Make Your Own Radio Commercial!
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When you are driving in the car and a radio commercial comes on you might start to tune the radio out. But, if you were the person selling what the commercial was offering would you want people tuning it out or listening intently? Well, I would want people paying attention to my commercial! So, for this audio assignment pick a product or business you would like to promote and sell! Use a audio recording software such as soundcloud to record your commercial. Add in background music, edits, and provide full information of the business/product/services you are advertising. Try to create a radio commercial that grabs and maintains the audiences’ attention. On the side, write why you chose the object or business you are promoting and the process you used to create your commercial.
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Submissions So Far
Stabbing is Perfectly Okay
Taken from the Make Your Own Radio Commercial! assignment, I have created a commercial for my group’s radio show. Since it was going to be about college advice one thing I would advise an incoming student to do is join the fencing club because fencing is a lot of fun!…
Katora Wants to Hear from You
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Who is Bob Ross Radio Promo
I wanted to create a cool promo/introduction for our radio show rather than just a commercial. I wanted to make something that show cased what are show was and to grab the listener’s attention and draw them in. I took some samples of Bob Ross comments and set them on …
Radio Show Commercial
This week I created a commercial for my radio show. I made a commercial about a real organization I talked about last week for a design assignment. I included the organization’s mission statement as well as how to get more information on them. I used a sound from sound …
Commercial Break!
For my third and final audio assignment for this week, I made my own radio show commercial. More specifically, I made a LinkedIn radio show commercial (because it was the first company I came up with after recently starting up my own account). I wrote up the script and …
Therapeutic Advertisement
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Money Does Grow on Trees
As part of completing 10 stars of audio assignments I completed the radio ad assignment. This assignment will also most likely be used in my radio show that will be revealing next week.
For this assignment I used Audacity to create the mp4 file and I uploaded it on SoundCloud. …
99 CHANNELS AND 80’s AIN’T ONE
? Having Netflix problems I feel bad for you son
I got ninety nine channels and 80’s ain’t one ?
Melody-Z
Man I hate listening to commercials! Whenever I hear one, I immediately change the channel (or change the station). But for the project, Make Your Own Radio Commercial! I …
Nancy Drew’s Girl Power
For one of this week’s audio assignments, I decided to create a radio commercial that can be played during my group’s radio show.
My commercial is a commercial for the new Nancy Drew movie that is coming out this March. I decided to do a commercial for Nancy Drew because …
Tinder: Take it easy and swipe safe on Valentines Day
For this audio assignment I had to promote a product or business using an audio recording software. I definitely used this for comedic satisfaction as I used a lot of humor in this commercial. I used Audacity then uploaded it publicly on Soundcloud. I chose tinder because today is valentines …
DS 106 Radio Commercial
This is my Ds 106 radio commercial!
I made it while cleaning for break. I bet you can’t guess why…messy roommates! I would love if there was someone to clean my room for me! I put the vacuum at the end to help really sell it!
This was the radio …
Visual Communications Radio Commercial
For this week’s Assignment, I was challenged by my instructor stretch outside of my creative comfort zone and try an audio project. So, I created this Radio Commercial for my Visual Communications course with GarageBand, Word Art (https://wordart.com/create), and iMovie. Sho
Communication & Digital Studies Ad
We needed at least three commercials for our radio show, so I took on another for this week just before my group recorded and assembled ours. Since I graduate this semester, I’ve been thinking (and stressing) a lot about potential career opportunities, and reflecting on the different ways that being …
Distress Signal Radio Commercial
The last stars for my audio assignments this week was put towards my radio show commercial. I picked the audio assignment make your own radio commercial which was worth 3 1/2 stars. To complete this assignment I wrote up a script for my commercial idea and one that is specific …
KLLM Commercial: Are you scared yet?
http://ds106.hellowhatsup.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/KLLM-Commercial.mp3
I made this commercial for the radio show KLLM which we named because it is each of the people’s first initial in the group. I wanted to make a commercial that could be realistic on an actual radio show and something that is pertaining to events that are going …
Grab a Box of SuperOats!
