I made the background music off garage band and then added a voiceover. It was pretty simple hopefully the background music will go well with the whole show but if not I will just change it and keep my voice recording. This will be the bumper to end my section of the radio show and to introduce the next part.
Each member of my group was tasked with creating a unique radio bumper for our show. We know that we’ll feature news, games, and callers, so we figured it’d be best to market these details & give potential listeners an idea of what to expect from us. I found a cool beat on Free Music Archive and wrote a quick script, then recorded and played with the volume & timing in Audacity. I’m liking the ultra hip electronic vibe!
Create a Ds106 Radio Bumper
In addition to my radio commercial, my group thought it would be wise to incorporate the use of a radio bumper. Thus, I decided to complete this assignment and create a closing statement bumper for our radio show! Below is our closing statement and how I created it:
Creating this closing statement bought out a lot of creativity in me. I wanted to produce a statement that illustrated both a superhero and villain vibe, since our show is centered around our characters (3 superheroes and 1 villain). Once I figured out the message I was trying to convey with the closing statement, I took off and began working on it:
1. I listened to at least 50 bumper videos on youtube until I came across the cartoon based one I used.
2. I converted it to an mp3, downloaded it, and imported it to an Audacity file.
3. I opened up a new Audacity window, recorded the first portion of my message, and then saved it.
4. Then I opened a new Audacity window, recorded Jester’s message, tweaked the pitch to his voice, and then saved it.
5. Lastly, I imported all the soundtracks I created to the bumper mp3 Audacity file, organized the sounds to occur when/how I wanted them to, added Jester’s creepy laugh to the end of the track and then I was finished!
So in preparation for our radio show I decided to use some of the audio assignment stars this week to create another radio bumper, but this time one that relates specifically to our groups show! The radio bumper audio assignment is worth 4 stars! Our radio show is going to be called Distress Symbol Radio/Podcast. With the help of my group members we came up with a few different versions of radio bumpers. That way they would be different and interesting, but follow a similar style so there was some continuity throughout our show! To create this new bumper I played some lyric free superman music in the background while I read my script. I recorded this bumper using the voice memo app on my iPhone and then uploaded it to SoundCloud! Hope you all enjoy, and look forward to hearing this bumper in our radio show next week!!
Create a Radio Bumper – 4 Stars
This is a radio bumper for my group Sweet n Sour on DS106 Radio.
I created this by using Garage Band. I used the Voxal app to alter my voice while recording. I found some upbeat music for the background in this. I enjoyed finding the best voice for this bumper. I am not very familiar with audio so I feel like it could be better but for my beginner level, I am proud of it.
I created a Radio Bumper (4 stars) for our group Sweet n Sour and DS106. I got the tune from Free Music Archive, it was actually called An Ordinary day in the Life of a Superhero so it was very fitting. I think I’ve got the basics of Audacity down now which makes this way more fun.
This week, we were tasked with creating a radio bumper for the DS106 radio show. I created a bumper through audacity and uploaded it to soundcloud. I really enjoyed making this because it helped me to get more comfortable with audacity.
The clip I recorded introduces DS106 Radio specifically for the theme super ds106. The statement I made was “It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s super ds106.” I am happy with the finished product.
You can find that here:
Most of the bumpers I remember hearing were quick, animated, and consisted of several vocal effects and fun sounds. I used the first 10 seconds of this video to help inspire the writing and speaking style I’d use. Then I recorded myself with my apple headphone mic.
Once I had a decent recording in Audacity, I added the echo effect in some places and searched through a couple of tutorials to figure out how to give my voice that through-the-phone quality in other places. I found a solid hip-hop beat and some game show sounds on Freesound which I clipped, arranged, and even reduplicated. I had to speed up most of the sounds to match my rushed speech. It may have morphed into an advertisement but I’m okay with it.
Radio Bumper
This week I was asked to create a radio bumper for the ds106 station. Below is my bumper and the steps I took to create it:
