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Trying to Fit into Week 9

This week was a very different pace for me. Dealing with group work without knowing or even having met them was proving to have me defeated. The reason I say this is because I was dependent on other people and not just my work. None the less, everything got done in time for this Friday.

In this week I was given two audio assignments which I completed to the best of my ability. I thought that I did well on both, however, I think I might redo my radio bumper. I am happy with the assignment, but I want to change it for the radio show because I feel like it does not fit in that well. The other assignment I did was an audio commercial which was fun, and it challenged the creative side of my mind. Down below are both assignments which I put my audio in SoundCloud.

If you want to learn how this was created click Here.
If you want to learn how this was created click Here.

Next our professor wanted to know how the progress and process of the actual radio show was going which you are able to read as well if you click the button below.

Progress & Process

Since we are creating a radio show, of course we had to create a design which you can read about how I created it if you click on the picture below.

With all of these assignments we had our famous thing we do each week: Daily Creates. However this week we only had to do three. I remember at the beginning of this class we were doing five a week. I do not miss those times…well maybe a little bit because they are my favorite thing in the class.

Kellbellz: “@tdc #ds106 #tdc4449 Meet ag…” – ds106 Social

Kellbellz: “@tdc #tdc4450 #ds106 A witch …” – ds106 Social

Kellbellz: “@tdc #ds106 #tdc4451 I found …” – ds106 Social

Till next week.

Radio Show Logo

I have decided to have a logo that was simple so the public would be able to easily remember the logo that is connected to the Radio Show. I saw the eye in the logo and the catch phrase came to me so easily, “Showing The World Through A New Eye.” I chose this catch phrase because in the Radio we are talking about Artificial Intelligence and how it is changing the world. The Radio Name that I came up with was “The Digital Agencies Podcast.” This name came from our group since all of our course characters all work in different companies.

For this assignment I used two different kinds of tools to make life easy on me:

Brand Crowd helped me choose a free design. I feel like I did the assignment backwards because now as I am reflecting on my process, I should have found a name for the Radio Show first and then looked up a designed. I went through so many pages trying to a good design which paid off because my eyes was automatically drawn to the one, I am using.

Next was deciding a catch phrase which was fun to think about, and it matched so perfectly to the logo I had already picked out. I did not use a tool for this because the words came to me so smoothly and easily.

Finally, was picking out a name for our Radio Show which I used River Side to help me out. There were a lot of trials and errors using this site. Most of the suggestions it gave me were one word. I knew that I wanted a full name and not just “A.” I typed everything into that little box: “AI”, “Artificial Intelligence”, “Aggressive Technologies”, and finally when I typed “Digital storytelling” is when I was able to find the name that I thought fit our group.

On Brand Crowd you can edit what you want the logo to say. I put our radio name into the biggest text and then slogan underneath and BAM! Assignment completed. The use of these tools made my way easier than I could have imagined. I guess that is why they are tools. 😊

Radio Show Design Project

by Andrew Johnson

Bring Your Thoughts Together

For the Radio Show Design Project, I want to create a poster that would attract the eyes to view our station. With the help of Mini Canvas, the title of the show is located at the top while a concise description of what is going to be chatted about is shown at the bottom center. The large lettering “AI” comes off as very illustrative & unique to a viewer, especially with the lines connected represent an indicator to all aspect of artificial intelligence.

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Group Work 1

The progress and process of my group has been challenging for me. I am not much of a group worker, especially when we cannot meet in person. I am not enjoying the process of working in the group because it seems as though the other two group members are teaming up to do the script…I feel like I am not doing enough for the project. I made sure to let my group members know that I am here to help however, I do not want to step on anyone’s toes. I do not even know if the radio show will have different kinds of voices because my group members are not communicating that well…I guess we will see what it ends up being like next week.

Our group has worked out that Peter and Rishi will work on the script, and I was going to create the logo and the name of the Radio show. We will each be doing a radio bumper and a commercial. We have three people in our group so that part was easy to figure out.

The different kind of tools I have used to far in making the radio bumper and commercial was:

Even though this was an audio project I found it easier to use Clip Champ because I have used it so many times, so I worked smarter and not harder by using this software than Audacity. So far, this project is going well for the different assignments I have been doing. I made sure to create audio assignments that my group could use for the Radio Show.

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Flying Cars Commercial

The first thing I started with was a script I wanted my commercial to say. I knew that I wanted to add Artificial Intelligence along with Aggressive Technologies. Down below is the script I used for this commercial:

NOW!  Introducing an affordable flying car! Josh is giving away flying cars to the first 3 people to call 1-800-fly-cars. With their new Artificial Intelligence navigation and voices to make you never feel like you are the only passenger in the car.  With only having to pay 200 a month to Aggressive technologies, this car is the breakthrough of public transportation for the sky!

*talks fast*: 200 a month for 5 years, no warranty, tires for the road are not included and you will have to pay your own insurance. Colors are limited edition year to year.

Call or go online to buy yours now!

After I got my wording down for this assignment, I used FreeSound to find this audio:

I then moved back to my script, and I put it in Natural Readers and recorded it on my phone. I then emailed myself the audio of the script. Once that step was completed, it was time to push the two audios together using ClipChamp. I was able to successfully create my commercial for the ds106 Radio Show.

This assignment was very easy because I have done this before, but it was more of a PSA and it had images that were connected. Which made the commercial way easier in my opinion!

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Bumpin Along

I first started with the Radio Bump by looking at some good songs I could use to give the feeling that the song was on the radio. However, this proved to be more difficult because all the sounds that are on Freesound are weird sounds and not someone actually singing a song. So, I ended up settling for the audio below:

She had a lovely voice and it was very calming and then came the easy part in my opinion because I have websites I stick with when I create audios.  The first thing I did was open up a Word and I started typing a little script on what I would like the host to talk about:

(guy online(natural)) Host: Good evening, thank you for joining us today while we listen to Ds106 Radio. We have a special guest to talk to us about AI technology. Josh take it away.

(Christopher online natural)) Josh: Thank you for inviting me to the beloved DS106 Radio! We can change every single pitch on DS106 Radio if we want to but of course will not change the lovely song that is playing.

After I created the wording I put it into Natural Readers. Then I chose the voices I wanted and recorded it on my phone. Once I got the audio from my phone to the computer, I put all the audio into Clipchamp. I chopped up the clips, formed them together and made sure the music was not overpowering what the host of the radio was saying.

All in all this assignment took me about 2 hours to complete. Which is not that bad from start to finish however that does not include me typing all of this.

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Radio Show Progress!

Hello! The Radio Show progress has been super fun! Our group has been in communication all week discussing different ideas and names, roles, when to meet, etc. We agreed on the name “Pop Perception”! I think it is such a fun name for our topic! I think our group is at a good position for the radio project! I don’t have much to say besides how we have been talking all week and are planning a good time to meet!

I hope everyone else is having a good time with their radio shows!

-Reese Kubricki