This week Rusul and I outlined our project and what we want to focus on leading up to recording our podcast series. Rusul took the liberty of creating a subdomain to host our podcast series, as a platform for our audience to gather and listen to the three episode special of CyberTalks. I worked on scripts, completing one and starting another, with goals of having all three done by early next week so we can record shortly after that. After the recording session, we plan to spend the rest of the time editing our episodes, using the same platform we used on the radio show, both having familiarity with it. I’m excited to record! And glad that Rusul and I have coordinated so well to make a solid plan of how we’re going about finishing up this class strong. Stay Tuned!
Author Archives: The Digital Canvas
Weekly Summary- 4/11
This week was mainly focused on making the trailer for our final project. I’m deciding to combine the trailer post and the summary for the week, so let’s discuss the trailer. Our final project is going to be a blog podcast series focusing on different tech themes, which also taking a bit of a more positive approach. It’s called Cyber Talks, and if you haven’t already watched the trailer embedded above, then you should. For production, we used Canva to be able to easily test how we want out video to be structured. Going through different styles in a matter of minutes proved to be a very time-effective method to find a style that works for what we want to do with the show. We ultimately decided on a glitchy, noir themes trailer, not that I think that would surprise anyone, to present our 3 episode special. The start of the trailer intentionally included a podcast studio to give the audience a sense of being in the studio with us while we record, a form of persuasion to make sure we get as much of a turnout of viewers as possible.
Per usual, here are the 3 daily creates I did this week.
Weekly Summary- 4/3
This week I listened to Noir News the streamed on the ds106 radio channel. I ended up looking back on the discord conversation as well because at the time of the live broadcast I was unable to contribute to the chat. Nonetheless, I really enjoyed Noir News and it felt like an actual news broadcast to me. Starting off with a newscaster voice set the tone perfectly, and I think the focus on robots gave a cool futuristic but realistic take on what future news stories could look like. The commercials had new sounds layering going on to not seem too plain, and having a well known brand commercial in Dunkin Donuts connected the show to our current world and helped find a futuristic/realistic balance within the show.
This week I also did 3 daily creates, and will post them below, per usual.
Weekly Summary- 3/28
It has been filmed! This week me and my group made and edited our final script, focused on a central theme of dating in a more digitalized age with dating apps and algorithms in control. We then used the Podcast Studio in the Digital Knowledge Center to film our base radio show, recording 4 scenes to split up later in the editing process. The recording was pretty straightforward, but editing was a bit more challenging. We used soundtrap, which is a program I have never used before, but enjoyed testing and exploring. Trying to find the right times to layer sounds in the background and not disrupt the flow of the conversation. Finding all of the right timings and cutting clips when needed and easing into bumpers and commercials made for a time-consuming editing process, but I’m glad the experience is under my belt now. The finished product can be found here on SoundCloud!
You know the drill. Here are my 2 daily creates for the week:
Weekly Summary- 3/21
This week was a good start to our radio show project, the first of the bigger projects of the class. Talking to my group went pretty smooth, communicating over discord and settling on a concept for our show and a plan for how to execute that concept. We made an outline and script for our show, making room for commercials and bumpers. This week I also created a promo poster for our show, as well as 2 audio assignments. I used those assignments to create an Aquaphor commercial for the show, using audacity to layer sounds to give additional effects. For my second audio assignment, I used audacity again to create a transition between clips to have something different than a bumper but similar enough that it would flit in. Using my time and effort to create these will help smoothen the process in creating the show come next week.
Outside of those assignments, I did my 3 daily creates this week which are listed under here as has become usual.
Daily Creates:
The Week Before
This week was the first full week of working with my group on our upcoming radio show, now titled The Opposites. Getting in touch and first starting is never easy, but I believe it was as seamless as it could be. We discussed and came up with a plan regarding our show’s contents, as well as made an outline for our show with a general script to follow to make things more structured and organized. The process is going well and I think myself, Rusul, and DK have a solid plan to put everything together the following week.
Opposites Attract
The show is coming soon!! Tune in to “The Opposites” next weekend and listen to your hosts, Eric and DK, help their listeners through all sorts of problems during this new and developing digitized age.
I created a promo poster for our upcoming radio show, The Opposites, using Canva to explore how society has changed with increasing technological advancements. I designed the poster in monochrome—black, white, and gray—to emphasize that not everything is glamorous as technology develops, and to reflect the show’s darker undertone. The poster’s darkness also aligns with our class theme of tech noir, which was another goal of mine. I also added a slight glitch effect to the text to reinforce the theme of technology and contrasted older music cartridges with modern smartphones to provide the audience with a visual representation of the development the show highlights. I really enjoyed making this poster as a form of advertisement.
One thing to another
For my second audio assignment of the week, I chose the Radio Show Intermission assignment, which consists of offering the listeners a break from the discussion that is going on during a show. I took a different approach to this assignment though, creating a brief intermission to transition to be able to go from discussion to another aspect like an ad or a different segment of the show. I wanted to make it quick, but also harsh, to show it’s not meant to blend flawlessly into the show, it’s meant to stick out a little to give the listeners an idea of something changing and to bring back full attention.
Marketing for Aquaphor
For my first audio assignment of the week, I chose the Create a Commercial assignment, using the opportunity to make something to incorporate into the upcoming radio show project. I chose to do aquaphor because it is something that I frequently use as chap stick and for personal hygiene. I put this together in a soothing way, in order to eventually create some contrast between our radio show and the commercial iself, and also because it fits the them of the product.
Weekly Summary- 3/14
This week was a fairly low radar week compared to others. Coming back from spring break was a bit of a challenge to get reacclimated, but pushed on nonetheless. This week, I reached out in the discord and figured out a group to do the upcoming radio show project, and started to coordinate ideas with them regarding our plans for the show (tune in soon!!). Besides that, did the usual for the week and commented on my classmates different posts, and did 3 daily creates, of which will be included below as always.
Daily Creates
