Creation Experience

I utilized the voice memo app on the phone to record my meditation session. I ensured that my voice was calming to help add the meditative state of the audience which is who the meditation was intended for. Once I completed my recording I then edited it in Premiere Pro. I added the ocean sounds to add the calm and peace of the recording. Additionally I lowered the volume of the ocean waves as it initially was overpowering my voice which made it counter-productive to the goal of this audio clip. Once the volume of the ocean was lowered, it added to the overall experience of the meditative tone of the audio clip. Overall this was an enjoyable process.

Take a look Behind the Scenes

Audio in Narrative Proposal

Title: Treat yourself to Peace!

Concept Overview: This audio recording is a meditation session that encourages people to conduct deep breathing, connect with their surroundings, and think of peaceful and happy thoughts. 

Statement of Need: The pandemic has caused many people’s mental health to deteriorate.  People need a tactic that they can utilize to help calm their nerves throughout the day. This meditation recording is about 2 minutes. Anyone despite how busy or overwhelmed they may be, can take 2 minutes to recenter themselves through this recording. 

Concept Description: The listener will follow the instructions in the recording. The spoken word itself is spoken in soft, mellow tones that are slowed down to give the listener a moment to also slow their thoughts and/or physical manifestation of their anxiety. The ocean waves in the background are added to provide additional relaxing tones to the audio. 

Target audience: The audience is anyone who’d like a moment to relax.

Learning Goals: 

• Listeners will learn to relax
• Listeners will learn to center their emotions
• Listeners will learn of a quick and easy technique to utilize when feeling stressed or overwhelmed

Learning Theories: 

• Voice Theory (Moreno and Mayer, 2000):  This is the notion that humans learn best from human voices  versus computer voices. This is because human voices are more relatable than computer voices and has natural inflections and capture people’s attention more. Computer voices tend to be monotone and unnatural sounding so people may zone out more frequently and result in them not learning as much when listening to automated voices. 

References

Moreno, R., & Mayer, R. E. (2000). Engaging students in active learning:The case for personalized multimedia messages.Journal of EducationalPsychology,92, 724 –733