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Ds106 radio shows

I absolutely enjoyed creating the podcast with the Fearless Femmes, so i’ve really been looking forward to listening to everyone else’s podcasts. I got a chance to listen to everyone’s podcasts this week but, I didn’t get a chance to listen to my group (The Fearless Femmes) live on the radio because of a time conflict 🙁 but I did hear feedback that people enjoyed it.

I really enjoyed the Days of Crime and Roses podcast. I thought it was a unique and clever way to do the show even though the members weren’t able to meet together. I felt the transitions to the different stories worked really well and the intermissions and bumpers blended well with the show.

The stories were very intriguing and kept me engaged the whole show. This could be because I enjoy watching crime shows in general so listening to it was also enjoyable. Knowing that the group came up with the stories themselves really showed everyone’s creativity and I liked the connections to their course characters.

I thought I think everyone sounded great, the audio was well mixed so I could hear everyone clearly. Another thing that helped with the audio and the overall experience with listening to the show was that the group members really put emphasis in their voice which made the stories sound more exciting instead of monotone.

The only thing I had a hard time with the radio shows was the commentary after they ended. I wasn’t really able to hear the questions being asked and at some points I wasn’t able to hear the groups explain their show. Other than that I feel like everything went smoothly and I really enjoyed this project.

Similar to how excited I was to listen to everyone’s podcasts, I’m excited to see everyone’s trailers and what they do for the final. After listening to everyone’s podcasts I realized how creative this class is, so it should be fun to see what eveyone comes up with.

See you next week!

sincerely, Kristen

Weekly Summary #11: Greater than seven

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Hello and welcome to another weekly summary. I had a pretty good week, I got to listen in on the radio to hear the radio show my group and me created this week on Wednesday which was super cool. Here is my blog post about that:

Radio Listening

and 3 daily creates!

Day 1: April Fools!

Day 2: Birthday card for van Gogh!

Day 3: Text translation skills

Until next week!

Radio Listening

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This will be pretty short because I’ve talked a lot about what the actual process looked like in creating the radio show. Getting to hear the product of my work on a radio show was super cool and I felt pretty proud of myself and my group. Getting to talk on the radio was super cool and I felt like a celebrity. I have no idea who was responsible for naming our group (I think it’s Noir News?) but I liked the title and realized that we should have brain stormed that earlier, lol. It was also cool hearing the other group’s, my favorite thing they did was a commercial for a dating app ad (and the algorithm was AI?) it was very funny and I thought it was a fantastic premise. Overall, it was a really cool experience!

Last week of Daily Creates

Since I will be putting a lot of focus on my final project and trailer for the last couple weeks of the semester, I may not be doing a ton of daily creates or any at all , especially since they’re optional.

I really have had a lot of fun every week doing daily creates and just training my brain not to perfect every assignment especially when it comes to the more creative assignments.

This week I did 3 creates, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. On Monday The prompt was to find/create a unique question mark. I found this really pretty almost water color, vibrant question mark. You can check it out here:

Monday’s Create

For Wednesday, the prompt was to describe or show a photo of what you would find behind a peculiar, aged, blue wooden door. This is what I think you’d find behind the door:

Wednesday’s Create

Finally for Friday the prompt was to show something that has an ironic name. I immediately thought of one of my favorite cartoons I used to watch when I was a lot younger, where one of the characters has a very ironic name. Check it out here:

Friday’s Create

Overall I think it was a fun week of daily creates. We’ll see if these are the last of the semester, I might make time to do a couple in the coming weeks.

See you next week,

sincerely, Kristen

Indecpherability and unintelligibility go hand-in-hand

Today’s Daily Create asked us to creatively decipher the Voynich manuscript, which I may or may not have heard of before. And since indecpherability and unintelligibility go hand-in-hand, I thought I would pair a page of the text with Adriano Celentano’s classic hit, Prisencolinensinainciusol. If nothing else, it gave me an excuse to watch the video again:

I also discovered that Celentano’s first film role was in a Fulci movie. My household may not be pleased with the new additions to my watch list.

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