I decided to try an intermission, just to add something interesting and additional to the radio show. I incorporated this with my commercial. As a child, I always loved the idea of getting to call into the radio to answer the question, so I thought this would be a good way to do it! Because I struggled with reading out loud the previous one, I found an online voice generator to read out a script I wrote, recorded it on my phone, and then uploaded it to SoundCloud. I think it’s funny, I hope you will too.
Note: This assignment was originally a video idea, but I only used audio, so I feel that counts as an audio assignment.
I created a commercial for a service that relocates (rich) people to Mars. I wanted to be able to use my commercial for the radio show next week, so I started brainstorming ideas. I thought about the cruise to skip Trump’s second term, and I wondered how that could be applied in a futuristic way. I came up with this idea, hopefully it’s entertaining! I wrote out a short script on my phone and read it and recorded it with Audacity. I definitely recorded each snippet (I think there were 8 snippets in total) 2-5 times because I sometimes choke on my words. Practice makes perfect!
The assignment said to take my favorite song and remove the lyrics and see if anyone will be able to guess it. It is a pretty well known song so it should be pretty easy to guess. Hint it a a rap song by a very popular artist Lil Uzi Vert
Hear is a complication of spooky sounds that i put together to create a scary audio clip. I used souncloud to get these sounds, I found a haunted house sound and used that to create a erie enviorment followed by the singing of a little girl to make it feel as if you are in the house at the time and hearing the singing
I decided to modify the “Good Morning Message” assignment in order to make an intro for our radio show, Days of Crime and Roses (aka DOCAR).
I used Audacity to cut together Frank Sinatra’s Days of Wine and Rosesin order to make it a little more tech noir. I used a video of a women demonstrating how to pronounce the word “crime” in order to get a human audio of the word, and then copied the audio and distorted it in several different ways. I used my favorite YouTube to mp3 converter to turn these into editable files. I also grabbed a static effect from FreeSounds just to make everything extra disorienting. My favorite part of all of this was finding the perfect piece of instrumental to go under the word “crime” to make it fit within the rest of the song.
For this assignment, I completed the “MailChimp Message,” but instead with a more modern podcast sponsor. I listen to a lot of podcasts and have heard Quince advertised on almost every single one, so I opted to do that. Our radio show, Days of Crime and Roses, is now oficially sponsored by Quince! Hearing the MailChimp ad was so nostalgic, as I remember listening to it on Serial all those years ago!
To complete this, I used text-to-speech generators of several different voices. I ported everything into Audacity and spliced it all up. After that, I used Aiva to create the perfect backing audio for my ad and may propose using the same audio (or something similar) for our radio show!
Create a ds106 radio bumper was one of the audio assignments that I chose. I had a lot of fun creating the DS106 radio bumper and wanted to take another shot at it for this radio show project.
For this bumper, I kept it simple and used only two soundtracks that I found on FreeSounds.org. I used these two soundtracks as background music behind my own scripted audio recording.
I created a script for myself that I recorded for my Fearless Femmes group radio show. I used an intro line like “Alright, listen up. This is Sapphria Mae with the Fearless Femmes.” to be very direct and edgy to fit the fatale aspect of my archetype. But then I also used lines like “Hard times? They come and go, but you? You’re built for this.” to also mask the sassy and evil parts of my character. This is to fit the other aspect of my character archetype to be gracious, likeable, and try to gain some trust with our listeners.
This bumper is intended to be used during a section of the radio show that reminds people who the Fearless Femmes are, what we do, why, and how they can be a part of it. I also tried to make it a bit more personal between one character and the audience, sometimes it may seem more personal talking to the audience like that than the whole group saying something.
I posted the link/bumper below. Hope you guys like it.
I decided to make the intro for our podcast because I was inspired by the other powerful women in tech noir. I think TechNoir’s genre was most popular in the 1980s-1990s therefore I feel that although the women characters are strong, they are overlooked. To make the intro, I used free sounds from Freesounds and BBC’s audio library. I also used Feminomenon by Chappell Roan and lines from iconic female TechNoir characters such as Jessica Rabbit, from Who Framed Rodger Rabbit, Rachael from Blade Runner, and Quorra from Tron: Legacy. I wanted to include sound effects where it sounded like a phone was being dialed, rung, and picked up, because we are a lifestyle podcast where listeners can call in and ask for advice. I also included the line from Feminomenon where Chappell says, “It’s a Fem” because our podcast is called Fatal Fems. Making the intro was relatively easy but it ended up taking me a long time to finish because it didn’t sound “right” to me. I used Adobe Audition to compile the sounds and I mixed and matched to figure out what sounds best where. The ending didn’t sound right to me at first, because it comes at a part in the song where the music is building up, so it sounded weird as an ending. I think what ended up helping the most for me, was that I tweaked the timing to slow it down. I’m not sure on why that ended up fixing it, but I did. Other things I did was deleting instrumentals and fading in/out of the music to transition clips.
This is the Signing Words assignment. I chose to do this assignment because I took four years of ASL in high school and love the language and culture. Because of this I was able to finger-spell this phrase without a problem!
It has definitely been a while since I have signed, and it for sure has been a while since I have had to record myself signing. My last year of ASL was online due to COVID. Yikes.
I recorded this short video on my phone and got rid of the sound in iMovie. Do you know what I am finger-spelling?
