Create a Commercial Assignment for Week 9
This is a commercial I made with my own voice for the radio show. The background music is by Zakhar Valaha from Pixabay. I wrote a script, recorded it in audacity, and timed it properly so that it would go with the music, cutting some parts like breathing. The music was edited to be quieter so that my voice could be heard.
M. Marshall 3.22
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:
2. My radio show design promo:
(Told you guys I’d incorporate my cat more)
3. Two audio assignments (technically one video assignment I turned into an audio assignment)
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!
M. Marshall 3.22
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.
M. Marshall 3.22
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!
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.
3/20
This Daily Create was intended to encourage all those who doubt themselves.
I decided to create two different audio commercials for my groups podcast Days of Crime & Roses. Both of these commercials are centered around safety and protection products which I felt was important given to the central theme of the podcast being Crime. After listening to a crime podcast, it makes sense for the audience to be more skeptical of their own privacy and will be more inclined to purchase a product that is able to give them that reassurance that they need.
The first product ad SafeGuard was created using a simple suspenseful audio loop file on Pixabay and a script that I put together with the help of ChatGPT after giving it a prompt around an online privacy product.
The second product ad NightWatch was created using a creaking door sound as the intro, soft footsteps sound, an alarm sound, and a different suspenseful backround track all from Pixabay. I gave ChatGPT a prompt around a home security product.
I recorded both audio scripts through voice Memos on my phone and used an online browser to convert the file into a .wav format in order to drop it into Audacity.
This week was a busy one in the world of ds106 I created multiple project that will hopefully be useful when creating our final draft. To begin I created a commercial for our upcoming Noir games podcast with help from the good ole doc. Next I created a intermission for our radio show that reminds the viewer to get outside touch some grass and get a breath of fresh air, then I created a Noir games logo using canva which originally I didn’t like but after some much needed editing have grown to quite enjoy. To conclude the week we were responsible for 3 daily creates this week which I was able to get done: the first was at list something that confused us, next I punch-carded a part of the Danny Phatom theme song one of my favorite shows from my childhood, and to end the week I attempted to copy the famous Italian opera singer Giuseppe De Luca pose and was successful but the picture says otherwise.
This week had a heavier workload compared to last week. Working on the radio show has been a bit stressful in terms of timing, but I’m confident it will all come together just fine. On the bright side, the Daily Creates were really enjoyable, and I had a lot of fun with them this week.
This week’s summary will be brief in terms of details, but rest assured that the work is complete, and I put effort into each assignment. Looking forward to sharing our final show with you next week!
Daily Creates of This Week:
Radio Show
Assignments Completed for the Radio Show:
Audio Assignments:
Create a breaking news story. This should be fake news. You should create a dialogue and have an AI read it using text to speech. There are several free programs. One possibility is Colossyan.com. Mix in a news jingle to make your story sound legit. You can find some jingles on freesound.org. Be sure to give credit if necessary.
Be creative, funny, or serious. The choice is yours. Just make it sound realistic.
I used HeyGen for the voice because I wanted to keep the tone light and avoid creating a serious or upsetting breaking news story. Instead, I went with something I wish would happen in real life. After generating the audio, I exported it and brought it into Soundtrap. From there, I made a few minor edits to clean it up and added a classic news broadcaster theme song to give it a “news” vibe. Overall, it was a pretty simple process, but I think it turned out well!