Daily Creates- Take 3

Daily Creates- Take 3

by @JasmineAlanis2

| dailycreate, ds106, Syndicated
February 8, 2019

My first daily create of the week was to make a food pun with a celebtrity’s name. I give you: Olivia Fig Newton John. I created this image with Canva, which has become my best friend for this class #tdc2582 #ds106 #dailycreate Olivia Fig Newton John! pic.twitter.com/6TwORRyLUH — Jasmine Alanis (@JasmineAlanis2) February 6, 2019 My
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The World Is Not Enough

by @JasmineAlanis2

| ds106, Syndicated, visualassignments, visualassignments1987
February 8, 2019

Directions: Take an existing movie poster and make it look silly. I cannot begin to explain how excited I was to make this one. When I read the directions and saw the direction, I immediately thought of the movie, The World is Not Enough. A true James Bond classic. When I was thinking of the
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It’s A Bird, It’s A Plane

by @JasmineAlanis2

| ds106, Syndicated, visualassignments, VisualAssignments2106
February 8, 2019

In order to create the images, I went straight to snapchat! There is a filter that slightly distorts images and also immediately makes the coloring black and white. I thought that this could give me the best chance creating an image that was seemingly ominous or maybe included something you couldn’t quite distinguish. I feel
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5 Frame Story

by @JasmineAlanis2

| ds106, Syndicated, visualassignments, VisualAssignments2167
February 8, 2019

Directions: Tell a story using five photos. Basically, that’s it. Figure out the story you want to tell and then take five photos to tell it. If you need to edit, add filters, etc. in order to get the effect you want, go for it. I decided to tell the story of how I make
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Spy Camp!

by @JasmineAlanis2

| ds106, Syndicated, visualassignments, VisualAssignments1731
February 8, 2019

Directions: Make a poster an advertisement of some sort for a camp or summer activity that you enjoyed as a child. If you didn’t go to any camps as a kid, make a poster for a camp you wish you had attended. I never went to camp as a kid, but I would have loved
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007 Becoming a Better Photographer

by @JasmineAlanis2

| ds106, ds106photography, Syndicated
February 8, 2019

When applying many fo the points about narratives and photography to the James Bond movies series (Daniel Craig as James Bond), the viewer can see a contrast in the storytelling for these movies versus prior James Bond films. More than ever, we get to see an account of connected events, rather than stand alone stories
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Bond’s Visuals of Storytelling

by @JasmineAlanis2

| ds106, photoreflection, Syndicated
February 8, 2019

Previous/current experience with photography? When I was ten years old, I begged my dad for a camera. Some of my cousins were super into photography and I wanted to be just like them. I made a deal with my dad that if I had all A’s on my final report card that he would buy
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Photoblitzer vs 007

by @JasmineAlanis2

| #photoblitz, ds106, Syndicated
February 8, 2019

This was such a fun assignment! I was able to take the majority of the pictures within five-ten minutes. The only one that was a struggle was the advertising one (number 7). I wasn’t able to find any advertising but when I was in Nashville last weekend I took this photo of the mural at
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007’s Weekly Summary #3

by @JasmineAlanis2

| ds106, Syndicated, WeeklySummary
February 1, 2019

This week I read Chapter 1 of “Storytelling for the Twenty-First Century,” and watched Vonnegut on The Shape of Stories. I made my analysis from the themes of those works to Kim Possible. That was such a fun experience because I love Kim Possible and the secret agent theme in general, so dissecting the formula
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My last words

by @JasmineAlanis2

| ds106, Syndicated, writingassignments, WritingAssignments1637
February 1, 2019

“Thank you Smuckers, I did it for you.” Why are these my last words? Well, if you look at my bucket list, you will understand why, but here is the background story anyways: I am 100 years old, surrounded by my favorite people. I am rocking in a chair and watching the Today Show. The
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Vivid Dreams

by @JasmineAlanis2

| ds106, Syndicated, writingassignments, WritingAssignments1860
February 1, 2019

So I have experienced a few vidid dreams in the past, and usually they were nightmares, but occasionally I will have this amazing dream where I am back in Okinawa, Japan. It always starts with me on the plane, I wake up from my sleep and tell my sister that I am so surprised I
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Bucket List

by @JasmineAlanis2

| Syndicated, writingassignments, writingassignments1738
February 1, 2019

Live to be 100- Okay, I tell this story whenever I can, so congratulations, you get to hear it too. I want to live to be 100 so Smuckers will wish me a happy birthday on the Today show. When I was a little kid I used to watch the Today show with my mom
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Dream Vacation

