“Tonight’s a special night. Marv, why don’tchya git a chicken fer supper?” Uncle Clyde leaned back in his chair, muttering between sips of gin. Marvin, a scrawny boy of approximately 5 feet 7 inches, stared blankly out the backdoor. He… Continue Reading →

The Valentine design assignment asks us to Create you very own Valentines Day cards. Go ahead and make a funny spoof valentine that would make people laugh! Use at least one image and modify it in some way to create a cool effect. Afterwards, go ahead and send that baby out to people who would … Continue reading An Unusual Valentine

I was inspired by the Time of Day visual assignment to make this piece for my story. embed To make it, I first took several pictures from my window, just like the protagonist of my story painted. Then I applied a filter to make the photos look like paintings.

I combined the audio assignments Sound Effects and Poetry Reading, which respectively say: This is a short and simple assignment. Most everyone uses freesound for various audio assignments, but sometimes, you cannot find quite what you are looking for. This assignment is to upload your own sound or sound effect to freesound, preferably something which is lacking. and: Poetry … Continue reading Soundtrack of the Mind

The most useful piece of media in my story would have to be the poster I made based on the Design Assignment Vintage-ify A Place. Its pretty interesting to begin with. Richmond Outside and Firefly Design, Inc. teamed up to create vintage-like prints of some favorite spots along the James in Richmond, VA.  Based on the … Continue reading A Slightly Ingenious Way of Exposing the Setting

Using Vincent Van Gogh’s famous painting The Starry Night, I did the visual assignment Adapt an Artist’s Work for my final project story. The assignment asks us to: Adapt a famous artist’s work to change or reinforce its possible message. Here’s what I did: I incorporated it partly because I couldn’t photograph the moon in the right phase on such … Continue reading A Little Slice of the Starry Night

I decided to incorporate video into my story by doing the Your Dream As A Movie Trailer video assignment, but from the perspective of my protagonist instead of myself. Once again, it serves an expository purpose in the story, providing background information without adding any more to the word count and what feels like an excess of explaining things. … Continue reading Mermaid-Marine Biologist

So maybe my word count ballooned out-of-control, in part because I wanted to make sure to thoroughly develop a conflict. So I was inspired by the 1 Second Video assignment to finish off my story quick, wordless way that would leave the future vague but the conclusion clear. Its a little longer than one second, but operates … Continue reading A Concise Ending to a Long-Winded Tale

Although its not technically part of my narrative, I added on one more assignment in the design category. Its called Book Artist, and as per the name it asks you to: Re-design your favorite book cover!   In GIMP/Photoshop/any image editor of your choosing, create a new book cover for your favorite story! Imagine that … Continue reading To Read More: My Clever Little Add On

After waiting, and waiting, and waiting, the sun finally started to set. I’d been watching out the window all day, painting the sky as it shifted gently between colors and light. time of day I was waiting for the moon to rise. That day, I knew it would be a small yellow crescent if it … Continue reading Aquatic Nocturne: The Beginning of a Quest

Well, this course has finally come to an end. Some much time and effort was put into this class in assignments, daily creates, and various readings or videos. We were given such an extensive list of resources for every topic we covered and could go in depth as we wanted to. I learned so much […]

To start off I want to go into more detail about my final project and the pieces that put it together. I chose 5 assignments out of the assignment bank to weave together and create a story. Visual Assignments: My final story contained 2 visual assignments. The first one I create was the picture of […]

There are many different stages in life that can cause so many emotions all at once. Emotions like stress, happiness, sadness, nervousness, joy, enthusiasm, or anger. You can’t choose to feel all of these emotions but you can choose which ones you let affect you. That’s what she decided to do. It was her senior […]

DS106 is over and this is my final summary. I will start off by sharing my final project and each tutorial I did for the six parts of my final project which were visual, audio, GIF, video, audio and video. The total assignment difficulty was 24.5 stars. The final project and the tutorials: DS106 Final […]

The assignment was Alternate Ending worth 5 stars. This was the hardest part of my final project for two reasons: I was shooting with inanimate objects by myself and it was hot as heck outside when filming. The original scene I picked was from Terminator 2 and it can be seen below. Watch up to 2:20 […]

