Adobe Audition Exercise 1

  • Due No Due Date
  • Points 100
  • Submitting a file upload

Assignment

You are producing a radio show about the California Gold Rush. Part of the show is to bring to life the actual words of the people who lived and participated in it. You base this particular segment on a letter from Lucius Fairchild, a young man from Madison, Wisconsin who left home at age 18 to strike it rich in California in 1849. The letter comes from Library of Congress’s American Memories Project

(http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/).

Audio Content

You will record the narration (the text of the letter below) and then mix in sound effects and music. You will record and edit each of the three tracks (narration, sound effects, music) separately and then mix them together.

The Letter:

February 12, 1850

To J. C. Fairchild and Family,

…I think we are in the poorest diggings in the country and we have made

as much this winter as any store in Madison can make in a year. About

four weeks ago the river rose very high and drove us on the highest part of

the bar where we supposed there was no gold of any consequence, but to

our surprise we found it the richest part so we all took our ground and

went to work, since that it has not rained and we have all done well. Ed &

I have taken out over Twelve hundred dollars or over 2 ounces a day

which is good wages…

I remain Your affectionate Friend,

Son, & Brother

From California As I Saw It: First-Person Narratives of California's Early

Years, 1849-1900. The California Letters of Lucius Fairchild. Library of

Congress’s American Memories Project retrieved January 4, 2006 from

Using Different Music:

Adding Sound Effects:

 

Materials:

 

Turning in this assignment:

To complete this Exercise you will need to do the following:

Visit Encomptech and find a sound file that matches the type period for this assignment or you may use the file attached to this assignment post in Canvas:

  • dixie_dimples
  • pastime_rag

These file can also be found on your H:Drive in the Digital Multimedia Audio folder.

You will read the excerpt from the letter and record the sound file.

You can rehearse if desired prior to actually recording it, Once you have completed the recording the below letter turn it into this assignment post.

 

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