Creating a radio bumper was not as hard as I thought it would be. I knew I wanted to continue with the noir theme in my bumper, and I also wanted to get people’s attention. The easiest way I found to do this was to start out with a loud noise and put the relevant information about what station people are listening to afterwards. When I first started working on this project, I wanted a crack of thunder to start with, but after a while I decided that a gunshot would be a better choice because it is more jarring. I hope the spirit of noir is captured in this radio bumper!

I found the gunshot, footsteps, and jazz music sounds on freesound.org, and recorded my own voice for the speaking part. Because I chose to put the music after the footsteps started, I had to play with fading the music in so it didn’t sound weird (and I had to fade everything out at the end too). Doing this bumper, I learned that I am very self-conscious about my voice (in my opinion I sound like I’m about 7 years old). However, the other parts of the assignment were very fun because I could create anything for my bumper, and I think the sounds mix pretty well and convey the atmosphere I was trying to achieve.

For this radio bumper I found a video of noir related music made by Daniel Carison on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBUsdLPmkvc I found a part I liked and cut the rest. I decided to use the more eery part of the song to give it a more intense feel to the bumper. I edited the pitch of my voice in Audacity to make it deeper because I don’t like the sound of my voice and my original voice didn’t match up well with the background music. It took me awhile to get used to Audacity but once I got the hang of it, it was actually pretty addicting to use.

http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/creat-a-ds106-radio-bumper/

Let me just tell you how frustrating this bumper was to make. But nun the less I liked this assignment. I spent so long trying to make it better and interesting but still be the appropriate length. I do think I like what the outcome was. For my bumper I used parts of the Phantom of the Opera overture and many different sound affects that I thought would be interesting. I hope you like it.

Audio Assignment:

Create a ds106 radio bumper (Does not count towards stars)

For this assignment we had to make a radio bumper for ds106. I decided to dress it up in a little noir. I know 20’s music isn’t exactly noir music but I think it fits the theme quite nicely. I used the song ‘Bang Bang’ by Will.i.am because I really liked how he mixed the 20’s music with music form this decade.

For this assignment I used Audacity. I already had the music file in my library. I cut what I wanted from the song and recorded my voice over the part I needed. I then used the echo edit to end the bumper.

My DS 106 radio bumper! (2 1/2 stars)

For this Post I wanted to try make something that was a little bit creepy. At first I wanted to make something that was more “horror film” than the noir of the 1940s and 50s, but I decided I would try to do something that was more relevant to those times. One thing I do like about this bumper is that it can be interpreted a couple different ways. See if you can figure out why it is called “without a knock.”

In order to do this post, I used sounds both from GarageBand and a few from the free-sounds webpage that we were advised to use. Instead of downloading the sounds, I just re-recorded them onto my computer because it was easier to get them into GarageBand in this way. Also, it wouldn’t take up the space I had in my computer. I did enjoy overlapping some of the sounds for this project– It gives it a more realistic sound than when one effect would just stop and another would begin.

Sounds I used

heavy breathing

door opening

gunshot

I also used a jazz clip I found on GarageBand.

One of this weeks required audio assignments was to create a ds106 radio bumper. What is a bumper? “It is a short recording that identifies the radio station with signature music or an expression that makes sure the listeners know what they are tuned into.”

Here is my go at it:

To create this radio bumper I once again used a totally legal website to download the noir music from youtube. Once the music was downloaded into my itunes, I carried the track over to my audacity application and trimmed it down to 30 seconds. I then recorded my voice over the music, and adjusted the volumes so you could hear me more easily.

I really don’t like the sound of my nasally Jew voice so I had to edit the pitch to make it sound a little deeper. It kind of made me sound like a dude, but anything is better than my original voice.

After editing the tracks together and exporting them to my desktop as a mp3 file, I uploaded them to soundcloud. I also changed the setting so that my file is downloadable, just as the instructors asked.

This audio assignment was required this week. Here’s the link to the assignment: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/creat-a-ds106-radio-bumper/

This assignment was not too challenging, however, I’m not very creative so I was at a loss of what to do. I turned to http://www.freesound.org and used a couple of different downloadable sounds from that site. I pieced them together and layered some of them in Audacity and voila! This is definitely not a masterpiece, but it’s simple and gets the point across! Take a listen to my radio bumper: