Since the radio show is dealing with advice for college students, I went in that direction with my bumper. I hope our advice will help and bring a little joy to the listeners.
I used SoundTrap to make the bumper. I began by recording the message. I actually used someone else’s voice because I hate using my own. Then I found background music on Free Music Archive. I cut the music track down to the length of time I needed and added a fade-out option. It was pretty straightforward.
For my radio show bumper, I went for a vibe that has been living rent-free in my head since the start of the semester: Lofi. Lofi, or Lo-Fi, is music that is “low-fidelity” and has low sound quality. It is often referred to as music that contains audio imperfections that most sound editors would consider as errors. You may also have heard of it from the YouTube channel Lofi Girl. Popular with college students, the channel provides 24/7 live streams of lo-fi hip-hop music alongside an animation of a Japanese studying and/or relaxing. She is great background noise and background motion for those who need background stimulation to concentrate.
I started off by recording my line on the computer. I then had to convert it to a WAV file because for some reason Audacity was being a pain about it. Then, I downloaded a free knockoff version of Lofi music off of SoundCloud. Shoutout to Le Gang for letting me download their song Magic. P.S. I am sorry that I called it a knockoff. After choosing the best part of the song, I added my audio file and boom. My radio bumper for DS106 radio.
I was of course inspired by the radio bumpers already on DS106 radio, as well as several other examples I found and a lifetime of listening to the radio, but I also tried to make this bumper my own.
The background music is Reckless by The Spin Wires found at freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Spin…ingle/reckless. I edited the audio tracks together in audacity and adjusted the volumes to make sure the music wouldn’t overpower my voice. I also spiked the music back up at the end using the amplify effect.
I had fun with this! I got to try out the envelope feature in Audacity, which was pretty cool!
“Now that we have a #ds106 radio up and running creating a 15 to 30 second bumper for the station. What is a bumper? It is a short recording that identifies the radio station with signature music or an expression that makes sure the listeners know what they are tuned into (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bumper_(broadcasting)). So for ds106 it should certainly include “DS106 Radio” and some sort of message about the station with voice over music.”
This assinment grew around the fact that I don’t really like to hear my voice in recordings at the moment. So I recruited Google translate to do the speaking for me.
I found a cool song on Freesound that I think matched the vibe of the computer generated voice as best as a song cloud, then played around in iMove to get it how I wanted it to be. Basically I just added a few fades and called it a day.
I did try to add another beat and also a buzzing noise to the clip for extra dimension, but both of those experiments turned out ear-bleedingly badly so I kept it simple.
So it should be very apparent where I drew my inspiration for this assignment. If it is not, please watch this movie, Good Morning, Vietnam! I had fun making this intro, although to say it put me outside my comfort would be an understatement.
I hope that this brought some laughter and helped to add some extra enthusiasm to the listening audience!
This week ought to be a lot of fun!
Here is the actual quote from the movie as well.
“Good morning, Vietnam! Hey, this is not a test. This is rock and roll. Time to rock it from the delta to the DMZ! Is that me, or does that sound like an Elvis Presley movie? Viva Da Nang. Oh, viva, Da Nang. Da Nang me, Da Nang me. Why don’t they get a rope and hang me? Hey, is it a little too early for being that loud? Hey, too late. It’s 0600…”
Adrian Cronauer (Robin Williams)
To create my radio bumper I used Audacity to layer and mix. It was a bit harder to use than SoundTrap, but it seemed to have more options. I used SoundBible and 101soundboards for the Bob Ross clips. I thought they went with the theme since the radio station is one large canvas of sorts for the ds106 class to express their creativity using sound.
Here it is! Took a while and a lot of messing around with Audacity, but here is my radio bumper for DS106 radio!
The original assignment was to create a radio bite for the DS106 radio. I thought I would take this opportunity and make a radio bite for my groups radio show since this was one of the tasks I took on when we split the work. Having done all of the previous work this week figuring the details of the show out it made it easy when making the radio bite. I thought of the famous intro sound to CSI to start it off and set the tone. I google the sound and downloaded it for free off of the second add from google. I then used that in audacity and recorded my voice to create the rest of the sound bite.
My very first Radio Bumper! It was so fun to make but I also hated replaying my own voice. There is something very cringy about that….though I think I became numb to it after a while haha. Anyways please enjoy my creation!!!
Used: https://freesound.org/people/joshuaempyre/sounds/251461/ TY!
