I chose May I Take Your Order, since I recognized that I could get that done in less than 10 minutes, and I did. I did it poorly, but it is infinitely better than getting a zero after the last two harrying days. Did a quick smash-and-grab recording with a short script and threw it onto sound cloud. My apologies for any offense I cause with my horrible accent.

- David

I created a story with some of the latest tracks from Avril Lavigne, because I think all of her music is great. I didn’t use any of her early stuff because I couldn’t find it on my computer.

I also didn’t add this to my SoundCloud account because every time I tried, it didn’t work, so I hope this works out. (I found out that the mash up wasn’t going onto Soundcloud because of I used Avril’s Music, so oops.)

The story I’m trying to tell with Lavigne’s songs is about a bad relationship. (This is in no way stating that every relationship is bad or like this, it’s just a story of how some bad relationships work out.)

It starts off with Hello Kitty, which is the beginning of the relationship, the wooing and chasing phase. Each person in the relationship wants to be together and is very excited but they don’t realize how wrong they are for each other.

Then we move on to the confusing and fighting phase, which fits in with What the Hell. This is the part of the relationship where the jealousy and paranoia comes out, even when the partner did actually cheat, the other partner believes it’s worse then it is.

Next is the giving up phase, where neither partner wants to actually take the steps to end the relationship but neither of them is happy; this part of the story is told by Give you what you like. This is where relationship revolves around sex because they don’t want to talk or hang out like they use to.

This is the part of the story/song where the partners only remind each of bad feelings, thoughts, and memories; this is told using How you Remind Me.

The ending of the story is where a partner, it can be male or female, realizes that they can move on and be happy, the ending is given by Lavigne’s Alice. In the ending stage, one or both partners realize that they don’t have to live with this relationship and that they are stronger together than they are apart.

I hope you guys like it! My best friend and I really love Avril’s music, we take turns buying the CD’s when they come out. I finished this before I realized that it could have been 5 minutes long but I hope everyone still likes it. Let me know what you think!

For this audio assignment I chose to do the interview/mashup.  I based my interview on ESPN and Lebron James because well, he have been trending on twitter all day since he revealed he will be returning to Cleveland.  Here it is:

Here is the transcript of the interview.  All songs are hyperlinked with their appropriate lyrics.

This is Randi Crabbe reporting live from ESPN Sportscenter.  I am here with Lebron James on his first interview after announcing his return to the Cleveland Cavaliers.

Lebron, after a long-awaited decision you have finally revealed the change.  What was your first thought after making this decision?
I don’t wanna leaaaveeeeeeeeee, but I gotta go right now

What was Chris Bosh’s response to you as he was deciding between staying with the Heat or going to Houston?
I’m torn in between the two, but I really wanna be with you

And Dwade? What are your remarks to him?
It aint nothing to cut that — off

What did he have to say?
Sometimes I want to walk in your shoes Do the type of things that I never ever do

Lebron, you are a considered the greatest athlete of all times.  What do you have to say to the people who once called you a sellout?
Drinking every night because we drink to my accomplishments

This is what the Heat fans have to say about you
How could you be so heartless

If you could say one last thing to all the Cavs fans out there, what would you say?
Just hold on im coming home

Wait, wait.  We just got word that Chris Bosh has one last thing to say to you.  Here it is.
No matter what I do, all I think about is you.  Even when I’m with my boo, boy you know I’m crazy over you

This has been breaking news from Sportscenter.  I’m Randi Crabbe.  Have a great night America
Sportscenter theme song

Even though this assignment took me a couple of hours to complete, I had a lot of fun doing so.  Once again I used Audacity to loop all of my sounds together.  I downloaded each sound from YouTube using http://en.savefrom.net/.

Then I tried to import them to Audacity, but it gave me a message saying I must convert these videos into either an AIFF or WAV file.  To do this I simply used an online converter and was easily able to save these newly converted files.

Now that I had all the files converted, one by one I recorded each segment of my own voice and then imported the songs I had chosen.  To get the portion of the song I wanted, after I imported it I used the zoom key to view the song in greater detail, where I then cut out the appropriate words and deleted the rest.

Here is a snippet of my Audacity file to show you what it looked like.

For a better tutorial on how to use Audacity, I encourage you to watch the video by Alan Levine.