I’ll be honest, this class had its ups and downs for me. I know I missed one week due to being injured, and then skipped a week due to workload, but the rest was a mixed bag. I of course loved the first period of the class that was writing, and the radioshow was a … Continue reading End of Year Reflection

So, let’s talk about this Choose Your Own Adventure I made. It was honestly a fair bit of work. While true, a lot of it was simple if/else statements or case statements, you do not realize how much bigger things get when there’s alternative paths. Just the first split lead to significant challenges, and trying … Continue reading Miner’s Misfortune

Whoo, so the final project is DONE.   So to run my little story, you will have to go through a couple of steps, but don’t worry! They’re pretty simple. Go to this website here and download the option that says Netbeans Platform SDK, this is an Integrated Development Environment that lets you run and edit … Continue reading Miner’s Misfortune How To

So for the final project, I decided I want to make a program to tell the story! I don’t know if a program would necessarily count as a format all its own, but I do know how to make a program have images popup, and I believe (though I’ve not looked into it) that having … Continue reading Week 14 progress: Code!

Remixes were pretty fun to do, getting to indulge all of my dumb nerdy passtimes and go rewatch/relisten to loved videos and songs was great, from the Warlords of Draenor intro trailer to change the pretty epic line “We will never be slaves…But we will be CONQUERORS” to sandwiches was fun, taking star wars and … Continue reading Week in review 12

Tells of Mr, Crawlston have circulated through the West for generations, becoming its own corner of paranormal/pop culture storytelling that people love to use again…and again…and again…ad nauseum thinking they’re being edgy and clever. It is no different with the British upstart band “Black Sabbath”, a bunch of dour, talentless hacks that think that basing … Continue reading A dreadful album for a dreadful legend.

Everyone is excited for the big Marvel Cinematic Universe take on the events of Civil War, but the DC Cinematic Universe was feeling a bit left out once it realized its big showdown only contained three heroes in it, so Superman jumped universe to join in on the fun. Somewhere along the way he must … Continue reading Civil War, Crossover Edition

Grom Hellscream and Heavy Weapons Guy team up to bring a moving speech Taken from the World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor intro cinematic and from the Heavy’s list of Team Fortress 2 voicelines and merged in audacity

“It is the only way.” “Let me in.” “Together we will bring balance to the force.” “It is for the greater good.” “You must simply…Bring me the seeds.” And with that, Anakin finally gave in, he gave in to all his darkest thoughts and desires in his quest to save Padme. In that moment, Anakin … Continue reading Bringing balance

Looks like everyone in Red Rock will be wanting to stay in doors for the near future! Bad weather’s coming to town, probably won’t stop Crawlston though.

Whelp, hadn’t thought about anything all week, then a mate of mine texts me about a video assignment he did for the week and it hit me like a tonne of bricks, I’ve done nothing for the class this week! So I’ve now raced back home to do what I can before leaving out again … Continue reading Week 11 in review: Ya dun’ goofed again.

A message delivered with a heavy heart to a Mr. Crawlston, telling him of the fate that may await him I used an english-to-morse translation website for this and just put it in over top an image of a man standing over a coffin, to give it the appropriate tone then put the morse on … Continue reading Morose Morse

What? How odd, a tombstone with Crawlston on it, and his first name’s initial…   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKFtqoIqYv8&feature=youtu.be   Just made a quick papercraft prop of a tombstone, simple and easy to make, all you have to do is download a template from a website, print it, cut it out, and follow the folding lines with some … Continue reading A papercraft clue

Not sure what to say this week, video assignments weren’t too bad, I liked reading some of the articles on cinematography and Every Frame A Painting seems like a cool youtube channel, but when I found myself trying to actually decide what type of shot something was, I honestly couldn’t, I guess I’m not cut … Continue reading Week 10 in review

I’ll leave my video to do most of the talking this time. I had to upload it to youtube first, it was too big to straight embed.  

