Minehead is a seaside town in Somerset situated on the Bristol Channel and it has a railway station, one of ten stations that are on the West Somerset Railway. These steam railways have grown as tourist attractions allowing historic trains to run on lines that were closed down in …
Do a dramatic reading of Emily Dickinson’s “If You Were Coming In The Fall’. What does it mean? (TDC 279)
They are not coming…this makes me anxious.
Using Audacity or another audio editing software, record yourself holding down both sides of a conversation. Using the pitch changer and/or other effects, change your voice so it sounds like two different people are talking (Have A Phone Conversation With Yourself)
Dear Reader, I actually remixed this ds106…
Learn a sentence in a language you have no experience in, then record yourself saying it. Bonus point for some awesome background music! (Globetrotter)
Music: John Lewis Grant ‘Bach Prelude & Fugue 10′ http://freemusicarchive.org/music/John_Lewis_Grant/24_Preludes__Fugues_J_S_Bach/Bach_Prelude___Fugue_10 (Creative Commons)
If your life were a sitcom, what would be your theme song? Remix or write your theme song for us to enjoy. Upload your recording to SoundCloud and add it to the tdc1125 group. (The sitcom of your life)
If your life were a sitcom, what would …
Create your own musicless music video for a scene in a video of your choice. Use any variety of sound effects that you personally create or find from sites like freesound.org. And remember add room tone, it will make or break the remix! (Musicless Music Video)
Being already …
The design unit of the open course ds106 has been a long drawn out affair, but a very enjoyable one. Started weeks ago and was very organised in terms of choosing and completing the design assignments, but very often I couldn’t get around to writing them up. Just doing …
No big game around Pershore, but plenty of charity shops and cafes to rummage around and be idle. So, out came the smartphone camera on alert for photo ops with a design focus. This ended up being a mixture of architecture, clothes, food and sweet packaging.
Sweet wrappers are …
Decided to do all my daily creates in one go – a magnificent threesome of writing assignments. I like to be creative with words, so pigging out. Forgive me my indulgence.
TDC1064 What is on your stone?
My response can be found here.
‘But all things become visible …
Four icons, one film, but which film? Answer and explanation here.
[There is a clue in the post title]
The assignment is to reduce a movie, story, or event into its basic elements, then take those visuals and reduce them further to simple icons, four of them (One Story / Four Icons)
Above is a classic film noir reduced to four icons, but which one?
The answer …
Create a propaganda poster for ds106. Use your photo editing software of choice and write a message to inspire your fellow ds106ers (DS106 Propaganda Posters)
Do my fellow ds106ers need inspiration and propaganda? Not sure that they do, but anyway, here goes – be inspired and propagandarised ds106ers!!…
Create a tv/movie poster that captures the essence of the story through the use of minimalist design/iconography (Minimalist TV/Movie Poster)
The concept for this design assignment came to mind immediately based on this scene from Citizen Kane (1941):
Cinematographer Gregg Toland pioneered a deep focus photography that enabled …
In the spirit of The Big Caption take any photo featured on The Big Picture and add typographical text elements in a way that changes the message. (The Big Caption)
Adding text to a photograph from news agency feeds can only go in one or two ways – …
Create a promotional flyer of your choose! It can be for an event, product, or anything. It can be crazy and colorful or simply and clean. (Promotional Flyer)
This is a flyer for a group student project that I am leading. We are making a documentary web series …
The purpose of a light switch is simple, but we fail to notice the canvas behind it: the plate. There’s so much that can be done with the metaphor of a light switch, and there’s even space to do it. That’s your task today. (Light Switch Art)
‘There’s …
Something of a paradox. Unit 5 of the open course ds106 was the unit in which I was most organised and yet it has been a long and drawn out affair. I planned exactly what I needed to do, decided on the assignments, but just couldn’t find the time to …
At the beginning of Unit 5 of the ds106 open course we were directed to choose three tips to practice during the ‘visual storytelling’ part of the course. I found my guidance via the ‘How to be a better photographer…’ Storify collection of tips from ds106ers. I was drawn to …
Gun Loops Gardens
Between the algaed stone and the imposing handle
Ancient and modern
Secluded formal gardens tucked
No shortage of benches for lunches
Perpendicular to Newarke Wall’s large holes
Now peeping on the graveyard
But in 1645
Gun loops for Parliament’s shooters
Soldiers agin their King
Republic in waiting…
For the ds106 photoblitz exercise, the challenge is to take creative photos from a list of 12 subjects in a 15 minute period in a specific location. Subjects vary from specifc (‘Take a photo dominated by a single color’) to ones open to wider interpretation (‘Take a photo that represents …
‘Create a surreal panorama by first making a panorama (duh), and then munipulating the photograph to make it out of this world. However, don’t go out and just make a panorama via your iPhone!!! Take some pictures and mash them together!’
So, dear reader, I mashed, in response to Visual …
The Daily Create, as part of the digital storytelling course ds106, encourages ‘you to challenge yourself to create something new each day’. These mini-assignments are meant to only take minutes rather than hours to complete, but sometimes the thought processes about the activities and the writing up of …
Self-portraits are everywhere online and easily shared via mobile communication. The selfie is more than fashionable. It is an everyday practice of the state of personal publishing and ‘always on, everywhere’ networked media. The smartphone facilitates a personal push and pull media on a scale that we have never experienced …
As explained online, ‘The Daily Create provides a space for regular practice of spontaneous creativity through challenges published every day…[D]eveloped as part of the ds106 open course on digital storytelling, TDC is open to anyone who wants a regular dose of creative exercises’.
Today’s TDC instructed us to ‘Take …
For each unit of ds106 (I am doing the Open Course, now on Unit 5), we have to do three daily creates, brief creative activities in different media. This photography task is called ‘Birds! Twitter, Hitchcock, Make it all About Birds’ (TDC665).
Taking the keywords …
Audio Storytelling
This unit was the first one that made me feel like a learner because it was an area that I didn’t know a lot about going in to it. The examples of audio storytelling that we were encouraged to study use a very heavily produced approach to factual …
What do you get the man with an extensive wardrobe of vintage ties? A vintage tie press of course.
ds106 Sound Effects Story Audio Assignment
Source Files
‘dragon wings.wav’ by vedas
‘screams_02.wav’ by studiorat
‘Goblin Cackle.wav’ by spookymodem
‘Smashing-glass’ by CosmicEmbers
‘FireBurning_v2.wav’ by pcaeldries
‘flamewind.wav’ by scarbelly25
‘DRAGON_ROAR.wav’ by JoelAudio
‘Dragon Land’ by Cyberkineticfilm
‘Open a long neck beer bottle with coast / beer mat plop’ by michaelkohler
‘Foley …
Radio bumpers are fun bits of audio to create, so this ds106 Audio Assignment was pretty painless to make. The main creative decision I took was to avoid using music and use sound effects in a musical way and to play on the idea of radio waves, interference, low hum …
I didn’t manage to listen to a live show on ds106 Radio, but I did listen to a re-broadcast by Rochelle Lockridge of Rockylou Productions. The content of the show is summarised helpfully here on Storify. Rochelle was promoting the broadcast on Twitter and so I let her …
