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DS106 Radio Commercial

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Create a commercial featuring an item that you have invented that would be extremely useful to your favorite movie or TV Show character. Try to be as creative and abstract as possible. Must include sound effects or background music and be at least 20 seconds in length.

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Commercial Number Two

I took this prompt and twisted it to fit into my group project. As the protagonist would eventually need this product….

This one was pretty fun to make, I incorporated some interesting sound effects into it to make it less monotonous.…

DS106 Radio Commercial

I created a radio commercial about a new portable copy and paste tool. I related this invention to Molly Ringwald on the Breakfast Club. I created a voice memo of both my voice and background music. Then I combined them into GarageBand. I hope you enjoy this commercial!

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DS106 Radio Commercial

I created a radio commercial about a new portable copy and paste tool. I related this invention to Molly Ringwald on the Breakfast Club. I created a voice memo of both my voice and background music. Then I combined them into GarageBand. I hope you enjoy this commercial!

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Radio Show Commercial

The “DS106 Radio Commercial” assignment was to “Create a commercial featuring an item that you have invented that would be extremely useful to your favorite movie or TV Show character. Try to be as creative and abstract as possible. Must include sound effects or background music and be at least …

The Recaller

Create a commercial featuring an item that you have invented that would be extremely useful to your favorite movie or TV Show character. Try to be as creative and abstract as possible. Must include sound effects or background music and be at least 20 seconds in length.

Assignment Bank- Audio

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DS106 Radio Commercial

Create a commercial featuring an item that you have invented that would be extremely useful to your favorite movie or TV Show character. Try to be as creative and abstract as possible. Must include sound effects or background music and be at least 20 seconds in length.…

Spy School Commercial

For this audio assignment, I decided to do a commercial advertising a (fake) spy school course that’s being held this summer. I thought it was kind of nostalgic, because when I was a kid I went to this “spy class” at a local Borders (remember when those existed?) and …

Secret Agent Hip/Hop Hour

For the radio bumper promo I basically just explained a quick overview of what our radio show will be like. I created this bumper on audacity, it’s getting easier to upload audio through it every time I use it. Our radio bumper will be unique in which we will be …

Hypercharger New Product Commercial

The product everyone is talking about…The hypercharger!! I really had to use my imagination for this assignment as I had to commercialize a new invention. I had fun with my roommate Daley on this commercial as he is a car freak and talked about his experience with the product. As …

Nap Time

For this assignment, I created a commercial for the radio show my group is doing. I thought of what to advertise for probably a solid 5 minutes, and then I thought of what I really wanted right now…..which is a nap! Who wouldn’t want a nap!? And why not …

Commercial

To create a commercial related to a tv show or movie I chose to make it a general “superhero” theme. I think the ad, which claims to make cloths that give you superhero abilities, would work best on Cartoon Network, or other channels that have show with animal superheroes  (such …

MAGIC POP! Commercial

For this assignment, we had to create a commercial around an object our favorite TV character would find useful. Though I do not have a favorite TV character, I thought I would use Archie Andrews from Riverdale because the season just started on Wednesday.

Just in case you don’t …

Pet Healing Amulet

For this assignment (3.5 stars), I wanted to create something for my group’s radio show. I tied it into my character by having the ad be about a pet healing amulet. My character is a pet rescuer, so I thought this would be the perfect product to advertise. I …

Vampire Repellant

First, for 3.5 stars I did this assignment to create an advertisement for our group’s radio show!

Since our show will be a news show, it will make sense for us to have many commercials. This commercial is one advertising a vampire repellent, professing how effective and wonderful the product …

Wrist Wrangler Commercial

I used the DS106 Radio Commercial Assignment (worth 3.5 stars) to work on our broadcast. Since my character is Manny (The Super Nanny) I made something that he could use. I recorded my own voice in audacity and used freesound.org to find the background noises.

