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    How I Express Myself: A Final Project

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    For my final week’s project, I wanted to make it about something extremely meaningful to me. Yet at the same time, I also wanted it to be a way that I could showcase the abilities that I’ve acquired throughout this course. So, I decided to make my final week’s project …

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    Weekly Summary – Project Week

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    This week was really stressful. I started the week with my original idea, then scrapped it halfway through the week because I realized that it didn’t mean enough to me. That meant I had to start completely from scratch in the middle of the week. But at least it was …

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    Final Project

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    After many, many hours of photo, video, and audio editing, I have finally finished my final project.

    Let me preface this by explaining myself before you watch the video.

    Initially, my final project was supposed to be about something else because I quite literally took the instructions of our original …

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    Week Twelve Wrap Up! Yay!

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    Finally! An end to this week! I am so relieved!

    While I did have fun doing these assignments, they were also quite the handful this week…

    Let us begin!

    I started off with my Mashup Assignments, both totaling a whopping eight stars!

    My first Mashup assignment, named Photo Mash, …

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    Daily Creates! Week 12!

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    Time for my Daily Creates! Let me show you what I got done this week…

    For starters, I had to respond to the prompt of “What are they looking at?”, which “they” was just a couple of old-timey-looking dudes. While a bunch of people came up with great ideas, I …

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    Favorite Movie Quote [REMIXED]: Uncle Bob

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    This assignment states “Choose one of your favorite movie quotes and insert the quote over an image from the movie you chose.” As for the remix, I got an “Uncle Bob” Remix Card that states “Introduce an unexpected character into the assignment, someone as strange or unexpected as your Uncle …

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    Tattoo That Describes You [Remixed]: Yo Mama

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    This assignment states: “Create a tattoo that can represent your personality type. Tell us about your tattooo, and what does it means to you. If there is any thing supersticious about your tattoo, share it with us. You can hand design your own unique tattoo on a plane paper, or …

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    Photo Mash

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    This four-star assignment states “Take 2 actors and mash them together into one photo. You can use Photoshop or Pixlr to do this. Make sure that they look like they belong in their setting and they look like they were actually together when the photo was taken (the colors match, …

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    Holiday Mashup

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    This four-star Mashup Assignment states “We all have favorite holidays, but sometimes it’s hard to pick just one! For this assignment, use a photo editing software like Pixlr or Photoshop to mashup your top THREE favorite holidays/cultural celebrations. Use whatever elements you would like from each holiday, creating a character …

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    Today it’s All About Me

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    This two-and-a-half star assignment was actually one of my favorite video assignments that I had to complete.

    The instructions read: “Make a video and brag about yourself for at least two minutes. The point of this is not to make your head so big that it explodes but to build …

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    This is My Story

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    For this four-star assignment, I really had to think of a good story to make this entertaining.

    The instructions read: “Tell a short story using flashcard and record yourself. It can be something funny, sad, or just even express how your day was.”

    I decided to make a short story …

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    Daily Creates

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    This week I did three Daily Creates!

    For my first Daily Create, I had to come up with a storyline for the set of images that was provided to me. Let me show you the image:

    Today was a bad day. The cheese on my pizza fell off the slice …

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    Where Do You Want To Go??

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    This four-star assignment was really exciting for me to complete!

    The instructions state: “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 …

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    Week 10 Wrap Up!

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    Finally! And end to this week’s work! Let’s begin.

    For my Daily Creates, I did two different and fun ones! I got to one where I came up with a fun IKEA furniture idea, and another one where I had to come up with ideas for the new DS106 …

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    Video Essay

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    I decided to make my video essay on one of the most famous scenes in “The Room”.

    As much as I love this movie, there are a LOT of flaws in the filming. This was more of a criticism rather than an appreciation, but there WERE some good techniques used …

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    The Imposter

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    For this five-star assignment, called “Have a Conversation With Yourself”, I had to have a conversation with myself! “Film yourself talking, then change clothes, hair styles, etc and then film the other half of the convo. Edit this in any movie editor program. To overlap the two scenes so that …

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    Project Ideas Update

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    So for this assignment, I have to take two other project ideas that other people have come up with and sort of build on those ideas. Expand on them. Make them different, better, worse, who knows! It’s all subjective. But let me tell you what I came up with.

    In …

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    Week 9 Wrap Up!

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    This week was also rather hectic.. Stressful, even.. Extremely stressful, actually. But alas, I still got my work done! And on time! I did things well, and I did them proudly!

    So, let me show you what I did!

    I watched a couple of good radio shows while I did …

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    DS106 Rework

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    For this assignment, I had to pick two assignments of my choice and basically “rework” them. I figured that it would be a good idea to choose two assignments in an area where I thought I needed a lot of improvement: design!

    I’m not perfect at graphic design yet, as …

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    Radio Listen

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    I got the opportunity to listen to some of other people’s radio shows this week, and they were really awesome! It was great, getting to hear what other people were able to come up with. I mean, I knew that the radio shows were going to be cool, but I …

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    A Prisoner’s Story

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    This story is about one of the world’s worst prisoners, told through a series of Daily Creates.

    John Appleseed was a terrible person. A very bad, no good, awful man. What was his crime, you ask? Being an awful basketball player! You see, John was among the greatest basketball players …

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    Project Ideas

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    So, for my final project, I sort of made an outline of what a good story idea could be. I decided I wanted to make a story about what would happen if one of the world’s most evil political figures decided to accidentally come back to life in the present …

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    Finally, it’s Over! (A Week 9 Summary)

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    This week was excruciating. It still is.

    I had to start all of my work over from scratch after frying my computer in a completely different country, days before Spring Break started. Yeah. I nearly lost my mind.

    Scratch that, I did lose my mind.

    But, it’s fine… I hope.. …

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    Radio Show Progress

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    These couple weeks have been undoubtedly the hardest weeks to get work done.

    Nevertheless, I continued on.

    I worked with my two other group members, Olivia and Hailey, to make our rather impressive radio show. We planned out the entire thing before Spring Break, and successfully had a plan down …

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    Tongue Twister

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    For this Audio Assignment, we had to say a tongue twister as fast as we possibly could and then add some nice background music to it.

    Well, that’s mostly what I did. See, as we speak, I am currently about to board a 16 hour flight. I wasn’t about to …

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    Week 6 Wrap Up!

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    Well, well, well…. This week was rather interesting! I had fun!

    Let’s begin with my Design Assignments!

    For my first Design Assignment, I decided to go with The Vogue Challenge! Basically, you had to take a nice vogue-worthy photo of yourself and make it look like you were on …

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