Category Archives: Past Student Work

5 Days, 5 Feelings

Video is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAzZkGXYEGo

Unfortunately for me, not 5 people. This project… Is probably the first one that I can say I didn’t have fun working on. I wasn’t able to come up with a topic until a couple days before it was due, and even then I was incredibly stressed about whether or not I would be able to finish it. As you can see, I did. As you can also see, I wasn’t enthused about working on it. I just wanted to get it done and not have to deal with it. Even if I don’t get a good grade, it’s still done. It’s better than a total zero.

As you can see, for this project I asked a few people to tell me how their weeks go. Some of them had a lot to say, and others, not so much. I did have to chop some things out, to stay within the time limit. It turned out fine. Like I said, not the best. If I’d had a bit more time, or a bit more enthusiasm, it would have turned out better. Regardless, I hope you’ll find some of the things the talent says funny.

P5 Image Editing- Joey Johnson

This project was fun to work on.  I wanted to keep it simple so that I didn’t stress out, and it worked!  I knew at the 5th Street Market that a few businesses used the number 5 in their name.  So I went out and captured some shots like it was a commercial or in a way just featuring the businesses in the market.  I also tagged on a Five Guys Burgers joint that was by my house just because it was the number 5!  I had fun fitting it ll together and working in premier.  I was intimidated at first but I was just telling myself to keep it simple as this is just an introduction to the software, not a feature film to submit to Sundance.  I focused on putting the clips together in the order I wanted them, and have transitions between clips, used a few titles for the beginning and credits.  I also chose some fitting music to overlay the piece which helped move the story along. Thanks for watching, I hope you enjoy!


What Do You Want To Be Doing In Five Years?

For my image editing project an idea that came to me right away was to interview five of my coworkers about what they want to be doing in five years because I know that none of us want to be doing what we’re doing now five years from now.

When I started filming I wasn’t sure exactly what tone was going to end up coming across. I was not sure if it would wind up being funny or pessimistic or sweet or something else. It ended up being pretty optimistic.

I found the editing process to be very fun. To be able to go through all of the raw footage and select all of the best parts and then put them all together with music and different transitions and stuff. The most difficult part was the audio, getting the music to be quieter as soon people started talking but still loud enough to be able to hear took some time.

The music I was able to find on the free music archive and I was really glad that I found it because I thought that it really helped get across the energetic and optimistic vibe that ended up taking shape for the video.

Overall I think this assignment went really well, I was glad that everybody was a good sport about being filmed and think that the footage I wound up getting worked really well.

Five Dogs – By Forrest Emery

After my audio project, I was a bit “creatived out,” if you will. I spent so much of my time developing a story for that project that by the time I got to this one, I didn’t want to do that again so soon. Instead, I wanted to come up with an idea that would let me focus on blending images, video, music, and my voice. I had all kinds of ideas on what to do, but I couldn’t settle on any of them because they didn’t use the number five. So, I started thinking of things that had to do with five in my life. I thought of my favorite bands, my favorite moments, and all kinds of other random things, but none of them lent themselves very well to this assignment. I was talking to my mom one evening while she was looking through some old photos of our family, and, you guessed it, our dogs. That’s when it hit me. I have grown up with a total of five dogs. It was perfect. I asked her if I could use some of the photos, gathered everything I needed, and went to work. I had a lot of fun comparing my dogs because as I was looking back on all of them, I realized how different they were, and how special that made each of them to me. Below you’ll find my finished project. Have fun getting to know five of my best friends!


Better Late than Never

Hey kids. Guess who finally decided to turn in an Audio assignment? This loser (after lots of unnecessary worry and nightmares about people hearing my voice recorded.) Ok so let’s get this out of the way first: wowzer I am NOT a voice actor. Fun factoid I was awake in the dead of night recording the voices for this and it took hours of retakes because my voice was cracking while I blushed furiously at how embarrassing this is for me. But I guess I pushed through it.

Follow Yinora the incompetent Guardian who has been separated from her Fireteam on the Dreadnought. She’s walking through a dark maze of thrall breeding grounds and I tried to pick ambient sounds that would help the listener visualize what was going on. Her voice sounds that way on purpose because I was trying to emulate the muffled echo of helmet comm systems but uh- it was hard. Lots of Low Pass and Amplify with an Echoing sprinkle. All sounds besides my voice were found on freesound.org. I wish I had put more time into this project but my huge anxiety towards voice work was a problem. Some sounds were very loud and others were soft so I really tried to level them out into something decent to listen to. The one thing I’m sorta happy with is Orin’s A.I. voice effects, not his voice itself. Kinda corny but it was fun to script out the situation Yinora got in.

IMA Audio Project!

