In this week’s workshop, we talked about the reading of Tim Wu’s ‘Introduction’ and ‘Epilogue’. We briefly discussed about how people are easily distracted in today’s time because people’s attention seems to have become the the most valuable thing and what media makers are competing for.
Moving on to the next bit, we’re assigned to produce a 2-3 mins audio called ‘Can I Have Your Attention Please?’. Joanna and I decided to do a fictional one so we spent about 15 mins working on the script. We wanted to make it a funny one so we came up with a story of this conversation between this girl who’s really addicted to her phone and her friend.
Her friend is trying to talk to her but she does not pay attention and keeps being focused on her phone until she bumps into a garbage bin.
We wanted to start the story with narration and then comes in the actual story. We wandered around the campus trying to find a place quiet enough for us to record the narration but could not find any. Until we walked passed an elevator that happened to be open and then the light bulb above our heads just flashed ‘ON’. We got into the elevator and close the door and started to record. The quality of the clips were incredibly good – loud and clear without any noise. But the con was that it got interrupted by people who used the elevator now and then so it actually took a bit more time than we thought to record it and got the ideal clip. Then we moved on to the outside to record the rest. We recorded the sound of our footsteps and the ‘thud’ when she bumps into the bin. We also recorded the conversation a couple of times to get the ideal one.