My Final Two Weeks Nearing the End

My Final Two Weeks Nearing the End

by @AlyssaMurrell1

| Syndicated, Weekly Posts
April 29, 2018

The end is hear and I can’t believe it! This semester has been a lot of fun and I definitely learned a lot about digital storytelling. The apocalypse theme just made it a whole lot more fun. These past two weeks, I thought long and hard about what I wanted to make my final story …
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This is the End

by @AlyssaMurrell1

| Final Story, Syndicated
April 29, 2018

This final story for the end and boy is it a good one. I have kept my eyes open the entire semester for things that appear to be odd or out of place to me. Writing Section: First, I believe that there is a virus that is spreading throughout our area and it is not …
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Progress Report!!

by @AlyssaMurrell1

| Final Story, Syndicated
April 27, 2018

Just writing this to give you guys a quick update on the progress of my final story! I am currently trying to figure everything out, but I do know the three types of media I will be using! They are writing, design, and I think I want to use photography! I am excited for you …
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My Twelfth Week Nearing the End

by @AlyssaMurrell1

| Syndicated, Weekly Posts
April 16, 2018

We are getting SO close to the END!!!! This past week was fun completing all of the assignments surrounding our novels that we read. I hope that the assignments I did helps all of you kind of understand the longest book I have EVER read in my life, The Passage. Long but good. The assignments were fun …
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Evidence, Evidence, Evidence!

by @AlyssaMurrell1

| evidence, Syndicated
April 16, 2018

So as I was thinking about evidence and what I could write about with some evidence that I believe is important…I came across this. A couple of weeks ago in a weekly video Professor Burtis was sick and coming down with something…this led her to canceling a showing by notifying us on Slack. Well, what …
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Phake Tweets

by @AlyssaMurrell1

| FanficAssignments, FanficAssignments99, Syndicated, The Passage Assignments
April 16, 2018

This is a two star assignment. I decided to do this because I thought it would be fun to be a six year old tweeting. I created two tweets that involve some things that happened in the book. I used the link under the assignment to create the tweets then I pasted them onto canva …
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The Passage Alternative Book Cover..as a GIF!!

by @AlyssaMurrell1

| Syndicated, The Passage Assignments
April 16, 2018

This is a five star assignment and man was it harder than I thought it was going to be. I decided to do this because I liked the original one and thought it would be fun to make a GIF book cover. Well, it was hard, but I did it. It is not the same …
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Let’s See Some ID

by @AlyssaMurrell1

| designassignments1406, Syndicated, The Passage Assignments
April 16, 2018

Here is Amy Harper Bellafonte’s military facility ID where she is a test subject for this virus. I decided to do this three star assignment because I wanted to create something for the main character of the book and this was the perfect opportunity to be creative with it at the same time. I googled …
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What’s the Meme?

by @AlyssaMurrell1

| Syndicated, The Passage Assignments, visualassignments, visualassignments386
April 16, 2018

This is the start of the 12 star assignments that I will be completing revolving around the book The Passage by Justin Cronin. This is a two star assignment and the meme I created is a confused, young girl and the meme is basically about her mom leaving her at a convent with a Sister. So …
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My Eleventh Week Nearing the End

by @AlyssaMurrell1

| Syndicated, Weekly Posts
April 9, 2018

Can you believe it is week eleven?! I can’t. This means I am getting closer and closer to graduating, which is crazy! This week was a fun week. I started off watching The Quiet Earth and creating a genre mashup with a pop song added onto it. I then answered the ten apocalyptic questions and those were fun/funny. I …
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My Daily Creates!

by @AlyssaMurrell1

| Created Assignments, Syndicated
April 9, 2018

This week I uploaded two of my own daily creates and it was a lot of fun. Hopefully the entire class will be able to get to do one of them! The first one I created was, Color Your Favorite Animal Your Favorite Color! This is where you take your favorite color and your favorite …
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10 Apocalyptic Questions

by @AlyssaMurrell1

| Syndicated, Video Assignments, VideoAssignments2220
April 9, 2018

This week I answered five out of the ten questions on this assignment. I used iMovie for this assignment and cropped each question and added my answer in between. Now, every answer may be truthful, but may be a little exaggerated. This was pretty fun t...
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Personal Stories

by @AlyssaMurrell1

| Syndicated, Video Assignments, VideoAssignments2058
April 9, 2018

This is another three star assignment to complete the six stars of video assignments. I enjoyed making this video because it gives you all a glimpse into my life growing up from the very beginning. It was a lot of fun making this video and you get to see a bunch of pictures of me …
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Product Review

by @AlyssaMurrell1

| Syndicated, Video Assignments, VideoAssignments154
April 9, 2018

This is a three star assignment I did. I reviewed the product from Apocalyptic Airwave’s radio show, the She-wee! Obviously, since it’s not a real product I didn’t have one on hand with me in the video but I did a review on it as if I owned one myself. This is the assignment where …
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Character/Genre Song Mashup

by @AlyssaMurrell1

| Syndicated, Video Assignments, VideoAssignments733
April 9, 2018

The movie I watched was The Quiet Earth 1985. This movie was actually good. It starts off with a guy who wakes up and notices some strange things. He goes on to realize that he is all alone and he thinks he is alone in the world. He starts a radio broadcast telling people that if there …
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My Tenth Week Nearing the End

