The End of Steam World

The End of Steam World

by @Hollis Pultz

| ds106, finalpost, finalproject, Syndicated
June 21, 2018

And the End of DS106 It has been a wild ride, but I survived. Miraculously, so did my relationships with both Meg and Dina. From making visuals and designs to recording audio and video, I have journeyed to becoming a more competent designer in many disciplines. I have also expanded my ability to tell stories, …
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The End of Steam World (Tutorial)

by @Hollis Pultz

| ds106, finalproject, Syndicated, tutorial
June 21, 2018

How it All Came to Be Here I walk through creating the photos for the The End of Steam World post of my final project using iMovie and Canva.
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Lean Mean Green Screen

by @Hollis Pultz

| ds106, finalproject, Syndicated
June 20, 2018

First Contact For the video portion of the final project, I chose to record a terror-hostage-style ransom video of fictional Hollis. Here he delivers ANTISA’s demands to the camera. To record this video, I have used the green screen at the HCC so that I can make my own custom background for the shot including …
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Lean Mean Green Screen (Tutorial)

by @Hollis Pultz

| ds106, finalproject, Syndicated
June 20, 2018

How it All Came to Be Here I walk through creating the video for the Lean Mean Green Screen post of my final project using iMovie.
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Midnight, Meg, and Meow

by @Hollis Pultz

| ds106, finalproject, Syndicated
June 20, 2018

Bring on the Photoshop For the photography portion of the final project, I am going to be taking photos that I shot last night on my way home from the HCC and photos of Meg and Dina and doctoring them with Photoshop to create images that will be flashing through fictional Hollis’s head as he …
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Midnight, Meg, and Meow (Tutorial)

by @Hollis Pultz

| ds106, finalproject, Syndicated
June 20, 2018

How it All Came to Be Here I walk through creating the photos for the Midnight, Meg, and Meow post of my final project using Photoshop.
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The Bad and the Good

by @Hollis Pultz

| ds106, finalproject, Syndicated
June 19, 2018

I Bring You Design Following the audio of Hollis with his kidnappers, I chose to create the design elements for my final project. There were two images that I wanted to create: one to advertise ANTISA and one to urge people to report sightings of ANTISA to the FBI. Also, it is really late, but …
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The Bad and the Good (Tutorial)

by @Hollis Pultz

| ds106, finalproject, Syndicated
June 19, 2018

How it All Came to Be Here I walk through creating the designs for the The Bad and the Goodpost of my final project using Canva.
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Steam World Revisited

by @Hollis Pultz

| ds106, finalproject, Syndicated
June 18, 2018

Starting Off For the final project, I finally get my chance to continue the Steam World saga and let you the viewers find out Hollis’s fate. The story opens with audio of Hollis after the attack by ANTISA on the Detroit steam-plant. Part One: Audio Hollis only felt his eyes open. Though the lids parted, …
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Steam World Revisited (Tutorial)

by @Hollis Pultz

| ds106, finalproject, Syndicated
June 18, 2018

How it All Came to Be Here I walk through creating the Bad Car Ride audio-story using Audacity.
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Nearing the End

by @Hollis Pultz

| ds106, Syndicated, WeeklySummary
June 17, 2018

Not Quite What I Expected Actually working with video this week did not turn out like I expected it to. I have realized that I am a far better photographer than videographer. While I did get a trial download of Final Cut Pro and watched some basic tutorials, I still used QuickTime and iMovie to …
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Trauma

by @Hollis Pultz

| ds106, Syndicated, VideoAssignments, VideoAssignments735
June 17, 2018

What Goes Through Their Heads For my last assignment this week, I did the What Do Pets Think About assignment for three-and-a-half stars. Since I have a habit of narrating Dina’s thoughts already, this assignment was straight-forward. I also needed to relate my video back to my answer for the question of the week; The …
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Trauma (Tutorial)

by @Hollis Pultz

| ds106, Syndicated, VideoAssignments, VideoTutorials735
June 17, 2018

How It All Came to Be Here I walk through creating the Off to the Vet video using iMovie.
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If Only It Were That Easy

by @Hollis Pultz

| ds106, Syndicated, VideoAssignments, VideoAssignments397
June 17, 2018

Share the Knowledge For my second assignment this week, I completed the Vintage Educational Video for five stars. I have seen many workplace instructional videos, which are very similar to the old educational videos, so the styling for this video was familiar. Why this Knowledge is Important It took me many years to learn how …
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The Dark Villain

by @Hollis Pultz

| ds106, Syndicated, VideoAssignments, VideoAssignments1723
June 16, 2018

Following by Example For my first assignment this week, I chose the Ebert’s Analysis assignment for four stars. Finding a movie clip to analyze was the easiest part of the assignment. I have spent many evenings at the local Sheetz and have half-watched many movies on the soundless television there while working on my assignments. …
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The Dark Villain (Tutorial)

by @Hollis Pultz

| ds106, Syndicated, VideoAssignments, VideoTutorials1723
June 16, 2018

How it All Came to Be Here, I walk you through making a movie-analysis video using Roger Ebert’s method from his article How to Read a Movie. I used this Batman clip for my analysis, starting at 23:38.
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Nitro-Fueled Tuesday-Night Productivity

by @Hollis Pultz

| ds106, midweek, Syndicated
June 13, 2018

Not Starting Very Well As usual, I have been working late nights, so I have not had much time to do schoolwork. I managed to do the Ebert reading and one Daily Create during my lunch break, but that was all. After consuming some much-needed caffeine, I set to work Tuesday evening watching videos and …
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Making it Pop

by @Hollis Pultz

| ds106, Reflection, Syndicated
June 13, 2018

Make Like a Sponge Visual effects are crucial in film, so what better way to spruce up my film-designing than soaking up some videos on the subject. I watched Tarantino from Below, Top Twenty Amazing Cinematic Techniques, Camera Angles and Techniques, and Hitchcock Loves Bikinis. Looking Up The many scenes compiled for the Tarantino from …
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Wait, But do I Flip the Pages?

