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:

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.

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:

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

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!

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.

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.

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.

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:

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