Letting the demons take him over, Shia Labeouf is trying to motivate everyone listening to “JUST DO IT!”. Don’t listen to him though. You shouldn’t trust anyone with a demonic voice anyway. It could be possible that he is fighting the demons off since he voice is constantly changing throughout this bit of audio. Going off of that thought, Shia is trying to convince us to defeat him to make our dreams come true.

It’s interesting what you can do with pitches when you have digital tools like Audacity to autotune voices. I never thought I would ever autotune anything, but there’s a first time for everything. That’s how I decided create something this assignment. I went in thinking I would create something on T-Pain levels of autotune, but I ended up creating a demonic Shia Labeouf. Then it hit me how this could be a story of Shia fighting his inner demons because of how his voice is going all over the place.

To create this autotuned sound file, I first used listentoyoutube.com to download my Shia Labeouf clip.

I then looked at this WikiHow to see what I needed in order to autotune voices. I then downloaded the Effect plugins that it recommended and intalled them before working on the audio.

In the image shown below, I am messing around with some of the settings in the downloaded plugin, GSnap, in order to edit Shia Labeouf’s voice. After I was satisfied with how it sounded, I exported the file as a MP3 and uploaded it to my SoundCloud.