Throughout this journey in DS106 I have really surprised myself. In the beginning I was very skeptical and doubtful that I would be able to succeed in this class. I was not at all confident in my abilities to do digital assignments because of the limited knowledge and experience I …
This week I spent a lot of time completing and putting the finishing touches on our multimedia project. I talked a lot about what I did during the week in my post about our final!
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For our final project, Celia and I put a lot of effort in the weeks before to make our vision come true. We decided to create a multimedia project that included some visual, audio, and film elements to create our whole message about ocean conservation. In order to spread our …
I really enjoyed this week’s work. I loved being able to just have fun and do some mashups and remixes. I also wanted to make some to use for my final project so I would bend the assignment to fit my needs for that! It was really interesting to change …
I chose to do the superhuman in everyday life mashup. For my mashup I put the Hulk in a photo with the Geography department in the Monroe Fountain on campus. I am a Geography major and I must admit I get in a hulk like mindset when I am hangry. …
The assignment was to mash up a movie scene with the best song of that movie but I decided to put my own spin on it. For the final project Cel and I are focusing on ocean conservation and I wanted to find a way to tie this assignment into …
This is an ad for “We <3 Oceans”. You may see the title and think that it would be a movie about how wonderful oceans are, and you’re not wrong. It is all about how great oceans are but unfortunately these oceans face a grim reality. Humans are huge polluters …
This week we had to do 2 remixes. So for my second assignment, I decided to turn a still photo from a previous assignment that was meant to just be an image, and I made it have some audio and movement. I added these additional elements like the movement of …
For my first remix assignment I chose to use the one that incorporated one of Bob Ross’s paintings. I found this assignment in the design section and clicked remix. I was told to make this photo as pink as I wanted so I downloaded the painting photo and got to …
This week was all about putting our work from last week into action. It was great to create a project and implement stuff we have learned from pervious weeks. I worked with a partner to create a video project and we were able to add visual elements and audio ones …
After coming up with our ideas for our video project, this week we put everything together. Cel and I wanted to make this video project relate to our final so we created it to help set everything up for later on. In preparation to making our video, we worked on …
This week was all about coming up with how we were gonna plan our show for next week. Celia and I did a lot of planning and even came up with a trailer in promotion for our big final show. We came together after finalizing some ideas and created combined …
After learning about films and the process behind making scenes so great, I chose to examine one of my favorite movies- 10 Things I Hate About You. I chose the famous poem clip from the movie which is around 1 minute or so in duration. This scene is filled with …
One of the assignments we could do this week was create a movie trailer. Celia and I decided we should make one that connected to our final multi-media project. Our goal is to talk about the ocean and its importance. We consider ourself advocates for the ocean and decided to …
After connecting with and talking through some ideas with other people in the class, I was able to partner up with Celia! We had some similar interests and passions so we decided to work on our project together! Celia and I decided to produce a multi media campaign focusing on …
This week was really fun. We were able to listen to some of our classmates radio shows which was amazing! It was awesome to see what everyone came up with and see their hard work pay off. I also really loved how we had the chance to go back to …
For our daily creates this week we had to create a story from them . Here is mine.
In East Town, once a year on March 14, the whole town holds a festival. This festival is one of the biggest the town ever holds. People from all over come to …
For one of our week 9 assignments, we were told to ick two assignments we’ve already completed and significantly revise them, improve upon them, or remix them with something else. I was going back through my previous assignments and looked for 2 that needed some work or I wanted to …
This week we had to tune into ds106 live to hear a few of our peer’s radio shows they created last week. I know people were probably nervous, because I was definitely nervous to know that my group’s show would be playing this week. I was nervous but also really …
This week was kinda hectic. It took a lot of planning to try and get our recordings from who we interviewed and when we were going to sit down and record our show. It was less difficult than I had originally thought it was going to be because we had …
This week was relatively easier compared to last week. We had already come up with a theme and what we envisioned our show to be, so this week was putting it all together. It was somewhat difficult to get our interviewees schedules to work with ours in order to get …
This week was a little challenging in terms of coming up with a unique idea for a radio show. We all had to do something related to our theme, so my group and I (Celia and Emma) thought we might do an interview and commentary show based off of Bob …
I decided to make a commercial for our on campus Katora. I know a bunch of students have all kinds of thoughts about how good or bad Katora is so I wanted to give them some publicity. It can be serious but also I wanted to make this commercial a …
I wanted to create a cool promo/introduction for our radio show rather than just a commercial. I wanted to make something that show cased what are show was and to grab the listener’s attention and draw them in. I took some samples of Bob Ross comments and set them on …
I was excited about our show once we came up with our idea and was ready to make a promo. I know since we were talking about Bob Ross and he is such an icon, I wanted to emphasize that in the promo. I decided to take a silhouette of …
The idea of creating a radio show so soon was pretty daunting. It was also kinda hard to come up with some ideas but after sitting and talking it through we came up with what we think is a pretty neat idea.
For our radio show we wanted to really …
I had a really good time this week and with the assignments. After having a more hectic and busy week last week, it was a much better week. These assignments for this week did not feel like work. In fact, it was a great break from my crazy life and …
Design is critical. Having a good design is crucial for products being sold and grabs peoples attention. Design is key for selling things but also is seen throughout our daily lives. Book covers, TV shows, Movies, products, art. Design is literally a daily part of our lives. Theres different types …
When we did our photoblitz I really had a great time participating in it. After reading this week’s assignments I saw we had a design blitz and got excited to do it. In our everyday lives we see elements of design all over the place, sometimes we don’t pay attention …
My friend is super obsessed with house plants and always tells me she wants to start her own etsy shop. I was scrolling through some of the assignment bank options and stumbled upon the create your own logo. I knew that I wanted to try and make one for her …
