Big Mac Meal in a Foreign Accent

This assignment I chose to do is called May I Take Your Order? where you must create a recording of yourself ordering something off of the menu at McDonald’s in a foreign accent while also being very picky. I chose to do the Big Mac Meal because it was the first thing that popped into my mind. I recorded this using my iPhone, and when doing so, I was shooting for a British accent. However, it ending up being to what I think is somewhere between a British accent and an Indian accent. I was very picky and weird with things like no middle bun, and half cut tea with lemons and lemonade. Overall, this assignment was a lot of fun, and it gave me a lot of laughs, so listen to it below, and enjoy!

May I Take Your Order?

First off, I am very embarrassed that you get to hear my HORRENDOUS English accent. But in all honesty, I had a full-on blast with this audio assignment!

The object of this assignment was to record yourself ordering a meal, not on the menu of McDonald’s with an accent of some kind. And I loved this creative idea of a recording so I went all out!

The recording is of a conversion between a cranky McDonalds employee and a British customer. My roommate Stella helped me with this assignment by playing the employee and I recorded myself using a disgusting British accent.

If you listened to the recording you’re probably wondering what McDLT is. The McDLT was introduced in 1984 and stands for a McDonald’s Lettuce and Tomato. I had no idea that McDonalds made their own version of a BLT. But hopefully, you enjoyed that little 80s reference. As well as the ice cube nonsense!

McDonald’s Order

For this assignment, I ordered very well cooked chicken nuggets at McDonalds. I tried my hand at an English accent, it’s definitely not good, but it’s funny!! I used my phone to create the audio, and then I just downloaded it onto soundcloud. This assignment was 2 stars.

 

McDonald’s Order

I tried to do an Aussie accent but it didn’t exactly stay that way…

May I Take Your Order?

This is an audio file of me giving a fast food order.

Call Me, Beep Me and May I take your order?

Call Me, Beep Me
May I take your order?

My creations for when Robert Neville tries to warn his neighbor and if he were to be ordering McDonalds when the apocalypse strikes.

Audio Assignments Week 7!

This Assignment is worth 2 stars. It is AudioAssignments2004. I had to create the we will rock you beat from the artist queen in a creative way. I used a paper cup and my breathing to create the beat. 

This assignment is worth 3 and a half stars. It is AudioAssignments1901. I had to do a country accent. I decided to tell a story of me trying to find my car in the parking deck and then converted the video to an mp3 and put it on sound cloud. 

This assignment is worth 3 stars. I had to make a beat using house hold items. I used my backpack and a large book from one of my history classes. This assignment was AudioAssignments1880.

My final assignment was worth 1 and half stars. I had to order in a foreign accent. I once again used my boyfriend to help. He played  the McDonald’s worker and I was the person ordering. I had an English accent and he had an African.

Welcome to McDonald’s – May I take your Order

This 1 1/2 star assignment was fun as well as eye opening. My two resources were the online McDonald’s menu and Audacity. After going to the McDonald’s website and picking out three items I would never order, I decided to change the order around. My experience has always been that  I rarely get what I order when I use the drive thru so this was fun.

After writing out a script I recorded my spiel directly into Audacity. I then changed the speech pitch of the counter person at McDonald’s by using the effect menu change pitch option with a 20% frequency change. I played around with changing the speed but that made the entire conversation unintelligible so I stayed with just the frequency change.

Once again the versatility and relative simplicity of using Audacity paid off.

May I take your order please?

How may I take your order?

For this assignment (1.5 stars), we had to create a McDonalds order and make it picky! This was funny to make, and also took some creativity. My friends and I always love a good trip to McDonalds so this assignment was right up my alley. I had my roommate voice the McDonalds worker, and I did the person ordering. In the case, the person happened to be my character Agnus! She was ordering for her and her friends. I tried to make it a little more interesting that just a normal recording by adding some music trying to make it seem like thats what we were listening to, and then adding the sound of my car breaking. I wasn’t all that impressed with those aspects and couldn’t really get them to mesh right but oh well! I used audacity to create this, and youtube to download the sounds. I had fun completing this assignment, and got a good laugh out of it with my friends.