MAS 432   Audio Production
WRFL Calendar Tutorial Exercise

This assignment requires you to execute the steps necessary for successful completion of the WRFL Calendar Tutorial Exercise.  This exercise is designed to be an introduction to some of the basic concepts, practices, and techniques of audio production in a digital environment, but it also is your trial run at one of the most important roles of this class -- collaborating with JOU 304 to produce a daily three-minute calendar of campus and community events that will air several times daily on WRFL-FM. The exercise will also demonstrate to you the absolutely vital importance of proper file management, not only in a multi-user computing environment, but also internally within the structure of an audio project file.

Here are the essential elements of the tutorial, which is an exercise in various aspects of editing sound in a video project:

•	Moving around within a sound file, including zooming in and out 
•	Highlighting, deleting and moving elements of a sound file by various means
•	Using file menus to select appropriate tools and indicators
•	Normalizing a sound file, and the appropriate uses for normalizing
•	Importing sound files to an audio project
•	Manipulating and moving tracks within an audio project
•	Mixing tracks by manipulating signal strength

Beyond the above, here are some general guidelines:

•	Remember these three most important aspects of digital audio production: file management, file management, and file management.
•	There isn't room for much creativity in this assignment, which makes it all the more important that your production be flawless.  The grading criteria are based solely on how well you execute the formula and the manner in which you perform and edit the VO.