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Weekly Summary #10: Radio Show Week!

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It’s crazy that we are in week 10. I don’t feel so much like I’m fumbling around on this website now. So that’s a definite improvement. Most of the work this week for me was putting together the audio and recording my own for the radio show, so here it is:

And now my daily creates!

Day 1:

Can you find all 18 faces?

Day 2:

It’s true! I have 4 younger siblings, but she’s the baby 🙂 My favorite time of year is the 6 day period where she and I are 10 years apart (10 and 20 was pretty cool but what I’m really excited for is 20 and 30).

That is all for this week!

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).

A fun and exciting week

I really enjoyed this week. It ended up being one of my favorites so far, which is surprising because I was initially nervous going into this week. Sometimes I get nervous for group projects because I don’t know what to expect, but it ended up being a great week.

This week I participated in my first podcast/radio show. I had a lot of fun recording with “The Fearless Femmes”. We had a couple bumps when trying to complete our show, but we still came out with a great finished project. In my weekly summary I talk all about our week in completing our radio show you can read below:

Radio Show Update

Our group worked together very well. For our show we decided to have a caller concept where listeners can call in and tell the fearless femmes about any current struggles they’re going through and get direct advice from us. We answered the questions from the calls from the standpoint of our characters, and called in as ourselves.

We took last week to brainstorm and create bumpers/intermissions/and commercials for our show. We also created promo posters and videos. This took a lot of the pressure off for this week so we only had to focus on recording and editing the show.

We came up with scripts for our show to have something to go off of. I think this was a good idea for us so we would have ideas to bounce off of to keep the conversation flowing. We ultimately met in the DKC and finished our recording Thursday afternoon and it was edited by the end of the night.

I’m so proud of the finished outcome for our show. For many of my group members including myself this was our first radio show recording. I think after having practice rounds we really warmed up to each other and had a steady flow which resulted in a great radio show outcome. Click below to listen to our show.

Fearless Femmes Radio Show

Since it was a pretty busy week with the radio show, I was glad that there were only 2 daily creates to complete this week. I completed my creates Tuesday and Thursday this week. Check them out below:

Daily Creates

I’m so excited to listen to everyones radio shows. I really had a great time recording with the Fearless Femmes this week. I learned so much about recording and editing audio this week that I plan to continue to improve in the future.

Hope you enjoy!

Sincerely, Kristen

Easy Creates

This week I completed 2 daily creates. They were fairly quick and easy to complete. The first I completed the first on Tuesday. Using the app pix2pix I drew a cat and generated it into a more realistic version of the cat I drew. I thought this was a very fun create to complete. My cat came out looking like a cat from pet cemetery which wasn’t what I was going for, but ill take it.

Tuesday’s Create

The last create I completed this week was on Thursday. The prompt was to show something you love. I found a cute collage of animals on Pinterst and decided to include that for my post. I’ve always loved animals from a very young age. It doesn’t matter the kind or type I truly love all of them which is why I chose to include that in my post.

Thursday’s Create

even though I only completed 2 easy daily creates I really enjoyed looking at everyone else’s creates throughout the week. See you next week!

Sincerely, Kristen

Radio show update part 2!

It’s been kind of a crazy process but, the fearless femmes have made great progress on our radio show. On Monday we met up again to brainstorm storylines and script ideas for our show. We wanted to have guidelines to go off of for when we record our show so it can go as smooth as possible.

Together we successfully brainstormed topics to talk about during our show and solidified which bumpers and commercials we planned to use. We also picked which poster we wanted for our show, which was hard because we all made very creative and clever banners.

This is where the process got a bit funky. We made our appointment to record at the DKC for Wednesday afternoon. We all successfully met together and recorded a great radio show but, unfortunately you’ll never hear it.

Since we recorded our whole podcast in one 40 minute take, it unfortunately caused our recording to crash and not successfully save. Thankfully all the fearless femmes were free Thursday afternoon to rerecord.

We weren’t to rattled over the incident instead we just took it as a practice round and created an even better show in my opinion. The only difference we made this time was we saved the show into smaller 5-10 minute takes.

Before we left the recording studio we made sure to wait until all of our recordings were successfully saved to Coni and Martina’s computers.

We are now in the editing and perfecting process to get the podcast turned in by the end of the day Friday.

Overall even with a couple of hiccups i’m very proud of our group for working hard and staying on top of everything with each other. At first we were a bit nervous while recording because we wanted to perfect things, but as we went on we all became very comfortable and the conversation flowed well.

I’m very excited to hear our finished show and also to listen to everyone else’s show.

Sincerely, Kristen

Weekly Summary #9: A stitch in time

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Sometimes I wonder if the titles of my weekly summary are the most creative thing I have on this website. Hopefully everyone appreciates them like I do, otherwise, this is pretty embarrassing.

What did I do this week?

1. Made a post about my radio show progress:

Radio Show: Week One

2. My radio show design promo:

Promo!

(Told you guys I’d incorporate my cat more)

3. Two audio assignments (technically one video assignment I turned into an audio assignment)

Create a commercial!

Radio Show Intermission

That was definitely the most work this week.

4. 3 TDCs!

1. Show a photo of confusion

2. Creative message punch card (Taylor’s version)

3. How do you celebrate St. Patrick’s day?

That’s it for me! Until next week!

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!

Radio Show: Week One

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Let’s talk about the radio show! To get the ball rolling, my group discussed our characters and what we had previously posted about for our radio shows and our characters. We did a Zoom where we pretty thoroughly discussed different aspects to the radio show like what the idea would be, how to make it cohesive, potential issues, things like that. My group is Emily, Brigid, Sam and me. We talked through things like that we would use Audacity to record, our radio show would be covering news events in different cities in the U.S., I created a Google Drive so that we would have one easy place to access the files we have, and how we would do the commercials. We agreed to try to make the length of our individual shows and the commercial we make total at or under 7 minutes. The math will probably even out to be the shows are about 5-6 minutes and the commercials will be 1-1.5. Overall, I thought it went pretty well and felt like it was a really solid start. We’ve texted about different things like using one of the required audio assignments for this week to make a commercial and I think I am also going to make a new radio bumper. My other radio bumper, while fine, was not really applicable to my character and I would obviously like the radio bumper to be relevant, lol. That’s what I have so far, once the show is completed next week I will likely have lots to say about how that process went. Until then, I hope you enjoyed reading!

Promo!

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So my group has discussed a couple of different ideas for our radio show, what we landed on was having one in the style of a news report. I figured that promoting my character’s part of the show made the most sense, so that’s what I started with. Like I’ve said in past posts, my character is a cyborg cat. I want my portion of the show to be about how she was turned part robot, so I used AI to create an image. I know using AI is not great for the environment, but I wanted it to look a certain way that I knew I could not illustrate. I went to Canva to start and I discovered their AI image generation tool, so I used that! I would have liked to put “tune in on” this date or this day of the week, but I opted not to just to prevent inaccuracy. The prompt I gave the robot was “I would like an image of a cyborg cat (part robot, part cat), basing the cat off of the cat in the image” with a photo of my cat, Daisy, which I will of course show.

The resemblance is remarkable, honestly!

I added text over and had it be outlined because it was somewhat difficult to read without.

So, yeah! Tune in to find out!