For this radio bumper I decided that it would be fun to incorporate some type of interesting background music that plays on the agent theme. With this process, I decided that I was going to include what we talk about on the radio show because I think it is important to let listeners know what they are in for. I put all of this together and created this bumper!
This is the radio bumper I created for DS106 Radio. I recorded three tracks of myself using GarageBand. The rest was edited with three sound effects (an affected horn, affected violin, and a clock ticking) found on FreeSound.org, with the help of users bennstir and InspectorJ.
This is the bumper I made for DS106 Radio. I actually lost my voice recently due to a cold, so coming up with a way to record this was challenging. I was originally going to try to find different audio files of people saying each word (“you’re,” “listening,” “to,”…), but using a robot voice generator was a lot easier. Using freesounds.org, I put in a robot feedback type of sound at the beginning.
These are my least favorite thing to listen to on the radio, even commercials. And now, I think I hate making them even more. Regardless, it was a little fun to play around with, but I just don’t think I have the voice for the radio. I used some sounds I found on the internet for the background and voiced over them at the end, so it was a very easy project.
Here is a radio bumper I created for the ds 106 radio show.
This was one of the harder assignments for me so far because I’m not super comfortable recording me/my voice. The purpose of the assignment was to create a radio bumper for ds106 radio. For those who have never heard this term before (like me), a radio bumper is kind’ve like a short commercial for the station between songs telling you what station you are listening to. First, I had to find a good song to play in the background. I couldn’t think of any actual songs I wanted to use but I found a sound clip I liked that was upbeat without being too much. I used Soundcloud to record the clip and I had the clip playing in the background while I said my little spiel. I wasn’t really sure what to say and I still don’t like my recorded voice but I think it came together pretty well. Here it is:
Bonjour!
You are now listening to DS106 Radio, –a station with the hottest music, stories, dramas…you name it all. We play back to back to cater your audio needs —so don’t go anywhere! We’ll be back after 15 seconds.
When I first read that we had to do this assignment, I was a little nervous because I personally do not like to use my voice for audio related thing, but then I realized that I don’t have to use my own voice! I have my friends for that! So I recorded one of my best friends pretending to have a British accent and uploaded to audacity. Then I was thinking of all the ways I could have the bumper. I was listening to Missy Elliotts Get your Freak On, and I really liked the end of the song beat so I used that and cut it into the voice recording of my friend and boom DS106 radio Bumper!
All lovely things
Enjoy
After listening to the DS106 radio for the first two live broadcasts I figured I needed to take a swing at working on my own already. My approach was to go for a standard radio add, but minus the loudness that I usually associate with radio bumpers. Usually the examples I could think of from radio channels I listen to in the car and tuned into a few to listen to how they promote their channel. I wanted to stray away from loud and brashness that I tend to think of for those ads but still stay on topic. I heard the other ads and liked the approach of including information of some kinda about the DS 106 radio not just its name on its own.
I went ahead and booked out time in the HCC’s audio booth to go record this clip and work on another vocal assignment. I know the vocal booth gets better sound than anywhere else I could record it, plus I have a fish tank in my room so I can’t record any audio in there because it would have an obnoxious and distorting sound going on in the background the whole time. Though I bet there is a way to use the fish tank sound in an assignment at some point which could maybe be a cool look into background noise but I digress.
To give my bumper some more depth I used a radio static sound from Free Sound at the start of the clip. But then I decided to have the static faintly carry through the whole clip because it sounded too empty without it.
