Working Wings is a residential transition service that I am developing.
Inspiration
Years ago, my husband and children spent their time helping seniors remain in their homes by maintaining their yards and providing light home maintenance. It was a period of our life that was arguably the most satisfying and one in which our kids were able to develop significantly valuable experiences.
Fast forward a decade where we are now working with our elderly parents. My husband’s mom suffered a stroke about 10 years ago which left her left side useless. After sharing an incredibly affluent life, the home care they were financing, began to drain their resources and my father-in-law’s health began to deteriorate.
We re-located them here to Washington and began the process of liquidation of their two homes and several businesses. Over the course of two years, the process was daunting and physically draining. I started to wonder how seniors without the type of support we were providing could ever navigate this process.
I am attempting to use my audio story to convey the journey towards this business motive and I am still in the process of establishing the best way to showcase.
I decided to combine our early roots with this latest aspiration, but unfortunately about the same time, our neighbor of over 20 years passed away. This left his home and property to his daughter who had never been a homeowner with over 30 years of interior content and interior repairs as well as a garage that would be viewed as a premier shop to most.
Approach
I personally recorded two different recordings, I then recorded a musical audio, and outdoor audio and three internal I used a phone and the recorder on my Surface. I am still working with them to see if any or all will fit in the final and then I conducted an interview with the person whose house we helped with.
I have a new-found love for the zoom tool as well as re-sizing the actual audio file to capture the sections I wanted.
I placed all of the files in different tracks and kept a blank track beneath the one that was my primary. I found the razor tool to be the easiest to work with so proceed to cut each of the files in places that I thought captured primary thoughts or points
Work To Do
The entire track is too long so I have more work to do in trying to identify the most impactful components to try to shorten.
I have an interview scheduled next week with a person who has done home remodels to get his perspective on viability as well as how to best prepare our customers.
I want to smooth the transition between some of the tracks and need to adjust the volume- although, for the life of me can’t figure out how to do that. Every time, I try to grab the yellow volume line, the entire piece moves and none of the other options I have found on YouTube have worked yet, I’m hoping for a miracle, and can’t wait for your feedback and input!
Self Critique
The feedback I received is really what I expected because I know that I need to make my presentation more attractive so that it can be engaging in a way that will help tell my story in a way that it can be appreciated. I will work on my sound techniques and hope that collectively will produce a better product.
I loved the post from the person who commented so I am confident that if I can incorporate those thoughts with my vision, I will get it to the level being expected. I love this forum and I appreciate the extra time my teammates contribute in my interest.
Residential Transition 
Hi, Sylvia! I think you started some good work on your audio project and you raised up quite an interesting topic about filling in a need for elderly shelter into a business. Indeed, seniors without any support might find very difficult to survive in this world and I hope your social project will work out well!
Your interview with one of the people you tried to help is a good choice because the audience needs to know your clients, what they need and how they manage to live their life, some of the struggles they are going through is very important to raise later on funds for your business.
From the perspective of a podcast production, you did a good introduction about the topic just that you need to make it more attractive and try to add more audio elements to the story. I would choose a melancholic music to go as a background. You mentioned you already recorded some ambiance, but I was not able to listen to them, in case you did, then this would be a good element to add as much as possible in between the talks or as a background. I noticed that you have cut the words in the end and in the beginning, try to smooth it in and out.
Also, try to find some advertising ads that are already talking about your problem and add it by saying how would you do your business differently. Producing a dynamic audio program is going to help you anyway because you may want to use it in a future campaign. you may also try to ask what type of instrument your clients like or may be some can even play and record it to add to your program.
I wish you good luck and hope my comments will give you some ideas to improve your sound project.
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Thank you Natalia! I’m sure that you can tell that this is my first blog ever and I’m just being introduced to the Adobe suite. Your input is invaluable and particularly coming from someone who has such a powerful story. Thanks again!!
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