The final week in this class is done and I am filled with mixed emotions. On one hand I am happy that the stress of online school is drawing to an end for now but sad that this class and it’s assignments are over. I have enjoyed the aspect of …
Below are journal entries from Emily and I about how we have been feeling since being in quarantine:
Next, this is a video of what a day in the life of Emily and I is like during this pandemic:
When looking into how the world was taking this pandemic, we …
We are so close to being done! This project seems like it is going to be super fun and give me something creative to do during this time or boredom. For this project I am working with a partner, Emily Howard. We both shared an interest in using the current …
Very appreciative of the low stress week this week as I think we have all been tried switching everything to online. As always, I started this week off doing my daily creates. As always, these were a super fun way to get my brain working and being creative at the …
For my last assignment I needed a remix. I chose to do an audio assignment to get out of my comfort zone. I did an assignment that I had done in the past and really enjoyed and remixed it. This assignment was called A Collection Of Your Favorite Sounds. The …
For one of my mashup assignments I chose to do “Storytelling Through Text” which was worth 5 stars. This assignment challenged us to tell a story from any background but to do it through text and record the entire thing. I drew some inspiration from an event that actually happened …
For one of my remix challenges I decided to tackle a new challenge. This original photo assignment is called “Your love for your pet (or any other animal that you love”. I LOVE animals so I immediately went to my camera roll and pulled out all the pictures of me …
For one of the assignments from the assignment bank this week I chose to do an assignment called “Mashing Friends and Emojis” which was 4 stars. I chose this because it is something that we used to do when we were younger, try and look like an emoji and make …
This week was one of my favorite weeks! Not only did these assignments give me something to do while we’re staying at home but they were very interesting to me. I had a lot of fun making videos that I was proud of. I started this week with my daily …
What a fun assignment this was!! An amazing time to go outdoors and wave to our neighbors during a time where we are in such isolation. This assignment tasked us to go outdoors and take a walk down our street and make a video out of it. I used my …
Another one of my assignments was quick and simple and this was six second art. This assignment asked us to share some type of art skill that can be done in 6 seconds. This caused me to actually learn a new trick that I hadn’t known before. This is how …
For my second assignment from the assignment bank I chose to make a video of my favorite college memories so far. This assignment was by far one of my favorites. Not only did it allow for me to re-live some of the best times but it allowed me to explore …
This week for one of my video assignments I decided to create a home work out video to share with you guys. Now I am not a fitness expert at all so I joined my roommate in her everyday routine. These few exercises are what she does to warm up …
This week was rough for me. I had done some of my assignments in the beginning of the week and then my computer decided to crash. I spent 3 hours on the phone with Apple Support which ended in my entire computer being wiped and basically started from scratch.
I …
For my last assignment I chose “Make a Tutorial for you Mom” but with a twist. I decided to take something that my grandmother always asks me how to do. My grandmother is a lovely woman but she has no idea what to do when it comes to technology. …
For my second assignment from the assignment bank I chose to do the “Recording a memory” assignment. This is one of my best friends Emily and I asked her about one of her favorite memories. I used my iPhone to take this video and used Airdrop to send it to …
One of the assignments that I chose from the assignment bank for this week was to create a 1 second video clip that can tell a story. I decided to use a video that I already had and could crop to make a one second clip. This is a video …
What a strange and out of the ordinary week this has been. I have really appreciated this “light week” as we have all been trying to process moving all of our classes online. This has also allowed me to put in more time and effort in the assignments that we …
For my second re-do assignment I decided to go over my bucket list and take out/add in some things I’d like to do within the next 10 years. Originally, I did what I thought was easiest and used an automatic selection for where my pictures would go and added text …
For one of my re-do assignments this week I decided what better than to create a mash-up of some relaxing songs to listen to on a walk or in the bath tub while we’re quarentined in our houses. Originally, I used only a few sounds as I was rushing through …
This week we were challenged to do 3 daily creates but with a twist. We were challenged to connect all 3 of them and make them flow together. I chose to do 3 daily creates that had a them of happiness in the midst of this troubling time with the …
Brainstorming this week has been fun and relaxing through a hard time. It has given me time to explore fun topics and focus on more positive things. Here are a few ideas for possible topics:
Movies of the 80’s: exploring different themes that are present in movies in the 80’s.…
This week I got an opportunity to listen to the class radio shows on Wednesday night. I would specifically like to talk about the first show on 80’s crime.
This show was excellent! It started with Henry Lee Lucas, a serial killer from Blacksburg Va. He was arrested in 1960 …
This week has been very hectic for me as I try to make arrangements with all of my professors but this project has brought me a lot of joy. The key to this was picking a topic that our entire group enjoyed and could work on over a long period …
This week we got the opportunity to finish our radio shows. This experience was AMAZING. Both of my group mates worked very hard with me to create something that we could all be proud of. We decided to use GarageBand because we had experience with it and it was the …
This week we were challenged to do 2 daily creates. I found myself being more picky as to which ones I chose to do this week because I had more to choose from. These were simple yet fun and allowed me to think on a deeper level. The first one …
This week we have been focused on getting things prepared and put in place for our radio show assignment. This week although more laid back, proved to be slightly challenging. I want our radio show to have the best quality that it can so I’m researching new techniques trying to …
Looking back at this week I believe that we have made some great progress. We decided on our topic of beauty standards in the 80’s and how it effected pop culture. Between me and my group mates we have made good progress in creating logos and radio show commercials. We …
Here are my daily creates from this past week:
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Kangaroo
Raging
Boxer
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— Kayla Bega (@BegaKayla) February 24, 2020
This was a fun one! Growing up I never really knew what to say when we played the game where you remember someone’s name by …
From the assignment bank I chose to do a song mashup. For this assignment titled “Take any two songs (similar or not) and create a mash-up” I decided to take the song Sweater Weather by The Neighbourhood and Too Late To Apologize by Coldplay and overlap them. This assignment was …
