Creepy Roommate Story

Creepy Roommate Story

Here's my audio file, a story about a creepy roommate that I had to live with this semester, or at least for the first month. I went through a few iterations of what I wanted to do, first I wanted to do a comedy style thing, then I wanted to read a play I wrote for another class, but eventually ended up settling on re-telling this story. This was about the 10th time I told the story, and as I was getting to the 4 minute mark, realized I had quite a bit left to tell, so I had to alter exactly what I was saying and fit the rest of the story into the remaining minute. Of course, then it became rushed and all that, but I had already cut out a giant portion of the story and I figured the last part wasn't nearly as important the rest of the story, though clearly it was the most climatic. I preserved most of my pauses and my "umms" as I felt like it added to the story. I mean, I am trying to be a story teller, as I am a rhetoric major, so I figured that if I am a writer, I need to be able to tell stories out loud as well. I know, I know, we were supposed to make use of audio editing, but you also said we could record whatever we wanted so I wanted to recreate the story that I had told so many times before to all my friends who consider it incredibly creepy, the pauses I left in were ones that I left in during the times when I was telling the story, as those are times when people would gasp or ask a question or say something like “oh my god, are you serious?” I used Adobe Audition for this project, an entertaining little program that is actually an Adobe branded version of Cool Edit Pro, a program I had used for a few years prior to using this. Unfortunately, I am terrible at audio and I don’t really know what sounds good with music, so I neglected to add sounds and things like that. I’m pretty much the opposite of what someone would call an audiophile, caring very little for music or things of that nature, which pretty much alienates me from most of the ‘normal’ people.
Yes, it’s weird not to listen to music, and I guess it is kind of weird not to want to add sound effects, but again, if I am just going to be telling a straight up story using words, I didn’t think that it was entirely appropriate to add “NEWS BULLETIN” esque sounds. Now, my story is 100% true, nothing is made up, the names are all correct, and things like that. I didn’t work from a script, but I’ll make a transcript for it. The reason I didn’t work from a script is, like I said, because I’ve told the story so many times before I didn’t think it necessary to do so. I find scripts incredibly rigid, though I probably would have just ignored most of what was written and added my own quips to what I had already written (which would likely have already been filled to the brim with quips so therefore it would have been doubly ludicrous.) All in all, I think it came out sounding alright, and it was simple enough to record and do the very little bit of editing that I did to make it sound “better.”