For my class project (bottom of this page), I experimented with different sound bites until a story began to take shape. At first, there wasn’t much to it. But that’s when the real fun started. I got into the zone, brainstorming the kinds of sound bites I could create and exploring different words within the transcript to form Frankenbites.

I ended up crafting a blackout poem about my love for food. While it doesn’t entirely make sense, it sounds like something I might have actually said. To enhance the final piece, I layered in B-roll, music, and sound effects—both to smooth out the edits and to help disguise some of the trickier dialogue adjustments.

One of the most interesting challenges was creating words that were never actually spoken in the original recording. For example, I never said “TASTY” or “EATING,” but I was able to reconstruct them using similar-sounding words and the editing techniques covered in this class. 

TASTY
Takes
Just
Psychology

EATING
Eat
Editing

For “TASTY,” I used audio time units to make precise edits, carefully matching tone and emotion so the final word sounded mostly natural. “EATING” was much simpler—I just cut on the consonant “T,” and it didn’t require much additional sculpting.

<div style="padding:56.25% 0 0 0;position:relative;"><iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/1067899717?h=62a1f8d923&amp;badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" title="Food Frankenbite"></iframe></div><script src="https://player.vimeo.com/api/player.js"></script>