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Michael Nguyen’s Audio Project
Audio Book Face:
For this audio piece I will create a three-minute voice recording of myself. The recording will be of a discussion between a teenager and his mind. I plan to have the conversation run at a slow pace consisting of many echoes, repetitions, and run over sentences. By using these three performance devices I attempt to portray the many conflicts between an individual and his conscience, with a comedic twist. I have managed to distort the tone of my voice to easily distinguish the voices of character and the voice of his conscience. I chose this topic simply because social networking has become more than a part of our everyday lives. It has become who we are, we live it, and we breathe it, thus my title for the piece: Book Face. I decided on using this medium specifically because it was the best way I find to convey my message that social networking has become an addiction or a disease – namely Facebook. With the exception of one of the background sounds, (which is a loop I found on Garageband) I recorded and edited the remaining audio entirely by myself.
In my final product I can only hope that my message will be clearly understood. It is a simple concept that many teenagers can relate too. Almost every teen has a Facebook account, if not, I suppose they are still in the Myspace era, or using another form of social network and/or account. My goal is to give the audience a sense of anxiousness, and through the use of my reading devices, I believe that I can achieve that. The strong and distinct voices will have the ability to keep the audience drawn in. My piece does not include many sound effects, for I focused only on the characters voices and the dialogue between them. The many pauses and breaks between their conversation will allow the argument to have a greater sense of realism, in which I am hoping will better my chances of the audience relating to my message. My piece begins as just an informal fight between a teen and his conscience. The conscience is arguing of major problem found in the individual, who, is in complete denial. As my project progresses the character does give in and accept his faults and admit to his addiction. However, it is not until near the end of my piece that the audience will find out that this apparent addiction of the character is only of Facebook. Not a drug or an alcohol problem essentially, but something just as powerful and trapping.
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