First off, before I go any further here, I have to give a shout out to The Backwater Gospel animated short on youtube. I had seen the video a couple of years ago, but forgot about it until I was trying to figure out something to use for a movie trailer for this assignment. When … Continue reading The Backwater Gospel Movie Trailer

Saw this assignment and thought it seemed pretty fun, so I chose Gaelic Storm’s Johnny tarr. I doubt many people listen to this type of music, but its great! So I just had some fun and sung along to it! When I edited the song into the video, it ended up perfectly fitting on top … Continue reading Singing fun

It’s really hard to create a video when your best recording devices is a tie up between your phone and your laptop’s webcam. At first I considered trying to do a slideshow of stages of painting a model for this project, but after taking the first couple pictures while painting, I realized they were hardly better, so … Continue reading My ‘exciting’ hobby, painting miniatures.

I got to do some writing this week again! Whoo, it was fairly fun, though I’ll be honest I was kind of disappointed at the lack of writing assignments for characters. I hope it was alright that I twisted some of the writing assignments to be usable in the context of our characters, especially in … Continue reading Week 9 in review

Going off my previous post, here’s a haiku to build on The Wild Seven a tiny bit, from the point of view of Crawlston In The Wild Seven Waiting for a grand battle Then, my rewards come

The Seven Character Story Treatment assignment seemed perfect for using the class’s various characters. Classic teamup movies where wildly different characters must form a cohesive whole is also such a common trope, so this just seemed too perfect to pass up.     The job was impossible, steal the entire wealth of the Quinada gang … Continue reading The Wild Seven

So foreword here to explain, this story is going to be for the assignment “Different Point Of View – Same Place”. Which says to write out a movie scene from a different character’s point of view. Well since we need to do have our characters intersect with other characters, I thought this would be cool to … Continue reading Space Reclamation

So it was nice having it easy for the past two weeks, the radioshow ended up being fun to do with others and while it did take up a fair bit of time during Spring break, it still left plenty of time to relax. I didone of the dailycreates around the same time which left me … Continue reading Week in Review 8

The Tombcast Radioshow with Mason, Josh, and myself is complete! I had my worries about having enough content for the entire block, and was sort of dreading it at first, but once we got down to the actual recording of it, it was fairly fun to just talk about our characters and what inspired them. … Continue reading It…Is…Done!

So last week was a tough week. Breaking my leg on Wednesday kind of overwhelmed all other school work I was doing and Week 6 ended up getting literally nothing except a single daily create on tuesday, but I’m back now, and with all of week 7 nicely completed! I’ve gotten more comfortable with Audacity … Continue reading Week 7 in review

  So most of this song is pretty understandable, but there were three parts that got me for a long time while listening to this, “made damn sure that Pilate washed his hands, sealed his fate” I always heard “Pilate” as “pilot”, “When the blitzkrieg raged and the bodies stank” I always heard as “and … Continue reading Poor singing of The Rolling Stones Sympathy For The Devil

Tombcast Radio is coming to a station near you! Featuring Mason, James and Josh, this half hour block about DS106 and the West will be a knock-your-hat-off good time! We will be conversing, sharing jokes, facts, and anecdotes for the entire block with sound effects. Get ready!   So the poster for the Tombcast was … Continue reading Come listen to Tombcast Radio!

So we’re going to have to make a radioshow soon, and I think I’ve got a pretty good start on it. I’m pretty happy with the first commercial I made, and hopefully I can expand on my Mortician’s story to make it something worthy of the radioshow timeblock. I also made a poster for the … Continue reading Radioshow prep

Used Audacity alongside a script to make a radio commercial themed for the old west for saddles. I took Aerosmith’s “Back In The Saddle” and using Audacity looped the intro until the very end of the commercial at which point I added the fitting vocals from the song.

  Pretty quick and easy, I created a short script and went through it. I tried my best to have different accents, but after several tapings I still realize that both characters sound similar. I took several sounds from freesound.org to help fill it out more and mixed them together via audacity. It s a … Continue reading A Friendly Talk With The Sheriff Starring Mr. Crawlston