(P5) Explain and Justify the Radio Production Editing Process

Offline edit - 

https://youtu.be/HmAFiSfMeV0

Online Edit - 

https://youtu.be/xuljvFIUr38

In this post I am going to discuss the process of editing our video, what we removed and what went into the final edit for specific reasons. I will reference radio codes and conventions throughout this process.

Rushes - 

When we started recording our final radio show, we recorded in segments to ensure that everything sounded as planned in each section, and to make sure that less mistakes were made throughout the recording process.

We recorded a series of rushes. All of the rushes that we recorded turned out to be useable, as we only had around 5 or 6 of them. most of these were more than a minute long and had been recorded and edited in Adobe Audition.

During this recording session we recorded most of our show perfectly and up to standard, however some of our clips had mistakes and problems with technical elements such as audio volume. These audio clips have been saved as evidence of process, and some of them show how we improved our show from these mistakes

These rushes are not edited as we did not use them in the final editing process and not in the final radio show at all. We saved these every time we made a mistake that was worth noting, and every time we needed some of the audio from this rushes to use by themselves. For example, in some of the sequences we recorded, we can use half of the audio as we made no mistakes in it, but we would just have to cut out the rest of the audio that we cannot use.

Offline Edit - 

The offline edit of our radio show is an accumulation of all of the clips that we are going to use in chronological order. This generates a base point for us to work with, and add effects to in the completed edit version of the show. In this edit we have clipped the audio footage to a point where it is linear, reasonable and makes sense.

We started this offline edit with our starting audio recording, and then made sure that every other clip aligned with the script that we created in pre-production. These may not have been recorded in this specific order for other reasons, however, they can be changed around and ordered in Adobe Audition. We organised this edit in the specific order of our start section, which is followed by our listener's quiz, and then at the end our Q&A.

Edit Log - 

This asset log is one that we created when we made the offline edit. This contains the audio files and clips in chronological order, with the length of the clips as well. This generates a base plan for the order of the clips, and the length of the radio show.

Asset Log - 

This is our asset log for the radio show. This table shows all of the clips we used in the show, and their purpose. This also shows data such as purpose of the files and copyright, which would be useful to producers and directors of the radio show.

We used this as a place to keep our clips in an organised format which worked well for us, as we knew which clips we needed and what we needed them for. This would be more useful in a professional radio show environment, as it will help assemble the clips that they can use for free and the ones that they would have to pay copyright for.

Completed/Online Edit -

This clip is showing how we inputted the music clips and the voice over radio clips into the show together. The yellow lines on the screen show how we faded the clips together so that they did not overlap each other, for example, this means that the sound levels of the clip progressively lose or gain volume depending on the angle of the yellow line.

This is done by using the FX button on the audio file, and either choosing fade in or fade 

 

This is another screenshot showing our audio clips in place. This one shows the introduction of our show to the first song that we play on it. The yellow lines once again are for fade in and fade out effects used on the clips.

These clips have been faded to ensure that they merge professionally and to avoid any harsh and quick changes in audio as this would not be ideal towards the audience.

This is showing how we achieved the caller effect for our caller in the show. to do this we changed the dialogue sound effect over the audio clips to be 'from a telephone'. This makes the audio more authentic and sound like its coming from a. phone rather than being recorded straight into a microphone. We did this because in an actual radio show the audio will be from a phone call, which means that quality will not be as good as the radio show, which in most cases adds to the radio show positively.

If our audio was to be good quality from the caller, it would not sound realistic so int his case the sacrifice of quality for the effect worked very nicely.

 

This screenshot is showing the channels of our audio on adobe audition. These are separate so that they can be merged effectively and that they do not overlap each other. This is also to make the editing of our clips easier, as they can be selected individually from this.

This also shows the difference in audio volume from the clips (the circle slider on the left of all channels). We changed the audio on some of the clips in order to make all of them a similar audio so that they do not sound mismatched. This contributes to the radio show sounding as pleasing and professional as possible, so matched audio was a necessity for this.

This screenshot shows the quiz audio on audition. The top channel of audio is the sound effect that we used for tension building on the show. This sound effect is short but repeated along the entire quiz segment.

In the screenshot you can see where we have clipped and placed the sound effect in order to fit in with the quiz. We also did the same with the dialogue audio which is the lower channel, as the gaps we had at the start were not long enough for the effects so we needed to increase the size of them.