Link to our audio:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/eq2awijx987hlcs/AADmRCwzphPU_HC57Vqd_L0Pa?dl=0

 For starters, we spent a little time Brainstorming what subject we should choose for this project. When Courtney offered up the idea of asking her friend Jarom about his song-writing process, Marcelle eagerly agreed that it would be a fun idea for this task. We both love music and thought it would be fun to hear about the process of creating these sweet sounds from someone who does it for commercial purposes. So on we went into the preparation part of the process by scheduling a time to meet with Jarom and trying to think of questions to offer him as a prompt. We were both excited to talk to him and to hear what he had to offer on the subject of song-writing. We quickly found that this shy, timid-voiced young man could be rather excitable when given a topic he was passionate about. As we sat in that tiny little room in an old church building, we both considered the value and importance of having an interesting subject and enough material to show it to be so. Jarom most certainly provided us with both of these things. I thought back to some of the examples I had seen of Process videos in class. They catch your eye (or in this case, ear) quickly, showing you something that is intriguing to any and every kind of audience. They peak your curiosity, they make you want to know more about the subject at hand. I don’t think I’ve ever met a person in my life who didn’t like some kind of music, even if they weren’t entirely inclined in the production of it themselves, they usually still found it interesting to hear the fun facts about what went into making their favorite songs. Getting to listen to Jarom was like this in a way. To see and hear his excitement about all the different things that go into his personal song-writing process was immensely fun and informative. After getting more than enough sound footage from Jarom, both of him talking and playing, we made a game plan for how we wanted our final sound snippet to turn out and what other elements we would need to add to it in order to accomplish our vision. We met up again, a few days later in the Media Lab and put together all the different sound bits we had until we had the final result we were hoping for. Going through the process of learning about and putting together a piece of informative audio about someone else’s artistic process was an eye-opening and introspective opportunity that we both really enjoyed.