I was inspired by Kendall Parker’s “I Can Follow a Chili Nachos Recipe Haiku, Can You?“. I really really love nachos and when I found this on her page I fell in love. This post was so far and long ago on her page that I had to do some serious stalking to find it but … Continue reading Inspiration 3

I really liked the assignment “Where Is The Error?” by sgrubbs2.com. I really enjoyed this assignment because I love doing these brain puzzles with my family. It really made me think about all the races I do with my family to see who can complete these the fastest. The way she created this assignment was … Continue reading Inspored or Inspired?

I was inspired by Tiffany Yowell’s (trysoccer29.com)  “I DONUT” assignment. The creation of this valentines card was very inspirational because not only do I like the idea of love and I LOVE donuts. You can’t go wrong with heart shaped donuts for a valentines card. I liked her way of tying two awesome things in life … Continue reading Inspired donut edition

For this assignment I made a quiz pertaining to the lives of my character and Kendall Parker’s character Julia James, who happens to be my granddaughter! I have 10 questions on the quiz 5 for each of the character’s lives which should be simple relating to our stories. I created my quiz on a website … Continue reading Pop Quiz Granddaughter and Grandma edition!

Week 7 is done and I can say that even though we weren’t given as much stuff as the previous weeks, there was a lot of work involved. I had a fun time doing the daily creates like normal and I did the ones on Thursday, Friday and Sunday. The one on Thursday was to upload … Continue reading Another one bites the dust…

This week had a lot more involvement than week 1 of the radio show. I had a lot of fun working with Aubrey Howland, Kendall Parker, and Amanda Layton. This week was basically doing all the hard stuff and putting it all together, while in week 1 we developed our group and background information, we … Continue reading And that’s a wrap.

For the 6th week of this class I started by figuring out my group and what our intended idea would be for this radio show. It was really cool trying to plan our show ideas and get the basis for this project but we got it and I am really excited about starting this show! … Continue reading This post has a higher number than my Iphone!

This assignment called Sound Scapes was worth 4.5 stars and it was kinda hard to do. I related it back to my character and at first I had no idea how I was going to do that but then I realized I didn’t really do anything for her husband. I first needed to find sounds … Continue reading Can you hear it ?

For the Radio Show, I am in a group with Aubrey Howland, Kendall Parker and Amanda Layton. We have come up with the group name The maNOIRpulators and it was a very cool name and goes great with the story line we have created. We never got to actually meet this week but we stayed … Continue reading Radio Show

For this assignment I did Auto tune Something which was 1.5 stars and I have decided to dedicate this to my character. For this I found a sound of a man choking and auto tuned the noise to give it a new sound. I chose this sound because she kills her husband by poisoning him … Continue reading Auto Tuned death!

For this audio assignment I did “Make it 800% slower” for 3 stars. The song used in the example was U Smile by Justin Bieber and it was done so beautifully. I can not make any promises that mine was done anywhere near as nicely as that. I did the song The Scientist by Coldplay … Continue reading Let’s take things slow

For the group design I decided to make a poster to represent my character’s role, The Grandmother. She is the grandmother to two of the characters who our cousins in our show and she gives advice to all three of the girls on the story. For this I got a silhouette of a grandmother sitting in … Continue reading maNOIRpulators poster

For this Audio Assignment I did Reverse Audio Quiz which is 2.5 stars. I had to pick a song that I liked and reverse it then give you three hints so you can try and figure it out. Here is my track and here are my three hints to see if you can try and … Continue reading Slamina!

This week I am not going to lie has been very stressful. It is no joke when you guys said this class was going to be a lot of work, while it took me awhile to get done I got it all completed in time. This week I did the three daily creates from Friday … Continue reading Week 5 down !

