Audio interviews and Audacity

So our project for this week was quite interesting. We got a reference librarian as an interviewee. At first I thought there wouldn't be enough sounds to record at a quiet library, but you never notice all the noise that goes on there... dozens of students typing, pencils being sharpened, pages being leafed through, even footsteps. I think we got a pretty good b-roll going, considering we recorded in a place that was supposed to be quiet.

Our librarian was great--she was able to talk for a good amount of time, and she was really good at talking fluidly. Editing the interview with Audacity, however, was kind of harder than I thought--I've never worked with that application before. It's cool how you can edit stuff out and merge background noise and talking, though. It's just finding out exactly what you need to eliminate and making sure you're not deleting too many things that's hard. But hopefully we'll work with sound more in the future.