Category Archives: P4 Audio
Blind Box PSA
As a collector of many things, I want to fill my collection of whatever I want and keep growing it, however, one type of collectible has always screwed me over in cash: blind boxes. Originally blind bags, these things have always impulse me. You don’t know what you’re going to get inside and once you open it, you either get the one you want or get a repeat of what you already have. At least with blind bags, you can kind of feel what you might get, but companies have now started switching to boxes, making it impossible to know what’s inside. I made this little PSA to spread awareness about the dangers of blind boxes.
Much of my audio and editing experience dates to high school when I would always help my sister with two of her assignments that involved making a video with audio. I had little experience, but I knew the basics on how to edit audio and I even used a really bad app. The only other time I can think of is when for my second year of Spanish class, my group had to make an entire video while speaking only in Spanish. I was given the opportunity to edit audio in the video and it turned out decent enough for a passing grade. Fast Forward today, the only time I typically edit audio is to pitch music to my liking.
P4 Auditory Project
Part of my interest with this project was the creativity that you could express with it. I had two initial ideas that came to mind with this project, Read a fairly iconic story of Winnie the pooh since it fit a similar idea but also meant more for me as a person than something like Aesop’s fables.
My other idea was extremely more ambitious and where the majority of the time on this project went before I decided Winnie the pooh was a safer option. I was gonna work on a script of a fictional play related to the story “the king in yellow”. The main obstacle was seeing if there was any reference to the play’s theme or even script from it but I couldn’t find anything and would have to write out something. After a few days of thinking on it, I realized this idea is not gonna work and to take a safer route with it.
Overall, this project taught me something important to keep in mind with projects and that is trying to get a good scope of how big an idea really is. I wasted a lot of the time on this project “working” on something that showed no fruit. I will have to keep this in mind when making projects in the future.
By Jordan Smith
The Two Pots, Mason Perkins
I was trying to get a good mix of levels in the audio but I didn’t have time to do much else. I’m using a virtual cable to run my audio from O.B.S to a digital audio bus called voice meter then to audition so there are effects on my voice keeping the levels nice and equalizing for my bad quality mic. I grabbed the sounds from various free sound sites but Pixbay is the best in my opinion. but the most expansive of all things online is a site called Openverse which was previously just called something like creative commons blah blah. I also did some murmur recording along with my voice, and I think it all comes together pretty well mainly considering levels. but with some more time I could do a lot better I’m just sleepy so I got the requirements done and exported. although its not like the fables are particularly interesting so I would wanna write something which would take even more time.
P4 Audio (Alex Seydel)
I picked a random story from the Aesop Fables.
The Stag & His Reflection
A Stag, drinking from a crystal spring, saw himself mirrored in the clear water. He greatly admired the graceful arch of his antlers, but he was very much ashamed of his spindling legs.
“How can it be,” he sighed, “that I should be cursed with such legs when I have so magnificent a crown.”
At that moment he scented a panther and in an instant was bounding away through the forest. But as he ran his wide-spreading antlers caught in the branches of the trees, and soon the Panther overtook him. Then the Stag perceived that the legs of which he was so ashamed would have saved him had it not been for the useless ornaments on his head.
P4 Audio George Hendrickson: Jordan Peterson Has The Meats
With this assignment I wanted to have some fun with the garbage human being that is Jordan Peterson. Yes, this is real. This man tried to convince everyone to be a carnivore for years. I can’t help but laugh at the absurdity of him preaching a positive lifestyle while doing that to his body. I had a great experience with this assignment and it’s probably my favorite one so far. I suppose I also wanted to get the point across that eating only meat, especially beef, is one of the worst long-term things you can do for your body.
I also love when these grifters who use big words to sound intelligent go mask off, and you can see how foolish and ridiculous they actually are. This man is off the rails and deserves to have his platform taken way, but gosh dang it, it’s too much fun to roleplay the worst version of Kermit the frog ever. People like this are dangerous, but if we are able to laugh at them it can take away some of their power, and we can feel a little better about it at the same time.
P4 Audio Project
With this project, I wanted to change up the flow of my typical style of Audio and video. I challenged myself with this project, and unfortunately I feel like I bit off more than I could chew with this one. I will say that I impressed myself with the story telling and visualization aspect of the project, but in the future I definitely feel like I need to go into these projects with a simpler approach. The story follows a 3rd person narrative of this character me and a buddy created a few years back, and he fits the 90s aesthetic pretty well. So overall, I had a good time with this project, and I’m impressed with how I’ve done.
-Carsen Perry
P4 Audio – Kaiden Kuntz
I was mainly hoping to tell this story in a super serious sounding way in order to emphasize the goofy joke that I decided to write for it. I have heard quite a few ‘spooky’ podcasts, so I knew what I had in my mind when I decided to go with the scary route for this assignment. The music and the sound effects were all used with this in mind, specifically because I wanted to hook the audience in order to make the lead up to the actual joke that much more effective. Overall, I think I could do a better job if I gave it another go. I feel like I have a little more experience with combining audio than I did before, so I imagine that I’d probably be able to balance the audio out in a better way. I’ve made stop motion videos where I decided to add sound effects to them, but that usually doesn’t entail too much work because each sound effect is fairly separated from one another. So, while this isn’t the first time that I’ve worked with audio, it was a bigger project and there was more overlapping of background audios that I had to do in order to put it together.
Also, I referred to Mixkit for nearly all of my audio, which is a great online resource for both music and sound.
By Kaiden Kuntz
The Owl and The Grasshopper
P4 Audio project
What I was trying to accomplish with this audio was to be able to tell the story in a peaceful way. I really wanted to have a peaceful audio that draws emotion and grabs attention. This poem is “no difference” By Shell Sivertsen, and the person reading it is me! The other audio I record was the light switch! Found the other audios on the website Freesound (https://freesound.org/browse/). I had a lot of fun With this audio Project and hope everyone likes it!
I do Have to say that I wasn’t that happy that the poem wasn’t that long and was a little worried that it wasn’t going to work for the project. With saying that I am starting to really enjoy editing and putting together audio. The other thing I am starting to get over is recording my own voice, I have never like my voice when Listen to videos and for me to say that I am getting over that is a big achievement for me. I’m really looking forward to what I’m going to be learning for the rest of the class! Like I said before, I hope everyone likes it as much as I do!
~Alyssah Trautman