That final project was the most enjoyable thing I’ve done in a long time. I have always had idea’s for stories to tell or plots to weave and traditionally I would either start writing them down with the hope that I would one day finish them and they would just go unfinished or I would...

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Lets take a walk through all the pieces of my final story. Missing Person – 3 1/2 stars: For part one I chose to make a missing person poster to set up what this story was going to be about. To do this I had to come up with all the information for my character....

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My name is Gareth, I am a Warlock of the Praxic Order. This log is for the records because I doubt anyone else would care. A missing guardian. Or rather, another missing guardian, because it’s not like a Hunter going missing was anything new. They are constantly going out and getting well over their heads. But...

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Man, This week was not a good week for me. I wasn’t able to start anything for any assignment until Sunday afternoon and thus I didn’t actually get anything done. I took a look at the two analysis assignments we had to do for the week and was able to get those done. I actually...

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The scene starts with the crew in the background of the shot as they move towards the camera and start moving from left to right,both of these changes are in the positive direction. This is meant to set up the scene as a good thing they are moving towards. Once they are in the shop...

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I’m not a great artist, but even I think that is a decent dog head. My artistic ability clearly isn’t enough for fotogenerator.   I'm no veterinarian but that is definitely not a dog. #ds106 #tdc1987 pic.twitter.com/o4OLCvFkRz — Andrew (@Andrew21663620) June 18, 2017

Reading through Roger Eberts “How to Read a Movie” showed me there are multiple components to a movie that are used and seen that are not always conscience patterns. In his explanation of what it means to read a movie he analyzes a scene from the movie Notorious from 1946. In this scene he highlights...

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To not do whatever it is they are doing.   Two men discover the secret to a long life. #ds106 #tdc1986 pic.twitter.com/RoXT7FvefN — Andrew (@Andrew21663620) June 18, 2017 This one kinda got away from me. I ran through a few headline ideas before this one. But once I had this one I knew exactly where...

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It’s a joke. Cause the gif is from the show Community. Get it? Troy can’t handle it. #ds106 #tdc1984 pic.twitter.com/v07U0vaMHO — Andrew (@Andrew21663620) June 16, 2017 Okay.. I’ll just see myself out.

Have you ever just stared off into space blankly thinking, “I feel like I’ve forgotten something…?” I usually remember what it was…about 10 minutes too late.   TFW you can’t remember if there’s something you’ve forgotten #ds106 #tdc1982 pic.twitter.com/EfhbwqZK4F — Andrew (@Andrew21663620) June 14, 2017

This week was quite the challenge. I had never done any editing on audio or video like that and was woefully unprepared for the difficulty and time it takes to do audio editing. I had editing my sound effect story once and had prepared to upload it but thought I’d check it first. Good thing...

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For this 4.5 star assignment, I had to create a mixtape of songs. I chose to do this for our hero from the sound effect story. His music needed to be epic, telling that he is a hero worthy of being known. What had he done to earn his fame? Slayed monsters, saved princesses, or...

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For this 4.5 star assignment, where I had to take a speech and a song an put them together, I chose to take Dwight D. Eisenhower’s D-Day speech from 1944 and match it up with a song from the band Two Steps from Hell. I felt that the speech and state of the world at...

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When the town is attacked, when the villagers are terrified, someone has to step up and go face these bandits. Save the town. I’ve always loved the classic tales of evil doers and the heroes that step up and become legends by doing great and heroic deeds. Typical D&D stuff. The kind of thing you’d...

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Audio storytelling is something that I thought I had some knowledge of but, listening to the stories I realized that my experience with audio storytelling was simply stories that were told via audio podcast. There wasn’t really any storytelling to it. Listening to Jonathan Mitchell’s podcast Moon Graffiti I realized that to truly tell a story...

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The fallacy of tu quoque stood out to me as the grown up, politics version of “I know you are but what am I?” and I just had to make an image for that. I thought, what better to demonstrate that point than a cat and a dog.   Tu quoque – politics version of...

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Whenever I think of audio as a media form I usually only think of radio. But that’s not the only form of audio media, other things like podcasts have taken over as a significant portion of the audio medium. Ira Glass introduces the basics of storytelling and talks about how the stories are built and how...

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Looking for this song about peace took longer than it should have. My tastes in music tend to not include songs that would be about peace.   A little kindness and humbleness couldn’t hurt either. #ds106 #tdc1979 https://t.co/9zT7XAjDX2 — Andrew (@Andrew21663620) June 11, 2017

Man, if only I could have a watch that was filled with a latte. Who needs a smart watch… actually, I do. A smart watch that makes latte’s! That’s the dream.   I call it the walatte! The watch-latte. #ds106 #tdc1976 pic.twitter.com/GOMQ8uYx6o — Andrew (@Andrew21663620) June 7, 2017

I actually had no clue what this was from. I’ve always seen it around but never watched it. I guess I should do that at some point.   I hope Hulka would be proud. #ds106 #tdc1975 pic.twitter.com/ZNKT2mPrDM — Andrew (@Andrew21663620) June 6, 2017

This week I think went better than last week. I feel that I was better prepared for the assignments and I knew more of what I was doing in regards of the actual blogging. This weeks main focus was on the design of things and I feel that I was better at the design of...

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Let us take a look at some designs of ads. While all ads are designed for the same purpose, to sell their product, not all ads go about this endeavour in the same way. Some use the concepts of comparing their product to another, others like to be very minimal in their design because they...

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Reading through Vignelli’s Canon showed me a good bit more than I had originally thought about when it came to what goes into design. Usually when I think about design I only think about the basic concepts of color, shape, size, and wording, when Vignelli describes all the concepts of design in concise detail I...

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I wasn’t really sure what I wanted to do for this one so I just went simple with it. Sometimes you just have to keep it simple, or take a walk, just feel the ground beneath you.   Feeling the grass between my toes. #ds106 #tdc1973 pic.twitter.com/Gdaja01VIG — Andrew (@Andrew21663620) June 4, 2017

I have always found motivational posters, or more often seen, demotivational posters as a really entertaining form of media. For this assignment worth three stars I had to design a motivational poster around an image. So I chose an image based on something that happened in the last session of D&D that I played. My...

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For my second animated gif assignment, I chose to make a gif of someone celebrating too early. I could only think of sports things for celebrating too early so I went over to Youtube to search for some sports players failing at the last moments, and I found this video of some early celebrations. I...

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For the mandatory design assignment we had to take an image that we have and change it to be something else. The original image is of me and my brother during Christmas many years ago. The image I used to change it is of snow covered mountains. The reason I did it this way is because...

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For one of my animated gif assignments I chose to do the three star assignment, where you combine a gif of Clint Eastwood with another to make something funny. I combined the Eastwood gif with a gif of Ryan Haywood from Achievement Hunter. The gif of Ryan always makes me laugh. It’s apparently making fun of...

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I chose to do the four star design assignment to edit a game cover to make it more honest. I chose this assignment because of my love for games and the amusement I get out of seeing funny images and fails from games. This I my attempt at being funny. May I introduce the honest...

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For this design assignment, worth three stars, the goal is to make a postcard for a destination. And here is my postcard. Welcome to the beautiful state of Alaska. I chose to do a postcard for Alaska because it is one of my favorite places that I’ve been. I loved the open spaces and cool...

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