I chose to do the 5 star That Bleeping Censor assignment. Immediately after reading the assignment my thoughts jumped straight to the scene where McNulty and Bunk are in an apartment investigating a murder and had a not-so-colorful choice of words for the entire scene. Instead of simply putting a bleeping censor, I thought I would replace the dirty word with a “quack.”

I downloaded the scene on YouTube and uploaded it into Windows Live Movie Maker. This tutorial was pretty helpful. Using the split tool, I muted the volume every time they cursed (stopped counting after 23).

 

I downloaded the quacking noise from freesound.org here.

 

There was some extra time in the beginning and the end of the sound so I had to use Audacity to cut it out. There were also a couple point where they cursed several times in a row so I copied the quack three times and made a new clip in Audacity for those moments.

 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/126467562@N03/15584034088/

 

I inserted the quacks in the places I muted the audio. I’m pretty happy with how it came out!