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 >

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 >

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…

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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? →

Our group, titled Josie and the Noir Cats, is made up of myself (Kayleigh), Lauren, and Kim. We already knew each other outside of class so we formed our group fairly quickly. Our group met for our first long session on Wednesday of this week. During this time, we created the characters, plot, and name … Continue reading The Beginning of The Steadfast Sleuths

Shelley Layton now has a theme song as a result of the “Your Theme Song” Audio Assignment. I altered this assignment a bit because instead of creating a theme song for myself, I created one for my original character. The music and sound effects I used came from the freesound users soulman-90, yuval, cgeffex, qubodup, … Continue reading Shelley’s Theme

Radio Show Poster Story behind the story It took me a pretty long time to land on what I wanted my logo/poster to incorporate. I don’t know how many times […]

This week, I decided to complete the “Make Your Own Ringtone” Audio Assignment. for this assignment, you have to join different audio clips into one file and create a ringtone for your phone that isn’t longer than 40 seconds. At first, I tried animals sounds, like guinea pigs, but found that mixing the audio of herbertboland’s … Continue reading Ring, Ring Ringtone

It’s been a rough week. Midterms are coming up, housing agreements are due, hallmates are rude, and this radio show is a thing. The first step was to get a group together. I already knew Leanna, so I texted her up to join me. We also grabbed Amy over twitter, and Geyore came in as … Read More →

Radio Show Name: NOIR not the father (Maury style talk show) Group Members: Kelsey Roach, Mia Boleis, Cuyler Matteson, Brain Burns Group Meetings: Wednesday 2/18: came up with radio show […]

I decided to create a promo bumper sticker for our group radio show that had something that was related to each group member’s original character. Shelley is represented by the black cat, Sarah by the mustard, and Sasha by the cereal. I wanted to design the promo in this way in order to make people guess … Continue reading Sleuth Sticker

Below is the bumper sticker I created for our radio show! I chose to do a bumper sticker because I like this form of promotion. They are simple and to the point, but also intriguing; they give a little more info than a logo, but less than a poster. They are a happy-medium. The picture … Continue reading Don’t get MaNOIRpulated! →

Already week six?! The week that I most afraid of had come. I’m not good at making audio sounds and not enjoy recording my voice, but creating a radio show? I already stressed out. The assignments that we have to complete were seem little compare to past weeks. But radio show was waiting for me. […]

Creating a commercial is not as easy as you would think. For 3 stars I did the assignment entitled DS106 Radio Commercial.  The task: 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 be as creative and abstract as possible. Must include […]

With all the snow earlier this week it was difficult to keep focused and to do a lot of work- while I’m usually really good at getting things done earlier in the week, everything kinda seemed to fall on the...
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This week and next week, we have to create a radio show for ds106 radio. This week is to form a group and plan for it. To find a group member, I went on Twitter and searching for a group to join in. remembered that my roommate told me that her friend, Amy Elizabeth is […]

Working on my group’s radio show this week was very fun! We got together and bounced ideas off each other until we formed a plot. We are making ours a soap opera noir, but I have little experience with soaps, so I deferred to the other group members for that....

To make a ds106 radio commercial (3 pts), it took me a long time to come up with a product that I liked. Inventing a product that would be useful to my character was tricky, but I finally decided to take inspiration from Sasha Kellogg’s name and create a noir...

This week our group (Kendall Parker, Brianne Comden, Amanda Layton, and I) started thinking about our Radio Show. We came up with the name “the MaNOIRpulators. We texted a lot, sharing ideas and tweaking each other’s to come up with a summary that appropriately combined our characters’ stories. I’m very excited about what we came … Continue reading Progress →

Well this week was definitely a little different than the previous weeks in this class, because of the whole radio show assignment. But I was able to form a group…

Alright so this week was all about starting the DS106 Radio Show project. Early in the week I went ahead and read the assignments for this week, and started a search for group members on twitter. Thankfully the search started...
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On Tuesday, a flurry of tweeting happened. To get in our group I had to tweet on the #ds106 and #noir106 to see if I could find people that wanted to collaborate with me. I needed to be in a group, so I had to find a few people that wanted to get together. Eventually … Continue reading Radio Show week 1

Cheesy Radio Ad for your School (3 1/2 Stars) So I chose to make a commercial for UMW which will run during our radio show. I started working on this assignment…

This assignment that I chose to complete is called “Favorite Song” and is worth 1 and half stars. Here’s the link to the assignment: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/favorite-song/ I completed this assignment by downloading the audio from a youtube video of my song’s instrumental version. I then imported it into Audacity and cut it to just the first … Continue reading Can you guess this tune?

But, honestly, I guess it kind of is… either way, take a second to see if you can guess what this song is…   I found the karaoke version of this song on Youtube and went ahead and put it...
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Alright so I went ahead and found an advertisement for Snickers and translated it into radio. It was pretty easy… just imported the video into Audacity and there you go. To be more specific, I played the video and recorded...
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To promote my group’s radio show, I created a poster. I wanted it to say enough about the show that people understood kind of what it is about, without simply giving away the plot. The point is not only to promote my group’s radio show, but to really get people...

On Tuesday, I live-Tweeted to the Mildred Pierce radio show. Once again, live-Tweeting was lots of fun, but what made it even better was that I was listening with my friend Lauren Falkenstein. It was fun to just make eye contact during the show and share an unspoken hatred for...

Your Theme Song (4 Stars) So I chose this assignment to fulfill the remaining stars that needed to relate to my character. I’m hopeful that it may somehow be incorporated into…

This week is to working on producing a radio show. So, I had to make poster/bumper, sticker/logo, etc. Since I made a bumper in the past when we were working on audio assignments, so I made logo for s106 radio.   I used Adobe Photoshop to create this logo. On the white background, I typed […]