Assignment Bank 1 (Week Seven):

DS106 Radio Commercial 

For the next two weeks, I am going to be working on producing a radio show with three of my peers. This week entails a lot of tasks to get us standing on our feet so we can take off running next week. Therefore, I decided to …

Commercial for Agents on Air

For the commercial, I tried to think of something that agents might struggle with. Then I came up with the idea of “Dare2BeDoubled”. This company would make a robot that was so realistic that even your closest family couldn’t tell the difference between you or your double. It would solve …

Extraction Agencies

I did the the DS 106 Radio Show Commercial assignment which was worth 3 1/2 stars. Now this particular assignment specified that the goal was to make a item that would be useful to a tv show or movie character. It wanted it to be at least 20 seconds long …

Gods Away Spray

Naturally I chose another television crossover assignment that could be doubled as an advertisement for the radio show.  I liked the idea of evaluating the difficulties in a protagonist’s life and seeing how those needs could be met.  My mind immediately went to Xena, a hero who often struggles against …

Radio Show commercial!

I completed this assignment to be featured on our class radio show, ds106 radio. It is based on my western character I created this semester. Her name is Talie and she is a cowgirl in a little western town who runs the family ranch. You can read more about her …

Brooks and Brooks Consulting

For the Radio Commercial assignment, we had to make a commercial we would put in a break in our radio show.  This is what I came up with:

I based it off a bunch of lawyer firm commercials I had seen.  The name Brooks and Brooks is based on the …

Zimmerman Services Commerical

Here is the original assignment.

Commercials market services to potential customers. They are strategically placed between television shows and online videos. They are often short and catchy to influence the greatest number of people. 

I created a radio commercial of Zimmerman Services, a company that markets technological solutions to …

9 Lives Radio Commercial

I hope this commercial is able to convince you to tune in to the Grumpy Desperados October radio show. We he have some wonderful things in store for you. Spooky stories, fashion suggestions, a history lesson and information about all of the wonderful events going on throughout town. The 9 …

Wally’s Reaper Repellent

For 3.5 stars this week, I completed the ds106 Radio Commercial assignment.  This counts towards my star count for the week, and we can also use it for our radio show! Look Ma, I’m multi tasking!

 

 

In order to create this commercial, I wrote a short script, then …

Ds106 Commercial

For this Ds106 commercial I created a gun store commercial that would be perfect for someone, like our radio show characters, that is stuck in a zombie apocalypse. The inspiration for this commercial came from a college humor video called Girl’s Costume Warehouse. The guy that does this commercial …

DS106 Radio Commercial

Here is a radio commercial for our upcoming radio show.  I grabbed the ax noise from http://www.freesound.org/people/PapercutterJohn/sounds/319989/ and the photo from Photobucket.

I hatched this idea while I was talking to my new friend Melissa https://twitter.com/melissam88273 about our radio show.

I turned up the volume on the ax chopping to …

DS106 radio comercial

I decided to do DS106 commercial for an audio assignment which is worth 3.5 stars. One of the requirement for this commercial is that it has to be something that need to be related to the host characters or to a movie character. I created the Magical Sphere diary which …

The King Fly Killer Commercial

So for this assignment, and staying in the same vein as our radio show, I decided to mix old and new in this commercial for the King Fly Killer, a fly swatter patented in the 1900s. Here’s a newspaper ad for it! My roommate pointed it out to …

Mayfield’s Advertisement by Veronica

3 Stars

Since Veronica loves shopping so much she has decided to create a radio commercial for her friend, Shirley Mayfields, store. I got the idea for this assignment from some commercials I heard on ds106 radio over the last few weeks. I took elegant music for the background and …

Guys vs Dolls – Commercial Standoff

Audio commercials. How to choose a voice? Male or Female? Who is the target audience? Which fits best? I decided to do both versions and use both within the same audio event – cover all the bases!

Audacity is getting to be more familiar and WOW – there is so …

NO-NV Does the Trick!

As a contribution to my group’s radio show and the five points of character assignments this week, I decided to complete the “DS106 Radio Commercial”. However, instead of inventing a product for a movie or TV show character, I fabricated one for my own character, “Jewel”. The prompt states: Create …

Commercial about Noir Character for NWTY? 3 Stars

http://3lilangels.us/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Bumper-NWTY-Radio.mp3

So we have audacity and save file as MP3 for a bumper about our radio station. We are Noir We There Yet? or NWTY. This assignment was fun and I enjoy putting the track together and picking music but I still don’t like hearing my own voice. I love …

Itty Bitty Kitty

I had a lot of fun coming up with this assignment. I wanted to connect it with our upcoming radio show, so I based it around cats because two of the main characters of the show own cats. This Audio Assignment is the“ds106 Radio Commercial” where you have to …

007 Tracking Device

I’m excited to share this commercial a friend and I made that will hopefully play during NeoNoir’s radio show. It is worth three audio points for the week of 2/16 to 2/22.

