Audio recording: a statement on games and game design

Personal Reflection

A short self-recording of a statement on games and game design. Refer to the show notes below:

For this exercise you will create a short high quality audio recording, parts of which will be combined later with other student recordings and compiled into a single podcast episode to be published on Design Talk (dot IE). Record your voice only. Ensure your recording environment has little or no background noise. Leave gaps between statements to enable easy editing. Please do not add musical elements. Speak naturally, as if in conversation with someone. You may record in your preferred language but if so please provide a written english translation. The recording would be between 2 to 4 minutes long. 

Audacity (https://www.audacityteam.org)

I encourage you to record and post-edit your recording using Audacity. You will cut unnecessary audio, apply effects such as normalize (e.g. default values, typical -2.5dB) and compressor (default values), noise reduction, fade in / fade out etc. and export to an mp3 file.

Review the simple Audacity tutorial and workflow activities at:
https://podcasts.ceu.edu/how-edit-your-podcast-audacity-step-step-guide

A screen shot of an Audacity project

Refer above to the screen shot to get an idea of what nice waveform levels might look like for your recording. However, above all, trust your ears to judge the quality of a recording when you listen back to it.

Show notes

(introduce yourself, first-name only is sufficient)
(create your own statement or adapt one or more of the following opening sentences) 

• Hi, I'm <Name>.
• For me games are ...
• My best memory ...
• Game design is ...
• The thing we could do better ...
• Good game design can change the world by ...

Terms and conditions

The `Design Talk (dot IE)’ podcasts are released under the “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike version 4.0  creative commons license (aka CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

This license can be viewed at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0

By taking part you are entering a verbal agreement giving permission for your voice to be recorded, for the recording to be edited, for it to be posted and published and available from wherever people get their podcasts.