Here’s the bumper I made for our radio show!

First, I typed up what I was going to say. This was fairly straightforward, once my group decided on an idea and a name. I looked at each of our characters to decide how general or specific I could be, and since the characters vary rather a lot, I went with more general.

Then, I recorded what I typed up. It did take a few tries, but there was no tongue twisters or anything else that was difficult to say, so overall it didn’t take long at all.

Then, I looked into music. This was the hardest part! First, I looked on Freesound.org. I was hard to search through everything, especially since I didn’t know what wording to use. Eventually I stumbled a sound, “Windsdown”, that I figured I could edit to make my intro and outro sounds for my bumper. When I downloaded it, I noticed that I had downloaded it before. It’s actually the same sound that I used for the entirety of my first bumper that I made. However, in that one, it used this sound for the entirety, while here I have other music for when I am talking. Due to that, this is also cut and faded in and out slightly different too. Since I couldn’t find any music that I liked on Freesound.org, I went to the YouTube Audio Library. There were so many options and filters! I decided that I wanted it bright and cheerful, and not too slow. With so many options. I actually struggled to find one. I somehow landed on “Trapped”, which I liked and downloaded. What was nice was that both of these don’t require attribution, so hopefully Soundcloud is OK with them.

For the music, I edited “Windsdown” but cutting much of the middle out, then fading the intro out so it would transition better to the music. For the music, I cut most of it, since it’s 3:25 minutes long, much longer than my bumper. I listened and found a section I liked, then cut around it. I made it also quieter to more easily hear my voice, and made my voice recording louder. I simply moved the intro, outro, and music around to fit with my voice recording. Since this was only a few sounds, not 9, it was not too bad!

I am ultimately happy with this bumper, though I am willingly to make changes to it to fit with everything else if needs be.

This is the assignment that I made this for:
http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/creat-a-ds106-radio-bumper/

This is where my sounds came from:

https://freesound.org/people/jmayoff/sounds/256145/

Windsdown

jmayoff

https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/music

Trapped

Quincas Moreira

This is where my Featured image is from:

https://www.maxpixel.net/Music-Microphone-Audio-Podcast-Recording-2618102

So, I neither listen to the radio often nor have ever created a radio bumper, so this was all new to me! The wording wasn’t hard to think up, as I have heard enough radio in my life to think of what to say. The hardest part was getting the music, which I got from Freesound.com. I had to surf around for a bit to find a sound that was musical enough and long enough. The music I picked sounded spooky and mysterious, at least to me, so I thought is seemed like a good choice. I also has no copyright, so I don’t have to worry about that. I used fading in and out to create the illusion of tuning in and out, and then also cut it a bit to better fit with what I’m saying.

This is the assignment that I made this for (although it doesn’t count towards the star count):

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

This is where the music came from:

https://freesound.org/people/Rootsmessenger/sounds/323541/

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Rootsmessenger

October 1st, 2015

This is where my Featured image is from:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/cogdog/6138240034

Dad’s Radio

Alan Levine

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