DS106 Radio Show The drama is increasing in this movie on #ds106radio !! #western106 — Christina Gaul (@chrissy_gaul) February 10, 2016 The music makes it sound like theres about to be a big fight! #ds106 #western106   — Christina Gaul (@chrissy_gaul) February 10, 2016 Where did that chorus come from? #western106 #ds106 — Christina Gaul […]

This entire week was all about audio, something I never really have done anything with or focused much on. I learned a lot, like, a LOT! I have my audio reflection on what I learned via a story about the moon and through my first ever ds106 radio experience so you can check that out! … Continue reading Weekly Summary 2/5 – 2/12

Umw eagle express! #tdc1494 #dailycreate pic.twitter.com/2a4I5BJXX3 — Jenna Steele (@jsteele_ds106) February 10, 2016

I participated in Wednesday’s tweet-along, during which we listened to Gunsmoke: Doc Holliday and Frontier Gentleman: Aces and Eights. Tweeting along with others made the podcasts fun and interesting, especially as we pointed out the different audio cues and uses of music. In my opinion, Gunsmoke was a lot more fun to listen to than … Continue reading Tweet-Along: Gunsmoke and Frontier Gentleman →

Week Five: check! I found this week to be one of the most difficult. However, I feel I learned a great deal. I think I found it hard because we had many audio assignments to complete and prior to this week I have not had much experience editing music and sounds. As such, trying to … Continue reading Week 5 Summary 2/5-12/2016

Have you ever heard of the podcast “Stuff You Missed in History Class?” The two presenters pick out fun/interesting historical topics that aren’t well known. I was thinking why not do that with our western theme! An older western story, character (real or legend) or scene could be broken down and explained. Any one like … Continue reading "Radio Show Ideas"

One of this week’s assignments was to create a bumper for the class radio station. This assignment challenged me in multiple ways but in the end, I feel it was a good exercise for me to complete. I listened to our class radio show for the first time last Monday. By doing so, it gave me … Continue reading What station is this?

I chose to complete the audio assignment ‘rhythms with things’ an assignment worth three stars. http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/rhythms-with-things/ For this assignment I used a pen, kleenex box, and hands to create a rhythm. For this assignment all I did was play around with a couple beats until I felt comfortable enough to replicate the rhythm for an […]

This assignment was completed to satisfy the creation of a bumper for ds106 radio. http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/creat-a-ds106-radio-bumper/ I used Audacity to create an mp3 which I uploaded to soundcloud. I converted a youtube file to an mp3 using an online converter. Afterwards, I recorded a voiceover using audacity. This assignment was straightforward. The only challenging part of it […]

My radio bumper involved three recordings laid on top of each other from freesound.org ; 1)a man shouting “yeehaww”, 2) my voice, and 3) banjo music. I tried putting some twang in my voice (not sure if I succeeded) and worked on fading out the banjo music on audacity so it didn’t end so abruptly. … Continue reading "Audio Assignment – Create A Ds106 Radio Bumper"

Tree Express #tdc1494 #ds106 pic.twitter.com/lddz3KlXhm — Maria Rivas (@marsbars610) February 10, 2016 My invention: The Lazy, only $10 that will get you to open & close the door without standing up #tdc1493 pic.twitter.com/bL97YPVvdx — Maria Rivas (@marsbars610) February 10, 2016 I saw a guys who looks like Dr. Oblivion on the field…. coincidence???#tdc1492 @ds106dc pic.twitter.com/0RravUCZLM … Continue reading "Daily Creates"

So I’ve listened to Moon Graffiti and a few other examples of audio storytelling from previous weeks to get a better idea of how I feel about audio and storytelling. I’ve taken a couple film classes so I’ve thought about this quite a few times, though that usually involved a picture to go with the audio. … Continue reading "Storytelling Through Audio"

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This week in Digital Storytelling, we have to do 8 stars worth of audio assignments from the audio bank. So I wondered what

This assignment is a submission for the Sound Effects Story assignment. http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/sound-effects-story/ I utilized the sound effects downloaded off of free sound in audacity to create my story. This story reflects my characters need for a drink. He walks into a saloon. His footsteps are heard up until he reaches the bar. The bartender displays […]

For this week to make eight stars of audio assignments I did one 3 1/2 star, will be doing another 3 1/2 star and to finish up I have this 1 1/2 star assignment. This was the May I take your order assignment. What you had to do was pretend to be ordering at a fast […]

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We had to select 8 or more stars of additional audio assignments this week and my first additional one is One-Man Play which is worth 3 1/2 stars. For this assignment you had to use Soundcloud and act out a scene from a play by yourself. I had a really hard time thinking of a play, but then […]

I struggled with this assignment mainly because I don’t have rhythm. My solution? Play with racquetballs. I took two of my racquetballs, began recording and simply played around with them. I even accidentally knocked over their container (which can be clearly heard in the video). By the end of it, I had a clip of … Continue reading "Audio Assignment – Rhythms with Things"

This week we had to pick and an audio assignment from the assignment bank. We were given four different options and I picked What a Song Might Mean to You. For this assignment you had to find a certain song that reminds you of a situation and then explain why you like the song as well […]

I had a lot of fun with this assignment, mainly because I enjoy whistling. It was easy to record myself on audacity and upload the file onto SoundCloud. Can you guess what song it is? It’s the chorus of a pretty popular song that I heard on the radio (and I just couldn’t get it … Continue reading "Audio Assignment – Can’t Get Out of My Head"

This week we had to listen a podcast called Moon Graffiti. This was an episode that showed what would have happened if Armstrong and Aldrin had crashed on the moon when attempting to have the first moon landing. I loved this so much! It was a really creative way of showing something that in all reality […]

My most prominent memory and initial learning of the power of audio storytelling was when my teacher in grade school introduced us to Orson Wells who produced a War of the Worlds broadcast. It has been noted that the 1938 broadcast of HG Wells work on CBS sent many listeners into a panic due to […]

In accordance with this assignment, here is a day in the life of Danny Keys through audio. His job is to play piano in a saloon, so the majority of the sound here is music. Here we go through his work day, warming up on the piano, playing through the day, and slowing down as … Continue reading Piano Story →

I chose to complete the Reverse Audio Quiz assignment worth 3.5 stars. http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/reverse-audio-quiz-2/ I thought it’d be interesting to reverse a song and hear what the track sounded like. I used the Audacity program. With a little clicking around, I figured out how to reverse the mp3 file. The result is below: Figuring out the song […]

Audio in Storytelling Sight without Sound:When watching a movie, seeing a play, or even experiencing every day life, sometimes it is hard to realize how much sound impacts your emotions. Even if you can only hear the music/audio, it can still evoke feeling in you the way visual would. Maybe even more! A great example […]

For today’s daily create we had to create a postmark for something delivered on the Pony Express. What I did was find a cute picture of a pony (yes, he/she has a sweater on) and uploaded it to an editing app on the iPhone to add the stamp theme border. After this, I then uploaded the picture […]