Recording the narration

To record my narration, I needed a quiet noise free room which doesn't echo. I thought about recording in an empty room at university, but I didn't feel entirely comfortable doing that, which I didn't want people to hear in my voice. So I decided to run some sound tests in my own room in my flat to see if my microphone would catch any background noise, such as the busy road I live next door to.

To record the audio, I used my olympus voice recorder:

I have used this many times before, the sound quality is excellent.

Attached to this, I also used an olympus external mic to make sure that the sound quality was top notch:

Luckily, when I ran my sound tests you could not hear any road noise in the background of the audio, and the mic captured my voice perfectly. When I came to record the real thing, I decided to wait until a time where the road noise was quiet and there wasn't many cars about, just to be on the safe side.

I decided to record my narration using the quicktime program which is built into my lap top, as this is simple to use and records in the correct format. To record audio, I just selected the "record audio" option on the drop down menu. The recording screen looked like this:

I decided to record at least three tracks of myself saying the whole narration, therefore when I came to editing I would have lots of different options just incase a few of the recordings didn't work out for whatever reason. I did mess up and stumble on my words quite a bit throughout the recordings, but I just stopped and repeated myself and made sure I wasn't saying it too quickly so I could cut certain parts out when I came to editing the audio later on.