Week 5 Story/Project The Story of Jesse and The Order of the Stone Assignments created for the DS106 Assignment Bank (and my creation of them) The Wernitznig Family enters Looper I am Iron Man Tutorials I created How to do Family Friendly Billboard How to do Favorite Movie Quote First I’d like to say I … Continue reading This is the end of the road →

This is the second tutorial I will be doing (and its the 2nd assignment I created for the Ds106 Assignment Bank) Lets start out by visiting my favorite image editor, FotoFlexer. This a free online image editor. Once at the website upload the photo background that you will put the text over. Once you have … Continue reading How to do Favorite Movie Quote →

This is a tutorial on how to do the assignment (that I created) Family Friendly Billboard. There are many ways to do this assignment, depending on which image editor you may use. My favorite is FotoFlexer. Click on the link to take you to a website that is free to use. First you will want to … Continue reading How to do Family Friendly Billboard →

This is the example for the second assignment I created for Ds106. To find the assignment I created click here This was the movie that introduced me to the world of super heroes. I thought it was the coolest movie I had seen yet. to be fair I was only in 8th grade back when … Continue reading I am Iron Man →

This is the first assignment I have created. As the instructions requested, I did the assignment too. You can find the assignment from the DS106 Assignment Bank I have always loved movies. Billboards also happen to be one of my favorite forms of marketing too. I got the idea as I sat in traffic on … Continue reading The Wernitznig Family enters Looper →

Assignments used to obtain Media Media #1 Media #2 Media #3 Media #4 The Media Story The Narrative Story The story of Jesse and his adventures with The Order of the Stone begin. This is a spin off of the video game Minecraft: Story Mode Jesse and his friends are preparing for a team building tournament, … Continue reading The Story of Jesse and The Order of the Stone →

Reflections Looking through Roger Ebert’s view Look There’s a Ghost Video Assignments Scenes of Lasting Memory Product Review: XL Croakies Daily Creates (just one) Daily Creates Week 4 Interaction Week 4 Comments Despite the extra work getting to know more technical storytelling methods and tools, I enjoyed this week. I learned how to make my … Continue reading One Last Week →

Edited the alien on to the moon @ds106dc #tdc1617 pic.twitter.com/gQR2dXKYpA — D.J. Wernitznig (@DJWernitznig) June 12, 2016

Original Assignment I may have spent just as much time debating what to do a review on then working on itself. I chose my pair of Croakies. They’re made to hold your glasses around your neck. Made popular by fraternity members, Croakies are more of a fashion look than a practical use. This is my … Continue reading Product Review: XL Croakies →

Original Assignment This assignment is my favorite since I created my first GIF files. I enjoyed using Movie Maker, which I thought was surprising. It was too difficult to choose my three favorite movie scenes of all time. After ten or so minutes I decided on my three scenes. The first is from Saving Private Ryan. It … Continue reading Scenes of Lasting Memory →

I decided on Ghosts In the movie Ghosts, a ghost does appear (surprise). I have not seen the movie except for the ending scene. I watched the scene three times looking for different things. I was examining the angles and audio. I immediately noticed how the camera shoots up at the ghost. Similar to Tarantino … Continue reading Look There’s a Ghost →

One Point Perspective was using a centered focus. It was many scenes with a grid in the background. It’s priority is to show how perceive things, hence the title. Everything that was shot followed Roger Ebert’s theory. Positives are on the right, and negatives are on the left. If something is centered then it means … Continue reading Looking through Roger Ebert’s view →

Here are links to the work that was completed this week Summaries Reflection summary on Abumrad and Glass Short Story Reflection Summary Reflecting on comments and the blogs Audio Assignments Celebrity Speed Dating The Sounds of my Morning Daily Creates Daily Creates for Week 3 (I did two of the four) Concerns/Questions Paragraph Questions and Concerns … Continue reading Weekly Summary 3: Half way to the finish →

My only concerns are about next week. My guess is we’ll be tackling the visual side of storytelling. I haven’t edited anything visual since my freshman seminar class. A Videogame Canon with Professor Zach Whalen. We used Audacity too and created videos using the program Fraps. My only question is about next week. What will … Continue reading Questions and Concerns following Week 3 →

