Week Fourteen Summary

Week Fourteen Summary

by @grace_long88

| Syndicated, week fourteen, WeeklySummary
November 30, 2021

This semester I have learned a lot about using different forms of media to tell a story. Now when I see pictures and watch movies, I see them in a different way. I am thinking about the photographer/videographer and trying to see the message they are trying to tell. I
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Final Project

by @grace_long88

| Final Project, Syndicated
November 30, 2021

Recently I have been thinking a lot about my college experience. I am so happy I came to Mary Washington and had so many great classes and met so many good people. I am also thankful for how much I have changed throughout college. Looking back, I am nothing like
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Message To Share

by @grace_long88

| Final Project, Syndicated, WeeklySummary
November 18, 2021

These past couple of weeks we have been thinking about what our final project will be, with the prompt “What is the message you want to share with the world?”. This is a very hard decision to make because I feel like I have many stories and messages to tell
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Week Twelve Summary

by @grace_long88

| Syndicated, Week Twelve, WeeklySummary
November 11, 2021

This week we worked on mashups and remixes. I thought it was really fun to take an assignment and change it a little to create a completely different assignment. With the holidays coming up, for my first assignment, I created an image that combined Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years. Thanksgiving
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Open House

by @grace_long88

| Remix9, RemixAssignments, RemixedAssignments3663, Syndicated, Week Twelve
November 10, 2021

Come join us for this Open House. It is in a great neighborhood and won’t be on the market long. For this assignment, my remix was to make a terrible event poster. I chose to make an Open House poster. For it I selected colors that did not go together
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Infomercial

by @grace_long88

| Remix20, RemixAssignments, RemixedAssignments2385, Syndicated, Week Twelve
November 10, 2021

Are you experiencing headaches, muscle aches, loss of apatite, etc.? Ask you doctor to take this medicine. For this remix assignment, I created a bad infomercial. I used my roommate as the subject and recorded a voice over in Audacity. I then but the videos and sound together using Slideshow
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Nursery Songs

by @grace_long88

| #MashupAssignments, MashupAssignments2652, Syndicated, Week Twelve
November 9, 2021

Have you ever noticed that Twinkle Twinkle, the ABC Song and Ba Ba Black Sheep all have the same toon? For this assignment I edited the three songs together to show their similarity. I was hard to find a all three songs with the same tempo so I had to
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Happy Holidays

by @grace_long88

| #MashupAssignments, MashUpAssignments1872, Syndicated, Week Twelve
November 8, 2021

Many people combine Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years or they celebrate them all in the same season so I decided to mash up these holidays in a gif. These are also three of my favorite holidays. I created a scene of a turkey celebrating Christmas in a snow globe on
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Week Eleven Summary

by @grace_long88

| Syndicated, Week Eleven, WeeklySummary
November 4, 2021

This week we continued working with telling a story through videos. I chose three different weekly assignments to get to my 10 stars. This first assignment I chose was to create a video of a vacation. I thought this assignment was perfect for me because I love filming vacations. I
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Falling Leaves

by @grace_long88

| Syndicated, VideoAssignments, VideoAssignments1654, Week Eleven
November 3, 2021

For this assignment I tried to film a time-lapse of the leaves falling. I think it was a little too soon for this video and maybe one leaf actually fell. But I will definitely re-try this assignment once it gets a little colder. In the video I thought it was
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Count Down To Christmas

by @grace_long88

| Syndicated, VideoAssignments, VideoAssignments1487, Week Eleven
November 2, 2021

It’s November which means it’s Christmas time!! So for one of my assignments this week I chose to make a countdown to Christmas. It is composed of scenes from Christmas movies. This assignment ended up being a lot more difficult than I anticipated. I quickly realized I haven’t even seen
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Life Is A Journey

by @grace_long88

| Syndicated, VideoAssignments, VideoAssignments1036, Week Eleven
November 1, 2021

It is amazing how a video is able to capture a moment. I love to take videos when I am traveling or with friends and family so I can look back and remember how I was feeling and relive the moment. For this assignment I took videos my siblings and
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Week Ten Summary

by @grace_long88

| Syndicated, Week Ten, WeeklySummary
October 28, 2021

This week we focused on videos. We started the week by learning about how to edit videos and what to look for in your clips. I created my video essay with the show Golden Girls. In the assignment I looked for what we learned from the tutorials. I liked how
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Day In My Life

by @grace_long88

| Syndicated, VideoAssignments, VideoAssignments2290, Week Ten
October 28, 2021

Here is a quick view at what a day in my life looks like. For this assignment I tried to get a clip every hour but I couldn’t get one every hour because of class or work meetings where I could not take my phone out. I also had a
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What I Eat In A Day!

