Aesop’s Fable The Four Oxen and The Lion | MUL101 Introduction to Media Arts

Let me get this out of the way, I really, really, really hate the sound of my voice. Now that thats done, I decided to use one of Aesop’s fables because I wanted to be able to spend most of my time working with the sound of things and getting the music and effects right and not have to end up devoting an inordinate amount of time thinking of a good idea for something to record.

I chose the four oxen and the lion because I really liked it’s overall theme that you are stronger together than apart. I also felt that it’s length fit well for this assignment because its fairly short and to the point but not overly small.

When recording this I found getting my vocals to be pretty difficult. Besides having to deal being uncomfortable hearing my voice, the microphone that I was using was not very great and it was pretty hard to get it sounding well. It would keep picking up a lot of background noise like the sound of my computer that made things sound really bad.

I was able to get all the sound effects from freesound.org and I got the music from the free music archive. I was happy to find a track that I thought worked really well with the piece.

Once I was able to get my recording to a place that I liked I found that things got much easier. Working with audacity with pretty simple and I found that implementing all the sound effects and mixing in the music was not too difficult.

My overall experience with this assignment I think was very good. I found that working with audacity was really nice and the only real snag that I ran into was not having a very good microphone to record with which led to some audio levels being too hot and becoming a little bit distorted.

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