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Make your own radio commercial – 3.5 Stars
This is the commercial I made for my group’s radio show! I decided to base it off of my superhero and how you can get into contact with her. I used Garage Band to edit my recordings and used Voxal to alter …
Make your own radio commercial
I decided to do the Make your own radio commercial assignment (3,5 stars) and decided to angle it towards our radio show. In this ad, my superhero Charlie Sass has designed a hacking software that I’m trying to sell. I used a song from Free Music Archive to use as …
Make your own radio commercial: Kan Jam
The product I am selling is the game of Kan Jam. It is a game that has recently become the addiction of all my friends and I, so why not promote something I love. I made a script for it and rather than trying to do too much to the …
Spymate Commercial
This was a fun assignment. I enjoyed making this commercial and I think it will go well with our radio show that has a sexspionage theme. So I decided to create a commercial about a spy dating website where you can find fellow spies that are looking for a …
“Malicious StopGate” Malware Commercial
For this 3.5 point audio assignment, I was instructed to create a commercial, preferably for my group’s DS106 Radio show on Sexspionage. Since my own secret agent character, Wren Wilder/003, is a fan of technological security, I decided it would be fitting for our station to promote malware and ransomware …
Aqua Living Ad
I took on the Make Your Own Commercial! assignment worth 3 1/2 stars. I was flipping through at random and found this one and since I had just completed the radio bumper assignment I thought it would be fun to stay on a trend.
For my radio commercial I decided …
“It’s the logical thing to do”
As I was reading “A Logic Named Joe,” I thought there should a marketing campaign to promote this product. I thought of a commercial jingle:
For anything you need to know
You can ask Joe!
and I can hear it in my head, with the canned music and …
I can hear the beats….
For todays audio assignment (4 stars)I created a commercial for the radio. I created this for my final assignment. So far created 5 (4 star) assignments is pretty rough, but I have managed to weave a better story because of it.
To start this project by going to Freesound and …
Audio Assignment – Make Your Own Radio Commercial!
Our radio show needs commercials as part of the requirement. Problem is, with the advent of Netflix and Adblock, I can’t really recall the last ad I watched or listened to. I went back to those classic infomercials, and tried to emulate that style. The music isn’t exactly fitting, but …
Quality Cards
For this assignment, I decided to make use of the fact that since I need a commercial for the radio show, I might as well get some stars for the week making one. I have mixed feelings about the final product. Probably some of that is due to the …
Rodeo Radio Commercial
This post was not too difficult. I was able to also embed the song pretty well into this post. It was the song “Traveller” by Chris Stapleton. I also had my script all written out.
Where I struggled was the editing of the sound its self. I was having trouble …
Buy saddles today! Radio commercial
http://ashranland.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/saddle-commercial.wav
Used Audacity alongside a script to make a radio commercial themed for the old west for saddles. I took Aerosmith’s “Back In The Saddle” and using Audacity looped the intro until the very end of the commercial at which point I added the fitting vocals from the song.…
Piano Lessons
This radio commercial came out of an assignment that requested the creation of a commercial advertising a product we would like others to know about. In order to work this into my group’s radio show, I made a commercial for my character, Danny Keys, whose only real goods and …
The Lassoing Lady Commercial
I chose to create a radio commercial in honor of my character, Mrs. Dean, who is a hardworking homesteader’s wife. She not only works out in the fields with her husband, but she cooks, cleans, and knits and washes clothing in the home, because being a homesteader is an extremely …
Beer & Burger Mondays!
For this assignment, we had to create a commercial for a business or product. I decided to create one for the saloon that is in our radio show and promote burger night on Monday’s! In order to complete the assignment, I used Audacity and youtube. I downloaded the background …
SCRUB-A-DUB-BUB
For this assignment I had my character Sally voice a commercial for a cleaning product she uses. It was once her clean, pristine saloon’s well kept cleaning secret that is now out for sale at her saloon, Tumbleweed. Made with her secret cleaning ingredients, Sally claims that it cleans anything …
Stabbing is Perfectly Okay
Taken from the Make Your Own Radio Commercial! assignment, I have created a commercial for my group’s radio show. Since it was going to be about college advice one thing I would advise an incoming student to do is join the fencing club because fencing is a lot of fun!…
Katora Wants to Hear from You
I decided to make a commercial for our on campus Katora. I know a bunch of students have all kinds of thoughts about how good or bad Katora is so I wanted to give them some publicity. It can be serious but also I wanted to make this commercial a …
Who is Bob Ross Radio Promo
I wanted to create a cool promo/introduction for our radio show rather than just a commercial. I wanted to make something that show cased what are show was and to grab the listener’s attention and draw them in. I took some samples of Bob Ross comments and set them on …
Radio Show Commercial
This week I created a commercial for my radio show. I made a commercial about a real organization I talked about last week for a design assignment. I included the organization’s mission statement as well as how to get more information on them. I used a sound from sound …
Commercial Break!
