A whole clan of daily creates was due for these past two weeks. There certainly were plenty of opportunities to create different things, and ironically it all started with the word “create”. To start off my two weeks worth of daily creates I ended up picked the first thing was to spell create with materials (continue reading...)

Foley is a technique used in radio and films to create audio and sound effects to reinforce actions.  I watched several of the videos on foley sounds and thought they were so cool!  I couldn’t stop watching them all and ...

After listening to track after track of Taylor Swift’s instrumentals for the Fab Five radio show, I figured the “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” one would go well with a commercial. It was acoustic guitar, so that got me thinking about maybe an acoustic guitar lesson commercial. I wrote the script and recorded ...

For the group radio show assignment, I had to create a bumper to include in the radio show. I used Audition for this assignment. I kind of went off of what I did for my last DS106 radio bumper. I used the opening to “Titanium” by David Guetta feat. Sia which you can listen to here. ...

For this week we had to do SIX daily creates! Here’s what I got this week: 1. Take a picture of something you collect. 2. Take a picture of yourself making the weirdest face possible 3. Spell “Create” using interesting materials/objects to form … Continue reading →

Along with each of us making a commercial for our radio show, we also had to each make a bumper.   We had made bumpers before so I wasn’t too worried about this assignment. I decided to use the song Home by Phillip … Continue reading →

To draw in listener’s interest to my group’s radio show, I created a commercial to convince them to stay tuned.  Since the theme of our show centered around soundscapes, I loosely based my commercial idea around the audio assignment Make Your Own Ringtone ...

Week 7 & 8 Daily Creates March 2 Task: Take a photo looking out your best day dreaming window. include the frame in your shot. I was a bit liberal with the meaning of this daily create. I wear glasses, so I figured that they are my best day dreaming windows–plus they have frames! March ...

These past few weeks were taken up mainly by our radio shows.  While we ended up with just one final show, a lot of small things went into making it.  The first of these things was our commercials.  Even though … Continue reading →

Well, second time doing one of these, not too difficult, pretty straight forward.  My way of publishing it was GarageBand so I’m actually curious on how other people do theirs.  Not sure if this is everyone’s preferred method or if there’s some other program out there that I don’t even know about.

To continue working on my group’s ds106 radio show, I created a bumper within the twilight theme we chose. I made sure to mention my group’s name (Fifth Dimension), the twilight zone theme. and ds106 radio. I opened Audacity and iTunes to start my ...

When I’m driving, I can’t look down at my iPod to see what song is playing to determine if I want to keep listening to it (at least not safely). So, I’m a pro at figuring out songs before even a second of the song plays. That’s why I took on this assignment for this week. ...

Dear God, where do I start?  It’s been a while since I had to do all this and put everything together.  Just did my daily creates so I’ll start there I guess. The first thing I did was make an ...

For this week, I needed to complete a couple of audio assignments from the repository. When I saw Music Tag, I knew I had to do it. Really, I like anything with mixing music. This is the assignment description:  Lyrics and songs are great ways to tell stories. Have you notice similar themes extend genres… lyrics ...

I am such a music girl, never a talking girl. Maybe because I just like the hear the sound of my own voice rather than others, but who knows. Long story short, I have never been one who listened to the radio that much. However, I ended up really enjoying the whole process of creating (continue reading...)

So in the last post I showed you the old-school daily creates I did, here are three up to date creates! ——————————— Spell “Create” using interesting materials/objects to form the letters. My sushi dinner   Pick a vowel. Write a one paragraph story avoiding words that contain that vowel.   And my favorite: Draw a ...

I took a few liberties with the daily creates over the past few weeks. I decided to hit the random button a few times.  So some of these are older ideas, but just as creative! ————————– Take a photograph that emphasizes the sky by placing the horizon very low or very high. from January 2012 ...

The past few weeks working with audio has brought an overwhelming whirlwind of knowledge. From completing my first foley challenge, to having a four minute conversation with myself, there was lots to learn. Let’s recap the highlights: I created a bumper and commercial for my Twilight Zone themed radio show: Radio Show Bumper Blog Radio ...

Another assignment I completed for this week’s audio assignments was multipersonality. The task was to, “pretend that you are three to four persons having a regular conversation.” Being that my group chose a Twilight Zone theme for our radio broadcast, I chose to re-enact a scene from a Twilight Zone episode. The episode I chose ...

I chose Text Impersonations as one of the audio assignments to complete this week. The task was to, “take a conversation between multiple people over a text based medium, like Facebook or Twitter, and create a audio version of that same conversation.” I decided to use a cleverly made Facebook status, which imagined a status ...

This assignment was probably the most interesting and difficult assignment to date in ds106. As per usual, I used Audacity to create the audio for this assignment. Here is the segment of the clip that I used: To start, I watched the clip about five or so times through to gauge what kind of sounds ...

For this week’s weekly summary, we were required to complete 6 daily creates. This is more than usual, but it was also over the course of three weeks, so there was plenty of options. Let’s recap: Take a picture of something you collect While I have never avidly collected anything in my life other than ...

It’s strange to do a weekly review for 2 weeks, and it’s  very bizarre to think that we’ve been in DS106 for 8 weeks now! The radio show was the BIG project over the last 3 weeks, but we still … Continue reading →

Whew. This was a tough challenge. And maybe one of the toughest of the semester. We had to create foley sounds for a clip of the silent movie, The Circus. Not sure what Foley sounds are? While I didn’t know … Continue reading →

In creating a commercial for the Fifth Dimension’s radio broadcast, being that we chose a soundscape themed show using a variety of assignments from the audio assignment bank, I chose the Beat Craig’s List assignment. The purpose of this assignment is to choose a craiglist ad that is odd enough to engage you, and record it ...

I feel like it has been SO INCREDIBLY LONG since the last time I posted a weekly summary!  The past three weeks have been full of audio assignments with a few visual and writing ones scattered about in the TDC … Continue reading →

That was so hard! Wow. So the foley sounds definitely win for being the hardest assignment of the week.  I’m not sure how much I really enjoyed that! I had to watch that clip over and over and over again … Continue reading →

Here is my bumper for our twilight zone themed radio show. I used Audacity to create this bumper, and combined bits and pieces of the Twilight Zone theme with my voice. My first idea was to extract the quintessential repeating piano portion of the theme and repeat it throughout the bumper in the background. From ...

I have rekindled my love for Gossip Girl. (Thank God for Netflix!!) I came across this 3-star assignment for “Movie Voice Machines” where you pick a movie/tv character and create their voicemail message. Since I may or may not have watched … Continue reading →

Spam is the worst, is it not? Thanks to my “Akismet” plugin, I don’t see spam comments on the blog unless I click on the “Spam” tab. I have to admit that reading through the Spam comments makes me laugh … Continue reading →