In the movie “The Big Lebowski” it was easy to see how this movie related to the noir theme and the city of Los Angeles’ environment. This film depicts the 1990s perfectly. One thing noticeable throughout the movie is the sense of being dirty. The mans apartment is nasty and dirty with things laying around … Continue reading Space in film

For this assignment this week I kept my phone with me and I took photos and were in photos that involved four of the ten components. I found Color, Balance, Proportion and Unity. In this first photo I took with my friend I didn’t even realize how perfect it was for the design challenge. But … Continue reading DesignBlitz

I enjoyed reading The Vignelli Canon this week. I gave a lot of good information on different designs and all the important styles and techniques that go a long with all the work. It helped me better understand all the thought process and planning that should go into a persons design or the lack there of. … Continue reading Well hello Vignelli!

For this week I chose to do the Daily creates on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The daily create on Friday was to make a family tree and upload it onto Flickr. I made my family tree on a website off of google and started to make it I got all the way through my cousins … Continue reading Daily Creates

    For this assignment I had to use four photos that tell one story. For this I did it based on Margaret, I used some symbols that have been mentioned before and some that have not been mentioned but that you could use to possibly make a story with. I did this process by … Continue reading 4 pictures/ 1 story – 2.5 stars

For this assignment I had to make some type of ID for a character and what better way than to relate it back to Margaret herself. For this assignment I could do a library card or license but I chose to make her work badge. I decided to make her work badge because it goes … Continue reading ID Card – 2 stars

For this assignment I had to make a business card and I dedicated it to my noir character Margaret Pinualt. I made her business card for her job at her husbands paint gallery. This was perfect because now you can get a little more background on her job and her positions at the gallery. I … Continue reading Business Card – 2 stars

AT&T and T-Mobile For this assignment you had to take two companies and merge their logos together. I did AT&T and T-Mobile for this assignment and I decided to do them because you would never expect these two companies to actually join together. They are both cellular competitors and it is very unrealistic that they … Continue reading The Ultimate Merger – 4.5 stars

 Steamboat Willie in New York – 1928 For this assignment you had to look up “On this day in history” on google and choose a specific event that happened on your Birthday and use either your first or last name and have a picture to go with each letter. The letters had to be the … Continue reading On this day – 3 stars

Once again another week is complete! I did the daily creates basically last this week because I procrastinated like therewas no tomorrow. But I did the ones on Thursday and Saturday this week (cutting it close, I know). The one on Thursday was to meme a picture of a dog and Saturday was International Dot … Continue reading Week 4 Complete at least

Touch of Evil Opening Shot vs Touch of Evil Opening (No-restored version) : The music in Touch of Evil Opening Shot has more of a happy tone to it. It makes you feel like what is about to come is going to be good or happy. You get that sense of the city with the … Continue reading Audio Storytelling

The assignment was to come up with an idea or ideas for a 20-30 minute radio show, here are some ideas that I have come up with so far:  A love scandal, A female with one man but she starts to be sneaky and develop feelings for another man but that doesn’t go the way … Continue reading Radio Thoughts

For one of my Audio Assignments I decided to do the “So and So’s Greatest Hits” which was to find one of your favorite artists/ bands and make a mash up of at least 5 of their songs.   For this assignment I did mine based on Chris Brown, I chose him because he has … Continue reading Mash up Chris Brown edition

For week 4 I did the daily creates from Thursday and Saturday! Thursday was to Meme this photo of a dog with something funny or creative. I wrote what I did because I always find memes like this to be funny and of course it stood out more because he looks so sad and upset that … Continue reading Daily Creates for Week 4!

This is my short story created by sound effects about my character Margaret Pinuat, I hope you enjoy: In this story created by sound effects I used 10 different sounds. I used: Foot steps in the woods Front door opening Whisking batter Oven opening and closing Man eating Man choking Phone dialing Police sirens Woman … Continue reading What’s going on ?

For this Audio Assignment I was suppose to pick my favorite song and play it for at least 30 seconds and see who could guess the name of it! So here is my song : I chose this song because when I was little it was the main song in one of my favorite movies. … Continue reading Favorite Song :)