- Maker: Jordan Guido
- Genre: Audio Guide- Soundscape
- Level: Graduate
- Program: Composition, Rhetoric, and Digital Media
- Course: WRIT 5340: Multimodality & Digital Media
- Instructor: Dr. Eric Mason
- Semester Created: Winter 2021
Description:
In this short guided mindfulness practice, listeners are asked to focus their attention throughout their bodies. In focusing our attention on multiple parts of our bodies we will be better equipped to attend to our bodily needs.
Transcription:
Hello everyone, welcome to our body scan mediation for today. Find a comfortable place to sit or lay down. Now with a conscious awareness of doing so lower your gaze or close your eyes. Take 3 deep breaths. Focus on where you feel your breath in your body. Feel yourself grounded to whatever surface you feel coming in contact with your body. Now draw your attention to your feet – what do feel here. Moving up to the calves – up to your thighs – your torso – stomach – chest, and shoulders – coming down the arms and into the hands. Now feel the sides and top of your head. Take three deep breaths. Now with an awareness of doing so – when you are ready raise your gaze or open your eyes.
Reflection:
In creating this mindfulness practice audio guide, I was met with plenty of obstacles – such as volume leveling and peaking levels. I began my process on audacity and quickly found the interface too complicated for my objectives. I switched over to combining and mixing the audio levels on iMovie. In iMovie to combine tracks, there needs to be a principle image – thus the audio guide needed a visual component, which was made via Canva.