by @JasmineAlanis2

| Syndicated, writingassignments, WritingAssignments1716
February 1, 2019

At the moment, my dream vacation is getting away from Fredericksburg and heading to North Carolina with my boyfriend over Spring Break. We want to go to North Carolina, specifically Boone, because that’s where his family takes a trip every year. Boone is located in the Blue Ridge Mountains, and from the pictures he has
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Secret Agent Daily Creates

by @JasmineAlanis2

| dailycreate, ds106, Syndicated
February 1, 2019

First Daily Create: This was a super quick one! I created this image via Canva and it took all of three minutes at most. I knew I wanted to finish the phrase with “drinking coffee and finishing homework,” because that is something I do on the regular. I am addicted to coffee and I also
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Code Name: Mona Lisa (&Becky)

by @JasmineAlanis2

| characterdossier, ds106, Syndicated
February 1, 2019

Name: Jess Carter Code Name: Mona Lisa & Becky Date of Birth: 12/12/1990 Place of Birth: New York Occupation: Curatorial Marital Status: Single Physical description: Green eyes, black curly hair, 5’5 Bio: Jess Carter is an only child from divorced parents. She attended Columbia University in New York where she received her undergraduate degree in Art
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Secret Agent Shaped Stories

by @JasmineAlanis2

| ds106, storyanalysis, Syndicated
February 1, 2019

The on-theme story I have chosen is that of Kim Possible. I absolutely loved the show growing up so I felt it was fitting. So much of the video and the reading apply directly to Kim Possible. For example, each episode follows a similar “story shape,” it begins around an average point, Kim is just
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007’s Weekly Summary #2

by @JasmineAlanis2

| ds106, Syndicated, WeeklySummary
January 25, 2019

This week was really fun for me. I really enjoyed working on the daily create challenges. They definitely pushed me out of my comfort zone. To read more about my process and how I created those images, I have written a blog post detailing all of it. @ds106dc Ella can help with any problem
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Contradiction

by @JasmineAlanis2

| #DesignAssignments2075, designassignments, ds106, Syndicated
January 25, 2019

The directions for this assignment: “Create some sort of graphic. Design the overall graphic to convey some sort of feeling or theme, but then have text saying something completely contradictory to the theme or feeling. Sort of like one of those old anti-motivational posters, but with more design than a black box with a white
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My Favorite Photo

by @JasmineAlanis2

| ds106, Syndicated, visualassignments, VisualAssignments2152
January 25, 2019

The instructions for this assignment were: “It’s simple. Choose your favorite photo you’ve taken and tell everyone why you love it so much.” The photo I have chosen is actually fairly recent. It is a picture of me and my friend Hannah (Hannah is one the left). We hadn’t seen each other in nearly three
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Secret Agent Font

by @JasmineAlanis2

| designassignments, DesignAssignments2101, ds106, Syndicated
January 25, 2019

From the assignment bank, I found the assignment that had the instructions: “Can you write your name in a really unique way? You can get some inspirations from the following website if you like cool letters.net, Use your creativity and design what is amazing and unique, Output can be in any format you like. JPG, PNG.
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007 takes on DailyCreate

by @JasmineAlanis2

| dailycreate, ds106, Syndicated
January 25, 2019

My first #dailycreate challenge was to explain something technical with animals. I was really excited about this challenge because I had an arsenal of cute puppy pictures on hand. Featured in my first daily create tweet is Ella! I made the image below by using Canva. I really enjoy creating images on Canva, it is
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Weekly Summary 1

by @JasmineAlanis2

| # weeklyassignments, ds101, secretagent106thoughts, Syndicated, WeeklySummary
January 18, 2019

For my first week, I set up a few accounts (listed below). Before this class, I had never signed up for SoundCloud. I have never worked with SoundCloud before, but I did have other classmates complete projects with it, and their results were impressive for first time users. I also created a separate Instagram, but … Continue reading "Weekly Summary 1"
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Alanis 007

by @JasmineAlanis2

| ds106, secretagent106thoughts, Syndicated
January 18, 2019

My name is Jasmine Alanis. I am a senior at the University of Mary Washington. This is my last semester! I am majoring in Marketing and minoring in Digital Studies. I am so incredibly excited to take this course, I have been trying to take this course for a year but my schedule never allowed […]
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