Here is the link to my work: http://lifebysavanna.com/audio-assignments/my-spam-is-your-spam/
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Here is the link to my work: http://lifebysavanna.com/audio-assignments/my-spam-is-your-spam/
For my second audio assignment this week, I completed Taking Back Spam from the Audio Assignment Bank.
The sources I used to search for SPAM mail were my personal e-mail accounts; however, I soon found that I did not have very interesting things in my SPAM folder. The one SPAM mail I finally settled on was an e-mail from someone trying to make a personal connection…by sending SPAM mail!
I used Audacity to record myself in a baby voice reading the e-mail. I have a negative opinion of women who talk in baby voices with their partners in romantic relationships. So, I applied this “ridiculousness” to this assignment. The SPAM mail reminds me of those messages in a bottle that people throw into the ocean in hopes of stranger picking it up and taking action on the message. To create that ambience, I layered the recording with an audio file of waves crashing against rocks I used an audio file that I did not use on the Sound Effects Story assignment, which I had downloaded from FreeSound. I exported the Audacity file to MP3 and uploaded it to SoundCloud, so I can embed it to this blog post.
Below is the screenshot of the SPAM e-mail and the photo I used for the SoundCloud avatar:
Just had to knock out a star real quick. This is a random spam email I got.
Here is a link to the assignment.
Difficulty: 1 star
So this assignment was called “Taking Back Spam” and it was pretty simply: to find a piece of spam and read it out loud in our own way. I added a little extra sentence at the beginning to convey my own feelings about the spammers and what it sounds like to me when I get a spam email that reads “Hi Claire”
This was email spam I got from VBRO
Difficulty: 1 star
Find some spam. Could be email spam, could be comment spam, whatever you want. Read it aloud. Make it your own. Try to make sense of it or make it more absurd than it already is.
This spam came from the comments section on my blog! Wow doesn’t Nike shoes sound AMAZING? This was so hard to read due to the grammatical errors but I tried to make it sound as believable as possible!
I recorded this using GarageBand.
See more reclaimed spam here!
Assignment Value: 1 Star
Total Value for Week 2: 15 Stars
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 and shake my head! So ridiculous and the spelling is atrocious!
So when I randomly found the “Taking Back Spam” 1 star audio assignment, I new I had to do it. You can use spam from your email, blog, etc. I choose to scroll through the blog’s spam file and see what I could find and I decided upon this one.
I then used audacity to record my reading of it. I went with an “annoying stuck-up OMG, dramatic” girl voice. Could there be a better way to describe it? I’m not sure, so we will go with that phrasing.
After I finished recording, I simply uploaded it to Soundcloud. Easy enough.
Star total: 3/5
I get a ton of email spam. And by a ton, I mean approximately 3-5 a day. I’m not exactly sure why I get so much spam (I rarely sign my email up for anything anymore) but I do. The one I read is a spam email I’ve gotten at least five times now. I know I’m not the only person getting it because a lot of other UMW students joke about getting it too. It kind of makes me mad because I think the university is selling our email addresses to third parties for profit. God Mary Wash, thanks.
Anyways, for this assignment, I chose to read this in a professional manner as a joke because the email is clearly spam. I mean, it doesn’t even reach my main inbox anymore; even my UMW email knows it’s spam. That’s how obvious it is. But I decided to make it seem like a legitimate email.
I guess this is the only time spam email will be relatively useful. Hope you guys enjoyed my audio clip!
So it was back to audio for the past couple weeks! I (again) dreaded it, so I started off with a pretty easy audio assignment, Taking Back Spam, from the ds106 assignment bank to get back into the swing of things. Rated 1 star, this assignment called for some type of spam to be read aloud. I immediately thought about all the spam comments I get on my blog posts and knew I would use one of those. I didn’t even have to look at the deleted comments because I had 8 spam comments waiting for me!
I made it simple by recording directly to Soundcloud. It took me 3 takes to be happy with my recording of the spam comment. I tried to give it a sarcastic tone to make fun of how it was written. I think I could have been more sarcastic, but I didn’t want to sound too bitchy. Honestly, I chose this spam over all the others because instead of putting a smiley face in the middle, it literally said, “smile”…I couldn’t get over that! Listen for yourself!
This is some spam from my WordPress Blog (even though I do have a spam-blocker). The audio assignment “Taking Back Spam” required me to read some spam (whether it be mail, a comment, etc) and to either try to make sense of it, or to make it more absurd than it already is. I tried to read it like I knew what it was talking about. But in reality, these words mean nothing to anyone who speaks the English language–the order of these words possess no meaning. I merely recorded myself on Audacity, edited it, exported it, and uploaded it to my SoundCloud. Easy as pie.