The Noir Game show is coming along nicely the group did an amazing job with creating individual parts that will later make up the whole. We have formed a plan for what we want the project to look like and we are assessing specific roles each individual will be responsible for with in the project, we also agreed that we would use whoever’s work was the best for the specific situation no hard feeling just creating a good product. We have found a successful way to communicate and ideas are being spread around plentifully next week we will focus on editing and collaborating with each other and making all the moving parts form a working machine. Everyone work is so unique and creative and I expect our project to reflect that.
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Radio show progress
Radio Show Progress Update
Our team has made great progress on our radio show! We’ve set up strong communication, finalized our theme, and completed our script.
Staying Connected
To keep everyone on the same page, we created a Discord chat. It’s our go-to place for discussions, brainstorming, and updates.
Our Script and Theme
After discussions, we’ve agreed on a theme and script. The theme guides our content, and the script ensures a well-structured, engaging show.
What’s Next?
Now, we’re moving to the recording and production phase.
Getting Our Show Off the Ground!
I’m looking forward to next week and really getting in to writing, performing, and editing the radio show! This week was sort of odd, as I felt like I should have done more to work done on the final product. However, I think using the audio assignments to make small progress will ultimately be helpful. I’m really excited about the idea that we have for our show, adn just want to work on that! I guess I really don’t know what to write about here!
I talked through a lot of ideas and things with Rebecca, but Ethan really only connected with the rest of the group on Discord towards the end of the week. But now that we’re all on the same page, it should all be good!
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!
Behind the Scenes of Noir Games: Weekly Summary
The Plan
After discussing a plan we distributed the work for creating Noir Games. I was put in charge of working on the whole script, creating a radio bumper, and creating a commercial for this week so that we will be prepared to record our dialogue next week. Both of the audio assignments can be found in my post called Noir Games Intermission.
Noir Games was inspired by the old post I made called Mission: Probably Impossible with further detail from my other old post called Noir Games Ideas. We chose to make our characters Runa, Max, Jaxx, and Lenore the participants in the game show while using Dr. Oblivion as the sarcastic game show host.
Advertisement Poster
For the Noir Games radio show I chose to make a poster as the promo which can be found in my post called Don’t Miss this Futuristic Trivia Show!
Daily Creates
Unrelated to Noir Games but the 3 Daily Creates I made this week can be found in the post called Inside My Creative Mind.
The Week Before
This week was the first full week of working with my group on our upcoming radio show, now titled The Opposites. Getting in touch and first starting is never easy, but I believe it was as seamless as it could be. We discussed and came up with a plan regarding our show’s contents, as well as made an outline for our show with a general script to follow to make things more structured and organized. The process is going well and I think myself, Rusul, and DK have a solid plan to put everything together the following week.
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
Work in Progress
The first week of working on the radio show has been successful. The audio assignments were my favorite unit so I’ve been having fun returning to it. I started the week on Monday with a zoom call with the rest of my group so we could delegate tasks and brainstorm ideas. Our idea for the show is a lifestyle podcast where people can call in and ask for advice. I suggested adding a comedic cyberpunk twist to the show to make it relate more to our course.
I was assigned to make an advertisement so I decided to make an ad for a product called SupremeSkillShare which is supposed to be a twist on the learning platform SkillShare. The product allows anyone to gain a skill by taking a vitamin. I was inspired by ‘Harrison Bergeron’ by Kurt Vonnegut which tells a story about a government who enforces equality by handicapping people with special abilities. This assignment was easy except for a self-inflicted challenge that I kept running into, you can read more about it in my blog post.
The next assignment I did was the Podcast Intro. At first, I struggled to figure out where to start on this assignment so to inspire myself, I looked at other podcast’s intros. The intro starts with someone calling into our show and then an instrumental of ‘Feminomenon’ by Chappell Roan, I also included lines from TechNoir female characters. All these elements are meant to reflect vibes of our show; the phone call is because people call into our show and ‘Feminomemon’ coupled with TechNoir female characters because our show is run by strong female characters. This assignment was more of a struggle because the ending I wanted sounded cut off as opposed to a natural ending. You can read more about my process here.
The last assignment I did was the design project, this was the easiest of the three. I combined elements of femininity and cyberpunk to curate a good bumper sticker that fit our show. Another thing I was thinking about when I was designing the sticker was “what do other bumper stickers look like?” This sticker is silly and is shows the personality of the driver, so I had to also picture what our listeners’ personalities would be. I wanted to make a bumper sticker because it acts as merch for fans and as an advertisement for the podcast. You can read more about the sticker in my blog post.
I really enjoyed working on these assignments. I loved crafting an image for the show and using it to inspire different assignments. The only thing I’m struggling with is how time consuming these assignments are. I can’t tell if I’m being a perfectionist or if these assignments just take a long time. Again, I’m having fun with the tasks so I don’t mind spending time on them but I don’t know if it’s sustainable. I’m looking forward to the show coming together so I can hear everyone’s work put together.
Radio Show Week 1
For the first half of the week, a group member and I were planning the storyline and structure of our radio show project on Discord, as we were waiting to get the whole team together. Since we wanted to keep moving forward, we decided to go ahead and plan the show. The concept centers on Eric and DK, polar opposites and unlikely best friends, who co-host a radio advice show. They tackle relationship dilemmas and current topics, and their contrasting perspectives create entertaining dynamics. We also introduced Finn, a socially awkward but successful CEO, who calls in for dating advice, sparking a discussion about the digitized dating world.
We spent the week outlining and scripting, with plans to record over the weekend or Monday, leaving the rest of the week for editing. Although we weren’t able to create bumpers or commercials yet, we focused on the scripting and promotion. Personally, I wrote a rough script and outline for the show and created a promo. We’re staying on track with our plan and will continue working on the project, aiming to have everything ready for submission next week.
Canva and Google Docs are the only tools I’ve used this week.
Radio Show Progress
I gave myself a few tasks to pull together the project, making an ad radio bumper, intro music, and background music. In my eyes that’s not too much since it’s not like I have to get it all done in one day. If I had my way it would be an item a day but, my schedule does not allow such willfulness. These are the items I have made so far for the project.
Quite a bit of stuff honestly, I work hard for the sake of resting later! I really struggle with audio assignments overall, so I am feeling drained had more fun just using Canva it was nice. Next up is recording dialogue and adding any needed effects. Hope it comes out well. All of these have their own story and own effort, and I am sure my group mates are working just as hard.