This assignment was to make a fake 911 call. We were to have fun with it. Since my daughter likes to do some of the creative stuff with me, she was the 911 operator. It was hard to catch us not laughing trying to find something funny to come up with.

For my final assignment this week I created a fake 911 call. The reason? Netflix had run out of episodes of The Office! Take a listen.

It was easy having fun with this one – I have had to make two 911 calls in my lifetime. One worse than the other . . . they are hard, scary and very upsetting!! The operator is very annoying although she is just trying to do her job and get details and all you want is an ambulance or fire truck!! You are thinking – take action NOW and ask questions later!!

I tried to have a little fun with this one but as I was thinking about it, recording it and trying to make it fun I couldn’t help but keep thinking about my true experiences.

I have to say that audacity is getting easier as I learn to venture through it. I am cutting, pasting, copying, and moving tracks around, and deleting tracks if I choose not to use them. I’ve had as many as 7 tracks in one recording but it was a little bit much.

Happy listening:  https://soundcloud.com/barbara-hall-11/911-whats-your-emergency

911, what’s your emergency?

3 1/2 stars

For my first audio project this week, I did the 911 call prompt.

I’ve never gotten to call 911 before and it’s actually a little disappointing. This project was almost liberating, finally giving me the opportunity I’ve never had.

I enlisted the help of one of my roommates, and we decided to base the call around a really pressing emergency in our lives: the large amount of dishes in our sink. While we may have over exaggerated the smell just a little bit in the emergency call, we do have a fruit fly problem and it’s disgusting. Interestingly, did you know that there are a ton of different ways to get rid of fruit flies? (Spoiler, not many work).

To make this, I downloaded two sounds from Freesound.org, the 911 dial and the Phone hang up. For the ringing sound, I called my sister and put it on speaker phone to record the sound. From there, my roommate and I just recorded our parts separately, and ta da! It was done.

This assignment (3.5 stars) was fun to make! With the help of my friends and freesound.org it wasn’t that bad! I got the idea from real life when my friends started arguing about Tinder. I was laughing at them and decided to use it for ds106! I recorded the audio on Audacity and just laid it over each other.

Here are the links I used

Outgoing Ring:

http://www.freesound.org/people/NoiseCollector/sounds/3978/

Dialing 911:

http://www.freesound.org/people/joanneneedsthesound/sounds/177209/

People Talking:

http://www.freesound.org/people/philipecp/sounds/160431/

Hang Up:

http://www.freesound.org/people/ondrosik/sounds/121756/

For my final audio assignment I decided to do the 911 call. I mashed up a 911 disptacher video, a 3 year old arguing with his mom, and a grandma singing wrecking ball to create my 911 call. I hope you all enjoy it.

It’s fun to choose assignments from the assignments bank. The one I decided to choose this time is the “911, What’s your emergency?”. To me what struck me to do this, it sounds like a fun assignment when reading the title and when I read in the description to basically be creative and have fun I was like I’m legit going to do this. I love trying to be creative. I have so many ideas to make a funny 911 call but for this case I wanted to make funny from a funny TV show which mostly everyone has watched.

To do this assignment, I opened up Audacity. I recorded my voice to be the 911 operator and to edit my voice and make it better, I highlighted my track, then I clicked on Effect which leads me to Noise Removal. The reason why I did that, I looked up on the internet on how to change my voice and I found that in my research if you use noise removal, it’ll help me on what I’m doing. After clicking Noise Removal, click on noise profile so it can recognize what it needs to take out in the background. Afterwards click on Effect and then Noise Removal, then press Ok and it’ll do it’s job.

The next thing that I did to edit my voice, I went back to Effect but clicked on Change Pitch and at percent change, you could put at “-15″ or more to sound like Dark Vader or “15” or more to sound like Alvin the chipmunks. So yeah that’s how I did my voice editing. For Peter, well let’s keep that a secret and you can try to find out about it.

I find picking the assignments from the bank can be fun and interesting if you go a few pages into the list. This time I found one for doing a mock 911 call and recording it.

But in the spirit of the layering ideas the professor wants us to do. I decided to add in sound effects to make it more polished.

The story is me in Chicago with only pants and the weather decides to get up to 75 degrees. So this 911 call is me wanting someone to fix this problem and get me some shorts, Stat! The EMS voice is showing how they find me when they finally arrive and I am getting angry.

The image file is my photo of downtown Chicago showing clear skies with the temperature only starting to rise as I realize I only have pants.

Voices: I do both speaking parts using my iphone to record the voice files. I created two to help me layer. Those file types were not supported so I just recorded directly into the audacity software.
Telephone call file: http://freesound.org/people/Razzvio/sounds/79568/
EMS voice: http://freesound.org/people/nnus/sounds/127331/
Software used to compile: Audacity
Overall I really liked this assignment and found it fun to come up with a story and piece it together. I hope you enjoy!