Here is the final product of our radio Days of Crime and Roses. By characters: Bethany Smith, Evelynn Calico, and Jasper (on the character Greyson Cole)
Radio show by: Rylie Vann, Rebecca Yee, and Ethan Coleman.
Enjoy!
Noir Games Podcast
Full podcast.
Creative processes.
Creating the radio show was an interesting process that challenged us to work together, be creative, and make use of our editing skills. We started the project off slow, then we decided on creating a script that would set the guild line we would follow to complete the assignment was the best course of action. After the script was complete we assigned who was responsible for what role and we all had to go record the individual audio for our charterers. We all also made unique bumpers and ads, we picked the best ads and used them for our podcast. After the audio was recorded I was responsible for editing and adding sound effects into the podcast, this process was difficult at first but once I had all the moving pieces in order and found a style/theme to follow the edits came out very nice. I was able to add laughing, transitions between scenes and questions, music, a ding for answers, and some different sounds that help the listener understand the mood that’s being expressed ex: using piano noise to build suspense. Once my part was complete I sent it off for the final editing and for the ads and bumpers me and my group mates created to be added into the podcast the final draft. Overall I’m satisfied with the completed project and think my group members did amazing with communicating and getting the work done, we set a plan and followed the plan any issues that we ran into were resolved quickly and as a group, leading to a successful end product.
Weekly Summary #10: Radio Show Week!
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It’s crazy that we are in week 10. I don’t feel so much like I’m fumbling around on this website now. So that’s a definite improvement. Most of the work this week for me was putting together the audio and recording my own for the radio show, so here it is:
And now my daily creates!
Day 1:
Can you find all 18 faces?
Day 2:
It’s true! I have 4 younger siblings, but she’s the baby 
My favorite time of year is the 6 day period where she and I are 10 years apart (10 and 20 was pretty cool but what I’m really excited for is 20 and 30).
That is all for this week!
Radio Show: Week 2
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This is what we’ve been waiting for, the radio show is here!
In order to have the 3 commercials with a group of four and an evenly divided amount of work: we decided to have thre of us did commercials and one of us put all of the audio together. I was the one who put the audio together. It took a bit of figuring out and converting files to mp3, but I did it! I became very close friends with tracks, align tracks, and align end to end. One thing about me is that I procrastinate as much as I can, but because I was working with other group members I knew it would not be fair to have it ready really late, so I did it as early as possible. Which, admittedly, was not super early, but better than my usual things. I wanted to use an AI voice recorder because it can be painfully difficult to record things using my own voice, but nothing worth using is free, unfortunately. Because of that, I recorded myself reading it out loud, and I think that this was the hardest part of all. I tend to choke on my words and stutter when I’m reading and recording, so that happened quite a few times. I ended up recording it in pretty small segments so I had one sentence (or so) to record, which made it a lot easier. I had a script that I followed. I felt really inclined to cringe because I don’t love my own fictional writing, but I told myself that I was lacking whimsy and pushed through. I recorded my audio on Audacity and edited the clips together there. I somehow struggled with downloading the radio show, but I was able to upload it to SoundCloud, and now it is there for the whole world to see! Again, I worked with Emily, Sam, and Brigid. They were all terrific with the process and I was the one who procrastinated the most, so hopefully that wasn’t too frustrating for them, lol. Overall, it was very nerve-wracking to record but cool to say that I can now create a radio show (or podcast).
Week 10 Summary
This week went pretty smoothly, (apart from our half an hour podcast deleting). We met at the beginning of the week and talked about ways we wanted to actually complete the assignment and developed more ideas around what we wanted our podcast to be about. We spent a couple minutes discussing the kind of media we consumed and how that would be helpful with our podcast assignment and that is how we landed on doing a call in advice show. Once we found our main ideas, we started to develop three-four main storylines we wanted to focus on. From there each person became a caller or a person giving the advice and we split them up between our characters and who we actually are so it was not confusing. Everyone had great ideas and we were all willing to make changes if need be. Everyone in the group pulled their weight, there was never a time where I was worried about having to do all the work, which was great. I also think our podcast went smoothly because we were all on the same page about what was expected from us.
I am proud of our radio show.
The daily creates this week were a calming activity to do around the chaos of my other assignments. I really enjoyed
A fun and exciting week
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
Week 10
This weeks daily creates were extremely easy and didnt take much time to complete. I did find the day were we draw any object into one side of the program and it converted it into something else but using the pictures that was already progammed very interesting.
Second update of radio process
This week, my group and I met at the DKC to finalize our podcast plans. After further discussions about commercials and bumpers, we were able to lock in all the details and move forward with recording.
With everything planned out we got to work and recorded the entire podcast. The process went smoothly and after some mixing and editing we now have a fully completed episode.
In addition to recording the podcast I also created a brand-new radio bumper and commercial
Easy Creates
This week I completed 2 daily creates. They were fairly quick and easy to complete. The first I completed the first on Tuesday. Using the app pix2pix I drew a cat and generated it into a more realistic version of the cat I drew. I thought this was a very fun create to complete. My cat came out looking like a cat from pet cemetery which wasn’t what I was going for, but ill take it.
The last create I completed this week was on Thursday. The prompt was to show something you love. I found a cute collage of animals on Pinterst and decided to include that for my post. I’ve always loved animals from a very young age. It doesn’t matter the kind or type I truly love all of them which is why I chose to include that in my post.
even though I only completed 2 easy daily creates I really enjoyed looking at everyone else’s creates throughout the week. See you next week!
Sincerely, Kristen
My Creative Journey: Week 10
Summary
Short summary because most of my experience is already described in the other post about my audio show project. This week was a little crazy because working on a group project completely over the internet can make communicating very complicated and leads to a lot of misunderstandings, but I think it worked out in the end. I don’t fully love how the game show came out, but my expectations for the completed product might have been a little too high for this idea. To read about the entire process and see the complete audio show you can go on my post called Noir Games. Also I had to make 2 Daily Creates this week which can be found on my post called Inside My Creative Mind.