by @grace_long88

| Syndicated, VideoAssignments, VideoAssignments2645, Week Ten
October 28, 2021

For one of my video assignments I wanted to make a What I Eat In A Day. I love to make food and cook but unfortunately this week was pretty busy so I didn’t have a lot of interesting meal. So this is more of a busy, realistic representation of
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Arrow Dancing

by @grace_long88

| Syndicated, VideoAssignments, videoassignments1156, Week Ten
October 27, 2021

Since everyone loved the video of Arrow last time I thought this was a perfect opportunity to bring him back. He is a crazy kid and loves to dance. I have millions of videos of Arrow so it was not hard to find the perfect one. I then used tiktok
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Golden Girls

by @grace_long88

| Syndicated, videoessay, Week Ten
October 26, 2021

My roommate and I are currently watching Golden Girls together and when I was learning about video editing I thought this would be a great show to use for my video essay. Also Bob Ross was from Florida and Golden Girls is set in Florida so it connected to the
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More Project Ideas

by @grace_long88

| projectideas2, Syndicated, Week Ten
October 26, 2021

Reading through everyone’s project ideas was very inspirational. Everyone had great ideas and I am excited to see how they turn out. The first idea that really stood out to me was Carrie’s. She talked about how overcoming obstacles and achievements can tell a great story. I think this could
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Week Nine Summary

by @grace_long88

| Syndicated, Week One
October 21, 2021

This week we focused on looking ahead. I spent most of my week thinking about what I can do for the final project. This is a big assignment I am kind of nervous for it but I can up with a few ideas that I think would be fun to
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Happy Fall

by @grace_long88

| Syndicated, Week Nine
October 20, 2021

For my daily creates this week I wanted them to all represent Fall. Fall is my favorite season and it just started so I thought it would be perfect. I started the week by making a gif. I found a free image online that portrayed the calendar month of October.
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The Final Count Down

by @grace_long88

| projectideas, Syndicated, Week Nine
October 20, 2021

As we near the end of the semester, I am starting to think about what I can do for the final project. I really enjoyed giving advise to freshman in the radio show. I am about to graduate in December and I feel that I have learned a lot throughout
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The Joy Of Music

by @grace_long88

| radiolisten, Syndicated, Week Nine
October 19, 2021

Tonight I listened to The Joy Of Music. I thought this group did an amazing job with their radio show. I love music as well, I always use it to brighten my mood or get me out of a weird head space. I really enjoyed listening to how they use
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Take a Guess! (redone)

by @grace_long88

| Syndicated, Week Nine
October 18, 2021

I wanted to redo this assignment because I recently got a new phone with a better camera. The last time I did this assignment the photo was not good quality so I thought it would be fun to do it again with a better quality photo. So take a guess
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Before & After (redone)

by @grace_long88

| Syndicated, Week Nine
October 18, 2021

My favorite season is Fall. I love the way the leaves change and the temperature is perfect outside. I also love wearing comfy jackets and sweatshirts. I think it is remarkable how different outside looks in different seasons. For my first rework I decided to try the Color Changer assignment
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Week Eight Summary

by @grace_long88

| Syndicated, week eight, WeeklySummary
October 14, 2021

Because of Fall Break, I got an early start on this week’s assignments. I signed up to compile my groups segments together and make them all uniform. So I also knew I had to get ahead of my work so I would have time at the end of the week
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Progress Report

by @grace_long88

| Syndicated, week eight
October 14, 2021

Because of Fall Break, I got an early start on this week’s assignments. I signed up to compile my groups segments together and make them all uniform. So I also knew I had to get ahead of my work so I would have time at the end of the week
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Week Seven Summary

by @grace_long88

| radioshowpromo, Syndicated, week seven, WeeklySummary
October 7, 2021

This week we started making our radio shows. We formed into groups on Saturday and started talking about what we want to focus on in our show. My group, The Core, decided it would be fun to give advice to freshman at Mary Washington. We are going to talk about
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The Core

by @grace_long88

| #AudioAssignments, AudioAssignments2616, Syndicated, week seven
October 7, 2021

For this assignment I created a bumper for our radio show. I recorded myself introducing the show and our group. Then, I found some royalty free music and added it to the background. My group also decided we were going to put a bumper before each commercial so I told
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Status Update

by @grace_long88

| radioshowpromo, radioshowweek1, Syndicated, week seven
October 6, 2021

You’re Listening to DS106 radio with The Core… Our radio show is giving advice to freshman at Mary Washington. We all remember freshman year as being very overwhelming and not easy to navigate. So we thought it would be helpful to give them some tips and tricks we have discovered
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Music Lessons

by @grace_long88

| #AudioAssignments, AudioAssignments2732, Syndicated, week seven
October 5, 2021

I played Clarinet and Bass Clarinet in middle school and my best friend played French Horn. So for this assignment I choose these three instruments to create music with. I haven’t read sheet music since middle school so I was a little rusty at first, but it came back just
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