by @Hollis Pultz

| ds106, Reflection, Syndicated
June 13, 2018

A Little Non-Traditional Advice I cannot remember the last time I was advised to watch a book outside the context of keeping an eye on someone’s MacBook while they went to the restroom. Never in my life have I heard of reading a movie. Reading Roger Ebert’s How to Read a Movie gave me a new …
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Caffeine Required

by @Hollis Pultz

| ds106, Syndicated, WeeklySummary
June 10, 2018

What Happened? Last week, I said that I would be trying to cut my soda intake in half. While I was able to manage the first half of the week with only one late night Dr. Pepper, this last stretch kicked me in the teeth. Over the last forty-eight hours, I have drunk four Dr. …
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It all Comes Crashing Down

by @Hollis Pultz

| #AudioAssignments, #AudioAssignments70, ds106, Syndicated
June 10, 2018

The Sounds Speak for Themselves The final assignment this week was more or less the equivalent to the audio version of a design effect: use audio editing skills to create a ninety-second-or-less audio story without verbal communication. Again, dealing with steam powered Detroit, I chose to continue where I left off with Hollis and Meg’s …
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Tensions Flare at Home

by @Hollis Pultz

| #AudioAssignments, AudioAssignments1523, ds106, Syndicated
June 10, 2018

Story Time! Telling a story using audio could not possibly be hard, right? Well, while literally telling a story into a mic has inherent simplicities, making an audio story for the story-time assignment had challenges. Mixing the audio of the different tracks required much listening and re-listening to get the volumes and fades just right. …
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Playing Something on the Piano is not Always Better

by @Hollis Pultz

| #AudioAssignments, AudioAssignments2208, ds106, Syndicated
June 10, 2018

What? No Words? The first assignment I tackled this week was a meaty five-star dealing with converting audio files. I had to create an auditory illusion; this is where a song with heavy vocals is taken and converted into a midi file, then played as a piano track on computer. To be frank, the most …
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Playing Something on the Piano is not Always Better (Tutorial)

by @Hollis Pultz

| #AudioAssignments, AudioTutorials2208, Syndicated
June 10, 2018

How it all Came to Be Here I walk you through the Auditory Illusions assignment. We will be using the song Sober Taxi from Free Music Archive, MIDITrail for Mac, and Bear File Converter. Of course, you will need to take a screen recording of your finished illusion once you have the midi track playing. …
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I Heard the Message, Loud and Clear

by @Hollis Pultz

| Syndicated
June 6, 2018

Skeptic Turned Believer Starting the week, I thought that adding effects to audio stories only added unnecessary distractions from the content of the stories. While the associated resources for the first reflection encouraged me to reconsider my opinion and gave me a glimpse of how easy getting started working with audio can be, I hadn’t …
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Basking in the Sun, Daytime is a Good Time for Daily Creates

by @Hollis Pultz

| Syndicated
June 6, 2018

Big Human, Don’t Mind Me While inspecting a lawn that my mom and I have been trying to grow grass on for the past year, I found the most photogenic turtle I have ever seen. Armed with the camera app on my iPhone7, I enacted a full-scale photo-attack on the turtle. To my surprise, the …
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Well, I got Audio-Pilled

by @Hollis Pultz

| #audioreflection, Syndicated
June 5, 2018

Radio Theatre is Great, Changed my Mind When I wrote my previous post, I held the belief that additional audio dubbed into stories was more a distraction than an enhancer, but after listening to some podcasts by The Truth Podcast, I believe audio stories made in such fashion benefit greatly by the addition. The sounds …
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You Speak, I’ll Listen

by @Hollis Pultz

| Syndicated
June 5, 2018

Where I Come From I haven’t seriously worked with audio since high-school. Back then I was part of a band and temp-ed in my older brother’s band when his normal bass-player could not show up to a gig. In addition to playing in bands, I also sold merchandise and did recording. While I was not …
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Was this Week Supposed to be Hard by Design?

by @Hollis Pultz

| Syndicated
June 3, 2018

The Week-Two Woes… “What happened this week?” I keep asking myself. “ds106 happened,” I respond. This week, I been consistently been pulling all-nighters to complete my assignments. I did manage to change my work schedule so that I would get off the job around six or seven o’clock each night, but the time required to …
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Keep Our World Wet

by @Hollis Pultz

| designassignments, DesignAssignments817, Syndicated
June 3, 2018

If not Global Warming, Then What? Continuing along my steam-train of thought with the question of the week, I decided to consider the environmental issues that would be associated with a developing world that ran on steam. Even in the real world, power-plants rely on steam generation to create electricity: nuclear, coal-fired, and gas-fired plants …
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