This week we were required to complete 10 stars worth of audio assignments. In order to fulfill part of this requirement I completed this assignment. For this assignment I was to create a short audio clip acting like I was going through a drive through at McDonalds and I had to use a certain accent. I decided to complete this assignment because it seemed fun and reminded me of when I was little and my friends and I would always try to talk funny. For this assignment I chose to use a southern/western accent. The directions said to be picky in what I order and well, I don’t usually buy anything from fast food restaurants so, I think I was pretty picky. This assignment also reminds me why I am not an actress! To create this assignment I used audacity to record my voice. Overall, this assignment continued to help me practice using audacity and well, definitely made me laugh at myself so, have fun listening!

This assignment was worth two and a half stars adding to the 10 star requirement for the week.

For this week to make eight stars of audio assignments I did one 3 1/2 star, will be doing another 3 1/2 star and to finish up I have this 1 1/2 star assignment. This was the May I take your order assignment. What you had to do was pretend to be ordering at a fast food restaurant with a different accent. Well…. this was my attempt. I knew that I can’t really do accents well so my attempt to do western turned out to be a southern/western/male with poor grammar. I just simply typed up a small skit in word and then read it aloud while Soundcloud was recording. I got out of character in the end, because I started laughing at myself.  I think it turned out okay. I am not good at this stuff, but I tried.

For this assignment I was to stage a fast food order taking place. I edited my voice so that the two sound differently when I speak so you can distinguish between the worker and customer. The customer’s order was complicated and half the things she ordered aren’t even from the same place. She also was from some random foreign country so I’m sure the rest of the experience was interesting.

1.5 stars

Assignment –  May I take your order?

Details: Using your best accent (whether it be Australian, British or southern, ect), pretend you are at McDonald’s and order something off of their menu. Be picky! For example, a coke with no ice.

McDonald’s Order for Assignment 383

Doing anything with audio is out of my comfort zone, so please don’t judge.

I’ve spent an awful lot of time in the deep south over the years, and I do miss it quite a bit. here are towns down there that simply don’t have things that most cities and towns up here have. So when some of these folks find themselves in town and they decide to “indulge” themselves, it can be an interesting situation to observe. It took a little time to be able to understand the accent as well. I remember walking in to a gas station in Mississippi back in 1994, and walking out having not understood a single word the old man was saying to me. For all I knew, he could have been telling me that my hair was on fire, I just nodded my head and smiled, looked at the register for the total, and paid the man.

For this assignment, I just wrote down a rudimentary script, and rambled into a microphone for a minute or so. I uploaded it to soundcloud, and tagged it in the appropriate places. Here’s my soundcloud link below.

I chose May I Take Your Order, since I recognized that I could get that done in less than 10 minutes, and I did. I did it poorly, but it is infinitely better than getting a zero after the last two harrying days. Did a quick smash-and-grab recording with a short script and threw it onto sound cloud. My apologies for any offense I cause with my horrible accent.

- David

I thought this would be a funny segment to cover. I am originally from the Philippines and I am surrounded by accents on a regular basis. If my family decides to have a vacation, it’s at least thirty people with heavy accents. Personally, I don’t have an accent because I am heavily Americanized. However, after spending the weekend with my family, I develop a slight accent that lasts for a few days after the vacation.

This audio segment is very typical. It’s hard for some of my aunts to order food because of their thick accent. To make matters worst, their English is not grammatically correct. Sometimes, verbs and adjectives are improperly placed in the sentence due to our grammar back in the islands. Ordering food can be difficult due to the accent and different language grammars. Then, some of my family members are indecisive so that can be a McDonald’s worker’s worst nightmare.

Overall,  the orders are placed and the food is served. Sometimes, it’s not always right, but when you’re hungry, it doesn’t seem to matter.

I created this audio by recording my reflection through SoundCloud with nature sounds playing from Youtube on a different tab. Next, I uploaded the file to my MacBook and saved it in my iTunes folder. Then, I uploaded the file into this post.