Weekly Summary-Week 8-So Many Sounds!

Weekly Summary-Week 8-So Many Sounds!

by @FCMaisano

| ds106, Syndicated, WeeklySummary
October 19, 2018

In terms of again checking to see if this week follows the pattern of easy-hard-easy-hard, etc., I would say that this was easier than last week for me personally since I was less worried about getting everyone done on time. There might be a pattern again, but reversed from the original! This week was easier […]
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Radio Show Week 2-It’s a Wrap!

by @FCMaisano

| ds106, radioshowweek2, Syndicated
October 19, 2018

For Week 2, there was less decision-making between the whole group and more individual work, since our parts were individual stories, bumpers, and commercials. The only thing we really decided on this week was that to have an intro before each story to explain a little bit about it and our characters beforehand. Over the […]
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Creating My Radio Show Story

by @FCMaisano

| ds106, Syndicated
October 17, 2018

So, this technically isn’t an assignment for this week, but I do want to talk about my radio show story. It’ll make things easier when I have to write my Weekly Summary. I don’t have my radio story linked, though it is on SoundCloud, because I want everyone to hear it when listening to our […]
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Weekly Summary-Week 7-Not Necessarily Harder!

by @FCMaisano

| ds106, Syndicated, WeeklySummary
October 12, 2018

So, did this week follow the pattern of previous weeks, where this week would be easier than last week? Well, I wouldn’t say it was much harder. It still kind of breaks the pattern, though, since clearly I didn’t finish the assignments until Friday night! It was a bit more stressful, trying to figure out the […]
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A Conversational Start!

by @FCMaisano

| ds106, radioshowweek1, Syndicated
October 12, 2018

So, I will admit-I was quite confused and unsure about the radio thing! I was waiting for others to star getting into groups and start looking for groups, so I could hop in! I ended up in a group of seven people! With seven of us in the group, it takes a little bit of […]
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Logo

by @FCMaisano

| ds106, radioshowpromo, Syndicated
October 11, 2018

For the design element of the week, I decided to make a logo. I wanted to use am online logo maker, as that way it would look more professional than if I, with my lack of creative and artistic skills, made it by scratch. I checked out several websites, but many required money or I […]
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Radio Show Bumper

by @FCMaisano

| #AudioAssignments, AudioTutorials36, ds106, Syndicated
October 11, 2018

Here’s the bumper I made for our radio show! First, I typed up what I was going to say. This was fairly straightforward, once my group decided on an idea and a name. I looked at each of our characters to decide how general or specific I could be, and since the characters vary rather […]
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Yowie Call

by @FCMaisano

| #AudioAssignments, AudioTutorials2298, ds106, Syndicated
October 11, 2018

As with the last post, I decided to work on my radio show when my group was still deciding on the parts such as the bumper, etc. I decided to work on another noise in the story that is not the background, as while the noise comes from somewhere not where the characters are, it […]
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A Hike in Australia

by @FCMaisano

| #AudioAssignments, AudioTutorials2118, ds106, Syndicated
October 11, 2018

Since my group was still deciding details about who does what, set-up, etc. I decided to start working on assignments for stars. I decided, since I wasn’t sure what I was going to do for the group, I might as well start working on my story segment. My character Maria, and her friends Thiago and […]
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Weekly Summary-Week 6-Still Such An Amateur!

by @FCMaisano

| ds106, Syndicated, WeeklySummary
October 5, 2018

In terms of the ups and downs of the weeks that I’ve been experiencing, this week did follow the pattern, a way. I wouldn’t say this week was harder than week 5, but I do think I enjoyed the creation and process of the assignments last week better. In that way, this week was harder. […]
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A UMW DesignBlitz

by @FCMaisano

| designblitz, ds106, Syndicated
October 3, 2018

Since Saturday, I have trying my best to observe all of the signs, posters, etc. around this campus to make this blog post. Here is what I have come up with! Color View this post on Instagram This is a photo for my DS106 (Digital Storytelling) class. On my blog I talk about the color […]
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Complex Yet Maybe Not

by @FCMaisano

| designthoughts, ds106, Syndicated
October 1, 2018

There is a quote commonly attributed to Einstein, though he never actually said it, that goes: “everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler”. I feel like this is what Chip Kidd’s book Go is about. He makes the basis of design seem easier to understand, while not being condescending or dumbing down […]
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Beware The Beast of Gévaudan!

