This post wraps up my work in ds106 for week seven! The main assignment this week was of course the radio show. My group’s radio show is called “Noir Not The Father” and it is quite a production! It takes the form of a Maury-style talk show and involves the characters of all of my… Read More

After two weeks of hard work, my group’s radio show “Noir Not The Father” is done; courtesy of myself, Cuyler Matteson, Mia Boleis, Kelsey Roach, and Philip Dorch. Last week I explained how we had formed our group, come up with the concept for our show (a Maury style talk show), and outlined what we… Read More

This week I completed three daily creates. All of them were photos that I uploaded to Flickr. Let’s take a look! The instructions for the first daily create I did were to imagine that the ds in ds106 stood for “deep space”, and to create what I thought the deep space 106 space station would… Read More

This post wraps up my work for week 6 of ds106! This week I did a lot of work with my group for our radio show, completed more audio assignments, participated in another ds106 radio listen-along, and commented on the work of a lot of my peers. How about the details then? 1. Radio Show… Read More

This week I began work on my radio show with my group. We had our first group meeting on Wednesday, where I met Mia Boleis, Kelsey Roach, and Cuyler Matteson. Mia and Kelsey already had an idea of the type and content of the show that we could do- they were very prepared. We have… Read More

With our radio show project coming up soon, I have created a promotional poster for our show, Noir Not The Father! Since our show is a Maury-style talk show, I found a great photo depicting a crowd reaction from a similar show. The photo is actually taken from the Jerry Springer Show, which is very… Read More

The last assignment I did this week was called “Inflate your language”. It was worth 2.5 stars. Here is the assignment page. For this assignment, I used inflationary language to tell the story of how my character, Billy Steel, met his wife Jackie. Inflationary language is a style created by comedian Victor Borge in which… Read More

The second assignment I did this week was create and recite an original poem. This assignment was worth 3.5 stars. Here is the assignment page. I wrote my poem about my character, Billy “Saw” Steel. More specifically, it is about Steel’s home city, Detroit, and the neighborhood in which he lives. This is the first… Read More

The first assignment I did this week was called “Soundboard Conversation”. It was worth 4 stars. Here is the assignment page. For this assignment I had to create a conversation between myself and a movie/tv character using an online soundboard. I chose to have my conversation with Gus from my favorite tv show, Psych. I… Read More

This post concludes week five of ds106. I fell a bit short this week, and wasn’t able to complete all the assignments in time. Here’s what I did get done: 1. Watched a film. 2. Did daily creates. 3. Did 12+ stars of design assignments. 1, 2, 3, 4.

The last assignment I did this week was the noir/pulp book cover. This assignment was worth 3 stars, and its instructions can be found here. For my book cover, I again used my character, Billy “Saw” Steel, as inspiration. This book would detail his story, and how he lives a vigilante lifestyle in the tough… Read More

The next assignment I did this week was called Bumper Sticker. It was worth 3.5 stars and the assignment instructions can be found here. The bumper sticker that I made is for my character, Billy “Saw” Steel. Since Saw is a ruthless vigilante of sorts, I decided to use part of Ezekiel 25:17 from the… Read More

The second assignment I did was make a Professor Groom Poster! This assignment was worth 4.5 stars, and the assignment instructions can be found here. For this assignment I was supposed to make a tv show/movie poster featuring Groom’s face. I decided to make Groom the next 007, so I found a picture of Daniel… Read More

  The first assignment I did this week was called one story/four icons. It was worth 2.5 stars and the assignment page can be found here. The icons above represent a certain movie. The first icon is a camera. It is rather old fashioned, and has a big bulb that attaches to the top of… Read More

This week I did three daily creates. On Thursday I made a family tree using familyecho.com. I decided to do this digitally since I don’t have much faith in my artistic abilities. In my tree I included my immediate family: my parents and three brothers. On Saturday I got to play an internet arcade game… Read More

For the film design portion of noir106 this week I chose to watch The Big Lebowski. After watching, I can definitely say that was one of the weirdest movies I have ever seen. On a more specific note, it definitely wasn’t a prototypical noir film. However, it did contain many elements of theme and design that are… Read More

This concludes another week in ds106! Let’s take a look back at what I did this week. 1. Thought about audio storytelling The first thing I did this week was explore audio storytelling. I compared the original and the restored versions of “Touch of Evil” opening shot, and I explained why I thought the original… Read More

For my final assignment this week I created a fake 911 call. The reason? Netflix had run out of episodes of The Office! Take a listen.

This week I began thinking and brainstorming potential ideas for my upcoming radio show assignment. Nothing I am thinking about right now is final, but I do have some loosely developed ideas. I think it could be cool to do a noir-themed talk show. On this talk show we would have discussions and analysis of… Read More

This assignment required me to record myself whistling a song that was stuck in my head. See if you can guess what song it is!

My sound effect story is about the character I created a couple of weeks ago: Billy “Saw” Steel. Check it out! My short story begins with a young girl being tormented by a local gang. You hear the cruel gang members laughing at the pain they are putting her through, and then you hear the… Read More

Here is the radio bumper that I made for ds106 radio! For the background song I chose “Retrograde” by James Blake because it has kind of a haunting, eerie feel to it that I feel like fits well with noir. Then of course I have voice-over done by myself. Let me know what you guys… Read More

This week I did two daily creates. On Tuesday I made a picture with words on it, or a meme as it is commonly known, with the theme of “I’m sorry”. In light of the Superbowl being last Sunday, I decided to pick on Seattle Seahawks Cornerback Richard Sherman. Here’s my meme. The second daily… Read More

The first audio that I reflected on this week was the Touch of Evil opening shot. The restored version begins with theme music almost right off the bat, with a rhythmic drumming in the background. In the original shot, there is no extra audio at all in the beginning except for the street sounds. Then,… Read More

For this challenge I had to take 10 steps while taking one picture each step. I organized my pictures into a collage. Here it is! http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/10-step-photo-challenge/

The next visual assignment I did was a story map of my baseball trip that I took last summer with my dad and brother. It was a pretty sweet trip. Check it out! Unfortunately, the embed feature of storymap is malfunctioning, so all I can give you is the...

The first visual assignment I completed this week is called What’s in Your Bag? So here you go! http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/whats-in-your-bag/ The only bag I carry is my school backpack. This ^^ is everything that goes inside. First, I always have one or more binders in my backpack- each binder is for a different class. Then I… Read More

Dramatic use of distinct shadows Lighting from one side Off-kilter or unusual camera angle Sense of drama/moodiness Characters captured in a tableau suggesting an intense/fraught moment

Today I finished up another week of noir 106. This week I explored the photography and cinematography elements of noir, which was a nice change of pace from all the writing I did last week. I really enjoyed the process this week. Here’s a run-through of what I did this week. 1. Photoreflection The first… Read More

Killer’s Kiss Killer’s Kiss was chalk full of classic noir photography elements, but I’m going to hone in on the two seen in the stills above. The first is a great example of lighting from one side, as you see how menacing a character can look while holding a pistol in a dark warehouse. The second… Read More