I love the movie Pitch Perfect, and I knew I wouldn’t mind listening to the soundtrack over and over, so I decided to transform it into a radio show for the Movie as Radio audio assignment worth 3 stars. In order to do this assignment I downloaded a few clips from the movie and almost all […]

I did the assignment The Ultimate Merger, worth 3.5 stars. I wanted to make this Wire related since Proposition Joe and Stringer Bell are in a deal with each other now. So what I came up with is a “package” logo, featuring both of them. I found a package icon on The Noun Project, and I […]

I did the Design Assignment Truthful Movie Poster, which is worth 3 stars. In order to make this poster I took the Friends With Benefits poster and cut it out on top of a still from No Strings Attached using Pixlr. I used the magic wand tool to eliminate the background of the Friends With Benefits poster and then simply moved Justin and […]

TDC 999: Trace Yourself!

For the Design Blitz assignment, I found examples of balance, symbolism, unity, and typography either on campus or in my apartment. Balance In this picture, balance is displayed quite literally. The playing cards are balancing on each other to stay up in their triangular formation. Looking at the playing cards, you can also see that […]

I really wanted to try to make an infographic of some kind, so I decided to do the Learning By Design assignment worth 3.5 stars. Since I am not very good at drawing, I googled different infographic maker sites that let you make infographics for free. I came across Piktochart and really liked the different icons and […]

I chose to do one of the recommended assignments which is One Story / Four Icons, worth 2.5 stars. I knew I wanted to do my icons based on The Wire Season 2, Episode 9: Stray Rounds since I thought there were some iconic objects in that episode. I used Pixlr to put together my icon story […]

TDC997 Water and Glass Moving, with a touch of purple light.

I love minimalistic designs for basically everything. From posters, to jewelry, minimalism is just really cool to me, so naturally I was drawn to the assignment, Minimalist TV/Movie Poster which is worth 3.5 stars. This assignment presented the perfect opportunity to make my design Wire related and that is exactly what I did. I made my poster […]

Assignments Total: 16 stars Total Wire related: 9.5 stars 1. Minimalist TV/Movie Poster, 3.5 stars: Minimalism Takes Detail 2. One Story / Four Icons, 2.5 stars: A Bag, A Duck, A Purse, and A Barrel… 3. Learning By Design, 3.5 stars: Upcycling v. Recycling v. Downcycling 4. Truthful Movie Poster, 3 stars: 2011: The Year of Friends With Benefits Movies 5. The Ultimate Merger, 3.5 stars: PJ […]

For 9/25/14’s TDC, we had to play the radio station 106 in our area and record what was playing. Here’s my compilation of all the 106 channels in Fredericksburg. I recorded it straight to SoundCloud.

  I started the assignment 4 Lines, 5 Dots, 1 Curve (worth 4 stars), thinking it would be really difficult to think of something to make with those limitations, but then it came to me…ice cream! I’ll admit I could have been a little more creative with this assignment, but I did want to make something recognizable. […]

I did the visual assignment “Photo It Like Peanut Butter,” which is worth 3 stars. To do this assignment, I checked out a DSLR camera from DTLT (just to experiment with) and I set it to “continuous shot” mode that way I would be able to kind of recreate the process the process of getting […]

Photoblitz! I had 20 minutes to take all of the pictures in the instructions. My instructions: Let’s go!!

Photoblitz Blog post: The Speedy Photography Assignments Total= 12 stars 1. Multiply Yourself: 5 stars Blog Post: How I Procrastinate 2. Photo It Like Peanut Butter: 3 stars Blog Post: Brewing Passion Ice Tea 3. 4 Lines, 5 Dots, 1 Curve: 4 stars Blog Post: Minimalistic Ice Cream   Daily Creates 9/23/14: Make an un-cropped road sign Blog Post: […]

I did the Visual Assignment “Multiply Yourself,” worth 5 stars. How I did this was I simply put my camera on our dining table, set the timer to ten seconds, and took siz different pictures of myself doing different things in the living room. I did not move the camera at all, and made sure […]

9/23/14 TDC: Make an un-cropped road sign I chose to show the real cause of the falling rocks in the falling rocks sign. Credits: 1. Warning Sign – Falling rocks by Kingroyos, February 26, 2013 2. Man Push clip art from ClipArtBest.com

9/22/14 TDC: Show us your favourite song in a picture. One of my favorite songs is “Silhouettes” by Colony House. I took this picture over by Trent Hill, making sure to capture the sunlight, the well lit part of the leaf, and the silhouette of the leaf. I used Pixlr to crop the photo and […]

When brainstorming ideas for a radio show that relates to The Wire the first thing that came to mind was to treat the show The Wire as if it were a reality tv show (so the events are actually happening) and have the different characters be guests on a radio show in the real world. For example, the […]

Reflection on the Jennifer Ralston interview I’m not surprised that sound is under appreciated since I feel like most people who are interested in media production gravitate towards the screenwriting, directing, cinematography or acting aspects of it. One of my best friends at GMU is a screen writer and his really good friend and peer is […]

TDC985: Show us what you do/did with a pet you love. So a few weekends ago, my 2 dogs, Angel and Indy finally got to see the UMW campus after 3 years. It was absolutely wonderful to get to see them run around on Ball Circle and to show them the Amphith...

Freesound I made a Freesound account! Live Tweeting On Wednesday night I listened to Season 2 Episode 3 of The Wire on DS106 Radio and live tweeted it.  Reflection to lecture Here is my reflection post to the Jennifer Ralston interview: Sound is Under Appreciated Assignments Here are the three assignments I completed this week […]

Very short bumper created for the audio assignment, “Create a DS106 Radio Bumper.” I first found the kind of sound I wanted on SoundCloud by searching for Creative Commons EDM mixes and then clicking around in songs to find their buildups. There’s ALWAYS buildups in EDM. Then I headed over to Freesound and search for […]

9/18/14 Daily Create: Create your sorted books self-portrait This is an accurate self portrait of myself through the books I have here in my apartment. I don’t really read much for fun. However, when I do, I commit myself to the series, as you can see here, I am on the 2nd book in the […]

The second audio assignment I chose to do was Sound Effects Story, which is 3.5 stars. For this assignment I had to tell a story using nothing but sound effects. I could not use verbal communication, and I had to use at least five different sounds that I found online. Lastly, the story could not be longer than 90 seconds. So… Read more →

I did the assignment called “Reverse Audio Quiz” which is a 3.5 star assignment. To reverse my audio track, I downloaded Audacity, imported the original version of the track, and added the “Reverse” effect. That reversed my track. It was very simple. However, it did take me some time to figure out which song I wanted to reverse since I… Read more →

What is the “digital” in Digital Storytelling?   It is definitely not just the fact that the storytelling is taking place on the Internet. After reading Bryan Alexander‘s “Web 2.0 Storytelling” chapter from his book The New Digital Storytelling, I came to the conclusion that digital storytelling is similar to “analog” epistolary novels. Epistolary novels are novels that are written… Read more →

9/12/14 Daily Create: Make a themed video montage. Read more →

In the Visual assignment category, I chose to do the Colorize It assignment. I took a photo I had previously taken, and adjusted the colors in the picture. To change the colors of the pictures, I opened my original image into Pixlr and used the Magic Wand tool to select the flower, the leafy background, the middle of the flower, and… Read more →