We made the commercial as though it would sell to the main character of the radio show, who …

For Those Who Don’t Want TINDER Love & Care

Creating a commercial is not as easy as you would think. For 3 stars I did the assignment entitled DS106 Radio Commercial.  The task: Create a commercial featuring an item that you have invented that would be extremely useful to your favorite movie or TV Show character. Try to be …

Kellogg’s Cocoa Kitties

To make a ds106 radio commercial (3 pts), it took me a long time to come up with a product that I liked. Inventing a product that would be useful to my character was tricky, but I finally decided to take inspiration from Sasha Kellogg’s name and create a …

Take That Trilby Off, Buy A Fedora From DeMarco’s

For my second assignment of the week, I became a hipster. Seriously. I made a commercial about buying a new fedora. There’s probably more hipster-y things than this happening all the time, but, of course, I’ve never even heard of them.

I stared off the assignment with no idea what …

Join The Boston Police Department

Audio Assignment:

DS106 Radio Commercial 3?

For this assignment we had to make a DS106 radio commercial. I decided to do this assignment because we’re going to have to make 3 commercials for our radio show anyways.

I made this commercial centered around my character. She works for the Boston …

Commercial

I did this 3 Star Project for the radio show.  It was fun.  It was my first attempt at a commercial and I think it came out good.  A little corney but it was fun.  I used audacity to put it together and used an ad I created during design …

Abandon: the radio commercial

3 stars https://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/ds106-radio-commercial/

This assignment asked us to create a radio commercial for a favorite TV show or character of ours. I created mine for my character Melody Bay and my group’s radio show House of Noir.

My character is the mysterious women and I decided that the one “product” …

Fake Radio Commercial

I had a little fun creating this radio commercial. I decided on the show Sleepy Hollow to create a product for because it is one of my all time favorites. I noticed how much the characters needed to know where the different horsemen were and how they always found them …

“Where Will You Be When..?” Disaster Insurance Commercial

Fitting with the theme of our radio show “Where Were You When..?”, I created a commercial for disaster insurance titled “Where Will You Be When..?”.  The premise of our show is about our experiences surrounding various events, and this commercial fits into that theme by offering listeners a way to …

Shhh they’re listening

If this message has gotten out, then I’ve probably been captured by the powers that be. They had eyes and ears everywhere man. I thought I could avoid them forever, but they were too resourceful. They feared how much I knew. Well those big heads in the government probably didn’t …

Radio Commercial – Seinfeld needed Mobile Phones!!!

This audio assignment is called “DS106 Radio Commercial” and the purpose is to create an audio file that emulates a commercial you may hear on the radio. However, the catch is that you need to advertise something that could be useful for characters in a TV show or …

Radio Commercial for LoDown

I created a commercial for the LoDown. I wanted it to seem kind of epic so I decided to use the song Wake Up by Rage Against the Machine. I took audio from LoDown-18 of Groom asserting his need for dominance and a superior cyber-race of ds106er’s and added it …

Audio Assignments: Ds106 Radio Commercial- 3 stars

Create a commercial featuring an item that you have invented that would be extremely useful to your favorite movie or TV Show character. Try to be as creative and abstract as possible. Must include sound effects or background music and be at least 20 seconds in length.

This is my …

Listen to the Reading Rainbow!

S/O to my girl Katy for making this a challenge!

This challenge was so much fun! All you have to do is create a commercial and include music that plays in the background! Now for this commercial I used Jim Groom’s studio! It was so cool! I used Audacity to …

Are you BLIND?!

DS106 Radio Commercial

Create a commercial featuring an item that you have invented that would be extremely useful to your favorite movie or TV Show character. Try to be as creative and abstract as possible. Must include sound effects or background music and be at least 20 seconds in length.…

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Tutorials So Far

Wine Commercial (3 Stars)

Sometimes everyone needs to just wind down and relax from time to time. We all have our variations on taking a break. If you are someone who is intrigued by the allure of the wine community or an individual deeply entrenched in this community it is time to check out …