First off we looked at the blog marks we had up until Christmas, and I was happy with mine! Then we moved on to look at multimedia "pallette" and how audio can be captured from the real world (e.g. recorded audio / video) or created electronically (e.g. synthesised audio / computer animations). We were also told about different audio types, what you need to consider when using audio and other aspects such as content / interface / incidental audio. The lecture notes also covered the production effort; which would include things such as scripting / composing, acting / performing and many others.
The tutorial was also based on audio files, but we actually got to edit some sounds using Audacity. The sound wasn't working on my computer (and yes I checked if the volume was turned up etc!) but I still followed the notes and had a go at it. But I did find Bethan's eventual duck sounds amusing that she made out of the files, so I got a good idea of how it worked by watching what she was doing too (although I thik some people were a bit irritated by the the repeated quacking and giggling coming from our side of the room).
Overall I enjoyed both the tutorial and the lecture this week and found both gave me a better understanding of audio files and what you can actually do with them. But I think the tutorial was more benefitial for me just because I tend to learn more when I'm doing something myself rather than sitting and listening to someone because I'm quite easily distracted. So I'm looking forward to hopefully getting to use Audacity again and editing some more audio files. I still found the lecture very informative and I had learned something new by the time it had finished.
I also looked up some tutorials on Audacity for future reference:
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/tutorials
http://www.edhsonline.org/other/audacity/
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