{"id":530,"date":"2019-06-28T16:01:55","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T16:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whyy2019.nextgenradio.org\/?p=530"},"modified":"2019-06-28T17:23:54","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T17:23:54","slug":"swimming-through-the-sound-waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whyy2019.nextgenradio.org\/2019\/06\/28\/swimming-through-the-sound-waves\/","title":{"rendered":"Swimming Through The Sound Waves"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When I learned I was accepted into the Next Generation Radio program, I let out a tiny scream at work and proceeded to excitedly tell all of my coworkers. A wave of anxiety soon washed over me at the realization that I had no experience with audio editing; I was miles away from my comfort zone.<\/p>\n

However, if this week has taught me anything, it is that getting out of your comfort zone is necessary to succeed. I was frustrated, I was stressed, I was anxious \u2014 but that was all overshadowed by how excited I was to deliver my final product. Throughout this week, a real sense of community shone through, especially with my fellow mentees. There was not a minute where I felt uncomfortable talking to my mentor, the audio techs, the photographers, the artists and the editors. (Yes, they are intimidating but kind.)<\/p>\n

Since my previous experience was mostly with print and video, I was nervous to work exclusively with audio. I had worked as a radio panelist \u2014 but there\u2019s a stark contrast between that and crafting an unscripted audio piece. Cutting a 30-minute interview down to four minutes is a behemoth task, and I am proud that I was able to complete it while keeping the essence of the story.<\/p>\n

My interview with Violeta Rivera was conducted in Spanish, meaning I had to translate it in order to craft the story with my mentor and audio engineers. But the language difference never felt like a barrier, which surprised me, as editing audio is difficult enough, much less editing in a language you don\u2019t understand. It drove home to me how fortunate I was to work alongside professionals in the field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since my previous experience was mostly with print and video, I was nervous to work exclusively with audio. I had worked as a radio panelist \u2014 but there\u2019s a stark contrast between that and crafting an unscripted audio piece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":229,"featured_media":584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"coauthors":[17],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whyy2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whyy2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whyy2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whyy2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/229"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whyy2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whyy2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whyy2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whyy2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whyy2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whyy2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whyy2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}