I was kind of dreading the topic of this week. As I mentioned in my previous posts I absolutely hate how my voice sounds when listening back on videos / audio. It took me awhile to pick a few assignments from the assignment bank just for the simple fact that I didn’t want to talk, […]

Not gonna lie, I was dreading this week. I saw that we were focusing on audio this week and I thought “I don’t want to do this. I don’t know how to do this. I’m gonna totally fail this week.” but I decided to start by downloading Audacity and playing around with it. I watched … Continue reading Weekly Summary 9/25/2015

So for this Audio Assignment Bank project (worth 0 stars) called “Create A Ds106Radio Bumper“, I had to make a 10-30 second reminder to the listener that they are listening to the Ds106 Radio station. I used the mashup Maps & Habits by 3LAU and used AVS to edit everything. I used the envelope tool … Continue reading !~That Radio Bumper~!

The topic for this week was AUDIO. Audio is a powerful tool that can transmit a lot of information and emotions. Way before television we got the radio which was used to entertain people and to transmit information. During this week I got the opportunity to play around with Audacity. Audacity is an audio manipulation … Continue reading Weekly Summary 5-Audio →

Creating different radio show topics is rather quite hard for me. I am not the type of person to think of a random idea and come up with a thousand different creative ways to talk about different things. I am more of the type of person that if you give me a topic to write […]

We have to pre recorder a radio show and one of the assignment this weekend is to brainstorm ideas for a radio show. The radio show had to follow the theme of the class which is horror. I think a good idea for a horror radio show will be to talk about movies that had … Continue reading Brainstorm radioshow →

So for this Audio Assignment Bank project titled “Favorite Song” (2.5 stars), I had to take 30 seconds of my favorite song and take the lyrics out of it so that people have to guess what song it is from the background music. This was not easy. I spent a lot of time trying to … Continue reading )( Whats That Song? )(

(A man in a suit, fedora, holding a large hatchet as a cane stands before you) Good Evening. As you may have realized from my last appearance, the usual writer of this blog is…not present. As he has decided to shirk his responsibility for this post, I have taken the…liberty of filling in for him. […]

For my radio show I would want to do a variation of a classic youtube video from Derrick Comedy called “WQXR The Cool Breeze” where the radio hosts are actually held hostage by a super intelligent wolf. It is a good comedy sketch but I feel it fits the theme really well. In my radio … Continue reading Radio Show Idea →

One of the big features of audio storytelling that makes a story go from good to great is the depth of audio. This means that the sound telling the story, either just voice or sound effects and voice, has more than one volume level. Soft sounds can really draw the listener in and then the louder … Continue reading Thoughts on Audio Storytelling →

Audio Week!  I had a lot of fun this week. I’m familiar with Audacity, I use soundcloud frequently, and I’m musically inclined, I couldn’t really ask to be anymore in my comfort zone.  I think my crowning achievement this week is Spooksy’s Haunted Mansion (AudioAssignments1418).  I think I took a bunch of ordinary sounds and … Continue reading The sounds of summar… Y.

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Week 6 will be focused on design. For this week you will be ramping up your command of image editing as well as closely considering design elements such as color, font, iconography, etc. Additionally, you will be required to reflect on questions of copyright as it relates to creative works online.

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I got really excited when I saw this assignment! It looked super fun, and super silly! Basically, I had to take a fun song, record myself speaking the lyrics super seriously, then put it on top of instrumental music to...

I chose this page because every cell could be brought to life with a bit of sound.  I work in health care, so I know what a stethoscope sounds like when you’re listening to someone’s lung sounds, and I think it would have been engaging and a bit creepy to listen to (it’s like a … Continue reading Sounding off on comics

Assignment This scene depicts what my horror character Edward hears outside of his manor every day. As you can tell, it sounds like a peaceful and relaxing place to live, but it may be a totally different story as to what lies inside. For this assignment, we had to create a story using at least… Read More

This is an audio assignment worth 3 and 1/2 stars and the task was to make a story only using sound effects. I had a blast doing this and I thought I would do a story that would pertain to the theme of this class. I hope you enjoy!

I was pretty nervous as I started this assignment! It took me the longest time to figure out what “story” I wanted to portray through sound effects. I’m not quite sure why it took me so long, it should have...

Good Evening. The usual writer of this blog is…otherwise detained. Because he has seen fit to shirk from his duties and responsibilities, I have decided to…borrow his reputation to present to you that which is…disturbing to a twisted mind. A man wandering through the woods of time and space sees many things. From the moments […]

Listening to “Moon Graffiti” allowed me to actually hear and understand the importance of audio. I really liked the combination of the different sounds in the beginning it sounded extremely realistic. The tone of their voices along with the background noise truly set the scene. As Johnathan began talking the background music changed, yet it […]

Overall, I have enjoyed combining different sounds to create a story. I’m not accustomed to using, or just hearing, audio since I watch a lot of TV and movies. Audio really is the basic building block for any type of animated storytelling. After listening to “Moon Graffiti” I felt like I was on the moon … Continue reading Audio Storytelling

For todays daily create we had to record us talking like pirate. Well female pirates were not allow. So I think I would had to be in disguised and trying to pick up some beauties so that no body could suspect me of being a girl. My pickup line would be Avast me, proud beauty … Continue reading Late Pirate Talk day →

Optimus Prime is ready for battle. @ds106dc #tdc1355 pic.twitter.com/1qPg9bV45Y — Gabby Christie (@christie_gabby) September 25, 2015 This daily create required me to take a old Japanese or Chinese painting and add something advanced like an iPhone or a laptop. I chose to do something that is far ahead both of those and decided to put […]

Captain America and Hawkeye taking a daily hero stroll across the street @ds106dc #tdc1353 pic.twitter.com/NYhZ6rIUst — Gabby Christie (@christie_gabby) September 23, 2015 For this Daily Create I had the opportunity to choose who I would want to cross abbey road versus the Beatles. Since I am a huge super hero fan I thought it would […]

If I had to choose any pages of the story it would have to be the last page because so much is revealed and there could have been so many sounds. The first would be the kid running to his mother and you could have him yelling and the sound of him running. Then there […]

When I was a kid I always loved story time. It was a time where I could choose any of my favorite stories from a large book and my mom would act it out. She would do different voices and sound effects and would bring it to life. That is what audio storytelling reminded me […]

Using host characters, create different themes and build a story around their themes. As each character is introduced, something new happens in the story.  For instance, my host is La Noir and her theme is wind. That section would include … Continue reading →

To create this story I used sounds of: birds chirping, wind, leaves rustling, thunder, lightening, rain, and birds chirping after rain. Each sound was playing at different times during the recording. p.s. my microphone is awful!

Thinking of ideas for a radio show was ruff. I’m confident that when I’m in a group and we are bouncing ideas off of each other more will come but for now I have the following ideas: Tales from the Crypt (radio show version) – I had thoroughly enjoyed reading the comics and thought that … Continue reading Radio Show Ideas

For today’s daily create (9/24/15) we were supposed to juxtaposition something new into this old print. My first thoughts were of the Narnia battle so I added protagonist a into it. Looking back on it though the time period isn’t super modern with Narnia but it was modern compared to the other era so I guess … Continue reading ..For Narnia..