This radio bumper assignment was a great way for me to get used to audacity. I really enjoyed making this and getting creative with the combination of Kayne West and my voice on what could be an intro to a radio station.

I enjoyed doing this assignment because I thought my day was pretty interesting. First I woke up and took a shower, then ate a little food, played some baseball, cooked some popcorn, and I had trouble with the last one because it was me laughing at a movie but I figured it would suffice to … Continue reading The Sounds of My Day- 3 Stars →

This assignment was also a bit tricky haha. I’m not the best whistler in the world but I believe you can still tell what song this is. When I was doing this assignment I definitely started to get more used to audacity. I knew exactly what to do when I was recording and I exported … Continue reading Me Trying to Whistle- 2 Stars →

This assignment was very challenging. I had a very hard time trying to figure out how to mesh my sounds up nicely but I finally got it to work. This story is Ol Mick is fighting bad guys with loud machine guns and explosions and then finally it ends. After the fight he goes to … Continue reading The Story of Ol Mick. Just Sound Effects- 3 1/2 Stars →

International dot day   Best friends commercial

If International Dot Day is legitimately a thing, then I suppose I should share with you the giant dot that I, myself, live on. How You Ask?  : I took a panorama of my street, plopped it into Photoshop (of course), flipped the image upside down, polarized the coordinates and finally added in some decorations for … Continue reading Happy International Dot Day? →

I’m not gonna lie, this week has been really rough. Since last Friday, I’ve been battling strep, an ear infection, sinus infection, and a head cold. This is where an online class becomes a life saver, cause while I’ve had to miss my other classes, I’ve managed to stay mostly on top of this class… right? … Continue reading Week 4…

Today I did the daily create for International Dot Day. International Dot Day is about how one small dot can become so big (I had no idea about today until googling it).

This Audio Assignment can be found here: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/sound-effects-story/ The Story: The setting of the sounds heard above is at the beach, around the time of sunset. My Character, Sterling James, enjoys taking small ventures by himself to natural landscapes in search of solace. He finds beauty in nature as it is one of the few things that … Continue reading Sound Effects Story – Beach Photography (3.5 Stars) →

Here is my Sound Effects Story that is 3 1/2 points. It was really fun to make but it was definitely harder than the radio bumper. I had to search for sounds on freesound.org and it was hard to find the exact sounds I wanted. I got all my sounds and began importing them into...

This week our focus is audio in storytelling and more specifically the use of audio in noir. Audio is another form of communication that used to convey an idea or a thought. What I think makes audio storytelling interesting that it enhances the story. Last week we focused on the visual aspect of story telling […]

Touch of Evil – Audio Comparison To begin this segment of my reflections, I will begin discussing two different versions of the Touch of Evil openings, one video with enhanced audio and another video with the original film audio. I have to say that I was impressed with how much the audio changes made a … Continue reading Touch of Evil – Audio Reflection →

The daily create for today was to make a dot to celebrate…National Dot Day!!! My “watermark” I chose to identify myself with was a raindrop with a reflective rainbow inside of it. Enjoy!

  I chose to do this assignment because I am going to this person’s concert soon and their songs are ALWAYS stuck in my head!!! http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/cant-get-it-out-of-my-head/ (2 stars)

Here is my audio storytelling assignment with just sounds. It was supposed to be someone woken up from snoring with large noises, then a door slamming because they went to go see what it was, then they went walking and ended up finding a flood, hence the water flowing. http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/sound-effects-story/ (3 1/2 stars)

-Use noir like music to add the effect of noir -Noir is used to describe something dramatically, when I think of things related to being dramatic I think of things like seaco -We can add suspense to it by voice changes -Make sure to have dull boring voices -Act as though you don’t know whats … Continue reading Radio Broadcasting Show Ideas..Take 1 →

Here is my radio bumper with a little noir like music to introduce DS106 radio.

Oh my goodness I didn’t think that reading was ever going to end.  Reading “Radio Noir in the USA” made me realize how much I hate reading (lol).  I wasn’t very interested in the piece at all but got the gist of what was being said.  Radio dramas are made for people who have a … Read More

I did the ds106 radio “tweet- along” on Monday. I was curious about the radio show and wanted to start on Monday. The show was very eventful. I started off not really invested in the story. The story was called the Butterfly. It was about a girl named Katie coming to meet her “father” Jess....

Here is the radio bumper assignment that is 2 1/2 points. I have a very soft voice and can usually make it sound creepy when I want to so I wanted to do that for the ds106 radio bumper. I started saying “ds106 radio” but I felt that I needed to add more to what...

This is an audio assignment for the week of 2/2 to 2/8, and is worth 3 of 8 points. For this prompt, I attempted to recreate the feeling of falling in ‘like’ with someone. To me, this sounds like nighttime skateboarding, children laughing, and Wes Anderson films. There are a few more sounds in the track, […]

  This one was very difficult to complete. I really hope sighs and crying don’t count as verbal communication…

Well as we all know by now my life is cheer and only cheer..well and school. But our daily create was to have a theme song and I asked my old cheer coach to send me our music because I lived by this song for three seasons and listened to it 24/7, I was also … Continue reading Theme Song Part 2 Because I Sleep Eat and Breathe Cheer… →

1. In the Touch of Evil Opening Shot, the music is very upbeat, the beat kind of reminded me of music in which you hear in the movie Grease at the school dance and it made me want to dance. You also here sounds of cars, driving on pavement and some sort of animal at … Continue reading Whatcha Heard About Audio Storytelling? →

We were asked to make up some radio show ideas this week. I have a few that I thought would be fun to do in a group. Since we have characters that we have created and the concept of noir as a element of our class, I wanted to create ideas that could use those...

This week I did two daily creates. On Tuesday I made a picture with words on it, or a meme as it is commonly known, with the theme of “I’m sorry”. In light of the Superbowl being last Sunday, I decided to pick on Seattle Seahawks Cornerback Richard Sherman. Here’s my meme. The second daily… Read More

The first audio that I reflected on this week was the Touch of Evil opening shot. The restored version begins with theme music almost right off the bat, with a rhythmic drumming in the background. In the original shot, there is no extra audio at all in the beginning except for the street sounds. Then,… Read More

This Audio Assignment may be found here: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/being-a-music-producer/ This assignment basically asked to record multiple tracks of audio in order to produce a little diddly. I decided to approach this little project my covering the song Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen. I began by playing an ukulele to begin the base for my rhythm. Because I am … Continue reading “Being A Music Producer” Assignment →

The Daily Create for today (2/5/15) was to make an art car! Here is my horrible interpretation. I used the ‘Sticker’ tool in the Aviary photo editor to give this VW van some extra personality.  

Title: Ask a femme fatale Tagline: Find out what you are dying to know. Premise: Mostly men but some women will call in and ask questions about supposed femme fatales in their lives. Sample questions could be Will she ever settle down? Would she really murder her husband for me? Why isn’t she happy to […]