For my third and final audio assignment for this week, I made my own radio show commercial. More specifically, I made a LinkedIn radio show commercial (because it was the first company I came up with after recently starting up my own account). I wrote up the script and …
Therapeutic Advertisement
I’m a big fan of podcasts. One thing that I’ve realized when listening to my different shows is that they all have ads in them now. Yes, they can get annoying, but there are some that I appreciate because of what they’re promoting. And what else is kinda cool is …
Money Does Grow on Trees
As part of completing 10 stars of audio assignments I completed the radio ad assignment. This assignment will also most likely be used in my radio show that will be revealing next week.
For this assignment I used Audacity to create the mp4 file and I uploaded it on SoundCloud. …
99 CHANNELS AND 80’s AIN’T ONE
? Having Netflix problems I feel bad for you son
I got ninety nine channels and 80’s ain’t one ?
Melody-Z
Man I hate listening to commercials! Whenever I hear one, I immediately change the channel (or change the station). But for the project, Make Your Own Radio Commercial! I …
Nancy Drew’s Girl Power
For one of this week’s audio assignments, I decided to create a radio commercial that can be played during my group’s radio show.
My commercial is a commercial for the new Nancy Drew movie that is coming out this March. I decided to do a commercial for Nancy Drew because …
Tinder: Take it easy and swipe safe on Valentines Day
For this audio assignment I had to promote a product or business using an audio recording software. I definitely used this for comedic satisfaction as I used a lot of humor in this commercial. I used Audacity then uploaded it publicly on Soundcloud. I chose tinder because today is valentines …
DS 106 Radio Commercial
This is my Ds 106 radio commercial!
I made it while cleaning for break. I bet you can’t guess why…messy roommates! I would love if there was someone to clean my room for me! I put the vacuum at the end to help really sell it!
This was the radio …
Visual Communications Radio Commercial
For this week’s Assignment, I was challenged by my instructor stretch outside of my creative comfort zone and try an audio project. So, I created this Radio Commercial for my Visual Communications course with GarageBand, Word Art (https://wordart.com/create), and iMovie. Sho
Communication & Digital Studies Ad
We needed at least three commercials for our radio show, so I took on another for this week just before my group recorded and assembled ours. Since I graduate this semester, I’ve been thinking (and stressing) a lot about potential career opportunities, and reflecting on the different ways that being …
Distress Signal Radio Commercial
The last stars for my audio assignments this week was put towards my radio show commercial. I picked the audio assignment make your own radio commercial which was worth 3 1/2 stars. To complete this assignment I wrote up a script for my commercial idea and one that is specific …
KLLM Commercial: Are you scared yet?
http://ds106.hellowhatsup.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/KLLM-Commercial.mp3
I made this commercial for the radio show KLLM which we named because it is each of the people’s first initial in the group. I wanted to make a commercial that could be realistic on an actual radio show and something that is pertaining to events that are going …
Grab a Box of SuperOats!
I decided to create a commercial as part of my contribution to our group project. I hoped to incorporate the superhero theme while also making something that you might actually hear on the radio. I’ve heard several radio commercials about cars and events. Yet where did my mind go? Food, …
Do you need help in the culinary department?
