This is the movie voice machines assignment worth 2 1/2 points.

I had a ton of fun with this. I knew it was an assignment I wanted to work on right away when I read the description, but I wasn’t sure what character to try and tackle. I quickly realized that finding uniform sound clips to fit into a coherent, specific message would be difficult for the circumstances, so I went a different route. After playing around with Audacity’s various tools and effects, I realized that a simple combination of lowered pitch and added echo creates a rather convincing Darth Vader effect. Naturally, I went the humor route and had fun doing so. It’s a silly sort of thing, but I think it’s at least worth a chuckle. The Imperial March theme music is just icing on the cake.

2 1/2 Stars

On a typical day Veronica has a very busy schedule. She is usually found at her place of work, at the Hideaway Lounge, 9 times out of 10. This audio clip is what you hear if you called Veronica but she was too busy to answer.

For this project, I decided to add some small aspects about Veronica’s character: her job, love of music, hometown. It wasn’t hard to create a message, I found it was easier to type it up first and read from that. For some extra flavor I gave the answering machine a musical background. Music is a huge part of Veronica’s life, so its not unlikely that while recording her message she was listening to music. To do this is used Audacity and over laid the message with some 1940s music I found. I also added the contact information for the Hideaway Lounge since Veronica is their lounge singer, a very popular one there in fact.

Movie Voice Machines – (2.5 Stars)

Marcus just realized that his parent might call him to see how is doing. So, he quickly made a short voicemail. Although part of him feel this is a complete waste of time, he may receive an important message in the future…..

I chose to do this audio assignment because I wan’t to give the audience of better idea of the mindset of Marcus. Right now, he is a shaken, stubborn, annoyed and still a bit depressed. He still has a long way to go until he sees the light at the end of a very, very, dark tunnel.

I know I won’t get credit for doing another answering machine assignment, but I wanted to do another one anyway. I have always loved the Hannibal Lecter series of films, and Anthony Hopkins. Hannibal was on tv last night as I laid down for the night, and I immediately thought of this assignment. So here’s another one!

I remember the days of getting home to my empty apartment and going straight to the answering machine to see if I had any messages. Sometimes I did, other times not. Sometimes they were good messages, other times they were from the ex wife digging for more money. But the answering machine became an integral part of my daily routine. I also like Gilbert Gottfried. He is a comedic genius that definitely does not get his due. I recorded my impression of him with one take and no script. I just let it fly. I then uploaded it to soundcloud, and now, I give it to you.

Delta Gamma Nu and always in pink: Elle Woods from Legally Blonde. An instant classic. As a blonde, this film was one of my absolute favorites growing up. At the peak of middler school era “dumb blonde” jokes, this movie always gave me a positive outlook on being blonde. While they sexualize her in the movie, she proves herself to be competent and beautiful. WHAT ELSE COULD A WOMEN ASPIRE TO BE?!

However, she is girly, which I thoroughly tried to play up in the voicemail. *Kisses* as a sign off sounds very “Elle.”