Note: make sure the sound is turned up on your computer as the audio on these videos is not very loud. If you invest about 12 minutes of time to watch the video tutorials I have embedded below, you should have enough basic information to make your voice-over. Audacity is a multi-platform program that can be used with either the Windows, Mac or Linux environments. You can download the software and install it on your computer. This software can do some pretty sophisticated stuff, but the good news is that there isn't a very steep learning curve to be able to generate your audio track. For this class we are going to use an open source (freeware) program called Audacity for recording your audio and any editing of it that you might want to do. You will need three things - a computer, a microphone and audio editing software. This actually is not a very difficult thing to do. Once you have written your narrative, you need to record it. Read this document which gives tips on scriptwriting for recording narration. Conversely, when writing for the spoken word, the writing should be more conversational. When writing something people will read, you write formally. Your product is not being read by your audience, but rather, they will be listening to what you have to say.

There is one issue you need to consider when generating the narrative or voice-over for your video. Hopefully, you are well into writing a draft of your narrative.

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