Audio Story Interview with Athletics Intern

For this project I interviewed Tyler Pray, a graphic design intern for social services and the Washington State University Athletics Department. He designs images that get posted to social media accounts and allows followers and fans to be immersed into the games, awards, and programs that the athletic department puts on. This relates to my topic because it has anything and everything to do with sports, a side that not many people acknowledge or see, it is the people behind the curtain. Pray was my main source of information and in the interview he explains how his role impacts the athletics that we see reminders of every day on campus and on social media. My design process included sculpting questions that allowed Pray to give an listeners an understanding of how his work is used. The process then allowed him to see the questions and develop a response to them, finally I was able to simply compile them, recorded individually, into an order that reflected the flow of the information and that sounded appeasing. In abode software I was able to change the volume of the speaking and edit out parts of questions that either did not sound good or had too many stutters. I also edited out answers that included too many uses of the words “umm” or “uh” so that it would allow the interview to sound more seamless and complete. I had some trouble getting certain parts of the interview separate from others as they were recorded in large chunks and they had to be moved around quite a bit. I had to splice the recordings and move them from question to question to provide a more full and lively interview for listeners. The razor selection tool became my best friend as I edited through the clips of audio to try and phase out as many imperfections as I could. The time selection tool was also very useful to place audio exactly where I wanted it, I was also able to implement pauses where they seemed like they needed to be. I would like to give a special thanks to Tyler Pray and the Washington State University Athletics Department for a great interview and a plethora of knowledge to help see into the men and women doing the backstage lifting.