The working rule for this week’s posts:<\/p>\n
\nWe like to see writing with your media, a story about the story, or the story behind the story.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Tah!Dah! my first ever radio bumper.<\/p>\n
I did not even know what that was until this morning. Go figure. I listened to a few examples from past participants and understood what we being asked of us. Not my thing, I told myself. I will have to think about how to do it in a way that makes sense to me. I wondered about the bumper or catch phrase Dr Frasier Crane used to sign off his programme on KACL Radio. It occurred to me that as the DS106 headless shrink I could bring something other than music and special effects to DS106 radio – I know nothing about either. So I did a little search in the Google and found a video<\/a> clip that would work. Video. John Johnston may say that audio is not something less than video, but in this case it was. How do I take out just the audio from this video? There must be an app for that. There is<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n
So, I had the audio from the video and still without a clue. some kind of audio editor must be the next step. Something like Audio Gimp. Ahh! I think that Garageband does that on the Mac. Never opened it. May be now is the time. I went back to the Google to get some tutorials and there are many. Then had the idea for the tag line, synthesising an idea: ‘Talky and the Shrink tackle the big questions’<\/strong> which is the Radio show I would like to make on DS106 Headless if Talky Tina will join me. After hearing her lovely voice<\/a> I think we would rock the airwaves. I recorded the audio on Quicktime. Dragged it to Garageband. And now what? Well I had to learn to split a file, fade out, copy paste bits of a sound file. My favourite was discovering that I could get my voice to echo. I considered doing the whole thing myself, Frasier’s scripts<\/a> are available online. But that would have been too much audio in one day.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This course is really stretching me. I looked at the plan for the week and I have to say I wanted to go back to last week and do more from there. As I said earlier, in spite of encouragement from Cogdog<\/a> and John Johnston\u00a0<\/a>audio is not my thing. Writing is.\u00a0<\/p>\n