2 Stars- Welcome to McDumbass

This is… just awful.  Ok, I did the assignment “May I take your order” that was worth 2 stars.  We were supposed to record an original conversation of us ordering from McDonalds with a faked accent.  For mine, I chose a poorly performed southern/hick accent.  It’s not quite Georgia, but it sounds a lot like my buddy Kenny’s voice does and I certainly consider him a redneck.  Of course, it didn’t actually sound very good and I quickly learned that I can’t do accents.  I recorded it using Easy Voice Recorder app on my android phone since the microphone on my computer is broken.  From there, I edited out that poorly performed (or exceptionally bad) parts from my order using audacity.  I wanted to seem difficult and ill-informed about what McDonald’s has (i.e. the cheeseburger-hamburger confusion).

10/10 Stars done.  I should take this space to apologize for not having the Shining assignment done.  I wanted to perform the 4 star “Dialogue Mashup” assignment with Jack Nicholson’s famous all work and no play makes jack a dull boy speech.

I had cut all of his parts and was going to have him converse with someone else… but I had the worse writer’s block and couldn’t think of a film that would have parts that would match well with his lines.  I will be uploading my unfinished work to the phonar drop box though! If you do complete the assignment, please let me know.  I’d love to hear it and I think it could be amazing.

2 Stars: My Very own Ringtone

For 2 stars, I chose to do the assignment “Make your own Ringtone(s).”  It was a fairly open ended assignment.  All we had to do was choose a few audio files and string or piece them together using audacity to create an interesting sound for a ringtone.

I chose to use a few audio clips I took using snipmp3.com from the following youtube video.

Those guys crack me up.  Anyways, I took the audio files and imported them into audacity and then took out the clips I wanted to use.  From there, I used the change speed option on the middle clip in order to distort it and make it sound strange.  On another clip I used the change pitch do distort the audio.

8/10 Stars down.

Dialogue Mash-up****

By far, this assignment was the most time consuming. Originally, I had high hopes of making it awesome, seamless, and hilariousness. Alas, that was not going to be the case because of papers, work, and general lack of time/patience. I knew for this mash-up I wanted to use the Peanuts’ “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” in particular Linus’ dialogue. Finding another movie that would further the conversation was difficult. This week so happens to be a “remind Kasey how much she loves Winnie the-pooh week’ with my daily creates and theme versed, I opted to just continue with that idea. I ended up used Tigger’s lines from “Boo To You Too, Winnie the Pooh”.  What I learned is that children’s movies aren’t the best for this because they have music in the back ground which really make the conversation between LInus and Tigger more choppy. Anyway, I spent ours working on extracting dialogue. Then, spent hours moving pieces of dialogue around trying to get a story going. Once I had a story, I messed around with volume, add some intro/traveling/closing music, and finally I did some fade in/ fade out audacity stuff. I’m proud of what I accomplished, but I wish it was so much more. I originally planned for this to be a 5 minute dialogue, but I just could get it there. (Plus the quality would have gone way down.) I hope you enjoyed my mash-up!

Mainstream Chimmunkd’ ***

This was another easy assignment because it only required on editing effect of the audio; adjust the speed resulting in a chipmunk voice. It took me awhile to find a song reflecting Autumn, but I found Van Morrison’s “Autumn Song”. I cut out the verses about winter, and then changed the tempo. After that, it was a simple export and upload to soundclound. Chipmunk voices are the best!! I actually used to suck the helium out of balloons in order to get that affect- it was so funny.

 

Theme Verse **

This assignment asked that you create your own verse by taking pieces of your favorite songs and editing them together. Because our radio show was autumn themed, I took all my Halloween favorites and made a mash-up. The mash-up is of Legend of the Sleepy Hallow’s “Headless Horseman Song”  Boo To You T, oo, Winnie the Pooh’s “I wanna scare myself”, Nightmare Before Christmas’ “This is Halloween” and Groovie Goolies’ “Monster Mash”.

Surprisingly, this took a lot of time and planning in order to achieve the right transitions. I must have spent a good 15 hours on this project. The main annoyance is that I had to keep walking away from it, come back, and I’d want to change the whole entire thing.

In the end, it has grown on me and I love it.

Contest Nobody Could Win **

I used audacity here to take one second segments of songs (hopeful segments that would not verify the song right away) and edited them together. After doing the radio show, this assignment was a cake walk. Just had to export as mp3 and upload to soundcloud :) . Do you know what the six songs are?

1. I Cry by Flo Rida

2.Gangman Style by PSY

3. Boyfriend by Justin Bieber 

4. Mean by Taylor Swift

5. Swing by Savage

6. Say My Name by Destiny’s Child