Here are some final thoughts on the making of our radio show. Below is a clip for the documentary, talking mostly about making the ghost story:

This is the poster I made for our show in Illustrator. Credit to this font and this gorgeous collection of creative commons maps.

As I mention in the documentary clip, the ghost story itself is based on this real life plane crash. Some alternate tellings of the original I’ve heard involve the ghost leading people to fall to their death from cliffsides, as well as a few really strange ones where the ghost tricks you into getting shot by guards from an underground government facility that is in the area. It’s an odd, always changing story.

Below is one of the portions of the audio files I made for this:

I’m getting better at using Audacity — this was way more complex than anything I was brave enough for during the earlier audio assignments. I had to mess with a lot of the sound effects, altering speed and amplification and overlapping multiple sounds and such. The trickiest parts were the voices, though. It was hard to make the recordings Hannah did for the ghost voice creepier.. changed the pitch and I think there is some echo going on at some point. I wish there were a “make anything you say sound like you are terrified” effect, because I am pretty awful at voice acting.

This is a collection of all the disconnected segments I worked on which will be interwoven throughout the final radio show (thus the choppiness here):

credit for all the sound effects:

• http://www.freesound.org/people/daveincamas/sounds/43807/
• http://www.freesound.org/people/sagetyrtle/sounds/40158/
• http://www.freesound.org/people/sandyrb/sounds/95078/
• http://www.freesound.org/people/suonho/sounds/58962/
• http://www.freesound.org/people/FreqMan/sounds/69211/
• http://www.freesound.org/people/afterguard/sounds/41848/
• http://www.freesound.org/people/Jace/sounds/17804/
• http://www.freesound.org/people/rfhache/sounds/54869/
• http://www.freesound.org/people/Royal/sounds/17729/
• http://www.freesound.org/people/thanvannispen/sounds/9665/
• http://www.freesound.org/people/jppi_Stu/sounds/22159/
• http://www.freesound.org/people/Robinhood76/sounds/55690/
• http://www.freesound.org/people/HerbertBoland/sounds/33207/
• http://www.freesound.org/people/bevangoldswain/sounds/54778/
• http://www.freesound.org/people/dobroide/sounds/22384/
• http://www.freesound.org/people/dobroide/sounds/20575/

And finally, some bloopers and outtakes from our recording sessions: