For this audio assignment, I’m bending the rules a bit in the interests of the radio show project. How about a dark take on Audio Assignment 1745, “Good Morning Message to the Village? It’s still a message to a village, that is, our village in DS10,6 and a message of murder….

We need an intro for our show, and this is pretty straightforward. Since there are seven of us creating the show, the total time for the show needs to be between 35-49 minutes, so I wrote a one-minute introduction draft. It may need to be expanded or contracted, depending on how everything else balances out with commercials, bumpers, transitions and the actual story.

Our group also does not want to give away any of the details and they will be changing, so I cannot show you what I produced. It is locked up in our Google Docs vault, for only the Radio7 crew and Professor Bond to have Eyes On! What I can tell you is that I wrote a script that should bring the audience first into our group’s work and explain what we are doing, then bring them into the story and tell them what they will be experiencing, hopefully to tease them enough to stick around till the very end to find out “Who Done It?”

I recorded the intro/message on Audacity, then posted it to SoundCloud and put the link on our Google Docs site so the group has access to it. Once the story script is finished, then the intro can be edited and recorded with background music, then mixed into the master track.

“It is always such a wonderful thing to hear a bright cheery voice delivering the Good Morning Message in The Village. Why don’t you bring some joy to the day and to your fellow Residents by creating and recording a wonderful message of community and cheer. Share your audio via Soundcloud and tag it appropriately”

Now, here’s MY spin on this assignment. Tell me this isn’t the best way to wake up. This should SURELY wake anyone up, right? An entire village, even!

I started this assignment by thinking “what would REALLY wake up an entire village?”. Then, it came to me!

Sirens!

Yes, yes! Sirens will do! Now, what kind of music tends to have a lot of sirens?

Dembow!

Yes, yes! Dembow will do! Now, all I had to do was add a beautiful cheery Australian voice to the mix. Indeed, I was really excited to complete this assignment. I think it came out quite well, wouldn’t you agree? Instead of a normal “good morning”, you get a “GOOOOOOOOD MORRNINNG” type message. I’m proud of this one. I hope you are, too!

2 Stars

I decided to change this assingment slightly so I could use it for our radio project. I used Bensound for my background noise and I used SoundBites for my alarm and rooster sounds.

I’m really happy with how this turned out! Its a pretty uplifting intro/bumber. I originally wasn’t going to include the background music, but I eventually decided that it sounds better with it.

Because of the way we decided to split up our show, I was tasked with creating an introduction for our radio show; Sweet n Sour. I decided to follow the guidelines for the assignment Good Morning Message for the Village but changed it to fit our radio show.

To create the introduction, I recorded my voice with a greeting message. Then, using freesound, I looked for some sounds that would be fitting for the radio as well as our class theme. I found a sound that sounded like an introduction to a movie for a space movie or something, but I thought it sounded cool. I also found a sound clip of a superhero flying, which I incorporated into the intro to match the class theme. Last, I decided to use the laugh from Kelsey’s character Jester as a closing to the introduction.

To put everything together, I used Audacity and adjusted all of the sounds so they went together smoothly. I then got the intro approved by my group members before making it public on this blog post.