@ds106dc #tdc1610 pic.twitter.com/BqNHE2IotI — D.J. Wernitznig (@DJWernitznig) June 5, 2016 @ds106dc #tdc1609 pic.twitter.com/1kstThWWuo — D.J. Wernitznig (@DJWernitznig) June 5, 2016

I went back and read all the comments left on my blog. It was mostly praise, which of course I won’t complain about. I appreciated the advice in some of the comments too. These comments were my favorite. I enjoyed visiting the other student’s blogs most. I liked seeing the design of everyone else’s blogs. … Continue reading Reflecting on comments and the blogs →

I chose to do three shorter stories The first is about a grant writer who believe’s that’s just “it”. She goes to a leadership seminar and goes through these exercises first and receives feedback to do better. She struggles at the panel and you can tell she is not happy. She returns to her job where she … Continue reading Short Story Reflection Summary →

Ira Glass explains the difference between a high school paper and telling a story on audio. In highs school we have a topic sentence, followed with facts backing up whatever our point is. Audio uses two building blocks: the anecdote, and the moment of reflection. The anecdote is where everything builds off of each other. … Continue reading Reflection summary on Abumrad and Glass →

Original assignment may be found here (2.5 Stars) The assignment tasks you with recording different noises you her throughout the day. The noises can be whatever you want. I decided to my Sunday morning routine. First I’ll explain how I did the assignment. Using my iPhone 6, I opened up the Voice Memo app. I recorded … Continue reading The Sounds of my Morning →

Original assignment can be found here (3 Stars) The assignment tasks you with convincing a celebrity to hang out with you in 30 seconds. I used the voice recording program Audacity to create this. I hit record and talked through the microphone in my laptop. I hit stop once 30 seconds passed. I clicked on File then … Continue reading Celebrity Speed Dating →

Links Reflection DesignBlitz Daily Creates (I only did two) Design Assignment #1 Design Assignment #2 Design Assignment #3 Design Assignment #4 Design Assignment #5 GIF Assignment #1 GIF Assignment #2 I enjoyed doing this weeks work more than the first week. I had a better feel for my blog and what is expected of me. … Continue reading More Fun and More to Learn →

@ds106dc #tdc1603 Do it wrong pic.twitter.com/GdWbQFMaDF — D.J. Wernitznig (@DJWernitznig) May 29, 2016 @ds106dc #tdc1602 Massive pic.twitter.com/IzKWcghS9a — D.J. Wernitznig (@DJWernitznig) May 29, 2016

Original assignment Klay Thompson and Steph Curry are running the fast break. Curry catches the ball, checks his form, and eyes the hoop. Thompson puts his hands up prematurely in celebration. As he throws his hands up Curry passes him the ball. Thompson, who is not ready for the pass, botches the open shot. I was … Continue reading It’s Good! Or Not →

Original assignment My very first GIF file! I remember being in downtown Fredericksburg, VA at Jay’s Bar & Lounge. The shot went up and it was silent. It swishes through the hoop and Jay’s is in an uproar. There were many upset North Carolina fans. I just wanted a good game and got one of … Continue reading Kris Jenkins Buzzer Beater NCAA Tounament →

Original assignment(2 Stars) If I had a cover to my autobiography it would be this. This design is a picture of a cave entrance. Before college I was always an introvert and shy. I didn’t go out of my way to meet many people. If I was talking to someone it was probably through the … Continue reading Inside the Man Cave: The Autobiography →

Original assignment (1.5 Stars) Fortune cookie and movie line mashup. I created this design using just Microsoft Word and Snipping Tool. I chose six of my favorite lines that I thought could pass as fortunes. Once I underlined the lines I used the Snipping Tool and saved the photo as a .jpg file. The first quote … Continue reading You Talkin’ To Me? →

Original assignment (2 Stars) I’m not sure who Dr. Oblivion is. However, this assignment was simple. Create a poster for the lost doctor. I used the programs FotoFlexer, Microsoft Word, and SnippIt to create this poster. I obtained a photo of Dr. Oblivion and uploaded it to the website fotoflexer.com like I did with Hanging With … Continue reading Lost: Dr. Oblivion →

Original assignment To see what I’ve doe you’ll need to click on the photo. I changed history! The assignment asks to create a website or modify one to your liking. The only change I made were were removing the actual score above the ‘Box Score’. I also removed the original numbers in the parentheses. I … Continue reading History rewritten on Reddit →