- Maker: ‘Aolani Robinson
- Genre: Audio
- Level: Graduate
- Program: Composition, Rhetoric, and Digital Media
- Course: WRIT 5340: Multimodality & Digital Media
- Instructor: Dr. Eric Mason
- Semester Created: Winter 2021
Description:
This audio drama was inspired by the infamous War of the World radio broadcast of the early 20th century. Using a combination of AI generated voice acting, free to use sound effects, and music, this parody mimics a radio show. Copying the events of the attempted Capitol Insurrection on January 6th, this drama follows a broadcast as the events become increasingly more dire. Just as in the original, the broadcast has a happy, although uncomfortable, ending.
Sound From:
Ari de Niro – Freedom Drops
Tricky Diesel – Don’t You Worry
Josh Woodward – Revolution Now
Miss Chain and the Broken Heels – Lie
Nihilore – Do Not Look Back
Glitching, Vinyl Record Player, A.wav by InspectorJ
jingle breaking news radio.wav by Thejack288
crowd shouting on the street by hellonyou
Phone Pick Up.wav by MootMcnoodles
gun shots sfx.wav by Saturnvandel
Reflection:
The process of making this was very difficult from a typical writing assignment. I had a large variety of considerations to make. The first step was creating the actual script itself. Looking at the original War of the Worlds script, I noticed that there were several different segments throughout. I thought about the different segments that might occur in a real life radio show and used that to influence my script.
However, I ultimately ended up breaking the conventions of using human voices. To add to the overall uncanny valley feeling of this assignment, I decided to use AI voice actors in place of regular voice actors. Playing around with the voices, speed, and pitch was difficult. Overall, the voice were one of the areas I was least satisfied with. in addition, I would like to expand this to make it longer and more realistic while also including a wider variety of sound effects in future iterations. Despite my unfamiliarity with audio editing, I feel that the final project accurately accomplishes my original goal of blending fake news, music, and parody into one.
