I found an audio assignment 1665 Have a Phone Conversation with Yourself. I decided to use this for Lady Alice’s part of the radio show. You get a sneak peek at the show and are left hanging on what is fully going on.
Have fun guessing what is being said on the other side of the phone.
Well, that was an interesting phone call.
I made a commercial for Everlast Pets. I had previously made a PSA for the fake product, and I had wanted to make just an ad for it. I used Narakeet.com for the voices and Freesound.org for the music and other sounds used.
Overall, I like how my commercial turned out. The picture is of my lab and a few weeks old kitten. They are still the best of friends.
11780 labrador dog barks.wav by Robinhood76 — freesound.org/s/700748/ — License: Attribution NonCommercial 4.0
The other dog sounds, cat, and music were creative commons and can be found on Freesound.org
this is Fictional Radio Ad from the Audio Assignment Bank for DS 106 Audio Assignment 2009
Create a 30-45 second radio commercial for a product from the 80’s. Add in some background music and/or sound effects to make it sound like a real radio commercial.
For this assignment, I decided to venture into the realm of nonsense to come up with the most bizarre ad I could think of. Meet the Jetpack Jammies.
After painstakingly putting that vague vision into words, I used Voicemaker to create the narrator’s voice. I then used Audacity to create the old-timey radio effect on the voice and to speed up the disclaimer.
I got my music and the jetpack sound here. I used the same radio effect on both. Finally, I used Lexica to make the weird image you see now.
For my first audio assignment this week, I choose to do the Good Morning Message for The Village. I of course had a lot of fun making more ominous brainwashing content for this company and I hope other people do too!
It is always such a wonderful thing to hear a bright cheery voice delivering the Good Morning Message in The Village. Why don’t you bring some joy to the day and to your fellow Residents by creating and recording a wonderful message of community and cheer. Share your audio via Soundcloud and tag it appropriately.
Making this assignment was pretty simple since we’ve had time to get used to the various tools available.
First I used this text-to-speech tool to generate that cheery voice I knew this message needed. I then found that classic morning I needed music here. After getting both of those I did some quick editing using DaVinci Resolve’s Fairlight. And I know that that tool is generally used for far more complicated projects but I had been using it so much recently that it was where my cursor led me.
Finally, at the end of this assignment when I was about to upload it to SoundCloud, I felt that it was missing a photo for that final touch. So I generated one on Lexica and then edited the text on Photopea.
https://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/80s-product-radio-commercial/
“Create a 30-45 second radio commercial for a product from the 80’s. Add in some background music and/or sound effects to make it sound like a real radio commercial.“
I made a commercial fitting for my character, Hwei. He is attempting to sell AI powered prosthetic body augments with the promise of alleviating pain and enhancing performance. I think something like this is how Hwei would first introduce his inventions to the market, but not necessarily for monetary gain. This type of advertisement, if successful, would slowly introduce his inventions to society, and eventually making all of society accustom to getting this procedure done.
Most of the lines I chose were not sales tactics that you’d normally see in advertisements other than the intro that poses a question and then a solution. That is what makes Hwei’s commercial unique; no upselling, no monetary value mentioned. This also definitely isn’t from the 80’s but I took Professor Bond’s offer of bending assignments to meet our show, so I just did a regular commercial for this.
https://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/sick-beat/
"Make a sick beat, using whatever you can find on freesounds.org, and whatever you can record around you! I don’t care how long it is, just get groovy dood."
I bent this audio assignment a little bit to meet our needs for the podcast. I decided to go on freesound.org to find a suitable introduction song to our podcast. Actually, as we’re still in the process of splicing things together and deciding on which audio files would work for each scenario, I think that this may end up being a transition of some sort. There are a few other audio clips from the website that we have in mind but we won’t know for sure which ones to use until the rest of our show is structured.
I think this sound in particular has a very tech-y sound signature to it, and it’s almost stereotypically high tech with the synths and chords that go into it. We’ll see where this goes in our show, but I’m glad to have one piece of audio that would suit many aspects of our show.
by Greta Hammen
Radio Bumpers are straight forward and a good marketing announcement for the ds106 station. I thought about what words should be conveyed in a bumper and how I might bring excitement to the listener. Have you ever pondered if listening to the radio is very different from reading a book? We want to take our minds to a different place, for peace and a little distraction from our own thoughts.
I wrote the text and had www.elevenlabs.com give it a voice. I then downloaded the mp3. On www.freesound.com, I found music that I like Freesound – Melody loop by DaveJf. I combined the two elements in layers on Premiere Pro and exported as a MP3 for www.soundcloud.com.
by Greta Hammen
I did a twist on the commercial assignment suggestion and made mine of a current AI product, instead of an 80’s product. The Ray Ban Meta Smart Glasses are awesome! The lenses come in some color options, so that you can have sunglasses, clear or green lenses to wear inside. My character would order the sunglasses. She will be talking with Dr. Ravioli and wearing sunglasses on the moped.
To create the commercial, I did a voice from text at www.elevenlabs.com and downloaded the mp3. In Premiere Pro, I imported that file and a free clip form www.freesounds.com titled Echoes. In Soundcloud, I uploaded the mp3 commercial and added image from www.freepik.com.