Commercial Post

This was my first time ever creating an commercial so it was a bit of a learning process. It definitely brought me out of my comfort zone but I’m glad I got it done. I was planning on using Garage Band since I’m on a mac but there were some technical difficulties. First, the intro song would not play at all. After playing around with the settings I got it to play but it was playing at an accelerated speed making the intro song too short. After finally giving up on Garage Band I decided to use Audacity. This was also a learning curve but it was way easier to use than garage band. The only problem I had with Audacity is that it would not pick up my mic since it is not compatible with the latest version of macOS. To fix this issue, I recorded my voice using voice memos and then import it the audio. Before importing the audio, I had to convert my voice memo from m4a file to WAV file since Audacity did not support the m4a file. In Audacity, I use a total of three tracks to complete my commercial post. The first track has the intro song in which I used the studio fade out effect in order to bring the intro song to a fade and slowly flow into the “music bed”. In order to create the music bed for my narration I lower the volume to around -4.0db. Lastly, the third track holds my outro song in which I use the “studio fade in” in order to fade out and finish my commercial. Overall, this was an interesting assignment and although I did not enjoy I’m glad I got it done with. I can confidently say that narration is not for me.