’t want it to be too casual so finding an in-between was acoustic country music. I feel like it sets a light tone and does blend well with the theme of my course topic, which is meant to indicate negativity, yet spread positivity.

https://freesound.org/people/DDmyzik/sounds/460264/

https://freesound.org/people/theottaja/sounds/510804/