Category Archives: Week: 9

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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Fearless Femmes Radio Intermission

I decided to do a radio bumper for my radio group “The Fearless Femmes”. This is a lifestyle call in show where we talk about all types of topics and listen to listeners stories and topics as well.

I wanted to make the intermission mysterious yet futuristic at the same time to fit the “tech noir” aesthetic.

I used the Audacity app, the online site Narakeet, and the site FreeSound to create this intermission bumper.

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.

I think I’ve improved a lot on syncing and editing in audacity since the last time we used the app in class.

I’m no sure if we will be using this intermission in our radio show, but regardless I think its great improvement from the last audio assignmennt.

Hope you enjoy listening.

Sincerely, Kristen

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Week 9 Summary

This week was the start of our DS106 radio show group projects.

I went into the majority of the process in the Radio show progress post below. The main thing we did was get together on Discord to figure out which narrative direction we wanted to take the show, and what to complete for week 1.

Radio Show Progress – Week 1

As an addition to this post, I just wanted to mention that we’re thinking of taking the podcast into a different direction, where the recording process would not be as much of a hassle. I will document this more in the week 2 post if we decide to go with it. We may not be directly having a dialogue with each other, rather, we may have our own segments and splice those together, but we would still be reacting to the other participants.

For the design assignment, I decided to make a poster for our podcast.

Radio Show Design Project – Lots of Brains in this Talk!

In hindsight, I would have added an actual podium, but my options were limited with the tool I was using.

For my two audio assignments, I made a commercial for the show, as well as an audio segment to be used for either the intro or a transition.

Assignment Bank: Sick beat – Making the Logic Pod Intro

Assignment Bank: 80’s Product Radio Commercial – Definitely Not the 80’s but Close Enough?

These were relatively quick and easy to make, but I know that we’re gonna have to make a lot more of the audio transitions and background sounds to fill the show, so that’ll be a challenge for next week. I especially liked writing the script for the Hwei commercial to sell AI augmented body parts, and I think we’ll be doing a lot more of that scriptwriting in our actual show.

And of course, here are my daily creates for the week summed up in a neat package.

Daily Create Roundup: Week 9

All in all, this wasn’t a crazy busy week, but I know that next week will be one of the most hectic in all of DS106 history, as we’re all going to be scrambling to finish our radio shows.