This is where we post our projects, experiences, thoughts, and discoveries. The lab community is a great place to learn about the topics and techniques covered in the Creative Media Lab. Feel free to leave a comment!

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Our podcast was based on music piracy and they two basic views on it; for vs against downloading music of the web. We each focused on one side reporting our take on the matter with interviews supporting our side. We have a variety of music and songs to keep a contrast between ideas or sides.

enjoy…

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Our group chose to ask third years for any advice they thought would help the uprising second years with school and anything about college that would be useful to know. It is a good way for the 2^nd years to be informed from the other student that know and have been more active in these processes and experiences. I found that the 3^rd years gave some good heads up tips for us and the 2^nd could really learn a lot from this. We also interviewed a couple of 2^nd, just asking what they thought was in store for their upcoming school year.

I chose the song “Ooh Ahh” by Grits because a connotation in the song is life and that is essentially was we all are preparing for and actually getting more of an experience here at SMASH

The picture I put up is from a banner saying “Helping Hand” and that is pretty much why we chose the topic we did and asked the 3^rd years for help.

Alberto\’s Podcast

Hi this is Alberto. This the podcast that I did with Nick and Radhika and this topic was about how SMASH has changed the 3rd years’ lives. In Radhika’s podcast, it has interviews with the first years, but unfortunately, it was put wav file so it doesnt work on my podcast. In my podcast, I made edits in the music (changed the songs) and made the podcast shorter due to the technical difficulties of the wav file. Hope you enjoy it.

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our group choose to give advice from the third years to the second years on the future academic year. The third years that were interviewed felt that the information that they gave was important for the second years to know. our group felt that this was important because we do not want the second years to get ready for the college process and not even know where to start.I personally feel that it is only right that the information we know is passed down because some one passed it down to us. i think that it is only fair that we all communicate things that would better our peers because we want every one to succede.

i chose this picture because it represents us giving a helping hand to the second year and how we will always be there for them while we are here at SMASH

The song lean on me came into play becauase the fact that we are helping one another and we are on the same page shows that we are here for one another and that is a beautiful thing.

Music Piracy or Music freedom?

Our podcast is on music pirating and whether it is bad or not. We approached the podcast by using two perspectives, pros of music pirating and cons of music pirating. We also added the interviews so that we had one for each side. As for the music, we tried to provide different music for each part of the podcast that set and matched the mood of that specific part.

-Virgil Almeda (VA)

(P.S my voice sucks)

Activities at SMASH

Hi this is Jorge from the UC Berkeley campus. Our group decided to make the podcast about how the mandated activities affects us as SMASH scholars. We took many steps to make this podcast, our first step was to introduce ouselves in the SMASH way. Then we interviewed the first year Phenoula, the second year Jessica Sodi, the third year Joseph De La Riva, and the RA Lorin Jackson; We did this so we could get a broader perspective in the matter. After all we concluded that although the activities are not always necessary, they do help you socialize and make SMASH a one big happy family.

Are Pheromones for Real?

After reading an article that stated that love has to do with pheromones, Team Lovely went to work to find out if this was so and found out some other facts concerning love as well. Alanna Reyes, Ralph Kevin Gomez and Ashleigh Richelle did some research as well as interviewed fellow SMASH scholars and Residential Assistants in order to a gain a wide perspective on a little thing called love.

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Our podcast was concerning the mandated activities at the SMASH academy. For our podcast, we interviewed 3 SMASH scholars and one SMASH RA. The scholars that we interviewed were Jessica Sodhi, Joseph De La Riva, Fynoolah O’Reily. The SMASH RA that we interviewed was Lorin Jackson. We asked them a variety of questions involving SMASH activities. They each gave us varying answers, and each of them had different opinions on the activities. Based on their responses, we concluded that the SMASH activities bring SMASH scholars closer as a family.

The way in which my podcast is different from my group members is basically the songs that I chose. The song’s that i chose were “Move Along” by The All American Rejects, and “Everything’s Magic” by Angeles and Airwaves (AVA). The reason I chose these songs was because they are very upbeat songs which went great with our topic because activities are meant to be fun. I also chose to vary the people who were answering questions so it wouldn’t become too boring in such a short amount of time.

-posted by anthony first, not jorge

Are Pheromones for Real? – Alanna\’s Version

This podcast originated with a curiosity for the effect of pheromones on love and the human body, and ended with a newfound LOVE for the audio editing program called Audacity. Ashleigh, Ralph, and Alanna were captivated by a news article stating that love was finite and they wanted to investigate this further. Team Lovely was formed, and went to work interviewing SMASH scholars and RAs to gain perspectives on this topic. In the end… you’ll have to listen for yourself to hear Team Lovely’s conclusion.

