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Week 3 Summary
This was yet another week where I didn’t have time to do much. When I wasn’t working, I was busy figuring out how Audacity worked and finding good examples of audio design. I did some daily creates as usual. I also interacted with my classmates by making comments. People are really creative and it was […]
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Spooky Season
For this assignment, I had to create a scary audio clip. I’ve been playing a lot of Fallout: New Vegas recently, a video game which takes place in a post-nuclear apocalyptic Mojave Desert. I wanted to capture the unsettling nature of the wasteland at night, so I mixed in desert sounds with a Geiger Counter […]
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Music and Sound Placement
In audio storytelling, one tricky technique to nail is the appropriate placement of sound effects or music. When not used enough, the story seems to drag on forever with no pacing. With too many/loud sound effects and music, the audio is oversaturated and cannot stand on its own. In a clip from TED Radio Hour, […]
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Sound Design in Storytelling
One of the most critical pieces of audio storytelling is allowing the listener to imagine the story being told. Themes can be conveyed through sound effects and background music. The audio story Moon Graffiti is a good example of this. The story is an alternate scenario in which Apollo 11’s crew is stranded on the […]
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Why Audio Storytelling?
In an age of readily available visual media, I always wondered what place something like the radio or podcasts had in society. In recent years I’ve started listening to the latter, with This American Life being one of my favorites. After listening to days’ worth of podcasts, I still couldn’t nail down why I enjoyed […]
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Googlyify a GIF
Dwayne Johnson’s no stranger to being weird, being involved in professional wrestling before his acting career. However, since May of this year, The Rock has been seen with his eyes covered with googly eyes. Various media outlets have theorized that The Rock is in a live action adaptation of Coraline, featuring the bizarre replacement of […]
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Favorite Musician GIF
My favorite band is Rush, thanks to the late legendary drummer Neil Peart. The band’s magnum opus is La Villa Strangiato, a self described “exercise in self indulgence.” It is a 9.5 minute instrumental in which all 3 musicians are firing on all cylinders. Peart’s drum work is nothing short of fantastic, so I wanted […]
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The Color of Words
A warm wind blows, circling around me. The funnel grows closer, but the buildings are torn further away. The only things that remain are me, a field and the gales of rage. I used PhotoChrome and typed in the word to search. I downloaded the color map and one of the images used. The images […]
