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Hi everyone! This week for class I had to construct a commercial for my website. In my commercial, I explain the basics of my website. This aspect of the website definitely took longer than I’d like to admit. To be honest, this was probably the most difficult part of creating a website thus far.

Anyways, I started off with recording myself on Audacity. At first, I didn’t read off of a script, but I kept messing up so I just wrote something up really quick and read off of that. After recording myself, I downloaded Levelator to enhance my voice in the recording. This application made my voice sound louder and took out the background noises that could hear in the initial recording.

Then, I went on to choose two songs from an assortment of Creative Commons music. Sifting through the different areas was difficult because not all of the sites had the option to download the music and the ones that did allow you to download, asked for a payment method. I ended up just choosing the first two songs that I was able to download and added it to my recording.

This last part was probably the most difficult. At this point, I had to work around my voice and make sure the two songs faded in and out smoothly. Controlling the volumes wasn’t exactly hard, just tedious. Once I finally finished my commercial, I downloaded it and created a SoundCloud account to post it there.

All in all, I am glad I know how to use the software now though, and who knows, maybe I’ll need it at some point in the future!

Thanks for listening! XO