Before using this software I wanted to first come up with an idea on what the radio advert would be about and what it would roughly include. That is why I created this timeline that depicts what I wanted to include. First I came up with a product that I would sell. I decided to use the children's game known as "Zombie Dice". This meant that I needed to think of sounds that would resemble the genre of the game (horror), sounds that would appeal to a young audience (9 to 12 years old) and fit within a 30 second time frame as that is the standard length of time for a radio advert. As you can see in the timeline below I have clearly written what I wanted to include in my advert and the justifications for them. Something that was really helpful in the production of this radio advert was that when I visited the website for the game it had a text depicting what the game is in a child friendly way. I then read it aloud and timed how long it took to say. It came to 40 seconds long. Once making a few changes to shorten it I then had a script, which was really useful and saved a lot of time than making a script from scratch.
After finishing my timeline I began working on creating the radio advert for "Zombie Dice". In the picture below you can see the audition software and the final edit for my radio advert from 0:22 to 0:32.5. This piece of software was relatively easy to use. Embedding the audio files was easy to do as it was a simple drag and drop process. As you can see in tracks 1 and 4 I used a fade out. This was easy to do as it only required me to move a square in the top right corner of the track and drag it to the point where I wanted the track to start and fade. Something that I really liked about this software was that I had the ability to change where the tracks could be heard. This was great as it gave the advert some spacial awareness, thus making it appear realistic and therefore more exciting to buy. However, the software did have its problems as well. For example, I wasn't able to put 2 audio files in the same track. This meant that synchronizing the audio together was very difficult to do. Overall I think that this software would be great to use for my ancillary task in my coursework as it is easy to use.
Here is the final product.
