I used to be an intern in post production sound companies, and had many assignments like this for radio commercials. I then decided to make my own, taking my time and own decisions on how the story will evolve.
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For this audio assignment I had to record sounds of my day and combine them into one audio clip. I decided to go about this assignment a little differently though. I wanted to create an audio clip of sounds that my host character, Eve Winters, encounters throughout the day.
I recorded my roommate’s alarm going off in the morning, I made my friend yawn for me, I then had my roommate walk down the stairs in our building, I recorded myself opening and closing the refrigerator door, whisking eggs, and frying my eggs. I decided that since Eve doesn’t have many friends, because her step-brother and step-father were both Bloody Face, she lives a very lonely and secluded life. Therefore, I only recorded my morning and used it to represent her morning. I intended for this to be a Sunday morning so she doesn’t have anything to do nor anyone to hang out with today. That’s why I only recorded her morning because it is the busiest part of her day.
For this assignment, I was tasked to record different sounds throughout my day and then combine them into a single audio file. Using nothing but audio to narrate my day forced me to pay close attention to my environment. This was fun and eye- (or ear-) opening for me. Our days are often too routine that we are deaf to the common sounds we hear on a regular basis.
The audio was recorded using my iPhone 6 and the Voice Memo app. After renaming and saving each file to Dropbox, I uploaded the .mp4’s to GarageBand for consolidation and publishing to SoundCloud.
Here is the link to the assignment: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/sounds-of-your-day/.
This assignment is worth 3 stars.
This assignment is titled “Sounds Of Your Day” and is worth 3 stars. The assignment can be found here.
I wrote this post as my character, Lena.
The first sound is of my alarm. Although it’s annoying, it gets me up and in the mindset that my day is about to start.
The next sound clip is of me brushing my teeth with my automatic toothbrush. There’s not much else to say about this besides I like to have clean teeth and I’m sure everyone around me would agree.
Then, there’s a short clip of my leaving my apartment and the door shutting behind me.
Next is the sound of me walking on the gravel to the destination where I recorded my last sound.
The last clip is of the coffee shop that I like to go to near campus, it’s called “Gimme Coffee” and it’s on North Cayuga St. I love doing homework here because the atmosphere is so home-y. Also, what better truth is there to the name…seriously, gimme coffee.
I recorded all of these sounds on my phone and then put them on my computer. I imported them to Audacity and arranged them in the order that they occurred. I did this by just using the slide tool and putting them in position. I then exported it and uploaded it onto my soundcloud account. Have a listen:
I did the Sounds of Your Day assignment and it is worth 3 stars. I did it starting from my morning until my afternoon ends. I edited it using Audacity and combined multiple tracks together. I added my morning rituals like waking up to the alarm sound, talking a shower, washing my teeth, eating breakfast, doing work, watching TV shows, hanging out in the coffee shop, and walking around with the constructions noise around my apartment. I hope you guys enjoy this!
Record different sounds throughout your day. It can be as long or as short as you’d like. When you finish, combine them into one long sound of your day! Upload it to SoundCloud
http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/sounds-of-your-day/
3 Stars!
I decided to link this assignment to my created character as I thought it was one of the easier assignments to relate. I used a whole conglomeration of different sound effects and uploaded each sound to Audacity. With a little playing around i was able to set up each individual sound just right and you get a sense of what Gambino’s day had in store.
For the first sound I chose an alarm clock as Gambino is rolling out of bed. He then heads to the shower to get his day going. He fires up his car and is off to the poker games. Games are going great and everyone is talking and then gunshots are coming from every direction. You hear screams from the crowd and Gambino disappears.
A day in the life of old Gambino!
I did the audio assignment where you mash together sounds to create your day. I decided that this would be a perfect one to incorporate my noir character. For simplicity’s sake, I chose to start her day from morning to when she went to bed. It gave me a nice kind of anchor. I began with an alarm clock waking her up because something always ends up waking us up in the morning (or at least close to what one considers morning). Next, it is the voice of one of her Russian bodyguards speaking to her, a banter regular throughout her day. A sigh to get her ready for the rest of the day and a lovely gunshot to touch up her afternoon. And of course she needs to eat. And finally, one of the things she dreads the most is a board meeting which almost always ends with one man yelling at another while Layla tries to not shoot everyone in the room. She finishes with a drop into her bed and a last sigh to end her tiring day.
https://soundcloud.com/vinci117-1/layla-throughout-the-day
For some reason my sound isn’t embedding the right way so it’s only showing up as a link.
This is a compilation of sounds I hear on my average day: My alarm, toothbrush, keyboard/computer, netflix, and jammin’ out during my car ride (don’t worry I didn’t record and drive).
For this assignment I first had to think “what are sounds of things I do everyday?”. It only seemed natural to start at the beginning of my day, with my alarm. Next my toothbrush to symbolize me getting ready for the day. After that it was to the computer (keyboard) to do some homework… and since I am on the computer everyday. After my homework is done is some time for Netflix. I am currently watching The Office so I threw the soundtrack in there. Later on to conclude my night I added driving my car with my music playing. To edit all these sounds together I used Audacity. I really starting to get the hang of the software now.
Me: “I need to record you for a class project, just act natural”
Friends #1: “Ok!” *fart noise* “Emily why are you pooping with the door open?!”
Friend #2: *sex moans*
Friend #3: “JOIN MY NUDIST COLONY!”
This is how the majority of this project went for me…
Our goal with this assignment was to produce an audio track consisting of various sounds from our day. The directions stated, “Record different sounds throughout your day. It can be as long or as short as you’d like. When you finish, combine them into one long sound of your day! Upload it to SoundCloud.” If you have nothing better to do then you should take a listen:
[Worth 3 stars]
I did have to bend the rules just ever so slightly. By the time I got all my sounds uploaded at 11PM I realized I forgot to record my car sounds. Such as, the door opening and shutting, and the start of my car. Now I guess I could have dragged my lazy ass out of bed and down three flights of stairs to my car, but lets be serious…I’m not trying to get shanked for a class project. I maybe #4life but I’m not trying to #LoseMyLife. So I referred back to freesound.org and found the two sounds I was looking for. Other than that, everything is authentic and actually from my day.
I started this project by downloading the soundcloud app on my phone. This app makes it really easy to compile all your sounds. You simply hit the record button and once you press stop, it automatically uploads the sound file to the website for you. Once all of my sounds were uploaded I had difficulty figuring out how to download them onto my computer. After fiddling around for a while I finally got it figured out:
First you have to add tags. You can not make your song downloadable without tags. You do this by first clicking on the edit button under your audio file (see picture below).
Next, you add your tags (see picture below).
Lastly, you click on the “permissions” tab, and click the hollow circle next to “enable downloads” and once it turns orange save all your changes (see picture below). After you have followed those three steps, your audio file now becomes downloadable.
After I downloaded all of my audio that I collected throughout the day, I opened them all in my audacity application. I then arranged them in their proper order, did a little bit of trimming and amplifying. Once I had them arranged perfectly I exported the file to my desktop as an mp3 file, then proceeded to upload it to soundcloud.
This was a very and easy project to complete, except my friend purposefully trying to sabotage me! Believe me, the audio of them that I put in there is pg compared to some of the other audio they gave me.
