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    Reading Movies

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    I read the article How to Read a Movie by Roger Ebert which talks about how to begin to analyze a movie. He teaches a session at festivals and universities called ” shot at a time”. He says to begin to start analyzing a film you need to research the film to be familiar with the director and the context
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    Week 9 Summary

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    Summary: Radio Show Evaluation:http://applications.emmasaxophone.com/uncategorized/radio-show-evaluation/ I enjoyed listening to all the different radio shows, everyone did a great job. The radio shows were all creative in there own way, and I hope everyone enjoyed creating the show at least a little bit. I enjoyed learning more about my topic , my group’s topics, and other radio show topic’s. Storytelling within the
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    Radio Show evaluation

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    The Verge: The verge was the radio show that my group did, and was about different medical topics. The quality of the sound was great overall although the volume could have been improved during Stephanie’s segment. The sound overall was pretty good, the sound flowed well together there weren’t any gaps of background sounds. The audio editing I believe was
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    Storytelling within the Web

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    My last assignment for the week is called Storytelling within the Web worth four stars. I had to take a website and recreate it by hacking.     http://weca4.makes.org/goggles/weca4s-remix-of-small-pet-supplies-for-rabbits-ferrets-amp-others-petsmart- Steps: 1.I went to the webpage Not Digital Truth Telling 2.Clicked on week 9 3.I scrolled down to the section telling stories within the web and clicked on the link storytelling
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    Assignment #2

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    The second assignment of the week that I decided to do is called Character Resume worth three stars. The assignment requires you to create a fake resume for a fake character. Resume: Iridessa Ivy 1332 Sesame St, Mooncrest, PA,92130 Cell: 267-436-5128 [email protected] Objective I have a bunch of great skills that will be useful to your company and I’m looking for
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    Assignment #1

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    My first assignment of the week that I chose to do was an assignment called Find a Digital Tool worth 3 stars. This assignment required you to find an online tool and create a brief tutorial on how it works. Here is my tutorial on Pixlr: Pixlr is very similar to Photoshop and can be used for free, pixlr is a
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    Week 7 and 8 Summary

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    Summary: Bumper: https://soundcloud.com/user-225217162/bummer-2015 I choose to do my bumper as a way to link the previous segment into mine. I used a heart beat sound to let listeners know that my segment is coming up. I didn’t use audacity for my bumper, instead I played YouTube clips in the background of my recording on sound cloud.     Commercial: https://soundcloud.com/user-225217162/commercial  
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    Assignment #2

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    For my second audio assignment I chose to do the assignment called Life In Two Minutes worth 2.5 stars.This assignment required me to create a story that describes a significant moment in my life. Steps: I went to the ds106 page and clicked on the tab components. Under the components tab I clicked on the tab assignment bank. Under assignment
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    Assignment #1

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    The first assignment I did was called Spooky Sounds worth 4 and a half stars. For this assignment I had make a track using spooky sounds , to try and evoke a sense of fear in the listener.   Steps: I went to the ds106 page and clicked on the tab components. Under the components tab I clicked on the
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    One word

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    I took the word diverged from the poem The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost: Break Two friends returned to each other They shared stories and laughs Hung out with the one’s brother As the week ended they diverged They await for another break
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    Weekly Summary 6

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    Summary: Vignelli: I read a very interesting handbook about design and all the different parts and techniques used in creating it. I found I already knew alot of the techniques from last week about photos but I learned a few new things like positioning, symmetry, paper size, formatting,etc. The design handbook goes more in detail about designing a good photo
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    Vignelli

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    Reflection: This week I read about the different types of design techniques from the handbook called The Vignelli Canon by Vignelli. Vignelli talks about three of the most important aspects in designing which are semantic, syntactic and pragmatic. He also talks about timelessness, intellectual elegance,visual power and may other factors for design. I agree with his opinion on the three
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    DesignBlitz

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    I had to create a Design Blitz using some of the design techniques which to me resemble a lot of the techniques I used for my Photo Blitz. I took 8 pictures but am only using four. 1.Color Color means a representation of a certain color that draws someones attention in on the one color making the object stand out.
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    Make a Maze

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    Here is my fifth assignment called Make a maze worth 3 stars. The assignment was simple create your own maze using a pen and paper or a computer program.   Finish Start Here are my Steps: Went to the ds106 page and clicked on the Design Assignments page.  Went to page one and clicked on the assignment called Make a
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    Design your own cereal box

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    Here is my fourth assignment called design your own cereal box worth 3 stars. This assignment was to create your own cereal box cover, pretty simple. Here are my Steps: Went to the ds106 page and clicked on the Design Assignments page.  Went to page two and clicked on the assignment called Design you own cereal box cover.  I went
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    Who are you?

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    My third assignment I did was called Who are you? worth four and a half stars. In this assignment I had to create a picture using pictures that represented each letter in my name and something about me. E- Represents an elephant because I like elephants. I think they are beautiful, cute and cool animals. I’ve always wanted to ride
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    Love at first sight

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    The second assignment I did was called love at first shot worth 3 stars. I had to take or find a picture of a couple and create a love story around the picture or GIF. Here is the GIF link if it doesn’t work on my post. http://gifmaker.cc/PlayGIFAnimation.php?folder=20151003029H9k8b7OwnNiJtZpFKQHyJ&file=output_fLitJN.gif   This is a story about love. The two girls in the picture
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    Suspect

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    Here is my First assignment called This Assignment is Suspect, worth three and half stars. The assignment was to create an assignment board and show the interaction between everyone.   The story is about my missing shirt! My first suspect was my dog because he likes to take my clothes and hide them from me. I thought if my dog
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    Long Distance Relationship

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    Here is sixth and final assignment for the week called Long Distance relationship worth two stars. There weren’t any directions on how to complete this assignment so I used the example they gave and re-did it to fit what I believe. Here are the steps I took: Went to the  design assignment page on the ds106 website. I clicked on

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