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Days of Crime and Roses

Let’s get into today’s case.

Days of Crime and Roses is a podcast that focuses on true crime stories, with multiple hosts sharing their experiences. The podcast creates a specific atmosphere through narration of the cases, like Lynn’s emotional connection to the missing persons in Montana creates an emotional resonance. Jasper’s dramatic storytelling about Grayson Cole and the “Rebirth Incident” captivates the audience with a cautionary tale. The consistent introduction and outro music contribute to branding and listener recognition. The variety in hosts’ approaches within “Days of Crime and Roses” suggests an awareness of appealing to a diverse audience.

Crime and roses had an interesting take that reminded me of the last time we listened to the Ds106 radio for a crime podcast. Super cute how they all said crime at the same time. Aside from that overall love how it came out. I couldn’t appreciate the extra sounds that, but I could hear the emotions in their voices as they told the stories. It’s nice to hear that they mentioned wanting to hear more background sounds too. I can image how much more immersive that would have felt rather than just an interesting listen. Still, it was enjoyable, and I can hear the Limestone inspiration.

Well, when it came to listening to my own show I really listened to all the mistakes that make me wanna pull my hair out and gag. Some of them were so bad I am shocked no one said anything ;-; wahhhhh. Anyway, overall, the same feeling I get when I hear my own voice. ew ew ew eweweweweweweweweweew. That’s how I feel.

Radio Show: Week 2

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This is what we’ve been waiting for, the radio show is here!

In order to have the 3 commercials with a group of four and an evenly divided amount of work: we decided to have thre of us did commercials and one of us put all of the audio together. I was the one who put the audio together. It took a bit of figuring out and converting files to mp3, but I did it! I became very close friends with tracks, align tracks, and align end to end. One thing about me is that I procrastinate as much as I can, but because I was working with other group members I knew it would not be fair to have it ready really late, so I did it as early as possible. Which, admittedly, was not super early, but better than my usual things. I wanted to use an AI voice recorder because it can be painfully difficult to record things using my own voice, but nothing worth using is free, unfortunately. Because of that, I recorded myself reading it out loud, and I think that this was the hardest part of all. I tend to choke on my words and stutter when I’m reading and recording, so that happened quite a few times. I ended up recording it in pretty small segments so I had one sentence (or so) to record, which made it a lot easier. I had a script that I followed. I felt really inclined to cringe because I don’t love my own fictional writing, but I told myself that I was lacking whimsy and pushed through. I recorded my audio on Audacity and edited the clips together there. I somehow struggled with downloading the radio show, but I was able to upload it to SoundCloud, and now it is there for the whole world to see! Again, I worked with Emily, Sam, and Brigid. They were all terrific with the process and I was the one who procrastinated the most, so hopefully that wasn’t too frustrating for them, lol. Overall, it was very nerve-wracking to record but cool to say that I can now create a radio show (or podcast).

Radio Show Week 2

Welcome foolish travelers you are enter the mind of an all pronoun It with Add and Adhd who is on their period and sleep deprived turn back nowww.

Well, I will make this awfully clear I hate group projects. I will not apologize for that.

If it wasn’t literally part of the grade to work together I would do it all myself just avoid the stress projects like this bring me.

A. I am full of it B. I expect too much C. I really just want to sleep D. I am a hypocrite

So far, I was meant to arrange the audio it should have been done Wednesday but it’s not done yet. AHAHA I am gonna punch the wall. Lawyer talk, due to external issues I have been unable to complete the task originally assigned to me. Leading to an altered timeline that will affect the overall performance. Despite the agreed upon approach there appeared to be a moment of miscommunication causing the current predicament.

Aka WTF MF WTH WAYEBA SWMPTAJGBIH No it’s not gibberish, anyway I was tasked with arranging the audios into a good pace and fixing the sound, thought I would take a day at most and it did then I noticed the issue it was not long enough, the people in charge of after production things would not be able to extend the time so me and Nairah worked hard to extend the script that she did originally and I have to go back and rearrange everything though I know when they add effects it will be moved again I still do my best. I look forwards to hearing how Antonio and Azrael really give our story life. Never heard of an M4A before today yet here we are. Wonderful don’t you think?

As for my contributions I also did quite a bit the first week Radio Show Progress – Flower Bed thought I could get things done quickly but I put a weird amount of effort into it. Let me show the sites I’ve used just to record.

AI Voice Cloning Tool (Free & No Login)

Oblivion University

Narakeet – Easily Create Voiceovers and Narrated Videos Using Realistic Text to Speech!

Dr. O is a fighter, so I ended up having to clone his voice to get what I needed.

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New day new progress, after work and bad interviews the last thing I want to think about is a project still gotta do it anyway. Why do I feel the urge to cry groan just gotta stay awake for 5 more hours we got thisssss. The due date is here and like with pregnancy ya gotta keep pushing kiddos.

That’s how I met your mom.

Week 10 and Radio Show Progress

This was a great and productive week. I participated in two Daily Creates and focused on the radio show for the rest of the week. I met with my group, and we seamlessly recorded our show at the DKC podcast studio. Since Finn is male and I have a fairly high voice, we decided to use an AI voice, which worked out well. We used SoundCloud to edit the show, which was perfect for this assignment because it allowed us to add music and audio clips. I had fun working with my group, and I’m glad we found time to record this week. It was also nice meeting some classmates in person!

Here are the Daily Creates I participated in this week.

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Here is the Radio show:

Radio Show Intro Featuring Zer0

Radio Intro Assignment for Week 9

In all honesty, I don’t even know what a radio intro is, though I tried looking up some examples on YouTube. I collected some free to use audio from Pixabay, made by ByronatorAustralia and Ivan_Luzan. I tried editing them together with other music in Audacity, before messing it up and starting over in OpenShot video editor. I cut the audios and merged them together while adjusting volume for speech. As for the words, I wrote them in a text-to-speech software called Replica Studios. I tried to give my character a voice and found one with a robotic filter. I had it read out the lines separately so I could place them wherever I wanted.

Transcription: “Welcome to ds106 radio in Chicago. We have headlines, alerts, and forecast. Now, back to your host for the weather. And as always, thank you for listening.”

Radio Show Logo

Radio Show Design Assignment for Week 9

This is a logo I designed for the radio show group project based on the Apple Weather App logo. Our radio show is news based and will have a focus on weather. I used the art program Krita to draw it, using many built in tools to achieve what I wanted. I used a watercolor brush to make the background (my original idea was to make stormy clouds) but then I darkened it with a filter and added the cloud and sun with the neon effect to incorporate tech into the logo. A friend of mine helped me to create the neon effect and I ended up using six layers total on neon alone.

Radio Show Intermission

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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.

Create a commercial!

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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!

Week 9 Summary

This week had a heavier workload compared to last week. Working on the radio show has been a bit stressful in terms of timing, but I’m confident it will all come together just fine. On the bright side, the Daily Creates were really enjoyable, and I had a lot of fun with them this week.

This week’s summary will be brief in terms of details, but rest assured that the work is complete, and I put effort into each assignment. Looking forward to sharing our final show with you next week!

Daily Creates of This Week:

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Radio Show

Assignments Completed for the Radio Show:

Radio Show Week 1

Radio Design Project

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Audio Assignments:

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