Synopsis: “Victory” shares a story of someone realizing the need to overcome their alcohol addiction, what led to the realization, and shares how they were able to turn away from their addiction and how to fight the continual battle each day.
Summary: “The Secret Ingredient” tells the story of a young girl growing up and cooking with her grandmother. When she’s older, her grandmother becomes sick and passes away soon after. Griefing, she finds her grandmother’s cookbook and a letter that she had written reminiscing their time in the kitchen and gifting her the cookbook.
Media Assets: I wrote and narrated the dialogue, but the pictures, video, and sounds were created by the creators below.
Synopsis:42 is a reflective digital story presented as a poetic letter from me, a daughter, to my late mother. Blending personal narration with archival photos and video, the story explores intergenerational parallels, grief, and identity, culminating in a meditation on memory, loss, and enduring connection.
Assets: I wrote and narrated the poem, and the pictures and videos were either from my archives or filmed myself.
“AGE OF AI” by Emily Murray is licensed under CC by-4.0.
Editing software used: GarageBand to edit and trim the audio, iMovie to arrange the audio and imagery, and Canva for text in the title, text, and credit slides. Export settings: .mp4, 720p 60, High Quality
Text Slides: “AGE”, “OF”, “AI”, “IS”, “UPON”, “US”, “OUT”, “OF”, “CONTROL”, “THE”, “FUTURE”, “HOLDS” by Emily Murray created with Canva, is licensed under CC0.
The sound was mixed using GarageBand. The video was made first as a presentation in Canva, downloaded as an MP4, then uploaded to Youtube.
Poem Credit: Dickinson, E. (1896). The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Series One, “Love, Poem 9: Have You Got a Brook in Your Little Heart”. Boston, MA: Roberts Brothers. Published before 1923, public domain, licensing under CC0 1.0 Universal
Sound Credits: Freesound.org, BandCamp, and poem recited by Jenn White
Chapter 5 of “Frankenstein” by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley found in Project Gutenberg-tm. Read by Breanna Butler. Please see Credits for sound clips used.
I loved reading horror stories when I was growing up. Some of my favorites included gothic literature like Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s Frankenstein. When I was a teacher, I played audiobooks while the students read along (multiple modalities), and they especially liked the ones with sound effects or music in them. It would create a more immersive environment. I could not always afford to buy the nice audiobooks for my classes, so I was sometimes limited to what I could find in the library or on YouTube. Taking my love of horror and using my classroom experience as inspriation, I thought it would be fun to create a podcast that read horror stories from the works available in Project Gutenberg-tm. Since the scene is set during a storm, I added the light rain and thunder sound. Then, I faded from the light rain to the music; I felt music adequately terrifying.
Exploring Florida is a bi-weekly podcast dedicated to travelers interested in exploring Florida nature trails, small towns, and other hidden gems. In the podcast series I discuss the attraction, atmosphere, and long history to the week’s lesser known destination. Come join me and be inspired to pack up your travel gear and explore Florida.
The hope of this podcast is to encourage listeners to set aside time to get out, travel, and explore historic Florida outside of the major cities. The podcast begins with intro music as I welcome listeners back to the podcast. The intro music then fades into the background with the ambient sounds I’ve recorded at each destination. During the Egans Creek Greenway podcast, you can hear the nature and wildlife present at Egans Creek Greenway as I’m speaking about Egans Creek and what makes it a great next visit for you.
The intro music was cut using Audacity with instrumental sections from the song, “Let Nature Be Nature” which I found via CC Mixster. The ambient nature sounds and wildlife sounds were also cut using Audacity and overlayed into the podcast audio. The podcast photo was edited using Apple Photos with a photo taken from my visit to Egans Creek Greenway. I used what I learned from our Typography media lab to custom make a unique podcast cover that features the actual location I went to visit; each podcast would feature a unique cover of the locale to further inspire listeners to go out and discover the new destination.
As an outdoor enthusiast myself, my hope for the podcast is to inform, entertain, and inspire others like me to get out and explore Florida.
“Back Porch Sightings Podcast Art” by Jenn White, licensed under CC0 1.0 Universal
“Back Porch Sightings Podcast Intro” by Jenn White, licensed under CC0 1.0 Universal
One of my favorite things about living with my best friend is the time we spend together on our back porch. At night, we grab a drink and talk about our days. I talk about politics. Hanna talks about celebrity gossip. We always see something unusual in the sky: crazy fog, strobe lights, drones…and I swear that was a UFO. This podcast is a reflection of our time spent together– a little spooky but mostly playful. I think this comes across in the script, our tone of voice, the sound effects, and music. I incorporated the sound of our screen door slamming shut (quick, what is that?!). This was my first time using GarageBand. In this audio, sound clips are layered and I learned how to fade in and out and control the background volume.
Image Credits:
“The Open Cluster Messier 41” by the 2MASS 2 Micron All Sky Survey, licensed under Public Domain Mark 1.0 Universal. This image was found using Wikimedia Commons. “Atlas Image [or Atlas Image mosaic] obtained as part of the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS), a joint project of the University of Massachusetts and the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center/California Institute of Technology, funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the National Science Foundation.”
Polaroid of Hanna and Jenn was taken by Caitlin Mellette, friend of the pod.
“Back Porch Sightings Podcast Art” was created using Canva Pro.
Sound Credits: All sounds not recorded by me were found using freesound.org
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