This week was a little hectic. Luckily I found a group for the radio show quickly, which took some of stress away. After we decided what we were going to do for our show, I made a logo for our show. I also detailed how our radio show will be laid out and what I am doing … Continue reading Weekly Summary 10/9/2015

I was very wary of this assignment because I didn’t know where to begin. Luckily two of my friends are in this class with me so we decided to work together on it. We formed our group right away and had our group name, The Spooky Sisters, and radio show name, The Creepy Chronicles, thought up by … Continue reading Radio Show Beginnings

For this audio assignment I had to tell a story and include sound effects and creepy music to bring it to life. I decided to act as my host character, Eve Winters, and tell the story of her mother’s run-in with the diabolical “Bloody Face”. Honestly this story is creepy enough as it is without … Continue reading A Winters’ Tale

For this audio assignment I had to record sounds of my day and combine them into one audio clip. I decided to go about this assignment a little differently though. I wanted to create an audio clip of sounds that my host character, Eve Winters, encounters throughout the day. I recorded my roommate’s alarm going … Continue reading Eve’s Morning

The first, and most important, step to complete this assignment is to download Audacity, or another audio editing software of your choice. Once you have downloaded this, or another, software you can start brainstorming the dialogue for your call. Once you have downloaded Audacity, or another editing software, you will want to open your program and familiarize yourself … Continue reading 911 Emergency

For this assignment I had to create some type of promotion for the radio show we are working on. The name of our radio show is “The Creepy Chronicles”. I decided to make a logo for our radio show because I wanted to use it as the cover picture when we upload our radio show … Continue reading Radio Show Logo

I LOVED DESIGN WEEK! I absolutely love designing things and am glad I got to read up on concepts of design and how they work to better designs. I enjoyed reading The Vignelli Canon and wrote about how I interpreted Vignelli’s concepts. Once I read on how to use design concepts to better my design … Continue reading Weekly Summary 10/2/2015

I found this assignment to be fun and interesting. The main obstacle I faced with this assignment was the weather. I had a lot of good ideas for design elements on campus but because it was cold and rainy I really didn’t feel like taking the time to take pictures outside. I did manage to … Continue reading DesignBlitz Fun

This reading pointed out many things that I have never really thought of when it came to design. I never thought about letters having a design to them but realize that because I am a perfectionist mine follow one of them. I never intentionally followed a design but did unconsciously. That’s pretty cool while also … Continue reading The Vignelli Canon

Ok, I literally just paused the movie after the title sequence because it was so cool. The way the word “ALIEN” is being spelled out slowly was just mind boggling. I guessed that it said “ALIEN” after the first three lines but it kept me interested, mostly so I could figure out if I was … Continue reading Alien

For this design assignment I had to display who I am using the letters in my name. I treated every letter of my name as the first letter of a word that describes me and then made a collage of pictures to demonstrate those attributes. I came up with the following image: As you can … Continue reading Who Am I?

For this design assignment I had to create a maze. I wanted to try to do it on the computer so I went to word and started looking through the different shapes you can insert into the document. I decided that the coolest shape, in my opinion, was the star. So I inserted a lot … Continue reading Seeing Stars

For this design assignment I had to take or find a picture and change the setting or what is happening. I decided to use the following image: This picture was taken my senior year of high school when my friends and I were captains of the girls varsity soccer team. One of the girls from … Continue reading Concept Change

For this design assignment I had to represent a movie using four icons. I cannot tell you the name of the movie, but by looking at the icons you should be able to figure it out. I had a lot of fun with this assignment, mostly because it gave me an excuse to watch one … Continue reading Guess the Movie

For this assignment I had to find or take a picture of a couple who are in love and write them a background story. I chose to use an old picture of my grandparents: My grandfather was in the army and my grandmother was a nurse for the army. They met through mutual friends and … Continue reading Love at First Shot