by @AlyssaMurrell1

| Syndicated, Weekly Posts
April 2, 2018

It is the end of week 10!! Crazy!! This week has been a learning week for me, I have learned a lot about video and I have enjoyed it. I started off with reading How to Read a Movie. I liked this reading because I thought it was insightful and I learned a lot about video that …
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Dear 17 Year Old Alyssa…

by @AlyssaMurrell1

| Syndicated, Video Assignments, VideoAssignments2047
April 2, 2018

This is another two star assignment to wrap up the eight stars total: Sixteen Year Old Me. I decided to change it a little since there were no instructions. I made it 17 year old me to give my 17 year old self some advice as I was about to graduate from high school. Enjoy. …
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College Snapshot

by @AlyssaMurrell1

| Syndicated, Video Assignments, videoassignments2031
April 2, 2018

This is a two star assignment: College Snapshot. I decided to use photos from the past two years up until now to show what my life during college has been like. I hope you all enjoy and can get feel for what my life is and has been like during college. 🙂 VideoAssignments VideoAssignments2031
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Survivors at Sunrise’s Bellamy & Her Dream Life

by @AlyssaMurrell1

| Syndicated, Video Assignments, VideoAssignments, VideoAssignments1981
April 2, 2018

I went with path one for the video assignments! The video below is a video about Bellamy’s dream life. I decided to stick with my radio show and in particular my character. In the video I picked four things that Bellamy has always dreamed of having and I also explain it and I used things …
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Reading Movie Blogs Post

by @AlyssaMurrell1

| Syndicated, Video Assignments
April 2, 2018

This assignment has been a pretty insightful one. First, I read How to Read a Movie by Roger Ebert. I learned a lot from this because there were many things I didn’t know about movies when they produced them. For example, the character on the right compared to the character on the left. The character on the …
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My Ninth Week Nearing the End

by @AlyssaMurrell1

| Syndicated, Weekly Posts
March 26, 2018

I can’t believe it has been nine weeks already…this semester sure is flying by! This past week has overall been a pretty relaxing one, at least in this class, thankfully! My other classes have definitely been a handful. I listened to my group’s radio show and one other group this past week. I enjoyed listening …
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Generate Cool Letters Revamp

by @AlyssaMurrell1

| design assignments, Syndicated
March 26, 2018

The assignment I decided to revise was the generate cool letters assignment. The reason I decided to redo this assignment was because I felt that my original one was rushed and I didn’t take my time designing it. I used my character’s name and I talked about how I used tropical colors, well it looked …
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Survivors at Sunrise Reflection

by @AlyssaMurrell1

| Radio Show Project, Syndicated
March 26, 2018

This is my final reflection post of our radio show! Overall, I really enjoyed doing this. I finally got to meet my group in person to do a final recording last Monday and it was a lot of fun. They were all so nice and fun, I enjoyed it. Listening to our radio show, I thought …
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My Past Two Weeks Nearing the End

by @AlyssaMurrell1

| Syndicated, Weekly Posts
March 18, 2018

The past two weeks have been pretty fun and relaxing for the most part. I finished up my novel The Passage, which I really enjoyed, but man, was that a LONG book. I did four daily creates, I did the two we were required to do and I did the animal swap and manga me daily creates! …
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Survivors at Sunrise Radio Show

by @AlyssaMurrell1

| Radio Show Project, Syndicated
March 18, 2018

This is another progress post about how our radio show is going! This past week we recorded our individual parts. I, again, was unable to meet in person as I work every afternoon/night Monday through Thursday and my group met on Wednesday evening. I did record my part though at home and I sent it …
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Survivors at Sunrise

by @AlyssaMurrell1

| Radio Show Project, Syndicated
March 1, 2018

Elaina, Lauren, Jillian, and I all met in the HCC and over factime the Friday before spring break. I was the one that couldn’t meet in person as I am a commuter and I got done with class really early. We discussed a lot of ideas together and came up with a bunch! We then …
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My Sixth Week Nearing the End

by @AlyssaMurrell1

| Syndicated, Weekly Posts
February 26, 2018

This week overall has been a pretty fun one. I have learned a lot about design that I didn’t know and it has really helped me this week. I started off watching the TED Talk videos and doing the tutorials on Canva. All three were super helpful in helping me decide what kind of designer …
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Generate Cool Letters: Bellamy Reyes

by @AlyssaMurrell1

| design assignments, DesignAssignments2101, Syndicated
February 26, 2018

I did the generate cool letters assignment, I used my character’s name, Bellamy Reyes. She is from the islands, so I gave her name tropical colors, with a pretty pattern in her name. I used a light blue and a brighter orange to outline her name. I decided to use a classy font to write …
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Help Find Martha’s Hat

by @AlyssaMurrell1

| design assignments, DesignAssignments2195, Syndicated
February 26, 2018

Above is the ad I created for Martha’s missing hat! I used Canva for this assignment. I thought that there should be a reward for whoever found Martha’s hat, being money and food…two things that everyone loves! I used a template on Canva for a poster template and I added my own colors and text into it …
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Apocalyptic Character Generator: Bellamy

by @AlyssaMurrell1

| design assignments, DesignAssignments2188, Syndicated
February 26, 2018

Here is Bellamy in Puerto Rico, where her and her sister currently are. Bellamy is a survivalist, so she is strong and intelligent. Making my character, I found Hero Machine to be a little difficult to use, I didn’t have many options for my character. Then when I exported my character, I had to crop …
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