The assignment was Soundboard Conversation worth 4.5 stars. This was a blast because I got my Ewok to call Arnold Schwarzenegger!! I rehearsed what I was going to say about 7-8 times and used the soundboard found here: http://www.ebaumsworld.com/soundboards/arnold-schwarzenegger-soundboard-4/1879/. It has most of Arnold’s most important sayings. I just kept clicking away until I got a […]

Digital Storytelling has been a challenging yet enjoyable class. When I first started, I was extremely nervous because I did not really know what to expect. Getting my foot into this realm was honestly the most challenging part of the class for me and the most time-comsuming. However, I dredged through the tough parts and […]

The assignment was Character description worth 4.5 stars. I then went random and said whatever came to mind. This little Ewok has been in quite a few movies and I needed his dialogue to be all over the place to stay in character. I had a general idea of topics to hit but wanted things to […]

The assignment was Subtitle a GIF worth 4 stars. I took a short video of Yub the Ewok with my Sony Camcorder jumping and then added the video to Windows Movie Maker. I then clicked the caption button (under home) to add my subtitle. The text tools you see here allow you to change your font, the text […]

Finally, the part I’ve been waiting for! This week was by far the best of Digital Storytelling: we got to actually tell a digital story. I spent a couple days just brainstorming and evaluating all the ideas I had before I came up with my final story. I entitled it “Aquatic Nocturne” for the Sylvia … Continue reading The Story Behind My Story: Week 5 Weekly Summary

The assignment was Create your theme song worth 4.5 stars. I love recording music with good old CoolEdit96. So old but easy and free. I started off recording the two guitar parts first. I used a Les Paul guitar and for effects a Bose Metal Zone pedal. Here are both guitar parts. I then used a […]

The assignment was Create-a-silly-movie-poster. I created this assignment as there was nothing that matched what I needed for my final project in regards to a movie poster. I rated it as a two star difficulty. This is the original: (from http://keyartdesigns.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/the-terminator-movie-poster-1020189580.jpg). I cropped the photo in paint and hand wrote in the words. I wanted […]

The full assignment is linked and listed in its entirety below: This is a short and simple assignment. Most everyone uses freesound for various audio assignments, but sometimes, you cannot find quite what you are looking for. This assignment is to upload your own sound or sound effect to freesound, preferably something which is lacking. This assignment […]

The full assignment is linked and listed in its entirety below: Where is somewhere that you have always dreamed of going? I really like travelling, and I often think about where I would go if I had all the money in the world. Do a video montage of images and/or video of the places that you would […]

The full assignment is linked and listed in its entirety below: Take ten steps in any direction and with each step take one photo. Think about angles and lighting to create interesting photographs. Don’t forget the Rule of Thirds! Create a collage in a photo editor. This assignment is worth 3 stars. The first step in this […]

I would like to summarize what I learned this week. For my reflection on the entire course, please click here or follow the link towards the end of this page. This week was a challenge for me. Throughout the course I had difficulty with storytelling behind the visual, design, audio or video assignments I completed. … Continue reading I Did it My Way

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I must confess that at first I was not at all comfortable with the course material as from the first week I got the impression that the whole course was about designing blogs and websites. I am not such a great programmers at this stage so the idea of writing a huge amount of code … Continue reading Digital Storytelling and Me

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Please click here for assignment page Assignment Stars: 4.2 I chose this assignment because it served my need for the poster I wanted to have on my story. I took several pictures of different dinosaur toys. For this assignment I knew that I have use the magic wand tool in the Photoshop that is helps … Continue reading How to Design a Story Poster with Adobe Photoshop

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For this Visual Assignment, the objective is to create a collage of your favorite vacation pictures or destinations. The assignment is worth 3 stars. To create this collage, I used the website Be Funky.  Once you get to the website, click “create collage” at the top of the page. Upload you photos by clicking the “computer” button on […]

Please click here for the assignment page  Assignment stars: 4.5 One part of my story was to add an interactive video to it. I creating a video in which a dinosaur is thinking about the thirsty crow story. It was a bit challenging to find a specific tool in any photo editing software that will … Continue reading How to add a video into the thinking box or a callout of an image

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