Just one more drink
DS106 Radio Commercial (3 stars) Create a commercial featuring an item that you have invented that would be extremely useful to your favorite movie or TV Show character. Try to […]
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House of Noir:Progress
Our show theme is a noir round table where we will discuss questions and topics relevant to the noir stereotypes our characters represent. Since three of my group members all have the jerk with a heart of gold I am a little nervous as to how this will work with my lone mysterious woman. We […] -
Evil Kitty Soundtrack
I used free sound to find all of my sounds, and Audacity to edit them all together. I took an original ringtone and embellished it with intense booming sound effects. -
Two Gunshots & A Splash
ONE MORE ASSIGNMENT worth 4 stars! This assignment is called Your Theme Song. The task is as follows: If you had the opportunity to create your own theme music, what would it sound like? Get creative and create your own sounds or select an instrumental from Youtube or any other source that represents you well. I […] -
Here For You – Original Recording
This Audio Assignment can be found here: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/being-a-music-producer/ Lyrics: “Midnight Driving away without headlights I need to breath but it’s too tight This stress inside of my mind So much to do but no time Places to see but I’m not free No ones here to miss me Who am I Why am I How am … Continue reading Here For You – Original Recording → -
Introducing House of Noir
To create this poster I first had to search through countless pictures of outlines of people standing on google images. Surprisingly or not there is a lot of pictures and mostly of people dancing or jumping for joy. Once I found this picture I used http://apps.pixlr.com/editor to add text to picture. After I had added […] -
Inflate your language
The last assignment I did this week was called “Inflate your language”. It was worth 2.5 stars. Here is the assignment page. For this assignment, I used inflationary language to tell the story of how my character, Billy Steel, met his wife Jackie. Inflationary language is a style created by comedian Victor Borge in which… Read More -
Commercial That Describes Ol Mick- 2 stars
This assignment was a bit tricky because I had to search through you tube a lot to find a commercial that would work without the video to go along with the audio. I did this by listening and not watching the screen. After I found the right audio I converted it to audio only using … Continue reading Commercial That Describes Ol Mick- 2 stars → -
Suspense
Here is my Emotions Through Sound assignment that is 3 points. For this assignment, it was actually really easy to complete. Last audio week I wanted to convey calm feelings in this assignments. This week I decided to convey suspenseful emotions. In this scene, a person is hiding in a closet from a murderer. The... -
Theme song of My Character
Your Theme Song: 4 stars The next assignment that I decided to complete was the theme music audio assignment. For this assignment i decided to make it about my character Black. In this theme song, i used a sound that represented bullets being shot and hitting near by and a zippo being used to light […] -
I am NOT a Morning Person….
My Dreary Morning Ritual Whats The Story Morning Glory? (2 Stars) This audio clip includes my morning ritual. This ritual have been the same for a long time. Of course, the first sound you hear is my alarm clock. I have love-hate relationship with this device. Its the main reason I wake up so I… -
I Guessed I Was A Guest
For my final assignment of the week, I tried something a bit new. Seeing as this is a “digital storytelling” class, I decided to write a little story with the caveat being it had to contain a plethora of homophones....
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Ol Mick’s Emotions Through Sounds- 3 stars
The emotion I am trying to convey in this post is a relaxed feel until Ol Mick drinks too much. From the beginning up until the puke the feel is calm with what seems like a pre party environment. The band is tuning up and everyone is having slow conversation until Ol Mick breaks the … Continue reading Ol Mick’s Emotions Through Sounds- 3 stars → -
Daily Create-Before and After
For Sunday, the daily create was to take a picture and have a second picture that is altered in some way. I took a picture of my roommate in regular clothes than covered her regular clothes with other things in a crazy way. -
Radio Command 10-4, Over
This week wasn’t quite as busy, however; I believe this wont last as it is the calm before the storm with the radio show being due a week from now. Here is the summary of my week with links to each post. Radio Show Progress: Progress is a Good Thing. Our group, appropriate named “That […] -
Listening to the radio show of Mildred Pierce
Tuesday night, I got to listen in on the radio show of Mildred Pierce. It was so fun to listen to it and comment on twitter about it. Several of us seemed to enjoy the quirks during the show. From the audience applause to the spoiled brat of a daughter. The way that it went, … Continue reading Listening to the radio show of Mildred Pierce → -
A Dash of Design for Team Noirpaca.
Ahhh, design; how I have missed you so. Good thing a bit of it is required as supplement for our Radio Show development! Prior to meeting with our team this... Read more > -
Radio Show Progress
For this week, our group met up at the Technology Center to discuss what we were going to do for our story. Unfortunately some of our group couldn’t make it. The snow didn’t help. But it seemed that we made great progress. Instead of typing up everything that we talked about for those that could … Continue reading Radio Show Progress → -
Radio Week 1 Summery
This week was very focused on the radio show and what we would do for it. I’ve already seen each… -
Radio Show Design Project
The radio show that we have decided to do is a travel back in time mystery. Two of the characters are based in the present time and the rest are back in the 1940’s. The ads that we were going to do are one for perfume, bulletproof vest, and aging cream. We haven’t gotten a … Continue reading Radio Show Design Project → -
#DS106Radio: Tune In if You Dare…
This week, I did not miss out on the live tweeting session of DS106 radio like two weeks ago during Audio Week, so there’s that … Instead of simply telling you my thoughts in... Read more > -
Multipersonality- 2.5 stars
This was fun. This assignment was to make it seem like you were having a conversation with yourself in different personalities. I like doing different accents when reading books to my daughter. I used those to make up the different personalities for th... -
Emotional Sounds
This is a response to the Emotions Through Sound audio assignment. I decided to make my sounds more ambiguous as… -
My Epic Theme Song
Your Theme Song (4 Stars) I chose the audio assignment “Your Theme Song”, well because I’ve always wanted to create one, and now I have a great excuse to do so. That being said, this assignment took a me almost an hour to create because I had to chose, which songs and sound effects I… -
Promoting Inside Talking / DS106 Radio
Our group is producing a radio show called Inside Talking and obviously this particular episode will relate to the noir genre (obviously) I have already created a blog post that examined the techniques used to create this radio bumper along with the thought process I had. That post can be read here. Please read that for further […] -
Slamina!
For this Audio Assignment I did Reverse Audio Quiz which is 2.5 stars. I had to pick a song that I liked and reverse it then give you three hints so you can try and figure it out. Here is my track and here are my three hints to see if you can try and … Continue reading Slamina! -
Character Bird Calls or Guy Call
Character Bird Calls: 2 stars For my first assignment, i decided to do the Character Bird Call. The call I chose was that of a ford mustang revving its engine. This call would be used to call in all my buddies from back home along with my family. Growing up, i was always around mustangs […] -
Can you guess this reversed song?
For 2 1/2 stars this week, I did the Reverse Audio Quiz assignment. I chose this because it looked like a fun thing to do, and because I was curious about how some songs would sound backward. While doing this assignment, I ended up messing around a lot. I recorded myself saying a whole bunch of palindromes (words … Continue reading Can you guess this reversed song? → -
911, What’s Your Emergency? – 3.5 stars
This assignment was to make a fake 911 call. We were to have fun with it. Since my daughter likes to do some of the creative stuff with me, she was the 911 operator. It was hard to catch us not laughing trying to find something funny to come up with. -
Spooky Ambience
This is for the Spooky Sounds audio assignment. I wanted to make the sounds for my track be more generally…