by @FCMaisano

| designassignments, DesignTutorials613, ds106, Syndicated
October 1, 2018

The assignment of using “Historic Tale Constrvction Cit” to make a tapestry story seems go to very well with our theme, so it’s rounding out my starred assignments this week. However, the link provided in the assignment doesn’t work, so I googled it and used this: https://htck.github.io/bayeux/#!/ For the story and design of this tapestry, I decided […]
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Places to visit in Arlington

by @FCMaisano

| designassignments, DesignTutorials1724, ds106, Syndicated
September 30, 2018

1-Arlington Historical Society 2-Ball-Sellers House 3-Pentagon Memorial 4-Potomac Overlook Regional Park 5-The Observation Deck at CEB Tower 6-Zero Gravity Corporation 7-Fashion Centre at Pentagon City (AKA Pentagon City Mall) 8-The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier 9-Nicecream 10-Livin’ The Pie Life My family and I moved to Arlington not too long ago, so I have’t explored […]
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A Cryptozoologist’s Postcard

by @FCMaisano

| designassignments, DesignTutorials2059, ds106, Syndicated
September 30, 2018

So, for this assignment of making a postcard, I chose to do one of Australia, again based off of my character Maria’s trip with her friends to find the yowie and the bunyip. The assignment creator used Canva to create her postcard (I also just noticed that her name is also Maria. Funny coincidence!), so […]
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A Cryptozoologist’s Business Card

by @FCMaisano

| designassignments, DesignTutorials1533, ds106, Syndicated
September 29, 2018

Front Back For this assignment, I created a business card for my character Maria Segreti. In order to do this, I used the website https://www.canva.com/ since I don’t have Photoshop like the assignment says to use and I didn’t want to buy it. To do so, I simply made an account on this website. I never have […]
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A Wordy Question Mark

by @FCMaisano

| designassignments, DesignTutorials2087, ds106, Syndicated
September 29, 2018

So, for my character Maria Segreti, I made her a word cloud with this website. For the words I picked, here’s the word list: 2 cryptozoologist 2 folklorist 1 chupacabra 1 skinwalker 1 artifacts 1 hellhound 1 magazines 1 professor 1 adventure 1 research 1 backpack 1 folklore 1 prepared 1 discover 1 lecture 1 […]
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Weekly Summary-Week 5-So Many Sounds!

by @FCMaisano

| ds106, Syndicated, WeeklySummary
September 28, 2018

As I said with Week 3, as the semester goes along, classes can get easier or harder. Week 3 was easier than Week 4, and this week, Week 5, I do think was a bit easier than Week 4! Saturday On Saturday, I looked over the week’s assignments and what was posted on Slack. I […]
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The Dark Side of the Moon (Graffiti)

by @FCMaisano

| #audioreflection, ds106, Syndicated
September 27, 2018

Wow…that was both dark and depressing… Very well done though! In terms of the sounds utilized in this audio, I would like to separate the verbal and the non-verbal sounds into two distinct categories. Both are important, but fulfill different roles. First of all, the verbal. Abumrad said that there is the “potential for empathy” […]
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A Very Spidery Audio Drama-Part 2

by @FCMaisano

| ds106, ds106radio, Syndicated
September 27, 2018

On Tuesday, 9/27, I listened to the second broadcast of Anansi Boys. As before, it was pretty easy to listen and tweet along, and I enjoyed it just as much as the first time! It was actually even easier this time around, as I got used to typing quicker and trying to pick up on […]
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A Very Spidery Audio Drama!

