Above the roar of the crowd you can make out the kitchen slang, “heard” shouted from the back of the house to the front of the house for an order on the fly! I worked in restaurants through undergrad and the level of chaos is unbridled. There’s everything from romance to cliquishness, to full-on hatred. There are slackers and there’s hard work. AND customers get hella cray! The drama is unending and gossip is lurking around every corner, “so, I heard…”
I set this up as a trailer for a series. The crowded restaurant sound was recorded by me. I added silverware/dishes audio from the collective commons source “Dishes.” The speaking voice is me. I used a jazzy, fine dining instrumental from an open source. I learned a lot from YouTube about fading and ducking effects in the Audacity software.
Hi, LaSandra! I really like the ambient sounds combined with music at the beginning of your podcast—it’s immersive and intriguing, and sets me up to expect a light-hearted, gossipy podcast. I like the cover you created, too: it makes the bar/restaurant theme clear and suggests that there will be some humor along with the drama. If you were going to make any changes, I might suggest adjusting the volume of your voice to stand out a little more from the background sounds and music; perhaps it was just my headphones, but your narration blended in a bit. Overall, I think this is a good concept and you executed it very well!
Hiya Lasandra!
Really interesting concept for a podcast. I think talking about the hospitality industry is very fascinating due to having a ton of friends who work in that field and them telling me what goes on behind the scenes. I definitely agree with Victoria in terms of your voice is a little hard to hear sometimes especially at the beginning. That was really my only remark which is maybe making your voice pop out a little more.
Thanks for sharing with us and best of luck this semester!