What’s it like to wake up in the morning? Well in this story, you hear some yawning, some rustling to get out of bed, and then some walking to the bathroom. There you hear the morning pee, the toilet flushing and hand washing/drying. Next, you hear teeth brushing. That’s how my morning always starts. Below [...]

My group for the Sound Effects Story consisted of myself, Maura Monahan, and Nick Antonini. Since the morning routine cliché was shot down by Jim Groom, we had to create our entire story in twenty minutes. Like the rest of the class, our minds went straight towards tragic accidents. We decided to start by laying down the scene for our story. The birds are chirping and the weather was nice enough that our main character decided to take a walk down the street. We used footsteps and whistling to portray the man’s enjoyment of the nice day and the sounds of traffic so you would know he was near a roadway. We let this take up a decent amount of time to set the mood and add suspense. Then all of a sudden out of nowhere the man screams (for this we used the famous Wilhelm scream). Then we inserted the common sounds of a car accident: wheels screeching, vehicle parts flying, ect. After a short silence you begin to hear the ambulance approaching in the distance. We used freesound.org for all of our sound effects. Our Sound Effect Story can be found here:

http://soundcloud.com/nick-antonini/ohh-no-1

http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/may-i-take-your-order/ I work at a Chick-Fil-A so I just put in some of the more difficult things that people actually ask for. I don’t really have any good accents so I just went with whatever that is lol. It’s different than my normal talking so I guess it works. I used the app for soundcloud [...]

For this audio assignment, http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/the-contest-nobody-could-win/, I decided to randomly pick 6 songs from my computer’s music library.  I did however stick to one genre, country  To me I don’t think it’s difficult to tell what the songs are but for other people, y’all with have to let me know. This assignment was fairly simple. All i [...]

For my last Audio Assignment, I chose to make my own ringtone, worth 2 stars. I wanted to do this one because I usually feel like the songs that I like don’t have ringtones on iTunes, or they don’t have the right part of the song as the ringtone. So now is my chance to actually make a ringtone that I like!

I decided to do “Shambala” by Three Dog Night. This was partially inspired by the fact I spent most of the afternoon sorting through old records for a volunteer activity, and Three Dog Night albums popped up multiple times. I also wanted to do an older song that is less likely to have a ringtone already made for it (though it may, I’m really not sure). So here it is, Three Dog Night for your listening pleasure as your phone rings:

The project was pretty easy, the hardest part was deciding which part I wanted to be the ringtone! Audacity makes cutting out parts of the track very easy, though. So once I decided on my selection, I made the first couple of seconds fade in, and the last couple of seconds fade out, because I’ve noticed that most ringtones – that I’ve had at least – have that fading.

3 Star Assignment

Process

I knew from the beginning I wanted to make a voicemail of the legend….wait for it… DARY character known as Barney Stinson from How I Met Your Mother. I looked up several youtube videos of Barney to familiarize myself with Barneys character again. From there I made several recordings and this was my best product. No one but Neil Patrick Harris can replicate the awesomeness that is Barney Stinson

Motivation

I just wanted to be awesome like Barney. Even though I have seen every episode of How I Met Your Mother it is still impossible for me to replicate him well. The confidence that Barney exudes and his quick wit is something I wish I had. Oh well, I suppose many want to be as awesome as Barney.