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Where are you in your soundwriting process? What’s been done and what’s still left to do?
I’ve already written and recorded my script. The only step left is to listen to my recording over making sure it is all set and finalized.
What are your biggest accomplishments and failures so far? How do you feel about that?
I think the biggest accomplishment was finalizing the script because it took a while in rereading the script and making sure it all made sense in terms of reading aloud and sounding like a conversation. I think a failure would probably be not feeling that my in-studio recording was the best mostly because of the nervousness. Overall, though, I am happy with the final product.
What have you learned so far?
I have learned a lot about writing a script. It may seem easy, but reciting it and writing it so it doesn’t sound like an essay is a bit challenging.
What ideas did you grapple with? Which problems have you solved, and which are you continuing to grapple with?
I solved the problem about the script sounding like an essay by making edits to it while reading it aloud. I think that a problem that I had a harder time with was having personality in my recording. It is harder to read aloud while trying to pretend that I am speaking normally than I thought.
How might you overcome the challenges and struggles?
I overcame the challenges by continuously reciting and listening to my recordings.
What decisions have emerged lately as you plan and work on your project?
Decisions that I had to make throughout working on my project revolved around deciding what to add and what to cut out of my script as some stuff sounded repetitive or didn’t make sense.
What is the next step in your composing process? What do you need to do, know, and write?
Overall, I have completed every aspect of my project. I could edit my recording a little bit more in terms of if I had repeated a sentence or mispronounced a word and had to go back and reread what I was supposed to say.
Walk through the four elements of the rhetorical situation:
How are you feeling about your progress toward achieving your purpose?
I am feeling good about achieving my goal.
How are you feeling about your progress toward affecting your audience?
I feel relatively good about my recording and its effect on the audience. I hope that they are able to understand my train of thought and topic of discussion.
How are you feeling about your progress toward situating your work in time and place of your context?
I think I could’ve done better in terms of time management for this project, but I still put a lot of effort into it, I just think I could’ve spread out the work evenly.
How are you feeling about your progress toward following the expectations of your genre?
I’m feeling pretty good about following the expectations of my genre. The poem I looked at was really interesting, and I hope that I conveyed its image and relation to the genre in an understandable way.
