The Radio Bumper was one of the challenging assignments we had to due for Audio week (in my opinion) I was first going to incorporate music but then thought “Hey, this is a radio station that already plays music, lets do something different.” I started it off with a deep “eye-catching” voice saying “Ladies and Gentlemen…this is your DJ.” Then my voice which I would like to think is not very deep or creepy comes on introducing the radio station. Afterwards I put in people chatting and laughing to give off the feeling that people enjoy talking about and listening to DS106 radio station.

I used all of the sounds (except my own voice) from www.freesound.org – this website has been very helpful for Audio Week.

I used Final Cut Pro to put all the sounds together and make a pleasant transition from one sound to the next. However, I ran into some difficulty uploading it on to Sound Cloud and decided to record it onto SoundCloud through Final Cut Pro. Basically I played my radio bumper and recorded it at the same time on Sound Cloud. (I hope that made sense or wasn’t repetitive).

Below is a screen shot on Final Cut Pro of the finished product!

Enjoy

Screen Shot radio bump © by katherinekd101

Telling a joke in general is difficult enough… but in another language thats the challenge. I decided to do Spanish because I’m terrible at the language and thought it would be fun. I found my joke on www.spanishpronto.com

The translation of “Hay Tres clases de personas”- There are three kinds of people, “las que saben contar y las que no.”- Those who know how to count, and those who don’t.

I played the song “Zungazungazungazunga” by YellowMan and found the laughing voice on www.freesound.org.

Instead of using Final Cut Pro, I used my own talents of recording everything myself through Sound Cloud. It doesn’t sound as smooth as The Sound Effect Story, but still well worth knowing how to use both.

I decided to do this joke because I am terrible/awful/embarrassingly bad at math and thought it was very suitable. I chose to do Spanish like I said earlier because my attempts to learn it in High School was a fail… so I figured why not try and learn a joke in the language I can hardly speak!

The Sound Effect Story was a lot of fun and great way for fellow bloggers of Camp Magic MacGruffin to show of their creative side. I did the sounds of a thunderstorm in a tropical jungle. I adore the outdoors and always prefer to be outside rather then in. With summer time being dead in the middle, only means summer rain and heat. I love thunderstorms and being outside in the midst of a rain storm, there is probably nothing more refreshing. I have never been in any type of Jungle, especially during a Thunder Storm. I could just assume this is what it would sound like though.

I started off with birds chirping and a light rain to slowly build the mood. I slowly built up to a heavier rain with some distant lightening in the back. The howling monkeys and birds flying away signify that something heavy is about to come. All of sudden the mood gets more intense with the crackling of lightening. The mood becomes lighter after this as the rain lightens up into a soft pitter patter.

I found all of the sounds on www.freesounds.org I used a program called Final Cut Pro to put all the sounds together to make a story of what a tropical storm would sound like. I incorporated monkeys howling after every lightening strike to give it a more authentic feeling of actually being there. After uploading all the sounds into Final Cut Pro, I used a method called “Rubber Banding” where you can transition each noise smoothly by lowering the noise at a gentle slope.

I originally saved this file as a AIFF then converted to MP4 so it would be smaller to download and more durable on Sound Cloud.

Enjoy a brief moment through the Jungle!

RainForestProject1 © by katherinekd101

This is a screen shot of Final Cut Pro. This is the Sound Effect Story put together

This is the first blog post I have done for Audio week, let me just say this was a challenge in itself. Thats what school is all about though! Trial and Error.

The goal is to describe your life in two minutes or any kind of stubborn, obstacles, challenges you have overcome in your life that defines who you are as a person now.

I never viewed myself as the athletic type in any context. Especially being on a team that involves everyones input or else the whole team fails together. I decided for some reason that I felt in my gut to join the Crew Team at Mary Washington. It was one of the most life changing experiences I have had and will probably ever have at College.

Rowing is physically and mentally demanding. It is extremely time consuming and your life starts to revolve around the sport. I learned that I can work with a team but it takes patience and drive. By the end of the semester after losing every single Regatta (basically a rowing competition) we made it to finals and made it in third place at our last one. This was the most rewarding feeling to know that a whole semester of blood, sweat, and tears (literally all three) paid off. I never felt so accomplished in my life or happier to be apart of a team, knowing that I contributed to the success.

I recorded myself via Sound Cloud. I clicked the “share” button above the recorded audio. I was then given a code and pasted it directly into the “HTML” box on my word press post!