Week 14: Final Summary

Week 14: Final Summary

by @Conner44769274

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April 29, 2021

This week, I completed my final project for DS106. Keeping with our theme of “(Y)our Story” I made a blog post that told the story of my creative journey through writing, visual, and design. This changed a little from my original write-up because I really didn’t foresee me having the time to do my original […]
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From A to B – An Artists Journey

by @Conner44769274

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April 29, 2021

For as long as I remember, art has always been a part of my life. I always loved those kits where you could make your own jewelry or paint your own tea set, paint-by-numbers, and “how to draw” books. While I’ve always been an artistic person, the point where art began playing a much bigger […]
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Week 13: Final Project Progress

by @Conner44769274

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April 23, 2021

This week, we began working on our final projects. This will be a culmination of everything we’ve learned so far regarding digital storytelling. We are tasked with creating a story related to our theme, “(Y)our Story” using three different mediums we’ve learned about this semester. As I talked about in my Final Project Ideas blog […]
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Week 12: Remix it

by @Conner44769274

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April 16, 2021

This week we focused on remixes and mashups. I cant really say I enjoyed the assignments this week, but I think that was mostly because I was so busy in my other classes. I think I said that last week, but the end of the semester is always like that! More so since I’m a […]
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Elevenie poems – Apr. 16

by @Conner44769274

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April 16, 2021

Moosays cowshe is eatingfrom the field outsideMoo#tdc3382 #ds106 pic.twitter.com/CYnUj8fku1— conner (@conner_freeman_) April 16, 2021
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Making A Song

by @Conner44769274

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April 15, 2021

For this mashup assignment we were tasked with creating a new song out of preexisting songs and try and make the lyrics flow together. Here are the five songs I chose:Horseshoe Crab – SlothrustShip to Wreck – Florence and the MachineIslander – Robyn SherwellShip in Port – Radical FaceSinking Man – Of Monsters and Men […]
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Lord of the Lightsaber

by @Conner44769274

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April 14, 2021

This week we are focusing on mashups and remixes! This is my first assignment for the mashups and I decided to do the “This Doesn’t Belong Here” assignment. This assignments has you mash up two popular movie scenes, aiming to be as subtle as possible. I decided to mashup The Lord of the Rings and […]
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Miro Birds – Apr. 14

by @Conner44769274

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April 14, 2021

just some totally normal birds #tdc3380 #ds106 pic.twitter.com/grUxH9l0yK— conner (@conner_freeman_) April 14, 2021
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Collaborative Poem – Apr. 12

by @Conner44769274

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April 14, 2021

#tdc3378 #ds106 pic.twitter.com/QU6Hu87NOY— conner (@conner_freeman_) April 12, 2021
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Remix – Pink Tattoo

by @Conner44769274

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April 14, 2021

This is another remix assignment where we complete a remix on an original prompt from the assignment bank. For this one, I chose to do the Tattoo that Describes You design assignment. The remix I got to go with it was to make the assignment more pink somehow. I’ve always wanted a tattoo, but I’m […]
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Remix – The opposer in collage form

by @Conner44769274

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April 14, 2021

For this assignment we had to pick anything from the assignment bank and complete a remix on it. The original assignment I chose was a visual assignment where you made yourself in collage form. The remix I got was to do the opposite of what the assignment was asking. I took this as meaning making […]
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Week 11: Continuing Videography

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April 8, 2021

This week, we continued to work on video. I specifically focused on finishing my video project that I outlined last week. This week has been super busy in other classes, so I feel like DS106 kind of fell to the side. However, I’m pretty happy with how my final video turned out and you can […]
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Project Ideas 2!

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April 8, 2021

As finals rapidly approach, we are tasked with thinking about ideas for our final projects in DS106. You may recall my initial thoughts and how I was really at a loss on what to do. I am still not super confident in any of my ideas, but I’ve had much longer to think about it. […]
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Subtle Mirror Photography – Apr. 8

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April 8, 2021

My lamp subtly mirrored in a picture frame #tdc3374 #ds106 pic.twitter.com/CV22WulCQ7— conner (@conner_freeman_) April 9, 2021
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A Letter to The Past – Write Up

