Today’s lecture was given by Kyla Brettle, who is the professional audio maker. The topic of ‘Writing in sound’ was titled for today’s lecture. She talked about writing and sound, especially how to create a creative sound as a beginner. In fact, we are going to make our own audio as our PB4 assignment, so this lecture is a good chance to note some valuable perspectives for preparing our owns. For me, I had no experience in audio making area and I am not confident and interest in it. However, Kyla played some audios as the examples, which allowed me to get some points from them. To start with, it is considerate that the listeners may lose their interest after 3-4 minutes due to the reason that audio is without any pictures or actions to attract audiences’ attention. Therefore, the sound becomes the most important thing. Kyla mentioned three key points: sound, voice and music. In deed, these are very vital elements to compose a completed audio production. Firstly, the tone of voice should be noticed because no one will concentrate on it if you just speak in a less-than-enthusiasitic tone of voice, it will be as damaging as a negative remark. In addition, sound effect is fairly important. Although people won’t take too much notice of the effect, it can strongly hint what is the speaker going to talk about. Besides, when we edit the audio, we need to pay attention on the layers, which means that all the sound be combined together suitably and smoothly. Therefore, I am wondering how to make my audio to be more attractive and nature to get audiences’ attention by using different kind of techniques. Finally, her explanation on how to an audio piece was a valuable tip, explaining that we need to give listeners some time to breathe instead of cramming too much information. In short, this lecture is helpful and gives us a lot of tips, so that I will remember these and not to treat my audio piece too far away from the right track.