The Assignment:  3 daily Creates this week Create an acrostic poem that includes item of clothing that you’re currently wearing. Pinned Binding it back. Often missing one, a Bizarre hair or two escapes. Buns with wispy bits like Yarn in the grasp of a lobster. Pronged and at the ready. Inter-weaved in my hair, Notice ...

Weirdly enough I found that telling a story in five sounds was much easier than making a radio bumper.  I found it easier to come up with an idea and follow it out to the end. I started off this … Continue reading →

Listen Here The Ghost of Bobby Dunbar, produced by This American Life is a riveting tale of a woman’s determination to uncover the truth of her family lineage, and settle the nearly 100 year old question of who Bobby Dunbar really is. I am willing to admit I was initially not thrilled to have to ...

Let me be honest here: I was dreading this sound effects story assignment after that bumper. I was thinking it would take me hours of drawing out the sounds, finding the right layering, getting the right effects. UGH. Finally I decided I just need to start thinking about what I want to do. I listened to ...

Audio storytelling, when done correctly, can be entirely more captivating than any other form of digital storytelling. As Jad Abumrad states, “radio is empowered by the absence of picture.” An audio story creates a sense of co-authorship for the listener of the story, and leaves their imagination to visualize the story as they please. Ira ...

Listening to Ira Glass and Jad Abumrad discuss the basics of talk radio really provided some insight for how to talk to people about my ideas without making it feel like I’ve wasted their time.  I walk away from about 90% of … Continue reading →

Once again, I forget what week it is…I think it’s week 4….It’s so easy to lose track of time while in this class since the weeks tend to fly by. I may not know what numeric week this was, but … Continue reading →

Daily Creates for the Week: Wednesday’s: Retitle a movie poster to make it more accurate I adore Pride and Prejudice! But I feel like after (most) girls watch this movie they all want to find their own Mr. Darcy and … Continue reading →

I wanted to hear a variety of stories, so I took on The Truth from this week’s assignment list. I listened to them once during the week, but I also went back today, before writing this, to pay more attention to the noises and sound effects. (Each heading is the link to the story) Third Party So, ...

This week we had three daily creates to do.  Here are my three… 1. Draw/create an image with a boring picture on an interesting surface. For this one I decided to use the sand and my interesting surface and my names as … Continue reading →

EEK! I’m literally about to jump up and down over this assignment, I’m just SO EXCITED!! Honestly, when I read through this weeks work I was dreading this assignment. I thought it was going to be TERRIBLE. But it turned … Continue reading →

I learned a lot this week by working on audio stories. Mainly how perfectionism and indecisiveness do not work well together, but I learned some other things, too. For this week’s assignment, I created a bumper for DS106radio. As per this wikipedia article, a bumper is a brief announcement, usually two to [fifteen] seconds that can ...

Listening to the ds106 radio station was not what I expected at all!  Here at UMW, we have a radio station, and when eating at the Nest, they play songs that are currently popular or old classics..You know, just like ...

On top of making a radio bumper this week, we also had to dabble in sound effects!  We were challenged to create a short story using nothing but sound effects. To begin, I went to Youtube to find the various sounds ...

This week in DS 106, we learned about Audio Storytelling. I’m not going to lie, at first I was a little intimidated after I read the week 4 agenda and checklist {which by the way is AMAZING and I don’t know what I would do without each week’s checklist}. But then, it got a little better ...

DS 106 Links: DS Handbook DS Radio Free Downloads {that will make your life easier}: Askimet Fastest YouTube Downloader GIMP Audacity LAME

During her first year away at her scholarly castle, the Fandom Princess would go to the pub in town every Sunday night and listen to the Phoenix Choir, a choir of, yes, phoenixes and their trainers. They would vocalize songs of melody and harmony, and even, on special nights, imitate … Continue reading →

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The other audio assignment ever was to create a radio bumper for our DS 106 radio show. A bumper is a 10-30 second pause between a commerical break and a program. You know, the things that play on your favorite radio station that go something like “back to the music faster, 13.1 Miss Runner Bug Radio Broadcasting System” :) Well here ...

The other audio assignment that was assigned this week was called the Sound Effect Story. Making a story with only sounds was definitely a challange, but it was fun to do! I got the sounds tying shoes, bang, water bottle, and running from freesound.org. The girl drinking her water and saying ‘ah‘ at the end is yours truly ...

SOOOOOOO. I don’t even know where to begin with this post. Well first off if you don’t know what a Doppelgänger is then let me enlighten you: A ghostly counterpart to a living person (according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary).  When … Continue reading →

I’ve skipped a bit ahead of myself, because before I discussed audio Storytelling on the blog and what it encompasses I made a Radio Bumper! And I’m so excited about the feedback I’ve gotten on it. I thought it was … Continue reading →

I chose to listen to the This American Life episode called “Getting Away With It.” This series introduces ordinary people telling their stories anonymously, so that they have the freedom to speak what is on their minds. I took some … Continue reading →

The Fandom Princess had many close friends, but one of her closest, dearests, and best friends was her own darling younger sister, Courtney. Princess Courtney still lived at home in the King and Queen’s castle, but would frequently send owls to The Fandom Princess about her daily activities. One day, the … Continue reading →

Well here I am, doing both audio assignments for the week in one night! Typically, I spend about two days brainstorming ideas on what I want to do my assignments on, and then spend the rest of the week working on them. Not having class on Wednesday and Friday really are quite the blessing because (continue reading...)

During the early days in which The Fandom Prince would court the Fandom Princess would bring the Princess a special musical water lily every time he visited from his northern kingdom. You see, the Prince was close friends with the sirens who dwelled in the northern waters and had the … Continue reading →

Okay so for starters if you don’t get the title of this post you need to hear this back and forth from Shrek right away but replace “ogres” with “bumpers”. Seriously. Even if you know what I am talking about, do it. The princess commands it. I certainly at times felt the frustration that Shrek (continue reading...)

I was really nervous for this assignment–just like the last one–but once I got going it was really easy–also like the last one.  I just used an O.A.R song, “Living in the End,” I had in my iTunes, loaded it directly into Audacity, cut to the beginning (there were no words.  Tried using the vocal  [ Read More ]

Okay, I have a new 5 sound story, only this time it was done just now and not a few months ago. Also this one only has 7 sounds as opposed to the other one with 19 sounds. Oh well, … Continue reading →

I was quite timid about this assignment at first, because I’m not used to recording audio..and let’s be honest..Who actually likes the sound of their voice?  I personally don’t, but I just had to get over that! To start the ...