Is This Thing On? Oh, It’s Not Yet?

Radio show week one, let’s go! I started with the audio assignments before jumping in to the design work. I LOVE podcasts, so I took my own swing at making an ad. I find that I like working with audio every time I do it, so I enjoyed this week. After that, I got right in to the second assignment. I altered one of the assignments into the audio bank just slightly so that we could use it as the intro for our show. Gotta love an old crooner.

For my design, I opted to also create the cover/front-facing branding for our show! I really enjoy logo making, so I pounced on that. Not much else to say about the radio show that wasn’t said in my update.

And, as always, the Daily Creates.

Audio Assignments 2

Radio show Bumper

Going into this assignment I was definitely more confident than the first time. I knew what I wanted to do and I knew exactly how to accomplish it. I made this bumper with the intention of it being used mid show as a breathing point that was not too long, but allowed for the radio show to change topic if need be. One if the ember of the group came up with the name and then I just thought about the kind of breaks I have heard on radio stations and used them as a framework. I then went to the website Artlist.io to find copyright free music. I wanted the music to flow with the narrative of the show so it would not distract or bring people out of the experience. I searched through multiple audios and landed on the one I eventually used for this bumper, I felt like it embodied a show with a more layed back element that was welcoming. I recorded my voice first and then mixed it with outside audio in premier pro.

Commercial For Something That Dosen’t exist

As I was looking fro an additional audio assignment to do that might be helpful with the podcast I stubled upon this idea to create a 45 second commerical fro an object that did not exist. My group and I had discussed previously about situations we could incloude in our podcast that were related to the theme of the class and one of them was a girl who think her roommate is a robot because she does not eat. This idea tied in with the begining of the class when talking about the importance of eyes within blade runner, I thought of contact lenses that would enable humans to be able to know who the cyborgs where. I think the idea was pretty funny and I a greate time executing it. I completed it similarly to the bumper however I had to think of various senarios that would result in a person thinking that their friend was a cyborg. Once I came up with a script I used my phones voice memo and recording myself speaking and them I went to Artlist.io and mixed the audios together in premier pro.

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!

Turns Out, Listening to Podcasts Doesn’t Mean Making Cover Art Will Be Easy

For my little bit of design work this week, I created a logo/cover art for our radio show, Days of Crime and Roses. I used Adobe Illustrator for this, and sourced my font off of 1001 Fonts, which isn’t a font site that I’ve used before but I liked the variety! Once I found one that I liked, I ported it in to Illustrator and began working. My base was a paper texture that I duplicated and changed the blending mode on. After that, I continued adding both tech elements like the glitch effect and pixels as well as physical elements like the newspapers and coffee stains. I think this design would work well as a cover image or social media icon, and I think the font is strong enough to act as a general logo! I didn’t want to go for anything too literal, which did make getting started a bit difficult.

Radio Show: Week One

M. Marshall 3.21

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.

Radio Show Update

This week was really productive for our radio show. We met on Monday to discuss everything and create a solidified plan. We also divided all the aspect of the project to specific people so that nobody was doing more or less than they were supposed to. We organized a plan to meet in the DKC and use their podcasting equipment. We felt as though this would get us the best audio quality possible. As there are five of us using a phone would not be feasible, it also would be difficult to hear everyone and would interrupt the flow of the show. For our show idea we decided to host a radio show that acted as an advice forum where people could call in regarding various situations they had and we would provide advice the best way our character knew how to.

During the middle of the week member of the group also started to create bumpers and intros for the radio show as well as develop a script that would be useful to keep track of things we wanted to say. Though there was discussion of the limitations of structure we came together and realized that we could create an outline for the time we have to speak just to keep us on track.

For next week we are set to record the show and them implement the various additional audios created.

Noir Games Intermissions

Noir Games Bumper

Radio Bumper Process

I kept the game show theme and used sound effects that helped set the scene of one. I started with using Audacity with sound edits of trivia background music then added in a countdown ticking as if waiting for an answer. Once answered I added a ding sound to portray that it’s correct then a crowd applauding. Lastly, I recorded my voice saying, “Are you good enough? Are you smart enough? Prove it! Stay tuned into Noir Games and see how many questions you Really know!” to announce the show while game show music played in the background. 

Noir Games Commercial

Commercial Process

I wanted to make a more futuristic commercial so I based it on the idea of advertising robot lovers inspired by my old post called Empire State of Love. I used Audacity to edit in sound effects and background music. I started with sad music with a added heartbeat effect and the sound of glass shattering kind of like a heart breaking along with a girl crying afterwards resembling a break up. Then the music turns upbeat as I used my voice to say, “Are you sick of this same old love? The endless loop of dating and searching only to be disappointed. Well it’s time for a change! Come to Build-a-Bot! Where you can design your own dream soul mate!” Lastly the sound of a kiss was added for the ending to tie it all together.

Inside My Creative Mind: Week 9

St. Patrick’s Day

For this Daily Create I was supposed to show a picture of celebrating St. Patrick’s Day. For me I chose Irish soda bread because I remember in school as a kid we celebrated by eating it after making handmade butter.

Duck or Rabbit?

For this Daily Create I was supposed to show a picture of confusion. One of the most confusing pictures for me are optical illusions so I found a picture of one of the most popular ones. Personally I tend to see a rabbit first and then the duck afterwards.

A Message Under the Sea

For this Daily Create I was supposed to type up a message to someone and for mine I chose to write “Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? SpongeBob SquarePants!” I chose this message because it is a reference to a popular cartoon that I am highly sure most people have seen when they were younger and would probably understand.