I had fun with this chipmunk style assignment. I chose a scene from episode 8 where the techie guy is joking around with his computer abilities. I thought it was one of the lighter moments in the season so I downloaded the video, cut it down to the scene I wanted on Mpeg Streamclip and then […]

I really like the idea of making a film or show stop action in order to look more closely at certain aspects. Bringing up Hitchcock is the best example ever for this because there is so much in Hitchcock’s works. He makes a story with only black and white that manage to chill me more […]

I made this video for the “Where do you want to go” assignment. I loved doing this assignment because all I want to do is travel. I have been so lucky in my life to have gone to many different places: Italy, Spain, England, Wales, etc. etc. My parents provided me with a worldy education […]

For my second assignment I did the musicless music video assignment. I don’t watch music videos often, so I told my friend he could choose for me. This is the result of a very dramatic music video by Lindsay Lohan and my cruel humor combined. I tried to make it interesting and had a little […]

Film week was pretty cool, but was a lot of work. I started off the week looking at Ken Burns’ video on inspiration and video storytelling. I really liked this video and posted about how his words translated to me as a journalist, and other aspects of storytelling. Then I watched Fritz Lang’s very creepy first […]

This is my healthy vine challenge where I took two second videos of chicken, salad and guacamole. I chose this assignment because I had already planned a nice dinner because my mother and sister were visiting me at school. I was excited to make dinner for them and had to make it healthy for fear of […]

I was really inspired to do today’s daily create after reading Maggie’s great writing piece on it. She always has such great work and this is my second time nominating her to the Inspire page. Great job as always Maggie!

I love when voices are heard before anything plays and I have to say, this was definitely a scary first few seconds. The one girl in the middle turning and pointing her finger at each child in turn while saying in a mechanical voice that someone will chop them up was weird. I’ve never seen […]

I was looking at the Reading Movies unit and the fact that 100 hours of YouTube videos are added every minute was crazy to me. The Ken Burns video started on an interesting note, with him talking about 1 and 1 equaling three. His idea about the sum of the parts and the nuanced stories […]

Today I did the daily create about my signature style. My signature tells a story about myself. I know what it says because I wrote it, but the only way others can tell what it says is by watching me sign my signature; my handwriting is generally atrocious, my signature signage is indecipherable. My handwriting […]

This week was inspiration week and I really liked it because it gave us the time to think and reflect on everyone’s work. Everyone in the class has done such awesome and clever work and I was happy to have the time to look through it all. We had to post three assignments we were […]

For my second daily create this week I made my dream snowman for the make a winter drawing assignment. I will make it one day and I have high hopes for it!

For today’s daily create I messed around with a fun new application called “Art of Glow.” I had a lot of fun drawing a few different things before I made one I really liked. It was an easier daily create, but it was nice to have something fun to brighten my day on such a […]

Tonight I tweeted along with the awesome radio show, “The Science of the Wire” and wrote my week’s review of the same show. It was really interesting to follow along and hear fellow students on a show like this. The idea of the radio show was really interesting. I think the introduction could have been […]

I think Imran did such an awesome job on the bumpers for our radio show and his ending bumper was so wonderfully funny. It inspired me to do better bumpers, or at least try to, and I applaud him for making a bumper so good out of such little content. Clearly he knew exactly what […]

I was really inspired by Maggie’s “Return to the Silent Era: Edward Scissorhands” video assignment. It was so cool and really reminded me that old material can constantly be updated or revamped when put into a new context. Maggie completely changed a movie trailer and gave the movie a whole new feel as a result. […]

For my radio group we had to make a lot of commercials and one of my favorites was Jessica’s “It’s a Kodak moment in the house!” commercial. It really incorporated something from the show and sounded like a real commercial. It was one of the first ones I heard and it inspired me to make […]

This week focused a lot on my group project. I did two update posts on the project, a preliminary post and then another once our work on the project was almost finished. I made two commercials for my group (Games and Jameson), recorded some audio for the show and I was in charge of planning […]

It’s finally completed! The best radio show of all time, or at least that I have ever been a part of making (of which this is the first ). It was really cool to make and everyone in my group was so cool and smart. Maggie and Kris had the most clever commercials, Imran made […]

Since my last post on the project I made another commercial and then planned out the show exactly. I made new dialogue, of which I recorded part of, and organized everything, down to each commercial and other aspect of the show. It took a really long time, but now we have our show perfectly laid […]

Season 3, Episode 2- I love the opening scene with Omar dressed up and doing what he does best: stealing and scaring people. I will really not be happy if this show starts being a dog fighting crime show. So far this is the worst crime yet for me, and yes I know that’s insensitive. […]

Today I made another commercial for my Wire Buyers radio group. After watching the funeral scene in episode 4, the bottle of Jameson in the dead cop’s hand, the music and the singing all reminded me of my trip to Ireland and ow big Jameson is there, so I decided to do a commercial on […]

I saw today’s daily create and had the perfect video of my sister’s evil cat trying to chase/kill my fish and then miserably failing. I enjoy watching it myself and thought I would share it! I simply uploaded it to YouTube, but have embedded it here and added some photos of Satan’s spawn in this […]

Over fall break the Wire Buyers talked a lot about planning and meeting up via our Facebook group, but today was the first day we actually got the chance to meet face-to-face. We have been using a google document to plan our project and post our individual work thus far. Today I met with Imran […]

Audio week was a little more difficult and time consuming because I had to get used to GarageBand and Audacity, as well as explore new outlets to work with. I worked with my group on our project a bit though and made a banner for our group, as well as a commercial we may be able […]

Episode 12 and commentary: Zimny’s discussion on the reality of the show is so true to me. The whole show is always so realistic. I love the commentary by Thorson on the opening sequence because she notes the lack of dialogue in favor of image and direction. I love the word “stain” she uses to […]

I made a commercial for the product placement radio ad assignment and did it a little bit differently. Though not necessarily owned by anyone, the games of chess and checkers are 1) widely popular, 2) centered around the same general idea and 3) major representations of the “game” so often discussed in the Wire. Chess […]

I did my second daily create today by creating a mashup of the Wire and Game of Thrones. It was pretty fun to put the Wire into a new context and draw parallels with a show that is as dramatic and intense as the Wire, though Game of Thrones is a little more heartless! Here […]

  This week my radio group, newly named the “Wire Buyers” have been working on our project. We figured out our name and have designated some work to each person. I think it will be interesting to go through the episodes with the lens of product placement and marketing. For my promotional work for the […]

Lauren Brumfield and I are in the same ds106 project group and were working on the project tonight. We decided it would be fun and different to do an assignment together and the Dramatic Reading Remix assignment was perfect because we could do a song with two sides. We chose “Space Oddity” because David Bowie […]