For this assignment I chose to use the warning message from the movie “The Purge” as my background beat while I speak. I will be discussing The Purge in our radio show, so I thought that I may be able to use this has a commercial or a transition.
I uploaded the sound from YouTube onto audacity and I uploaded the clip of me talking onto audacity as well to form the two sounds together.
I played around with soundation.com and made a cool beat for the voiceover a beat assignment. When I finally had something I wanted I spoke a few words in Garage Band and combined the two tracks, creating my audio file. I am still on a Halloween kick so I made it sound creepy and asked “What should I be for Halloween.” It was a pretty cool assignment and I liked playing with sound!
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As an example of an assignment idea I have posted at the ds106 assignment bank, I have produced a piece of music, where you can hear a voice saying something over a beat.
I used Soundation to create a beat and exportet this as a .wav to my computer. After this I loaded the file into Audacity. In Audacity I recorded my voice saying ‘One, two, Wow.’ I did not choose the words for any meaning, but because I felt it right for my chosen beat.
Produce a beat with any (online) beat generator. (For example you can do it with Soundation: http://soundation.com/studio by using their beat libraries.) Then record your voice over the beat. Make it sound cool or funny or …