In the background of our podcast, you may be able to discern Ralph’s and my voices singing the song “L-O-V-E”, as well as the song “What is Love?” by Haddaway.  It was important to me that my podcast have two songs within the content to break up the interviews and keep the energy level high.  Equally important was my desire for all of the interviews to go as smoothly as possible, so I took extra time to cut out all of my subjects’ “umm”s and “ahh”s.  I also wanted the interview subjects’ names to go in front of their interviews for clarity’s sake since differently edited podcasts I’ve heard in the past have confused me.

SMASH Changing Lives podcast

SMASH is creating an immense impact on all the scholars’ lives. Those who just entered SMASH and those who are leaving have full gratitude to be part of this program. In this podcast Nick, Alberto and I have interviewed two first years and two third years. Listen to find out what they had to say.

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Our podcast is about the activities that SMASH students are required to participate in. Our purpose was to see how different participants feel about this matter. We interviewed a first year named Fionnugula O’Riley, a second year named Jessica Sodhi, a third year named Joseph Del La Riva, and a RA named Lauren Jackson. The students had different opinions about the activities than the RA; however, they all felt that the activities bonded the SMASH community.

Unlike the rest of mine group members, I had introduced the podcast with “Sandstorm” (techno music). I had made sure that all of the interviewees were heard at least once. While the interviewees were speaking “Black and Gold” was playing in the background. Not all of the interviewees’ replies were posted, only the statements that I had selected were set in the podcast. Lastly, to end the podcast, I replayed “Sandstorm.”

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This is my podcast.

Music Piracy or Music Freedom???

Topic: A debate/interview about the pros. and cons. of downloading music from the internet

Background Music: Mix of contrasting genres (ex. rock and symphonic, rap and pop) almost like a changing radio

Intro: Debate format, interviews support each side

Cons: Virgil starts out stating why its supposedly wrong, legalities of downloading

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Pros: Mauricio continues with why downloading music is right and an overall pro.

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-Mauricio and Virgil

(p.s. virgils internet is down indefinitly so only one post)

Title: Are Pheromones for Real?

1) SMASH introductions of all three SMASHcasters
2) Introduce topic through interviews [craft questions to interview-ees]
“What do you think of the idea that love is really just a chemical reaction designed to continue the human race?”
Interview Subjects: female scholar, male scholar, adult (staff)

3) Debate
Alanna takes the side of Yes, it is just a chemical reaction
Ashleigh takes the side of No, love is more complicated than pheromones
Pose the question: Are we still tied to our animal instincts, pheromones and all?
4) Conclusion:
No matter which conclusion scientists come to, “Love was made for me and you!”

Intro: Introduction to are topic about how SMASH has impacted students lives. Different perspectives from 1st and 3rd years.

Interviewing:

Ben, Kendrick, Lavanda, Karina, Geo, and Catherine Subject to change (how has SMASH influenced your life?)

Information about SMASH (lpfi, What SMASH IS and how it helps students)

Our views input on SMASH ( our personal experiences on SMASH)

Final thoughts ( final thought on the subject)

The End ( el fin)

1) Introduction:

-Introduce ourselves

-Introduce our topic: advice from ‘08 3rd years to uprising ‘09 3rd yrs concerning all academic aspects regarding educational success in the future.

2) 3rd years advice (3 interviews)

3) What second years expect for the upcoming academic year. (3 interviews)

4) Maybe ask an adult (RA) for educational advice.

5) Conclusion

- general overview

Lending a Helping Hand

1. Into

-Introduce ourselves

-introduce our topic (Advice from 3rd years to 2nd years concerning all academic aspects regarding educational successes in the future)

2. Advice from 3rd years (interviews)

- three interviews, questions

3. What 2 years expect, or think will be like, in the upcoming academic year (interviews)

- three interviews, questions

4. Advice from RA, or adult, to all years concerning all educational successes (maybe)

- 1 interview, qeustions

5. Conclusion

- wrap up (?)

Lending a helping hand

1) Introduction:

-Introduce ourselves

-Introduce our topic: advice from ‘08 3rd years to uprising ‘09 3rd yrs concerning all academic aspects regarding educational success in the future.

2) 3rd years advice (3 interviews)

3) What second years expect for the upcoming academic year. (3 interviews)

4) Maybe ask an adult (RA) for educational advice.

5) Conclusion

- wrap up (?)

I. Intro

• SMASH intro
• “We’re here to talk about how SMASH students feel about having activities forced upon them. A typical day during our SMASH summer session consists of waking up, going to breakfast, going to class, going to lunch, going back to class, having a meeting, going to dinner, and finally tutorial. Unfortunately to add on to our busy schedules, it is required for us to participate in mandatory group activities. After having a full day of classes, many of us would like to go back to our dorms and rest, or just finish up some left over homework. We feel that these mandated activities take much of our free time away, which we could be using to do something else. We interviewed other SMASH scholars to see what they thought about these activities.

II. Interviews

• Questions to come later.

III. Conclusion

• After having done all our interviews….(conclusion will be posted after interviews). But in the end we still believe that these activities should not be mandatory, but rather voluntary.