P4 Audio

By: Kaysha Cockrell

For this project, I chose to make an audiobook of Aesop’s “The Fox and the Grapes.” my main goal was to practice more with audacity in general as I am familiar with the software. I usually use it for voice acting, but this time was when I really dipped my feet into the water, as I had to learn more; how to move the audio around the timeline, learn the difference between mono and stereo tracks, and import sound effects in their own tracks.

This audiobook also includes practice in Foley; a way to make sound effects for certain things without actually recording it. One example of this I like is in the comedy, Monty Python and the Holy Grail when they used coconuts to make the sound of a horse galloping, even though it’s actually shown as the setup of a joke. For my recording, I hit the sleeves of my sweater together to try and make the muffled footsteps of the fox.

P4 Audio

BY KAHU EKALANI

For this project I was trying to create a fun spin on one of the example options given in the instructions. I was trying to convey someone getting to their car, turning the key and starting the engine, then flipping through radio stations. I wanted to emanate the feel of absurd dated 20th century product ads by making an even more blasphemous ad then those that exist. I also wanted to poke fun at some of the obscure celebrity musical artist names people come up with nowadays. I felt like I needed to add a modern and/or hip element to the project so that’s the context of the ending. I think it works well comedically. I wrote a loose script and then let the talent improvise some of the dialogue. For the sound effects I mentally went through the scenario of starting a car and clicking through radio stations, then made a list of all the sounds I would need to provide a smoother workflow and more effective workflow later on.  I’m thankful to have had cooperative talent for this project because my voice most likely wouldn’t have suited my creative choices as well. I feel the talent’s voice sounded realistic in terms of how a real radio host might sound.

P4 Audio: Accident

Back in December 2021, I got hit by a car crossing the street in Downtown Eugene. I was all dressed up walking to my new friends apartment because we had a work formal that we were going to all go together. I was one street away when I was crossing the street and a car turning didn’t see me and hit me with their car. It is crazy to me because I was so excited to go to this formal and to think I wouldn’t go because I was in an accident is insane. I am fortunate enough to have survived but it was a bummer not being able to go. I told all my coworkers that I had a family emergency and that’s why I couldn’t make it that night. It wasn’t until the day after that I had to tell them because I needed my shifts covered(haha). Anyway, I just wanted to recreate my thought process and how it happened to help process things. I still have not gotten over what happened and it still affects me to this day, but I feel like I understand now more than ever that it has in fact affected me and why.

P4 Audio

In this audio, I was trying to get a simple soothing bedtime story. I had a lot of trouble with audible and had to use a lot of different systems to get it to work. I wanted some calm music for the background and I think it is pretty good. I could not get any sound effects I wanted. This was my first time working with audio and I learned a lot of new things and found out some ideas for the next time I will be using audio. It took me about six hours to edit all of it. I could not find a good website that had all the things I needed but I still think I did well. Also at the end, the sound gets really loud. I tried to fix it but could not find out how. 

Audio Project

Doing this audio project was very much a step out of my comfort zone. I have never attempted to make a project completely audio-based because I don’t have any experience in it. Although it was new, it was really fun voice-acting and editing the audio to make it sound the way that it is now. Now that I have the proper tools and experience, I might just do more of this and make my own podcast. 

This story is about a fallen angel who has gotten amnesia upon arriving on Earth. He meets a complete stranger who takes him inside the nearest bar, and it just so happens that this bar is filled to the brim with life-ruining vampires. There is more to this bone-chilling story than a man tortured by immortality. Farther along in this tale, he finds love, gains power, and gets revenge on the people who turned him.

This is a completely original project, solely written by me. I wrote this story before this class and it was way more graphic than it is now. If you are interested in the rest of this tale, please ask. I would love to tell you about it even though it is still in the works!

By: Kyrsten Crittenden

P4

by Lemoni Genosar

In this process, I used the snowball mic for the first time. It was very simple to use n audition and it gave me some great clear audio. I wish I could’ve read the whole story, but I reached 3:00 minutes at about half way through. I used a denoise filter and a dynamic processor to make the voiceover clear. I couldn’t really think of a fitting sound affect, but I found that fun background song. I honestly think it’s better without it.