sound effects story

sound effects story

by @rachelds106

| Syndicated
February 14, 2020

For this assignment, I decided to create my vision of a perfect 80’s summer day! I tried to include sounds that were oldish sounding (for example, the car and the Polaroid click at the...
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Weekly Summery #5

by @VhudschNor2

| # weeklyassignments, Syndicated, WeeklySummary
February 14, 2020

This week was long and tiring, I only ate on average 1 meal per day, and usually had between 2-5 hours of sleep per day. Programming was fun as always, but the rest of the week was exhausting, with me working until late in the morning on a few days, especially on Thursday-Friday where I […]
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Relaxing Sounds v. Auditory Hell

by @Maeve_ds106

| #AudioAssignments, AudioAssignments2140, AudioAssignments2142, Syndicated, WeeklySummary
February 14, 2020

For my second Audio Bank assignment, I chose All the Relaxation. This assignment asked the creator to create a collaboration of sounds that could be looped to create a relaxing background noise. I used freesound.org for my sounds and Garage Band to complete the assignment. In my last assignment I focused on layering sounds, for […]
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Web Literacy

by @rm_giles

| Digital Studies 101, Syndicated
February 14, 2020

Web Literacy becomes an important tool in this day and age, and the ability to discern the validity of sources and information found online is a critical skill. People looking for clicks will post lies and misinformation purposely to deceive. Unaware audiences share these claims and spread them further. Our …
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Week 5 Assignment Write Ups…Digital Audio has a learning curve

by @cpsc106

| Syndicated
February 14, 2020

This week I did 3 audio assignments. Make it 800% slower was pretty straightforward. I took a part of a song (a.lone by XXXTENTACION), and in Audacity, the recommended software, I used “change tempo”. The slowed down clip sounds real choppy but I saw somebody explain in the Youtube comment section that this is the software’s fault. It doesn’t sound that good but that’s fine because I learned how to
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Radio Blah Blah

by @sincerelysterls

| #AudioAssignments, AudioAssignments36, ds106, ds106radio, radiobumper, Syndicated
February 14, 2020

(Title a reference to a song… can you guess it? Enjoy a selfie of me in the Vocal Booth!) Greetings! This is Sterling, and I am back with some more content. This week is audio-focused. We were tasked to create a ‘radio bumper’ between 15-30 seconds to go onto the DS106 radio. I will write … Continue reading "Radio Blah Blah"
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Radio Show Ideas

by @CRLunn

| #radioshowideas, Syndicated
February 14, 2020

So in case you missed it another teaser trailer dropped for Stranger Things session 4 today. You can watch it here! I’m obsessed with Stranger Things because I love the 80’s music and “lingo”. I don’t have any clear ideas for a radio show just yet but I love the idea of channeling Stranger Things …
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Week Five Summary

by @HidalgoUmwd

| Syndicated, WeeklySummary
February 14, 2020

Phew! What a week. I must say, out of all the weeks so far, this definitely was the most challenging. Whether it was trying to […]
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hey there!

by @rachelds106

| Syndicated
February 14, 2020

Hey guys! Here’s the radio bumper I created for this week. I used audacity to record and grabbed the music track from YouTube Free Sounds. ...
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Julia and Charlemagne

by Downes

| 2020365, Syndicated
February 14, 2020

February 14, 2020. No surprise: it's kittens. This is Julia in the forefront (the quietest and calmest of them) and Charlemagne in back. Today was a bad-internet day at the office, which slowed me down, but I got a couple of sections done on the ethics...
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Week 5 Summary

by @CRLunn

| Syndicated, WeeklySummary
February 14, 2020

This week we focused on Audio Assignments which is definitely out of my wheel house. I downloaded and played extensively with Audacity which was very user friendly and intuitive. I recorded myself a fair bit which is not something I enjoy but I faced these assignments head on in the pursuit of my degree! For …
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80s Friday

by @HidalgoUmwd

| #AudioAssignments, #AudioAssignments70, Syndicated
February 14, 2020

For this assignment, I decided to once again use sounds from the vault and used a couple sounds to describe a typical friday for an […]
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Auditory Hell

by @CRLunn

| #AudioAssignments, AudioAssignment2140, Syndicated
February 14, 2020

This was a pretty straight forward Audio Assignment: “Create YOUR worst sound ever. Take audio clips of every single sound that you hate and put them all together to make The Worst Noise Ever. ” Obviously, there is only one answer here…NAILS. ON. CHALKBOARDS. So I downloaded 3 different audio clips from freesound.org of nails …
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Sick 80’s Beat

by @Maeve_ds106

| # weeklyassignments, #AudioAssignments, audioassignments2366, Syndicated
February 14, 2020

For my first Audio Bank assignment I completed an assignment called, Sick Beat. This assignment asks the creator to make a beat using sounds they found for free, public use online. For this assignment I used freesound.org for all the sounds you hear, and used the Garage Band audio software to put everything together. To […]
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Beat It, Audacity!

