The interview of Jen Ralston was extremely interesting. I think it is really cool that we are able to listen to someone who actually did work on The Wire and get and inside scoop of how the sounds were created. First, I never realized how important sounds were to shows and movies. Minus the actors […]

The audio assignment “Reverse Audio Quiz” was an interesting one. It was not hard to do seeing that audacity had an effect that reversed the song for you. What was difficult was deciding what song to do that actually sounded similar to the original version when reversed. It’s pretty funny listening to different songs in reverse […]

The Movie as Radio audio assignment took me a long time to complete but it was a lot of fun. Using a movie’s soundtrack I had to make a movie radio show that was under 10 minutes. I decided to use the first Toy Story’s soundtrack for this assignment. Toy Story is my favorite childhood […]

Today’s daily create was to take a picture of something that you used to do with a pet. Well, since I’m living in a dorm this year I can’t actually have a pet so I used an old photo that I took before I came back to school. I used to get up for the opening…

Dogs are truly a girls best friend. They may seems big and scary, but these two are just lovable, playful, silly pups. Pepsi is on the right. She’s 8 and she is the boss of Luke,5 , on the left. She’s the more cuddly one and if she wants a toy, it’s hers. Luke is… Read More

  Since it was my first time using Audacity, I kept this clip short and sweet. The assignment was to tell a story using only sound effects. This tells the story of the morning of elementary school kids. They’re always so chatty in the morning. As the school bells rings, the kids run up the… Read More

After reading and listening to this week’s agenda, I was very intimidated by it due to all the audio. Turns out, it really was not that bad! Audacity was not that intimidating and the audio assignments were enjoyable! The process of...
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Thinking of ideas for the radio show is somewhat challenging! I have came up with a few, hopefully more will come! Ideas for The Wire, Radio Show: Play favorite quotes from each season Summarize the season in quotes Mimic some...
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Picking a song for this assignment was not easy! There are so many different songs. I picked a song that I just recently heard someone else playing outside. Good luck guessing! The answer will be posted in my weekly summary(:...
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For my assignment, I picked to do a sound scape. I naturally thought of something that had to do with cows.. so the country came into my head. All these noises are the stereotypical country scene. All of the sounds...
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Well I feel like I can now officially be welcomed to the twitter sphere. Although I’ve had my account since 2009, I haven’t actually participated in a live tweet session. As one of our things to participate in this week, we were required to sit down and live tweet an episode of the Wire, either…

A daily create where we post pictures of our pet? THAT’S WHAT I DO EVERYDAY ANYWAYS.   Well for extra creative fun, I captured my cat sitting in a very creative way. He seems pretty relaxed.  

When brainstorming ideas for a radio show that relates to The Wire the first thing that came to mind was to treat the show The Wire as if it were a reality tv show (so the events are actually happening) and have the different characters be guests on a radio show in the real world. For example, the […]

For this assignment I picked to create a story all out of sounds. This was so relevant to me because in social psychology, we just learned the impact of nonverbal communication. This process was pretty easy for me this time! Luckily...
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I absolutely loved this daily create! I got so distracted looking at pictures of my dogs. One thing I always do is treat them like a human.. it is so bad! I take them everywhere with me, so they know...
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Reflection on the Jennifer Ralston interview I’m not surprised that sound is under appreciated since I feel like most people who are interested in media production gravitate towards the screenwriting, directing, cinematography or acting aspects of it. One of my best friends at GMU is a screen writer and his really good friend and peer is […]

Well, since I did the rest of my stuff for the week and was bored today, I decided to come up with another assignment and complete it so I can add it to the assignment bank. I recreated a nursery rhyme using lyrics out of songs. Here is what I uploaded to Audacity (hopefully it […]

The Movie as Radio audio assignment took me a long time to complete but it was a lot of fun. Using a movie’s soundtrack I had to make a movie radio show that was under 10 minutes. I decided to use the first Toy Story’s soundtrack for this assignment. Toy Story is my favorite childhood […]

Ever since I started watching The Wire, I started loving that TV Show. Although in the beginning of this week...

TDC985: Show us what you do/did with a pet you love. So a few weekends ago, my 2 dogs, Angel and Indy finally got to see the UMW campus after 3 years. It was absolutely wonderful to get to see them run around on Ball Circle and to show them the Amphith...

It’s fun to choose assignments from the assignments bank. The one I decided to choose this time is the “911,...

So my idea for the radio show is something that goes not only across many of the episodes and both seasons so far, but across the different character groups as well. It is something that I have been following closely since the second episode. Corruption. Since it is something that comes up so often–and is […]

Daily Create: “Show us what you do/did with a pet you loved.” For my second daily create of the week, I chose one of my favorite photos of my kitty from home. His name is Louie, and he has quite… Continue Reading →

My last daily create of week 4,’Create Your Sorted Books Self-Portrait’, a few selections from my library which represents the character behind all my madness! I chose readings that if stranded on an island would be my first picks. I situated them as I see they should be catergorized, uploaded the pics to photogrid a […]

For my third audio assignment, I decided to do So and So’s Greatest Hits, which required me to make a mash-up of one artist’s greatest hits or your favorite by them, with the requirements being that you have to use at least 5 songs and it has to be at … Continue reading

Radio shows are not as simple as people may think. I know for a fact that there is a lot of time and effect. When i think of Radio shows, the first thing that comes to mind is Elliot In The Morning (DC101) and The Kane Show (HOT99.5). I can’t be the only person who listened to […]

I did today’s daily create because I thought it would be easy and fun. Then I realized that I don’t have that many books at school with me which complicated things. I have one library book, one book that my boyfriend’s grandma gave me, my Bible, and my textbooks. So that is what I took […]

It’s almost as if this show will never end. Just when I think the gang (of officers) broke up, in episode 5 of season 2 they reunite! Except without McNulty, as of right now. He really did mess up.. So here are my thoughts on each of the episodes! Episode 3: Looks like Omar hasn’t […]

One of our assignments on the to-do list was to listen to an episode of The Wire and live tweet it. I miss the Tuesday and Wednesday session so I had to join in tonight! I wanted to prepare myself so I watched episode 5 of season 2 earlier today. A part of me wanted to […]