Call Me, Beep Me
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For this assignment, take something you've watched, listened to, or read for DS106 so far and choose a character. Next, become that character and record yourself making a phone call telling the person you're calling what's going on with the world. It can be a call to 911, a message to a loved one, etc. When you're done making your recording, add other audio bits to raise the stakes and tell more of your story. Link the audio recording in your blog post, and reflect on the assignment. How did what you recorded relate to the character you chose? Why did you choose them?
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Call Me, Beep Me
I id this assignment and based it off of the movie Super 8. The movie is set in the early 80’s and is about a group of kids who uncover some secrets. The kids witness a chaotic train crash. I wanted to create a 911 call that might have taken …
DS106 Phone Call
3 Stars
This was the last assignment I completed for the 10 stars required in Audio Assignments for the week. This one required me to tell a story, basically pretend I was making a phone call, and add background noise to make it more realistic.
I decided to incorporate my …
Call Me, Beep ME
For this assignment I kept my team project in mind and thinking of how I could add this possibly to our radio show. I struggled with adding my recording thanks to different file types but my goal was for my agent to send an SOS call. My agent’s story ended …
Please Say Your Message After the ****
For this assignment, I thought it would be cool to incorporate my character, Helga Schwarz. The task is to make a message, like a voicemail message, or a phone call, like a 9-1-1 call. I chose to make a voicemail message, in which I am impersonating Helga, leaving a …
Call Me, Beep Me
For this assignment I chose to be Phoebe from Friends, and call Rachel and Monica to tell them to cancel their house party. I wanted to emphasize the events that happened to her throughout the day so I used free sound.org to get sounds of her walking through a graveyard, …
Dude…pick up your phone!!
Today I made up a voicemail left for Kai’s little brother, Gavin. This was done for Audio assignment #2194. In the voicemail you can hear that Kai is clearly on the run, from the gang called the Blue, my story’s villain. You can hear also in the background that he …
E.T. Phone Home
In this audio assignment worth a whopping 5 stars, I created a phone call from the perspective of a character in Philip K. Dick’s short story, The Defenders. This assignment was the perfect one for doing what we were assigned to this week: weave in something that has to do …
Call Me, Beep Beep
For this assignment, I decided to play the role of Vic leaving a voice message for his mom after the tragic events of killing Quilla June and feeder her to blood. This is based off of A Boy and his Dog
Call Me, Beep Me
For this assignment, I decided to play the role of Vic leaving a voice message for his mom after the tragic events of killing Quilla June and feeder her to blood.
Here is the audio clip
http://gcm1988.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Recording.mp3…
Call Me, Beep Me and May I take your order?
Call Me, Beep Me
May I take your order?
My creations for when Robert Neville tries to warn his neighbor and if he were to be ordering McDonalds when the apocalypse strikes.…
Call to Sanghwa
For one of my Audio Assignments I decided to do the Call Me, Beep Me assignment. This assignment involved choosing a character from a story I have read, watched, or heard during this class so far. I decided to do a call from Seong-kyeong to Sanghwa after she arrived in …
It’s Me, Alice.
Finis is a short story I read at the beginning of the semester for this class, and I loved it a lot. I particularly loved the character Alice and how she told the audience that, now that her life was ending, she wishes she would have lived more. I loved …
Papa Needs help
For this assignment I decided to be the little boy from ” The Road”. He finds a house and the phone is working so he dials 911 and requests help because Papa is dead on the beach and he does not know what to do. You can listen here.…
Can the police protect us from the end?
http://theend.jilliangellman.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/911-Call.mp3
For my second audio star assignment, I chose the three and a half star assignment, Call Me, Beep Me. I had to make a 911 call, and I chose to relate it to the Peoria Plague radio show from Wednesday night. I found it a little tricky to record …
Call Me, Beep Me
I id this assignment and based it off of the movie Super 8. The movie is set in the early 80’s and is about a group of kids who uncover some secrets. The kids witness a chaotic train crash. I wanted to create a 911 call that might have taken …
DS106 Phone Call
3 Stars
This was the last assignment I completed for the 10 stars required in Audio Assignments for the week. This one required me to tell a story, basically pretend I was making a phone call, and add background noise to make it more realistic.
I decided to incorporate my …
Call Me, Beep ME
For this assignment I kept my team project in mind and thinking of how I could add this possibly to our radio show. I struggled with adding my recording thanks to different file types but my goal was for my agent to send an SOS call. My agent’s story ended …
Please Say Your Message After the ****
For this assignment, I thought it would be cool to incorporate my character, Helga Schwarz. The task is to make a message, like a voicemail message, or a phone call, like a 9-1-1 call. I chose to make a voicemail message, in which I am impersonating Helga, leaving a …
Call Me, Beep Me
For this assignment I chose to be Phoebe from Friends, and call Rachel and Monica to tell them to cancel their house party. I wanted to emphasize the events that happened to her throughout the day so I used free sound.org to get sounds of her walking through a graveyard, …
Dude…pick up your phone!!
Today I made up a voicemail left for Kai’s little brother, Gavin. This was done for Audio assignment #2194. In the voicemail you can hear that Kai is clearly on the run, from the gang called the Blue, my story’s villain. You can hear also in the background that he …
E.T. Phone Home
In this audio assignment worth a whopping 5 stars, I created a phone call from the perspective of a character in Philip K. Dick’s short story, The Defenders. This assignment was the perfect one for doing what we were assigned to this week: weave in something that has to do …
Call Me, Beep Beep
For this assignment, I decided to play the role of Vic leaving a voice message for his mom after the tragic events of killing Quilla June and feeder her to blood. This is based off of A Boy and his Dog
Call Me, Beep Me
For this assignment, I decided to play the role of Vic leaving a voice message for his mom after the tragic events of killing Quilla June and feeder her to blood.
Here is the audio clip
http://gcm1988.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Recording.mp3…
Call Me, Beep Me and May I take your order?
Call Me, Beep Me
May I take your order?
My creations for when Robert Neville tries to warn his neighbor and if he were to be ordering McDonalds when the apocalypse strikes.…
Call to Sanghwa
For one of my Audio Assignments I decided to do the Call Me, Beep Me assignment. This assignment involved choosing a character from a story I have read, watched, or heard during this class so far. I decided to do a call from Seong-kyeong to Sanghwa after she arrived in …
It’s Me, Alice.
Finis is a short story I read at the beginning of the semester for this class, and I loved it a lot. I particularly loved the character Alice and how she told the audience that, now that her life was ending, she wishes she would have lived more. I loved …
Papa Needs help
For this assignment I decided to be the little boy from ” The Road”. He finds a house and the phone is working so he dials 911 and requests help because Papa is dead on the beach and he does not know what to do. You can listen here.…
Can the police protect us from the end?
http://theend.jilliangellman.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/911-Call.mp3
For my second audio star assignment, I chose the three and a half star assignment, Call Me, Beep Me. I had to make a 911 call, and I chose to relate it to the Peoria Plague radio show from Wednesday night. I found it a little tricky to record …
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