Connor McClain, a local university student, decided to take a stroll through the woods to capture some pictures for a school project during social distancing orders thanks to the ongoing pandemic. Little does he know, he is not alone. Follow Connor through this multi-media story arch and discover …
This week, I started to brainstorm and come up with ideas for our final project. Going with the theme of the ongoing pandemic crisis right now, I decided to do a post-epidemic survival story spanning YouTube, Instagram, and SoundCloud. Here is the outline and idea that I will be following …
This week has been pretty chill, to be honest. I’m finally settling into a full online class environment just when we are about to be done in a couple weeks. For this week, we were tasked with 2 Mashup Assignments, and 2 Remix It assignments.
Text Conversation: A Wild Ride…
For this week’s final remix assignment, I chose to remix my Minimalist TV/Movie Poster assignment.
when I hit the “Remix It” button, I was instructed to add a Happy Days vibe to it via adding The Fonz to my new creation.
Because my previous movie I used was Back To …
For my second and final mashup assignment this week, I chose to do the Storytelling Through Text Mashup Assignment.
In order to complete this assignment, I used my friend’s laptop that had Final Cut Pro installed on it and downloaded a plug-in that simulates text conversations. Entering my script I …
For the first remix assignment of this week, I decided to remix my Create A Logo That Is Simple But Detailed assignment. This was my original logo:
When I clicked REMIX IT on the assignment page, I was told to add a Dr. Seuss character.
Not sure how I was …
#MashupAssignments2390 #ds106 My Animoji Karaoke masterpiece to the 1981 hit "Down Under" by Men At Work! pic.twitter.com/vCKnLahJtU
— Connor McClain (@ConnorM35842492) April 10, 2020
For this week’s Mashup Assignments, the first one I chose was Animoji Karaoke. I chose to sing along to Men At Work’s 1981 hit song, …
This week, I decided to create my own assignment by making a cooking video where I make a homemade sauce and burger! Taking all week and using video, sound, and design techniques, I believe this video was well worth 10 stars. The link to my post describing …
For this week’s video assignment task, I decided to make my own assignment for the first time! I spent all week writing, filming, and editing a cooking tutorial video on making a burger and some homemade In N Out Animal Style sauce. With the amount of effort and time I …
When reflecting back on my original project brainstorming post, I noted a few ideas that I thought were interesting. My board game idea and my movie scene idea were my two favorites. But upon looking at other classmate-made ideas, I notably liked the ideas of playing with the past. …
This week in DS106 has been more relaxed than the previous. Everybody, including myself, has finally been settling into our new remote-working lives. That made this week’s video assignments much easier to work on.
Video EssayTo start off the week, I created a Video Essay on one of the …
For this week’s final DS106 video assignment I did, I chose to do the Product Evolution video assignment. I chose to do this assignment because I love Apple and iMac computers and it was relevant to our 1980s retro theme.
Using iMovie, I gathered a bunch of pictures of every …
For one of this week’s DS106 Video Assignments, I chose to do the Where Do You Want To Go assignment. I chose this assignment and place because I love making bucket list-type videos for places i’d love to go to.
Using Google to find a bunch of gorgeous pictures of …
This week in DS106, I chose to do the Ryan Gosling Wont Eat His Cereal Video Assignment. Instead of Ryan Gosling, I decided to use Yoda from Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and attempt to feed him a delicious Club cracker. He was certainly not having any of …
This week, I decided to do a Spoil A Movie in Under 30 Seconds video assignment. I chose Land Before Time because it came out in 1988 and it was one of my favorite childhood movies growing up.
When creating this assignment, I used iMovie to voice over images from …
This week in DS106, we were asked to create a video essay from a 1980s movie or TV scene. In order to do this, we were also tasked with reading Roger Ebert’s How to Read a Movie. It was a very interesting read with a lot of useful information …
First, let’s not ignore the elephant int he room. The Coronavirus has made massive moves into the United States and countless other countries, infecting thousands and killing hundreds. As a result, school has been closed for the semester and the economy is hurting severely. But this class is not about …
This week, for our weekly assignments, we were asked to rework or remix two past assignments and I chose to rework my Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing assignment and my Four Icons/One Story assignment. Here is the assignment page for Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing and here is the assignment page for …
Our incredible story starts off with a special unicorn named Toby.
#tdc2983 #ds106 All unicorns have the ability to read minds and start fires with their eyes. It’s rather majestic. pic.twitter.com/fznWknJSzt
— Connor McClain (@ConnorM35842492) March 14, 2020
At first, Toby just seemed like any other unicorn but there …
When thinking about project story concepts for DS106, almost anything could be used to fuel a great assignment. Here are some of my favorite ideas for future projects:
Write and act out a part of a movie script Design a product, make an adv poster, and commercial for it Create…
Over the past week, the DS106 project teams have been able to listen to each other’s Radio Show projects on DS106 Radio Monday through Wednesday. One specific radio show I thought was noteworthy was 80s Crime and Social Media: An 80s Rewrite. It pondered the idea of what the 1980s …
A week full of audio assignments, song writing, and graphic design made this week really challenging yet exciting.
Roadtrip PlaylistFor the first audio assignment of the week, I made a playlist for an upcoming road trip I’m going on, under the audio assignment Make Your Own Mixtape. I …
This week, I designed a logo for our group project radio show. The name of our radio show we chose is “What’s Their Damage?”. We chose this name because we wanted to do a radio show on criminals in the 1980s. Some notable criminals we will be highlighting are Pablo …
This week, for one of my audio assignments I chose to Play DJ and Make A Song. Music has always been a part of my life and ever since I was a young kid I’ve always wanted to write and produce my own song. DISCLAIMER: This song is by no …
For one of this weeks audio assignments, I chose to do Take Any Two Songs (Similar or Not) and Make A Mashup/Remix. I chose to do this assignment because song remixes and mashups are some of my favorite types of songs. I listen to remixes and mashups all the …
This week for one of my audio assignments, I chose to do Make Your Own Mixtape. I love making playlists for all types of reasons. Road trips, sports, acoustic songs, sad songs, etc.
For this assignment, I used Spotify to create a playlist for an upcoming roadtrip I plan …
This week has been a doozy. Flying out on Tuesday for a family emergency without any access to a computer all week has been hard. But, I made it work, for the most part. Apart from personal troubles, design-wise, the …
This week I decided to do the Design Assignment Create a Logo That is Simple but Detailed. I decided to do this assignment because logo design is probably my biggest hobby in my free time. I love designing logos for fun, for friends, and for my own personal projects. …
This week I chose to do the Design Assignment A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing. I decided to do this assignment because the concept was interesting and sounded challenging. I love designing and creating logos so getting the chance to mesh two opposing company’s logos together was right uo my …
For one of this week’s design assignments, I chose to do a Minimalist TV/Movie Poster. I chose this design assignment because I love minimalism and movies. Minimalism is a great way to express oneself with as little effort or material as possible. I also love movies from all eras, …