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April 8, 2021

This week, my main goal was to finish up my video that I wrote about last week. This is the write up post about what I did to make it and how I think it turned out! First of all, my process for creating the video was to use Da Vinci Resolve, a free video […]
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My View from the Telescope – Apr. 7th

by @Conner44769274

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April 7, 2021

zoom was having issues through my telescope today :/ #tdc3373 #ds106 pic.twitter.com/kuAVZ0GgcN— conner (@conner_freeman_) April 7, 2021
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Everybody Can Draw – Apr. 6

by @Conner44769274

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April 6, 2021

in the spirit of @poorlycatdraw here is my cat drawn with love with my non-dominant hand #tdc3372 #ds106 pic.twitter.com/mHHMYTk4Uq— conner (@conner_freeman_) April 6, 2021
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Week 10: Lights, Camera, Action!

by @Conner44769274

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March 30, 2021

And that concludes the first week of our video section for DS106! Here is a collection of the work I completed for this week. First of all, I created a little video essay analyzing a scene from Inside Llewyn Davis. I really enjoyed thinking more critically about how scenes are set up and the camera […]
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A Letter from the Past – Trailer

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March 30, 2021

You may recall from my initial post about the video assignment that there was a trailer coming. Here it is! I used a lot of the same editing techniques used in my Inside Llewyn Davis Scene Analysis so if you’re interested in specifi...
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We Are Makers – Mar. 30

by @Conner44769274

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March 30, 2021

#ds3365 #ds106 we are makers: check out the things I make for ds106 over on my blog! https://t.co/mcfr4hoFrSor see my artwork over on instagram @/peanknuckle_ pic.twitter.com/2wLraTyCEn— conner (@conner_freeman_) March 30, 2021
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Accidental Photo – Mar. 28

by @Conner44769274

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March 30, 2021

here's a silly accidental photo i took of my kitty #tdc3363 #ds106 pic.twitter.com/HjjTtoBQA4
— conner (@conner_freeman_) March 28, 2021
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Writing a Letter From the Future – Video Show Assignment Pt. 1

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March 29, 2021

This week we are moving on to video! I really enjoy video editing so I’m excited for this week. We have the choice to work on a large scale project or complete some video assignments. I decided to work on a larger scale project so this is the planning blog for that. I will have […]
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Inside Llewyn Davis Cafe Scene Analysis

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March 29, 2021

For this assignment we are tasked with analyzing a scene from a movie and describing how the editing used was successful. I decided to use a scene from the Coen Brother’s movie Inside Llewyn Davis. The Coen Brother’s video I reference can be found here. Here is my final video: To create this video I […]
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Week 9: A Breather

by @Conner44769274

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March 26, 2021

After completing the radio show project, this week was much lighter. It was nice to have a little bit of a breather week to come down from all the work we put into our radio shows! Speaking of radio shows, this week they were all aired on DS106 radio. I got to tune into Wednesday’s […]
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Daily Creates – A Space Fox Story

by @Conner44769274

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March 26, 2021

This week we were tasked with making our daily creates tell a story. I actually did an extra one before I realized what my story would be, so you can find that one here. And here is my silly little story! Long ago there was a little fox who traveled the stars on a flying […]
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Project Ideas

by @Conner44769274

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March 25, 2021

In the coming weeks, we are moving away from radio and onto video. I really enjoy video editing (even though I haven’t done it too much) so I’m really excited to start thinking about this project! I had a really hard time coming up with ideas though, because I think I’m getting a little burnt […]
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Radio Show Reflection

by @Conner44769274

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March 25, 2021

This week all of our radio shows were broadcasted on DS106 Radio! It’s cool to hear something you created on an actual radio station. I loved hearing everyone else’s shows too, everyone did such a great job! I wasn’t able to tune in each day to listen, but I listened to the three that were […]
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Revisiting Past Work

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March 25, 2021

The first work I chose to revisit was my writing assignment about how a song makes me feel. I decided to revisit this work now that we’ve worked with audio because I think it would work much better in an audio format since I could splice in parts of the song while I’m talking about […]
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Week 8: Walking Memory Ave.

by @Conner44769274

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March 19, 2021

This week we worked on finishing up our radio show! That was a huge project so we didn’t have too much else on the agenda. You can read about my groups radio show here and listen to it over here! Ariel also finished up our amazing group poster: I also completed two daily creates this […]
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That’s A Rap!

by @Conner44769274

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March 19, 2021

This week my group and I finished up our radio show! I’m super proud of how it turned out and it was really fun to work together with my group to create our show. This week we met on Monday and figured out exactly what we were doing. We decide to all recorded our parts […]
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