The pagecasts are created with Apple's iLife GarageBand and utilize free domain content from Creative Commons.
First, this project involves compiling your creative writing into a production that can incorporate music, sound effects, images, and the tone and inflection of your own words to expand your artistic vision. These elements could complement the themes of your writing, contradict them, accentuate certain ideas, or add new, unexpected dimensions. First analyze the piece of writing you have chosen and brainstorm what sort of approach you would like to take with your podcast - keeping in mind that the end project should not overwhelm or confuse the listener (unless you're into that sort of thing).
Though the following steps can be done in any order, I recommend them as follows:
1. Choose your music. Utilizing the "Jingles" available in GarageBand begin browsing through the available music and see which one(s) fit with the direction you want to take your writing. To access the musical options, click on the eye icon to the left of the controls.
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genres of music can be helpful to narrow the scope of your
investigation. While listening to the music, see if you can hear how
your words could fit in. GarageBand often offers short, medium, and
long version of various songs. Depending on how long your piece is,
choose the length of time appropriate.
Once you have selected a song that you think will work, drag it into the "Jingles" section of the recording bar.
In addition to the music, you might also want to keep in mind: how do you want to utilize silence and your own voice in relation to the music? Do you want to employ sound effects - like forest sounds or a clock ticking?
2. Record yourself reading your work.
To do this, click on the far left button on either the "Female Voice" or "Male Voice." It will light up red (if the light is red for any of the other sound recordings, you will need to click on it to turn it off before turning on the one for voice recording). Then click on the red, circular button next to the main controls. This will begin recording. You will hear the music you have chosen play as you record, so you can listen for the peaks and lulls in the music and record you work along with them. Once you have a recording you are pleased with, you can tweak the alignment of your voice with the music or sound effects you have chosen by moving their placement in the recording, deleting sections, or looping sections.
3. Add images to your podcast.
Since these podcasts will be published electronically, it is of the utmost importance that you use content that is not copyrighted. To do this, you can take your own pictures with the digital camera provided, use the "Photo Booth" program on the computer's dock to take pictures of yourself, or utilize the Creative Commons (CC) website to find free domain images. CC has a link to a Flickr search engine that will allow you to search pictures that the photographers have chosen to be free to use by the public.
For your podcast, you can choose which image your audience will see at which point in your recording. If you are using the CC Flickr page, you might want to brainstorm image ideas and make a list of keyword searches you would like to do. As you find image results you are interested in using, I recommend that you open the image in a new window and then you can drag the image onto the desktop of your computer. Put these images into a folder. Click on the icon to the far right of the control panel in GarageBand (it has a musical note on it), and drag this folder into the window that opens in the upper right. This is where you import images (or other media) into your podcast.
You can now drag your image of choice to the uppermost bar of your recording that says "Podcast Track." Like positioning your recordings, you can move these images to choose the timing in which they appear. You can view this process by clicking the "i" icon (next to the musical note icon you used to import your images) and pressing play.
And you've got a podcast!
Once you have finished your podcast, we will upload it to our website. To export your podcast, go to the "Share" menu and scroll down to "Export Podcast to Disk." A lab assistant will help you upload it, and you can choose to add text to your podcast post - such as the work you read or your own comments about your project. We encourage all of you to view your Badgerdog classmates' podcasts and comment on your experience with the project on the website's blog.
Pagecast of Marie Howe's "Part of Eve's Discussion," From The Good Thief, Persea Books 1988. Read the full text here.
First, this project involves compiling your creative writing into a production that can incorporate music, sound effects, images, and the tone and inflection of your own words to expand your artistic vision. These elements could complement the themes of your writing, contradict them, accentuate certain ideas, or add new, unexpected dimensions. First analyze the piece of writing you have chosen and brainstorm what sort of approach you would like to take with your podcast - keeping in mind that the end project should not overwhelm or confuse the listener (unless you're into that sort of thing).
Though the following steps can be done in any order, I recommend them as follows:
1. Choose your music. Utilizing the "Jingles" available in GarageBand begin browsing through the available music and see which one(s) fit with the direction you want to take your writing. To access the musical options, click on the eye icon to the left of the controls.
Once you have selected a song that you think will work, drag it into the "Jingles" section of the recording bar.
In addition to the music, you might also want to keep in mind: how do you want to utilize silence and your own voice in relation to the music? Do you want to employ sound effects - like forest sounds or a clock ticking?
2. Record yourself reading your work.
To do this, click on the far left button on either the "Female Voice" or "Male Voice." It will light up red (if the light is red for any of the other sound recordings, you will need to click on it to turn it off before turning on the one for voice recording). Then click on the red, circular button next to the main controls. This will begin recording. You will hear the music you have chosen play as you record, so you can listen for the peaks and lulls in the music and record you work along with them. Once you have a recording you are pleased with, you can tweak the alignment of your voice with the music or sound effects you have chosen by moving their placement in the recording, deleting sections, or looping sections.
3. Add images to your podcast.
Since these podcasts will be published electronically, it is of the utmost importance that you use content that is not copyrighted. To do this, you can take your own pictures with the digital camera provided, use the "Photo Booth" program on the computer's dock to take pictures of yourself, or utilize the Creative Commons (CC) website to find free domain images. CC has a link to a Flickr search engine that will allow you to search pictures that the photographers have chosen to be free to use by the public.
For your podcast, you can choose which image your audience will see at which point in your recording. If you are using the CC Flickr page, you might want to brainstorm image ideas and make a list of keyword searches you would like to do. As you find image results you are interested in using, I recommend that you open the image in a new window and then you can drag the image onto the desktop of your computer. Put these images into a folder. Click on the icon to the far right of the control panel in GarageBand (it has a musical note on it), and drag this folder into the window that opens in the upper right. This is where you import images (or other media) into your podcast.
You can now drag your image of choice to the uppermost bar of your recording that says "Podcast Track." Like positioning your recordings, you can move these images to choose the timing in which they appear. You can view this process by clicking the "i" icon (next to the musical note icon you used to import your images) and pressing play.
And you've got a podcast!
Once you have finished your podcast, we will upload it to our website. To export your podcast, go to the "Share" menu and scroll down to "Export Podcast to Disk." A lab assistant will help you upload it, and you can choose to add text to your podcast post - such as the work you read or your own comments about your project. We encourage all of you to view your Badgerdog classmates' podcasts and comment on your experience with the project on the website's blog.
Pagecast of Marie Howe's "Part of Eve's Discussion," From The Good Thief, Persea Books 1988. Read the full text here.