This is the Soundboard Conversation assignment for 4 Stars.  It was hard, I know the 4 pointers are supposed to be hard but this took me several hours.  I started off trying to get on to Soundboard, it would not accept any of my addresses, but finally I got it to sign on using Facebook.  I picked the Breakfast Club because I love that movie.  I picked 6 quotes to use and downloaded them.  I put them into Audacity and started the process of making it work.  I had to download my audio separately and upload it to Audacity and it worked great.  I wanted to put the song, “Don’t You Forget About Me” in the background to try to make it more obvious which movie I was taking quotes from.  I ended up purchasing it on Amazon.com and I couldn’t get that to work.  I asked my son (26 years old) and he had it in an email to me in 3 minutes.  I am just not as tech savvy as I would like to be.   I put the audio together to my liking and uploaded it to SoundCloud.   I’m happy with how it turned out.

Since I am utterly annoyed with the whole story and promotion of this very horribly written story, I wanted to have a normal person’s reaction (mine) to the character Christian Grey. I took lines from YouTube videos from the film and had him come into contact with me as he stalked me and figured out I worked at Hallmark (which I actually don’t in reality). I chose lines from the film where he was looking for very BDSM related items and having it lead into the fact that he was stalking me. Apparently in the book this same kind of thing happens to the main character, yet she thinks it’s endearing. I wanted to show that his behavior or “charm” in not in any way appealing or sexy, rather it is controlling and creepy. I wanted to make a humorous audio to show that idea take form.

Soundboard Conversation – (4 Stars)

I called my boy Samuel L. Jackson to help me out with this audio assignment. I had it all planned out in the beginning, but I lost my notes. So when calling Samuel, I couldn’t remember what we were going to talk about. Lets just say, Samuel wasn’t too pleased with me.

Yeah…so this happened… Got a selfie with Tony and everything. You can check it out on my MySpace page!

Here is the link to the assignment. It was worth 4 stars! http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/soundboard-conversation/

I did this 4 star assignment using this soundboard. Shinji is a character from Neon Genesis Evangelion, and his english voice actor is regarded as one of the most whiny sounding individuals yet. picked this assignment because I had the soundboard at the ready, it would knock out my remaining stars for the week, and I feel pretty good about using Audacity. I read through the sound byte options and felt that either a conversation in the afterlife or an interrogation room would work the best. Lots of self-hatred and panic.

I first wrote out a script, so I could record the bytes in the correct order and organize more efficiently. Then, I used my headphones to record Shinji, and I got pretty okay sound quality this way. I then recorded myself saying my own lines, and I edited them together. I added some sound effects during his arrest in order to make it more clear what was going on.