Not gonna lie, I was dreading this week. I saw that we were focusing on audio this week and I thought “I don’t want to do this. I don’t know how to do this. I’m gonna totally fail this week.” but I decided to start by downloading Audacity and playing around with it. I watched … Continue reading Weekly Summary 9/25/2015

Overall, I have enjoyed combining different sounds to create a story. I’m not accustomed to using, or just hearing, audio since I watch a lot of TV and movies. Audio really is the basic building block for any type of animated storytelling. After listening to “Moon Graffiti” I felt like I was on the moon … Continue reading Audio Storytelling

Thinking of ideas for a radio show was ruff. I’m confident that when I’m in a group and we are bouncing ideas off of each other more will come but for now I have the following ideas: Tales from the Crypt (radio show version) – I had thoroughly enjoyed reading the comics and thought that … Continue reading Radio Show Ideas

After reading the “Last Laugh” I knew I wanted to do the first page of the comic. I loved the idea of setting the scene and mood of the work. Here is some context for my sound effects ideas. I would start with the Tales of the Crypt Cryptkeeper’s laugh and then a deep male voice introducing the comic. … Continue reading The “Last Laugh” You Will Ever Hear

For this assignment I had to make a 15-30 second bumper for the ds106 radio station. At first I didn’t know what a bumper was but thought if I listened to ds106 radio on Monday I could get a hang of it. I heard some on ds106 radio on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday and knew … Continue reading DS106 Radio Bumper

For this audio assignment I had to create or display an emotion through sound effects. I ended up finding a beautiful acoustic version of the songs “Here Comes the Bride” and “Falling in Love With You” mashed together. I knew as soon as I heard it that I wanted to convey the emotion love by … Continue reading Wedding Emotion

For this audio assignment I had to find 5 different sound effects online and put them together to make a story. I called my story “Revenge of the Dogs” because I based it off of the song “Who Let the Dogs Out?”. Before I give anything else away, here is my sound effect story: I … Continue reading Sound Effect Story

For this audio assignment I had to make an audio track that was Halloween themed or scared the listener. It also had to be a minute or longer in order to give the listener enough time to be scared. Before I give anything away, here is my spooky sound: I found the main song on … Continue reading Spooky Sound

This week was very interesting for me personally. I tried to read through the list of our assignments that we needed to do for week 4 but my eye kept jumping to the Photoblitz. I was confused and curious as to what a Photoblitz was and decided to read through the description of it. I … Continue reading Weekly Summary 9/18/2015

For this assignment, I had to watch a horror movie and find elements of emotion in stills from the movie. I decided to watch The Ring because it was the first horror movie I ever saw and thought it would be easier to dissect it since I have seen it many times. I also wanted … Continue reading Cinematography is More Than Entertainment

I would not call myself a photographer, I am more like a tourist when I have a camera. I am either taking pictures to help me remember the places that I have been to or I am taking selfies with my friends and family to remember the experiences that we shared together. I never think … Continue reading Visual Storytelling

My name is Brittany Raze and I used to play on the club soccer team at the University of Mary Washington. I played until my tragic death over the summer. However, I am back as a ghost. Only my teammates can see me, which is why it looks weird when we take pictures together. For … Continue reading Paranormal Teammate

For this visual assignment I had to find a picture of myself from the past and recreate the photo while holding the old picture. I looked through all of my old photos and found this one of me from Easter in 2004 holding up Easter eggs that I found. I thought the pose was interesting … Continue reading Easter 2004

For this visual assignment I had to create an abstract piece of art using weavesilk.com. I went to the website and it gives you a plain black screen to start drawing on. I began by drawing a small pink heart in the middle of the screen but it turned into something completely different. I then … Continue reading Smooth Like Silk

For this visual assignment I had to use my favorite poem and put it on top of an image that describes the poem. I decided to use The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost and found an image that I thought described the poem. I changed the saturation, temperature, and contrast of the image to … Continue reading Visual Poetry