In week 10 the focus was on sound within media as well as sound based mediums and projects such as radio and podcasts. I’ve really had limited experience working with sound in the past so I found this topic fresh and interesting to learn about. I’d also never used Adobe Audition in my life and had no idea what I was doing with the task of recording with a group and mixing an audio clip about social media and phone use. I did actually get the hang of Audition fairly quickly though as it’s work-space and layout is  very similar to Premier, this didn’t stop my end product from being super messy and embarrassing to listen to due to terrible mixing and balancing of the levels of individual recordings within the audio segment. Filmers such as John Hicks often stress the importance of good sound quality in videos also and recommend external shotgun mics highly when filming with DSLR cameras, up to this point almost everything I’d ever made had music in it, so I’ve never really worried about recording sound much at all, but after using the provided cameras with proper external mics and Tascam recorders I realized how much of a difference half decent audio can make. So in future I think I may aim to find a second hand shotgun mic to use and maybe speak to my friend who is experienced with mastering in order to make the most of audio aspects of media.