I had to make this video pretty quickly in a secret locations at headquarters. I hope you can hear me okay. I responded to something that was released by one of my co-instructors today, but I also spent some time talking about how to improve your assignments posts, participation points, and weekly posts. I hope … Continue reading The Burtis Files: Week Four

The Daily Creates for this week were to caption a picture of a puppy and to create a fun car!

For my first audio assignment this week I chose to do the “Can’t Get It Out Of My Head” assignment worth two points. Everyone has experienced not being able to get a song out of their head. The one I chose to whistle is especially catchy and has been stuck in my head for at…

After watching the two clips from the same movie “Touch of Evil” I am really surprised to see what different music and sound effects can do to the same scene.  The first clip is more laid back and seems to have a more happy feel to it even though you know something bad is going … Read More

Sound is a huge contributing factor in setting the mood in film, theatre, and in radio shows. Sound is crucial. It can make or break a moment. Think back to the time where movies relied on music and sound effects to tell the story because the actors were silent. Without sound, these stories would never…

For this bumper, I chose to create a sense of suspense as a woman is walking down the street and a man follows her. She is being chased by this man and starts walking again when she reaches a dark … Continue reading →

See what I did with the title?  It could mean live tweets = angered followers OR it could mean live tweets = a lot more followers.  These were both true in my case.  My best friend follows my ds106 twitter and was quite confused and annoyed by my constant tweeting while listening to ds106 radio … Read More

Creating this assignment was creatively daunting for me. I have never made a radio bumper before and had some trouble getting my head around it at first. Although I probably […]

If dogs were people, this dog would love mini vans, chicken nuggets, and the color yellow

Today’s Daily Create was to add a caption to suggest what this little guy/gal was thinking. I tried to make sure she remained cute but threw some confusion in there. […]

These are a bunch of sound bites clipped together to make a very quick story assignment. Harvey decides to take a stroll through his vineyard to check the grapes and […]

For this sound effects story, it was focused on Sebastian Crane’s drive to the San Francisco Chronicle, where he works. In my head, I wanted this to resemble a film in the way that time elapses between the cuts. So … Continue reading →

Making this video was probably one of the most exciting things of my night (and that is not even sarcasm). I searched for “most boring video” on YouTube and found a video of a cone placed on the sidewalk with … Continue reading →

Steve Jobs’ commencement speech at Stanford in 2005 is probably one of my favorite speeches. I have a few quotes from this speech saved on my computer and whenever I read them, I am put in a better mood and … Continue reading →

My line remix contains lines from the following films (in this order): Grease, Forrest Gump, The King’s Speech, Jack, and Titanic. In doing this assignment, I started out with the first line from the scene in Grease where the principal … Continue reading →

So since I only did 2 other audio assignments to total 8 stars besides the required one, I just decided I was going to post all of the assignments in one post! The first one (the required one, 3.5 stars) I already blogged about and put it in a separate post because it has to … Read More

For my daily creates this week I did the ones from February 2nd and 4th. February 2: The theme for this daily create was “Ruin-Porn Photography Today” For this I used a picture I took in downtown Savannah over the summer. This is a building from along the riverfront. I took my original photo and … Continue reading Daily Creates: Week 4

A cute pup with captions.

Thought that the puppy was cute. The assignment  was “What is the puppy thinking”

The things my mother does not know.

This a picture of my pug, Otis. At some point either last winter break or last summer, Otis got into mine or my mother’s chocolate and proceeded to throw it up all over our white carpet. Someone had chocolate in a high place but it ended up falling from that place. Needless to say, we...

Remix a Song with some Speech(4 stars) http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/remix-a-song-with-some-speech/ I combined the ted talk called Coming out of your closet by Ash Beckham and the song How it Ends by Devotcha

The Sound Effect Story (worth 3.5 stars), is one that had to be connected with the character that we made a few weeks ago.  Mine is Lawrence Spitler and here is 90 seconds in his shoes… If you couldn’t tell by the sound effects, this is a 90 second story of Lawrence after a “hit” (since … Read More

Last semester in my film studies class, we went into great detail on sound. One exercise we did was having the screen blank of the opening shot of a film with only the sound continuing on. We had to attempt … Continue reading →

Sound Effects Story(3 and a half stars) Melody Bay is walking the beach to clear her mind when someone just cant take a hint.

For this daily create I chose to do something a little funny. At least I hope it came out that way. The theme was to create a drawing of something […]

http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/your-theme-song/ (4 stars) I have garage band on my phone and was messing around with some cheer girls in order to make music for upcoming events in the season, this is truly my theme song. Not only do songs like “Give Your Heart A Break” and “Titanium” describe my life perfectly, but the fact that this … Continue reading Cheer Is The Theme Of My Life…Seriously. →

Here is my radio bumper!  After hours of trying to figure out how to use and play with Audacity I created this!  The background music is Jorge Quintero’s 300 Violin Orchestra which I thought fit noir pretty well because it builds up and creates a suspenseful mood. I was able to record my own voice … Read More

We watched two different opening shots for “Touch of Evil”. Both contained audio for theme music and street noise, and you can’t have one without the other. Take out the theme music, and you’re left guessing the mood and tone of the scene, and possibly the whole movie. The theme music, and the soundtrack for … Continue reading Audio Storytelling: street sound vs. theme music