Overall, I really enjoyed unit 6 of DS106 as I feel I thrived in particular tasks due to my passion for Art and Design. Together with unit 5, I feel they have definitely been the most enjoyable segments of DS106. Not only due to the content, but fundamentally the growth …

So this task officially marks the end of Daily Creating in DS106! :( I thought I’d finish the Daily Creates section by selecting the task of today, which is ‘Begin to Face a Fear Today’. Essentially, you were asked to sketch an image of something that scares you. I was …

I quite enjoyed this task because it allowed me to explore my creativity within using Audio. For this assignment, we were asked to create a 30-60 seconds audio piece which tells a story by using only sound effects. I’ve always had a huge interest for World War 1 history, and …

I found this video to be an interesting watch as it made me realise how effective radio is. He explained how the absense of pictures is a lacking element, yet it’s effective as you can describe things through the tone and description in your voice, and it makes you imagine …

I watched parts 1 and 2 of Ira Glass on Storytelling to learn about his concept of oral storytelling. He described the strategy behind a good story, which consisted of what he referred to as ‘building blocks’. The first block is the anecdote, which is what creates the sequence of …

This assignment involved re-editing existing content to change meaning orvisually represent an idea.To create these tasks, I used Photoshop to edit existing images. I particularly enjoyed the ‘DS106 Propaganda Posters’ task as I found changing the media of Propaganda within WW1 to propaganda for DS106 very interestingly challenging and enjoyable.…

Up to now, this has been my favourite unit of the DS106 course, and I feel that if every unit is as enjoyable as this one, then I should have no problem with progressing through this course with an enjoyable attitude. I think I approached this unit with a completely …

I decided to challenge myself and instead of creating my own 5 picture story, I have used the ‘general pool of photos’ option which randomly generates pictures, and then I have to tell the ‘story’. The screenshot above shows what the pool generated for me. So here it goes…

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I really enjoyed doing this task as I really enjoy watching films and found that this method is a really effective way of conveying the most crucial parts of a film. I chose to use the film ‘Limitless’ for this task. One thing I have discovered from a handful of …

I actually really enjoyed analysing Kurt Vonnegut’s overview of the shape of stories, as it opened my mind to an entirely new theory of telling a story. In addition, I did see a lot of sense from it, and it helped me a lot with applying this concept to the …

I found Unit 2 a little more challenging than Bootcamp as it required a lot more
from me. Firstly, we were asked to customize our blogs. I read the different suggestive points in the section to spark some inspiration, and with that, I changed the theme of my blog to …

Similarly to unit 5, the first formal assignment was to explore the assignment bank further. For this assignment, I decided to not use the generator to randomly select tasks for me, and actually pick ones that I feel that would be most interesting to me. I found that there was …

To commence this unit, I watched a short video clip ‘Ira Glass on the secret of success in creative work’. This was a good video to begin this unit with, as it gave me a general outline of what design in storytelling is. This video involved kinetic typography, so that …

This unit has definitely been my preferred one out of the whole of DS106 so far. It definitely challenged me, as I noticed that this unit was the most time consuming out of the 5 units; especially due to the assignment bank. Nonetheless, because I thoroughly enjoyed each task of …

I found this task really enjoyable as it reminded me a lot of the Daily Create. I tried to challenge myself by using the device that randomly generates visual assignments for you. This made the task more interesting as I was given a point blank task and had to create …

I’ve found that I’m struggling to create at least 5 Daily Create tasks a week,

and I definitely feel this has to change. SO, today marks the beginning of creating a Daily Create task, EVERYDAY from now. Therefore, today I am sharing two photos that I believe represent the concept …

Thought I’d be international with Daily Create today and join the Cat Montage

Craze. Plus, I take any opportunity to include my cat in things! Therefore, I used my Cat for this image and used Photoshop to give her some funky glasses.

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Photoblitzing was quite an enjoyable task as it reminded me a lot of the Daily Create, in that it involved having to create something spontaneous in a short period of time. The task entailed having to take as many photos from the list as possible in 15 minutes. I gave …

So I thought instead of grabbing some junk written mail, I’d give you a lookinto all the useless junk emails I receive EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. I decided to do a little doodling on top of them. In addition, if anyone can advise me on how to stop receiving so much …

I enjoyed doing this task as it was nice for me to see on paper what my goals in life are. In fact, I will probably keep this drawing as a source of motivation. I guess it sounds cliche, but ultimately in life, I really do want to be healthy …

Hopefully this blog is now added to the flow! I also added myself to the #DS106 twitter flow and got a response as shown below:

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This GIF is made from the film ‘Vanilla Sky’. If you ask me what is my favourite film, I find it so hard to come up with just one. So I thought I’d make a GIF of my most recently watched favourite film. I watched this film in late August …

For this unit, we were asked to watch and provide our outlooks on various YouTube videos regarding the subject matter ‘Art’. The first video I watched – I surprisingly enjoyed. The video takes the form of a traditional, lecture-based presentation depicting a particularly interesting outlook on Art. The lecturer; Bostein, …

Hopefully this blog is now added to the flow! I also added myself to the #DS106 twitter flow and got a response as shown below:

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Please take a look at my Daily Create’s! You can find them on the ‘Daily Create’ tab at the top of my blog or by clicking here. 

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Below are links to the various accounts I have created for the DS106 module:

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Hello world,
I’m writing this post to mark my official start to blogging in year 2 Media Production! I’m just going to assume that not many people read my blog from year 1, so I’ll introduce myself again so that my readers (if I am to get any!) will have …