An excellent first step in creating any media work is to examine exemplary works of the same type. Make a list for yourself of what makes these examples strong and inspiring.

Don't skip this step!

By growing your skills in the tools used in any project, you save yourself time and produce stronger work.

When beginning a new media project, it's best to organize your resources in a single location.

To write this type of autobiographical poem, you'll need to make a list of memorable influences.

• ex., I'm from the dirt under the back porch×
• ex., I'm from fried corn and strong coffee×

In this step, you'll turn the lines you wrote in your brainstorming work into a real poem.

At this point, you must decide on how and where to record yourself reading your poem.

• Sound Booth
• Tascam Recorder
• Mobile Device

Having written your poem, choose a soundtrack to layer behind your reading of the poem. Make sure to choose music that matches the theme and tone of your poem.

Now, you'll create an audacity project for layering together all the audio you've found and created.

Next, we'll import your voice recording and your soundtrack into your new Audacity project.

In this step, you will edit each of your tracks, layering and syncing them so that they sound like one polished audio track, beginning to end. Remember that the volume level of the soundtrack should be low enough that it underscores your reading of the poem rather than dominating it.

Now, you'll need to export your poem to a format which can be shared on the web, such as MP3.

In this last step, you'll upload your audio poem to Soundcloud, to share with others.

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