by @FCMaisano

| ds106, ds106radio, Syndicated
September 24, 2018

On Monday (9/24), I participated in the first of the four live “tweet-alongs”. We listened to an audio drama-Anansi Boys. The actual process was pretty easy. I just sat at my computer (well, actually, I was lying down on my bed with my computer on my chest and stomach). Twitter is very quick and easy […]
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A Mysterious-Sounding Radio Bumper

by @FCMaisano

| #AudioAssignments, AudioTutorials36, ds106, Syndicated
September 24, 2018

So, I neither listen to the radio often nor have ever created a radio bumper, so this was all new to me! The wording wasn’t hard to think up, as I have heard enough radio in my life to think of what to say. The hardest part was getting the music, which I got from […]
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Radio Show Ideas (Creative Name, I know)

by @FCMaisano

| #radioshowideas, ds106, Syndicated
September 24, 2018

I have to admit-I don’t have any experience with radio shows, so I’m kind of at a loss right now. When I listen to the radio in the car, my family and I either listen to the news or listen to music. I haven’t listened to actual radio shows before, except if Delilah counts during […]
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A Ghostly Siren

by @FCMaisano

| #AudioAssignments, AudioTutorials2298, ds106, Syndicated
September 24, 2018

The Noise I Made: The Original Audio I used: So, for this assignment, I used my roommate’s electric pencil sharpener as the noise to change. Not only is it something we all recognize (I’m everyone has heard an electric pencil sharpener), but it is a steady noise, which makes distorting it and make the noise […]
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A Dorm Room’s Symphony

by @FCMaisano

| #AudioAssignments, AudioTutorials2118, ds106, Syndicated
September 23, 2018

For creating this assignment, which is creating a place just using sound, I decided to take inspiration from real life and make my dorm room. How I came up with that, I have no idea. Perhaps its because I was sitting in my room when thinking of ideas. I wanted to make something that could […]
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A Quiet Office On A Rainy Day

by @FCMaisano

| #AudioAssignments, AudioTutorials70, ds106, Syndicated
September 23, 2018

This story was actually told a different way earlier this semester, in my post introducing my character Maria Segreti. I the post, I described using words. Writing, out of all the options, is definitely my medium, so I wanted to challenge myself to try and describe the story a different way. If you want to […]
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A Froggy Tongue Twister

by @FCMaisano

| #AudioAssignments, AudioTutorials2119, ds106, Syndicated
September 23, 2018

Words: A tree toad loved a she-toad, Who lived up in a tree. He was a two-toed tree toad, But a three-toed toad was she. The two-toed tree toad tried to win, The three-toed she-toad’s heart, For the two-toed tree toad loved the ground, That the three-toed tree toad trod. But the two-toed tree toad […]
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Weekly Summary-Week 3-All the Generators! and Weekly Summary-Week 4-Noob

by @FCMaisano

| ds106, Syndicated, WeeklySummary
September 21, 2018

Week 3 As classes go along in the semester, sometimes they get harder. Other times, stay the same or even get easier and you get more used to the class and how it works. I would say that, for at least this week, I had an easier time. Saturday On Saturday, I looked over the […]
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A Mary Washington Photoblitz

by @FCMaisano

| #photoblitz, ds106, Syndicated
September 20, 2018

So, I started at 2:17 (or 14:17 military time). The pictures are listed here as the page listed them, but I did not take the pictures in this order. 1-1 Square Aspect So, I used the “square” photo setting on my iphone, and I decided to take a picture of a square thing as well! An […]
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Cinematography in Lost Tapes Skinwalker

by @FCMaisano

| ds106, ds106photography, Syndicated
September 19, 2018

The piece of media I analyzed for this blog post is the Skinwalker episode of Lost Tapes, which on Wikipedia is listed as the 11th episode of season 1 and the 2nd episode of season 1 on the Animal Planet website where I watched the episode. To summarize: Andy is visiting his parents at their […]
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