by @HidalgoUmwd

| #AudioAssignments, AudioAssignments2128, Syndicated
February 14, 2020

For this assignment, I decided to compare an iconic 80s song by the pop king Micheal Jackson, Beat It, where I took his original version […]
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80’s Product Radio Commerical

by @CRLunn

| #AudioAssignments, AudioAssignments2479, Syndicated
February 14, 2020

As I previously mentioned in my Radio Bumper post I really don’t like recording my own voice so these projects are nerve wracking for me. Despite my apprehension this was fun to work on.For this I assignments I was asked to make a radio commercial advertisment for a product created in the 80’s. When I …
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Radio Show Brainstorming

by @lgperez19

| #radioshowideas, Assignment Bank, Syndicated
February 14, 2020

I like the idea of taking something that happened in history and chaning the outcome like Moon Graffiti did. We could focus on events from the 80s. For example, what if personal computers never became a thing? What if they Wall never came down? What if...
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Week 5 Down

by @BegaKayla

| Syndicated
February 14, 2020

This week was a STRUGGLE. At first even just looking at the assignments for this week gave me anxiety. I have never been good using software and I was so paranoid I’d never finish all of the work. I started off with the daily creates since I had already known how to do those. These …
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Moon Graffiti

by @lgperez19

| Assignment Bank, AudioReflections, Syndicated
February 14, 2020

I truly enjoyed Moon Graffiti, and had a great sense of relief knowing it it’s fiction. The sound effects in the story did a good job to paint a scene for us to imagine a trip to the moon, the crash, the atmosphere, and most importantly the chara...
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A Bumpy Bumper

by @HidalgoUmwd

| radiobumper, Syndicated
February 14, 2020

For this assignment, it took me a bit longer than I was expecting as I ran into some trouble regarding the import of my voice […]
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80’s Radio Show Ideas

by @BegaKayla

| #radioshowideas, Syndicated
February 14, 2020

80’s Radio Game Show: Quiz show? Jeopardy?Food: 80s recipes? Foods making a comeback? What new foods should we try?Relationships in the 80’s: How would relationships in the 80’s compare to relationships now? Talk Show Beauty and Fash...
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Jazzing Up a Quote

by @BegaKayla

| #AudioAssignments, AudioAssignments2141, Syndicated
February 14, 2020

For my last assignment I decided to choose one called “Quote With A New Feeling”. For this assignment we were challenged to take a quote and pair it with a song in the background. I wanted to make this 80’s theme to fit our class. I chose the quote “To me, obligation is not love. …
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These are a few of my favorite things (sounds)

by @BegaKayla

| #AudioAssignments, AudioAssignments2146, Syndicated
February 14, 2020

For another one of my picks out of the assignment bank I chose to do “A collection of your favorite sounds”. This one was super fun! I thought of a list of my favorite things and then what sounds I could use to portray them. I used a number of different free sound banks but …
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Weekly Wrap-up!

by @IngrahamAllison

| Syndicated
February 14, 2020

Daily creates: Moon Graffiti: I found this activity very interesting and it reminded me of a podcast in a way but, it was on SoundCloud. The background sounds really helped me capture an image in my head. my mindset was in outer space! Bumping up the radio: Creating a radio bumper was something new for …
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80’s Pogo Ball Commercial

by @BegaKayla

| #AudioAssignments, AudioAssignments2479, Syndicated
February 14, 2020

From the assignment bank I chose to do an assignment called “80’s Product Radio Commercial”. This assignment was easy for me because I had just learned how to use Audacity and could find sounds easily. I started by looking through a list of products that were popular during the 80’s. After picking the Pogo Ball …
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Live Tweet-Along Reaction

by @BegaKayla

| ds106radio, Syndicated
February 14, 2020

This week we were challenged to participate in a live tweet along while listening to the DS 106 radio show. This one proved very challenging for me as listening in on the background noises and musics made me not focus on the words and actual plot of the story. The audio drama that aired the …
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week freaking 5!

by @lizlynnkondzel

| Syndicated, Weekly Summaries, WeeklySummary
February 14, 2020

it almost rhymes! would you call that a slant rhyme? unsure, i disgaree with and hate slant rhymes as a concept so i’m probably not the best judge. anywho ds106! this week was full of totally rocking daily creates that you can find right here! In order to orient myself to audio storytelling as a […]
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talkin to myself

by @lizlynnkondzel

| #AudioAssignments, Assignments, AudioAssignments1665, Syndicated
February 14, 2020

this was delightful! I had a lot of fun with this assignment, of which the goal was to record a phone conversation with myself, but to try and make it seem like its two completely different people! Here’s the final product! In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, but also in the spirit of you don’t […]
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Mixtape: DJ Diana

by @HidalgoUmwd

| #AudioAssignments, AudioAssignments2074, Syndicated
February 14, 2020

For this assignment, I used the sound editing program Audacity, which I have been familiar with for quite some time now. Being a dancer, I […]
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It’s 1981 and You’re Sad

by @ConnorM35842492

| #AudioAssignment2227, #AudioAssignments, Syndicated
February 14, 2020

It’s 1981. You took your high school crush to the Senior Prom. When you both got there, your date ran away to dance with another person for the rest of the night, forgetting you even exist. You run... Read More
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