Wednesday, March 30, 2016

March Meeting: Audacity Audio and War Slogan Posters

We had a small but enthusiastic group at Monday's meeting. We talked about everything from aliens landing next door, to the awesome manga series, Library Wars, to who saved whose life in our March book, The War that Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley. (Consensus was reached that they sort of all saved each other in one way or another.)

We then launched into our first activity for the evening: writing a letter from one character in the book to another. We were pretty impressed by the animals in the book, since both Butter the horse and Bovril the cat played pretty big roles in Ada and Jamie's lives in the country. Thus, several Bookshop members chose to embrace magical realism and write letters from the point of view of one of the animals. The one member who chose to write from a human perspective tackled a British accent with impressive success. After finishing the hard part of writing, we rehearsed a bit before recording ourselves live using Audacity, a free Open Source software tool. The entertaining results are below. Enjoy!





While taking turns to record, we took inspiration from some vintage WWII British War Slogan posters and created some of our own posters.










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