Tag: AssignmentIdea

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📻Bumper Wk 9:

by Greta Hammen

Radio Bumpers are straight forward and a good marketing announcement for the ds106 station. I thought about what words should be conveyed in a bumper and how I might bring excitement to the listener. Have you ever pondered if listening to the radio is very different from reading a book? We want to take our minds to a different place, for peace and a little distraction from our own thoughts.

I wrote the text and had www.elevenlabs.com give it a voice. I then downloaded the mp3. On www.freesound.com, I found music that I like Freesound – Melody loop by DaveJf. I combined the two elements in layers on Premiere Pro and exported as a MP3 for www.soundcloud.com.

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Commercial for Ray Ban Meta🕶️:

by Greta Hammen

I did a twist on the commercial assignment suggestion and made mine of a current AI product, instead of an 80’s product. The Ray Ban Meta Smart Glasses are awesome! The lenses come in some color options, so that you can have sunglasses, clear or green lenses to wear inside. My character would order the sunglasses. She will be talking with Dr. Ravioli and wearing sunglasses on the moped.

To create the commercial, I did a voice from text at www.elevenlabs.com and downloaded the mp3. In Premiere Pro, I imported that file and a free clip form www.freesounds.com titled Echoes. In Soundcloud, I uploaded the mp3 commercial and added image from www.freepik.com.

Ray Ban Meta Smart Glasses
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Radio A.T. Promo✨:

by Greta Hammen

In Adobe Firefly, I uploaded an image of Angelina Jolie from the movie Salt, found on Google. My character, Natasha Sidorov, resembles her. Then by using AI generated additions, I first placed a pedestal table in background on the right side, I added the cat in a separate text request. To do that sort of edit, find the command in the left side bar that allows for generative fill. Click that tool for a box with options to add, subtract, change background or invert image. I clicked add and selected the area that the object should be placed in. The fill is more accurate if the command is simple. Several options were provided from which to choose. Next, I added a microphone to the front left. For the image chosen here the text command was: taller retro silver microphone. Team leader, Bradshaw, shared the font styles so that I could create a cohesive design with the Dr. Ravioli branding. The swipe behind the “Hosted by Dr. Ravioli” text is one of the logo elements available on the site. I chose the light flesh color to blend with the background colors and yet be seen. Aggressive Technologies text is done in the font, Capitol, with a shadow effect. There are several text effects in Adobe Firefly. The letters are in light silver with black shadow.

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Tiger V:

Everybody’s looking for something.

For this video, the prompt was to combine a video and audio to create a message. I downloaded the tiger video from Tiger, Predator, Dangerous. Free Stock Video – Pixabay. The download was easy to import into Premiere Pro because the format was MP4. First, I put a sound video with it from Freesound. It was ordinary, so I gave it more thought today and listened to several rock songs with tiger in it, such as Eye of the Tiger by Survivor, Tiger Lily by The Band and Tiger by the Cult. They were all too rough and did not work. I went with Sweet Dreams by Annie Lennox, as the beat matches the cadence of the tiger. This audio was a download on YouTube, then I used YouTube to MP4 converter | Wave.video to covert it to MP4, so that I could save in my computer and import it into Premiere. I copied and pasted the tiger video twice to make it longer and I cut the audio to make it shorter.

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Ex Machina Shines in the Sun🌴:

by Greta Hammen

I chose a scene from the movie Ex Machina to analyze. I downloaded it from YouTube, by upgrading to premium temporarily. It took me a great deal of time to get it into Premiere Pro. The tutorials on the assignment bank page have expired, but once it became apparent to me that I needed to convert the download that was stored in my account on YouTube (and not in the downloads in my computer), then I converted it to a mp4 and downloaded it. In Premiere Pro, I imported the file and lowered the audio gain to -10. Then on a separate layer, I did my voice over narration. I really focused on the cinematography and lighting. If I do another one, I will discuss more of what is happening in the story and between the characters. After the first recording of my voice, I noticed that my comments were not in sync with the action in the shots. I did some cutting to see if I could get a smooth track, but I ended up re-recording my voice over and that was the better option.

Ava had different plans for her life.
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A World of Voices🗣️

by: Greta Hammen

To create my Radio Bumper, I used Premiere Pro. I found two soundtracks that I liked on http://freesound.org and downloaded them. One is classical music, and the other is of dogs barking for contrast. I imported those into Premiere on separate layers, then used the microphone for voice over on a third layer. By clipping out parts and shortening the time sequence, I was able to achieve an end result that I deemed respectable.

Tune into ds106 radio for short stories and unique happenings.

I did my radio announcing several times for the best reading, yes, I wrote it out, and I increased the gain in the audio to +2 and set the music to -5, to be heard over it.

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Music & Imagery

by: Greta Hammen

In Adobe Illustrator, I uploaded the Les Misérables theater sign and on a second layer, the sheet music, A Heart Full of Love. The sheet music had a white background, which I changed to overlay, to be able to see through it. I lowered the opacity to 75% and stretched layer one horizontally to bring the blue hue over. The words are not legible on the sheet music, but the effect is artistic. This artwork ties into the AI theme due to this being production my character’s favorite movie.

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4 Seasons Collage

Four seasons at the beach! @ds106dc

Rehoboth Beach, DE is one of my favorite beaches. My family went there for many years, as our children grew up. I miss it so much and hope that it will be a destination later, as the family grows.