Wow, I lost this track and had to remake it!  I guess I’m ready for the real world of media hiccups!

This was fun to make.  It is a fake newscast that is abruptly taken over by my rap about current states of affairs in a political and cultural rap diatribe.   Just a little ditty I came up with to fit the project, but excited to work with other music artists in the area to create dynamic rap/dance tracks to put together choreography and music videos.  I wanted to do something that showed my writing skills, rhythm, and humor becuse I am also interested in sketch comedy writing as well.  Thanks for listening, and I hope it gives you a better idea of who I am as a person, and an artist.


Classic Hip-Hop Night at The Golden Pineapple

Originally I was going to have a friend of mine rap over one of several beats I found on freesound.org, and put some sound effects at the beginning and end, but we couldn’t quite get it together within the time limit, so I put loops of the three beats I liked the best together and recorded a commercial over that track.

I did a commercial for a classic hip-hop night at a fictitious club called The Golden Pineapple. I chose this because I love classic boom-bap hip-hop but, the last time I checked, an autotune-heavy, candy-coated kind of hip-hop was popular on the radio and at many clubs, and that stuff just is not for me. I basically just made up an ad for the type of night I would enjoy attending or DJing.

I was really surprised how easy it was to loop the beats and switch from one beat to another. The Audacity program makes it quite easy to loop or change stuff right on beat. Getting the Audacity music track I made on my PC to import the vocal track I recorded on a Mac at school was much more difficult than I expected though. It was really fun playing with the beats, but definitely frustrating at times dealing with that damn vocal track. I hope you guys enjoy the beats.

Acapella Tetris Theme A

The process of coming up with a interesting story, would not come to my mind whatsoever. Plus I just didn’t want to do a story at all for the time being. So the final outcome I came out with was deciding on singing a acapella of a song, because I love singing and there’s no story at all. So the music I chosen was Tetris Theme A, because it is a most well known classic video game song made by a Russian composer that I think most people know of. I thought about doing Mario or Zelda, but it felt to stereotypical. I felt so full of awe when doing the project, because I haven’t sang much in a while, and hearing your own voice is in a long time.

The process could have been better, but really almost anything could have been better. I couldn’t do a deep base voice and couldn’t even whistle. Like it just surprises me how do people whistle, it’s like impossible for me! Also I don’t like the picture the way it’s frame, and I kept trying to get a good image, but I gave up wasting my time.

So hopefully you will indulge yourself by hearing my ethereal beautiful elegant voice. I’m not tying to sound arrogant, I’m just trying to stay positive, because honestly this project drove me nuts! Just so you know I decently enjoyed this project.

Today I learned I should not be a voice actor!

Here it is!

This is not what I wanted to do!  I struggled with this project. This piece is by no means creative. There are not any cool sound effects, but It was a challenge nonetheless to mold Shia’s voice from having yelling to speaking mid sentence; and making it flow somewhat well. I did have many ideas but unfortunately there were issues with each, whether they were technical or impractical. One of my original ideas was to tell my own story in the form of a voice recording blog, by my character.  It would have ended with an awesome plot twist but that doesn’t matter now. My second idea was to do a parody of a song. My favorite of all my ideas was to tell my own epic, but I didn’t have enough time ( even with class workshop) to finish it to my standards. In the late twilight hour before this project was due, I turned to the option of just going with a fable; regardless that I wanted to do something of my own. But even then I was distasteful of following through with it… So here you have the end project of a stressed and repressed idea of mine.

I did have previous experience with an earlier version of Audacity, so it was nice to return and discover more helpful tools. I do plan to continue using Audacity now that it is more user friendly.

I think overall as a class we were all challenged, whether we were limited by sound length, resources to sounds, or what have you.

By Kendrick Taylor


The Raven

Since Halloween is this weekend, I decided to recite Edgar Allan Poe’s famous poem “The Raven” for my audio project. I have always been a fan of Poe, and when I was a kid this poem used to creep me out quite a bit. I used five audio tracks; thunder, a quiet rainfall track, a Raven’s caw, my voice audio reciting the poem and Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata. I felt that this created a very creepy atmosphere, and also sounds similar to what Poe himself was experiencing that frightful evening when the raven sat upon the bust above his door. I would like to issue a warning, though, that I am NOT an actor. The most difficult part of this assignment was to try and convey emotion while I was reading the poem (and trying to breathe away from the mic). In that sense I am not quite satisfied with the final outcome, but the sound effects and the music go together quite nicely, and I was very excited to hear that I had created a very compelling background. If I was to do this again I would have probably taken more time to memorize the poem so that I could have put more emphasis in certain places. All in all it was a fun experience!

By Keasey Freed