Make your own radio commercial – 3.5 Stars
This is the commercial I made for my group’s radio show! I decided to base it off of my superhero and how you can get into contact with her. I used Garage Band to edit my recordings and used Voxal to alter …
Make your own radio commercial
I decided to do the Make your own radio commercial assignment (3,5 stars) and decided to angle it towards our radio show. In this ad, my superhero Charlie Sass has designed a hacking software that I’m trying to sell. I used a song from Free Music Archive to use as …
Make your own radio commercial: Kan Jam
The product I am selling is the game of Kan Jam. It is a game that has recently become the addiction of all my friends and I, so why not promote something I love. I made a script for it and rather than trying to do too much to the …
Spymate Commercial
This was a fun assignment. I enjoyed making this commercial and I think it will go well with our radio show that has a sexspionage theme. So I decided to create a commercial about a spy dating website where you can find fellow spies that are looking for a …
“Malicious StopGate” Malware Commercial
For this 3.5 point audio assignment, I was instructed to create a commercial, preferably for my group’s DS106 Radio show on Sexspionage. Since my own secret agent character, Wren Wilder/003, is a fan of technological security, I decided it would be fitting for our station to promote malware and ransomware …
Aqua Living Ad
I took on the Make Your Own Commercial! assignment worth 3 1/2 stars. I was flipping through at random and found this one and since I had just completed the radio bumper assignment I thought it would be fun to stay on a trend.
For my radio commercial I decided …
“It’s the logical thing to do”
As I was reading “A Logic Named Joe,” I thought there should a marketing campaign to promote this product. I thought of a commercial jingle:
For anything you need to know
You can ask Joe!
and I can hear it in my head, with the canned music and …
I can hear the beats….
For todays audio assignment (4 stars)I created a commercial for the radio. I created this for my final assignment. So far created 5 (4 star) assignments is pretty rough, but I have managed to weave a better story because of it.
To start this project by going to Freesound and …
Audio Assignment – Make Your Own Radio Commercial!
Our radio show needs commercials as part of the requirement. Problem is, with the advent of Netflix and Adblock, I can’t really recall the last ad I watched or listened to. I went back to those classic infomercials, and tried to emulate that style. The music isn’t exactly fitting, but …
Quality Cards
For this assignment, I decided to make use of the fact that since I need a commercial for the radio show, I might as well get some stars for the week making one. I have mixed feelings about the final product. Probably some of that is due to the …
Rodeo Radio Commercial
This post was not too difficult. I was able to also embed the song pretty well into this post. It was the song “Traveller” by Chris Stapleton. I also had my script all written out.
Where I struggled was the editing of the sound its self. I was having trouble …
Buy saddles today! Radio commercial
http://ashranland.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/saddle-commercial.wav
Used Audacity alongside a script to make a radio commercial themed for the old west for saddles. I took Aerosmith’s “Back In The Saddle” and using Audacity looped the intro until the very end of the commercial at which point I added the fitting vocals from the song.…
Piano Lessons
This radio commercial came out of an assignment that requested the creation of a commercial advertising a product we would like others to know about. In order to work this into my group’s radio show, I made a commercial for my character, Danny Keys, whose only real goods and …
The Lassoing Lady Commercial
I chose to create a radio commercial in honor of my character, Mrs. Dean, who is a hardworking homesteader’s wife. She not only works out in the fields with her husband, but she cooks, cleans, and knits and washes clothing in the home, because being a homesteader is an extremely …
Beer & Burger Mondays!
For this assignment, we had to create a commercial for a business or product. I decided to create one for the saloon that is in our radio show and promote burger night on Monday’s! In order to complete the assignment, I used Audacity and youtube. I downloaded the background …
SCRUB-A-DUB-BUB
For this assignment I had my character Sally voice a commercial for a cleaning product she uses. It was once her clean, pristine saloon’s well kept cleaning secret that is now out for sale at her saloon, Tumbleweed. Made with her secret cleaning ingredients, Sally claims that it cleans anything …
Help Someone Else Do this Assignment
If you create a tutorial for this assignment, share it! To have your tutorials appear below, make sure your posts are showing up on the main DS106 site and that you use the following tags (or labels on Blogger) when writing the post on your own blog (You must use BOTH !):
Tutorials So Far
http://katiemelhuish.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/shitsbegone.mp3
Warning: NSFW.
This one was a little more tricky because I wanted to add more voices and play with more off the features Audacity has to offer. I’m very sorry this Commercial was highly inappropriate but in the moment it seemed like a really good (but bad) idea.…
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Assignment Stars: 4
I had to record two pieces of audios in my own voice. The first piece of the audio was about the letting the audience know which radio they were listening to and the second piece was about the advertisement announcement.
I …
http://gorgonchest.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Fake-Radio-Commercial.wav
So this is just silly. Put some decent work into it but had a lot of fun. Played with the pitch of my voice just to see if I could sound more showman like… it worked I think. Listen to what I’ve down already and listen to this and …