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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!

Getting Ready for the radio show

This week most of my time went to planning and perfecting things to put into our radio show.

After meeting with the group Monday my job was to create radio bumpers and intermissions. I have improved so much at using audacity to edit and sync audio together.

Starting with the intermission I created, I wanted to make a quick bumper that would catch the listeners attention. I envision this to come on after a commercial and right before the show starts back.

To captivate the listeners I wanted to use a glitchy/siren/static sound effect. I feel like this sound captivates people because it almost sounds like a warning message. This sound also goes with the theme of tech noir and cyber punk so I felt it fit very well.

I used Narakeet to transcribe my script into a cool sounding voice over. I used Freesound to find different glitchy/static sound effects that felt fitting to the show and synced them all together in audacity.

The hardest part with the intermission was lowering the volume of the sound effects so it wasn’t to overpowering. I’m still learning audacity so I had to watch a couple youtube videos to figure out how to lower the volume, but I really like the outcome of the intermission!

Listen to the intermission

For the radio bumper, we agreed as a team that we wanted them to be upbeat and “pop” like, while still being tech noir aesthetic.

I decided to make the background music a little bit more “pop” and upbeat and then for the voice over it sounds a bit more glitchy to connect it with the tech noir side.

I really liked the way this bumper came out. I think it’s kind of catchy which I think is important for radio bumpers.

I used the same tools to create the bumper as I did for the intermission which were, Audacity for editing and syncing, Narakeet for transcribing a script into a voiceover, and Freesound for upbeat sound effects.

The most difficult task in this assignment was really just choosing which voice over I wanted. There are so many choices to choose from on Narakeet, so i listened to multiple voices over and over to see which would fit best in the bumper. Picking my background sound first helped me pick the voice over because I had an idea of what I was going for at this point.

Listen to the Bumper

The Promo videoI created was probably the easiest out of all the assignments. I created it on Canva which is probably why it was so easy for me. I’ve become very familiar and comfortable with Canva so, it doesn’t take me too long to get the outcome I want.

The idea behind the promo video I made was that we could use it as promotion on our social media accounts. So I wanted it to have cool captivating graphics, catchy background music, but also short and straight to the point.

I really liked adding all of our group members course character social media accounts at the end. I thought it was a clever way to let the class know which course characters are in this radio show.

See the promo video

The Fearless Femmes have made so much progress on our radio show. We’ve been staying in touch through our group chat and updating each other in our shared google doc on the work we’ve completed. I think our show is gonna turn out super cool and i’m excited to see the outcome. We still have a little bit too finish before we start recording like the outro and solidifying our topics of discussion.

Radio show Progress

I completed 3 daily creates this week Tuesday – Thursday. I’m really enjoying the creativity of the prompts and I love seeing what everyone else does for their creates. You can check out mine here:

Daily creates

Overall I think it’s been a very successful week in preparing for next weeks radio show. I used my time wisely by using the 2 audio assignments as a way to get started on creating content for our show and I think it worked out great! I’ve never recorded a podcast so I look forward to creating it next week. I’m also so excited to listen to everyone else’s podcasts!

Sincerely, Kristen

Radio Show Progress

My group “The Fearless Femmes” had a lot of progress this week. We met Monday night to get to know each other and our characters as well as, solidify our team name, make an appointment with the DKC, and come up with topics for our radio show. We also evenly distributed amongst each other who should do commercials and who should do radio bumpers.

We’ve been communicating in our group chat almost everyday, to keep each other updated and asking for advice on our bumpers/commercials/and intermissions. We also made a google doc as a place we can all put our updated bumpers/intermissions/and commercials in.

So far we have an intro, lots of commercials to choose from, as well as lots of radio bumpers to choose from.

The only ting we really have left is an outro and to actually do the podcast.

I think we’re moving at a great pace and have plans to record early so we’re able to edit and get the podcast turned in on time.

Overall I think we’re working great as a team and i’m excited to see the results of our podcast!

Sincerely, Kristen

Thoughtful creates

This week I completed 3 daily creates. I getting so much better at not thinking too much on the daily creates and just having fun with them.

I really just look forward to seeing how everyone else interpreted the creates.

The first daily create I did was Tuesday this week. The prompt was to show a picture of confusion. I decided to show a picture of tangled jewelry. Not only is this one of the most annoying things to happen, but i’m always confused on how or when my jewelry got tangled in the first place. Then even more confusion starts when you attempt to untangle it.

Tuesday

The next create I completed was Wednesday. The prompt was to create a moccasin design. I’ve always loved moccasins. I like that almost all of them have a unique and intricate pattern or color scheme. I’m not the best artist especially when it comes to intricate designs so, I asked Gemini to “draw an intricate moccasin design with little color.” I wanted to see what it would come up with and this is what it was.

Wednesday

The final create of the week was to create a hidden message. I used to love creating these when I was a lot younger and seeing if my friends could figure out the code. I decided to make the code a lyric from one of my favorite songs “Breathin” by Ariana Grande”.

Thursday

I hope you enjoy the daily creates this week. I loved seeing everyone else’s interpretations.

Sincerely, Kristen

Radio show Promo video

I decided to make a promo video that our radio show hosts would be able to post on social media.

I created this video on Canva. I love using Canvas fun options for templates. I still wanted the vibe to be tech noir themed of course so I used darker neon colors.

I’m very familiar with using Canva now so this wasn’t too hard to accomplish.

If you feel like you’ve heard the background music to the video, that’s because you have!

In one of my earlier projects I used the same audio to create my own game. I felt the audio was very fitting to the vibe and scheme of the poster so I decided to reuse it.

Adding audio is a must, I feel like it always captivates an audience especially if it’s a catchy song. We as a group may decide to edit insert a group members radio bumper instead, both ways I think would look and sound great!

The thought of adding all of our course members “social media platforms” was mainly just a clever way introduce what class characters our radio show will be including.

I hope you like the promo video, Click here to watch:

Promo Video

Sincerely, Kristen

Fearless Femmes Radio Bumper

Part of my contribution to “The Fearless Femmes” radio show is to create a bumper.

Similarly to the intermission I created for the show, I wanted to give it that mysterious vibe with a glitchy static sound effect to give it the “tech noir”vibe. Though the sound bumper I created is a lot more upbeat the the intermission.

I used the same tools to create the bumper as I did for the intermission which were, Audacity for editing and syncing, Narakeet for transcribing a script into a voiceover, and Freesound for upbeat sound effects.

I hope you enjoy listening to the bumper, you may just hear it agian in our radio show.

Sincerely, Kristen

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