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Static City

My goal with the Static City audio was to create something caught on the radio that wasn’t meant for us to be hearing—a sort of stray transmission that got snagged by someone idly fiddling with their clock radio that’s outdated by several years and has probably been chewed on by a dog. Any identifiable names have been drowned beneath static, and the subject of the announcement itself doesn’t entirely make sense. It’s understandable enough, sure, but it’s definitely not quite original to our world.

Overall, I’m decently pleased with how it all turned out. My biggest annoyance was keeping my speech audible; I’d liked to have had more interference and distortion, but figuring out how to accomplish that without making it needlessly difficult to understand ended up being too much for my very beginner-level skills at this point in time. It was enjoyable to work on Static City once I got over my voice and got better at using Audacity—don’t even ask how many times I looped things without meaning to. I’ve now got sound effect files scattered across my desktop that need to be cleaned up, so if you’ll excuse me, I should go take care of that.

By Kaitlyn Harper

P4: The Lion And The Gnat

I chose to do my audio assignment on the Aesop fable, “The Lion & The Gnat.” I chose to do my assignment on a fable because as a child my favorite stories were those retellings that were written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter. For this project I wanted to pick a story that was fun to add sound effects to, was quick to read, and gave useful advice. In this story, the lion is irritated by the gnat, and in his attempt to harm the gnat, he harms himself. The gnat ultimately believes he is victorious over the lion who was unable to strike him, and in his bout of triumph, he allows his ego to bring his guard down and he flies into a spiders web and meets his own defeat. This tale gives us the advice to not allow our own pride to get to our heads, and take us off of our guard.

Overall, I had fun with this project and with finding background music and different sound effects that tied in with it well, and my goal was just to offer something fun to listen to.

By Ashley O’Connell

fifteen years.

For this project I wanted to create something cerebral while at the same time semi-autobiographical but also silly and bizarre. Essentially I wanted all flavors of ice cream on one cone. Conceptually I got the idea of doing this piece walking past an electrical pole on the side of the road, something about the sound of the traffic and the visual of the pole with its numbering system, which I had never glanced at or paid any attention to intrigued me. I had a vision of a character being sucked into another world via getting too close to the pole.

I modeled the story autobiographically after myself after I discovered international travel while studying at the University of Oregon, one which felt like an electric shock which transported me to other worlds. As for the actual sound production I used music and effects from my mixed media artist friend in Bangkok, Swordfish, who uses various made and found synthesizers to do similar work as the one I am presenting here. Also within the grooves of this particular audio realm I inserted various open source ambient and airport/airplane sounds in hopes of idiomatically sending the listener on a journey into a mystical sugary realm of bizarre offerings.

-danaan.

Come Aboard Our Cruise!

With this assignment, I just wanted to mess around with having another voice as a voice-over that was not me. So I used AI-generated voices to voice over my script. I have been playing a lot of Portal lately so that is why the voice is similar to Glados :p. I used https://uberduck.ai/ to create the voices with reference audio of me talking for the AI to create the robotic voice for most of the project. I also drew a robot in touristy clothes in photoshop to fit the cruise theme. I tried to pick colorful colors that you would maybe see in an ad for a trip.

I tried to add background music that wasn’t too obnoxious and didn’t drown out the talking. I kind of found random SFX that fit in with different parts of the audio, but I wish I added a little more to different parts that felt a little empty.

This was a very fun project to do! It was fun to mess with and get creative with it!

-Mary K

My RTN Report

I chose to do my Report on Valerie Weiss’s story.

https://roadtripnation.com/leader/valerie-weiss

At first she thought she wanted to be an actress because of the idea that she would get to experience all types of careers in one lifetime.

Then, in high school she discovered her love for Biology.

Although she loved both passions, she knew Filmmaking was the right career for her because of her ability to tell any story.

And even though she had made up her mind she still stayed in school to get her Ph.D. in biophysics and biochemistry so she would never regret choosing one over the other.

She recently released her first film called ‘Losing Control’ which is about a young female scientist. Shooting this film made her feel like she had finally combined her two passions.

“you have to ask yourself if there’s one thing you’d be willing to give everything else up for, and if there is, you have to go after it.” – Valerie Weiss

By: Emma Lyddon

Storytime with Persephone

by: Kars Slauttre

honestly, my best friend has a lot of fun telling stories and they’re usually pretty entertaining because they all go from 0 to 100 in a matter of seconds. They wanted to tell another story but it would take too long so they requested they share this story with the class.

Road Trip Nation/ Keana McGee – Carsen Perry

Keana Mcgee is a Marketing Director who grew up in California. She worked hard in college and was eventually accepted into LMU where she graduated with a bachelor’s degree in television production and entertainment marketing. After that she decided to start working more directly for various creative agencies and production studios. She has worked for Sony, Starz, and now she is currently on the global creative marketing team for Netflix. She says to use whatever unique ideas you have, and turn that into an advantage.

By Carsen Perry

Lindsay Siovaila-p3- Alyssah Trautman

https://roadtripnation.com/leader/lindsay-siovaila
  • One of the top things I found interesting about her was that she didn’t go to college for web design but for something in a main area of tech. She didn’t discover what direction she wanted to do til after she was out in the real world.
  • She has a non profit called “Girl Develop it” to help other women in the tech world.
  • When she talked about her day to day it was very clear that her days are busy but never the same. It’s always changing to keep her on her toes and that is really exciting!

~Alyssah Trautman