{"id":11334,"date":"2015-01-25T22:35:03","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T03:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/?p=11334"},"modified":"2021-06-21T10:22:08","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T14:22:08","slug":"the-freddy-affair-episode-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/2015\/01\/25\/the-freddy-affair-episode-1\/","title":{"rendered":"The Freddy Affair, Episode 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/aforgrave\/16182974267\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7289\/16182974267_4cfa7fdf1b_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"639\"\/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;The Freddy Affair,&#8221; by Andrew Forgrave, on Flickr<\/p><\/div>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F187889132&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&visual=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&color=000000\"><\/iframe>\n<p><strong>Paul Bond<\/strong> (<a title=\"Paul Bond, @phb256 on Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/phb256\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@phb256<\/a>, on Twitter) posted a request earlier today for some <strong><a title=\"#noir106 on ds106.us\" href=\"http:\/\/ds106.us\/tag\/noir106\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#noir106<\/a><\/strong> bumpers for <a title=\"Listen to ds106radio on ds106rad.io\" href=\"http:\/\/ds106rad.io\/listen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>ds106radio<\/strong><\/a>. After a bit of messing around, I decided that this particular project needed a new voice, and so the narration was re-recorded (and slightly modified). We always tend to be hyper-critical of our own recorded voices when we hear them. Anyway, I&#8217;m pleased with the result.<\/p>\n<h3>The Audio<\/h3>\n<p>The text evolved in conjunction with successive listens-and-speaks as I tried to match the narrative flow with the phrasing in the music. After a couple of recording efforts using the wonderful, free, open source, cross-platform <a title=\"Audacity, on sourceforge.net\" href=\"http:\/\/audacity.sourceforge.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Audacity<\/a>, I sourced a bit of ambient street sound from <strong><a title=\"freesound.org\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freesound.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">freesound.org<\/a><\/strong> to add at the beginning and the ending.<\/p>\n<p>Street noise:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.freesound.org\/people\/hoptenon\/sounds\/196706\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;street short&#8221;<\/a> by <a title=\"hoptenon, on freesound.org\" href=\"https:\/\/www.freesound.org\/people\/hoptenon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hoptenon<\/a>&nbsp;on freesound.org (<a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/publicdomain\/zero\/1.0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CC0 1.0<\/a>)<br \/>\nMusic track:&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8220;Pink Fish Signs V2&#8221; by <strong>GeeNerve<\/strong> from the 2004 recording <a title=\"Suspense Dance Delights by GeeNerve (2004) on archive.org \" href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/SDD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Suspense Dance Delights<\/a> (<a title=\"CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 license\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/2.0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CC BY-NC-SA 2.0<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Given that the backing music track is 0:57 in length, I was initially going for a 1-minute bumper. But in the final analysis, I decided that this might instead be better positioned as the initial episode of some kind of <strong>#noir106<\/strong> radio short.<\/p>\n<h3>The Image<\/h3>\n<p>As I was pondering what to use for a graphic to accompany the audio track on <a title=\"Soundcloud\" href=\"http:\/\/soundcloud.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Soundcloud<\/a>, I decided to make use of a screen capture I had already collected. The image is from the opening credits of <a title=\"Alan Parker, on Wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alan_Parker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alan Parker<\/a>&#8216;s 1987 film &#8220;<a title=\"Angel Heart, on Wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Angel_Heart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Angel Heart<\/a>,&#8221; starring Mickey Rourke as a down on his luck P.I. in post-WWII &nbsp;New York\/New Orleans. &nbsp;(I&#8217;ll save my commentary on the film &#8212; and my GIFs &#8212; for another post.)<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11337\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Angel-Heart-Opening-Credit-Scene-e1422241725763.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11337\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11337\" src=\"http:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Angel-Heart-Opening-Credit-Scene-e1422241725763.png\" alt=\"Opening Credit Scene from Angel Heart (1987) film by Alan Parker\" width=\"640\" height=\"350\"\/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11337\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Opening Credit Scene from Angel Heart (1987) film by Alan Parker<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I cropped the image to provide a 1:1 square album cover using the most interesting part, and then tried out a number of fonts found on <a title=\"fontspace\" href=\"http:\/\/fontspace.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>fontspace.com<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I poked around with several before settling on <a title=\"David Kerkhoff's font, DK P.I.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fontspace.com\/david-kerkhoff\/dk-pi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>DK P.I.<\/strong><\/a> which has&nbsp;a grunge-typewriter look &#8212; the kind you get from the P.I.&#8217;s busted-up typewriter after it&#8217;s been knocked off the desk and shot, four times too many.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-11336 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DK-P.I.-font.png\" alt=\"DK P.I. font\" width=\"598\" height=\"80\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DK-P.I.-font.png 598w, https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DK-P.I.-font-300x40.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 598px) 100vw, 598px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You can see a number of different looks below that I tried before settling on the chosen font.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11338\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/The-Freddy-Affair.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11338\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11338\" src=\"http:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/The-Freddy-Affair.gif\" alt=\"&quot;The Freddy Affair font experiments,&quot; animated GIF by @aforgrave\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\"\/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11338\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;The Freddy Affair font experiments,&#8221; animated GIF by @aforgrave<\/p><\/div>\n<p>You can also see that I decided to change the title from &#8220;The Freddy Files&#8221; to &#8220;The Freddy Affair&#8221; during the album cover preparation.<\/p>\n<h3>The Process<\/h3>\n<p>In this post I&#8217;ve tried to model <strong>linking<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>embedding<\/strong>, <strong>attribution<\/strong>, and the <strong>process of sourcing and documenting visual, audio and font resources<\/strong>. I didn&#8217;t go into the details of using <strong>Audacity<\/strong> or <strong>Photoshop<\/strong>, but there is time enough for each of those in the coming weeks &#8212; by me or by others in the community.<\/p>\n<p>Although this is perhaps a bit long for a #ds106radio bumper, it probably sells the #noir106 experience and invites the listener to tune in to #ds106radio in coming days &#8212; so I&#8217;ve also tagged it for <strong><a title=\"Audio Assignment 36: Create a DS106Radio Bumper in assignments.ds106.us\" href=\"http:\/\/assignments.ds106.us\/assignments\/creat-a-ds106-radio-bumper\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Audio Assignment 36:&nbsp;Create a DS106Radio Bumper<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Let me know if I&#8217;ve missed something!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Bond (@phb256, on Twitter) posted a request earlier today for some #noir106 bumpers for ds106radio. 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