For my final project, I wanted to stick with some of the themes that were implemented by my group projects – the audio and visual projects – and frame my narrative through the lens of my character’s point of view. The largest part of my final project was a VCSO …
At the beginning, nothing really seemed out of the ordinary. In The Digital Age, people all over the world were constantly receiving exposure to breaking news updates and viral media content on a vast range of topics every day. We had all heard of the “Apocalyptic Fiction Genre” that seemed …
Week 12
On assignment notes:
For my 12 stars of media assignments, I chose to re-do my original cover – a GIF of a the last man on earth, Lionel, walking on the beach, which I did before I even got to the ending and found out the closing image …
Emerging Evidence: Today I found the following flyer stapled to every tree/pole in my neighborhood. It was also trending on social media and on every office building I drove past. It’s everywhere – it seems like it’s from some kind of intel seeking/leaking organization… I don’t know what to think, …
For one of my media assignments, I went a different direction. I made a Pinterest boat for the The Countess of Windsor, who for reference is described by Wikipedia as, “Mother of Adrian and Idris, an Austrian princess and former Queen of England. She is haughty and ambitious, scheming to …
After having read the novel, I realized that my first book cover was pretty much flawless. It fit the ending – the most significant part of the narrative – perfectly. So I decided to take it in a new, more satirical direction. This GIF focuses more on the internal emotions …
Alternate Ending:
The novel ends with Lionel swimming to shore and coming to the realization that he is the last man on earth. I kind of hated that, so I changed it. I mean it was a great book – but I like my apocalyptic fiction to be more inspiring …
Week 11 Reflection:
On luck:
In 3rd grade, I wrote my first academic essay; it was a research paper on grizzly bears. In 4th grade, I wrote my second one on Harriet Tubman. From that point on, research papers were my thing, and still are. I still think bears are …
Week 10 Summary
This week, I do not have much to report. Really. I feel like I said everything there is to say about my week in terms of this class in my assignments – specifically the blog posts for Path Two and the video assignment(s) blog post. So I’m …
Last semester I took an “Intro to Cinema” class where I learned stuff I thought I would never, ever, under any circumstances associated with my normal life at any point in time need to use. However, the Week 10 video assignments from have proved me wrong.
After watching four of …
Okie dokie – here is the finished video!
Closing comments: On Lorraine Baxter
I would like to believe that this project – even in sticking to the main concept we devised as a group – ties into my character’s interests and post-apocalyptic skillset as a reporter/communications savant and documentary journalist. …
So at this point, I have assembled footage of my dogs (which came out PERFECTLY if I do say so myself – Simon was an excellent actor, standing at attention by the front door; he’s such a good boy), and also some places on campus and around my house. I …
After the first week, nobody has assembled any footage to my knowledge. But we still have time and we only need to come up with like under two minutes of raw footage, so it’s pretty low stress.
We are, at this point, discussing more in-depth what kinds of settings we …
When we first formed our group, David, Rachel and I agreed that we wanted to do a video that was structured in a way that enabled individual contributions that could easily augment each other in a more fluid, collaborative way. We decided that our video would be a montage of …
Yeah so this is for my assignment revision. I chose to modify my character’s outfit design –
First, I actually used the avatar/character I created earlier in the semester and then did my darnedest to dress her in the original outfit, and for all the same reasons. However, this submission …
This week, as we wrapped up the radio show projects and took the time to tune into each other’s broadcasts, deliberately seek out other students’ work to submit personal commentary to, and revisiting old assignments, I found that this week served as a temporary break between the more demanding and …
At the conclusion of our project, we were able to accomplish all of the goals we had set and our final project honored our initial vision. Though much of the process happened in spite of challenging communications strategies, collaboration over digital media rather than in-person meetings, and lengthy discussions over …
Yes. That was the best title I could think of for this week’s reflection post (7 and 8). The real apocalypse starts with us returning to creating emoji sentiments out of existing punctuation indicators and speaking like height-of-his-career-collaborates-with-Justin-Bieber-phase Sean Kingston. Soon, we’ll be wearing gaucho pants… or long, poorly-color-coordinated plaid …
So our group project progressed the way Ansel Elgort’s character in The Fault in Our Stars fell in love – slow at first, and then all at once.
Our group was comprised of individuals who struggled to secure groups using the social media techniques that were available, and had to …
Week 6:
I plan to revisit week six specifically later this week because the assignments associated with Design are the most intriguing to me, personally, out of all of the major themes we have addressed this semester up to week 10. I completed the six stars of design assignments, character …
Since Lorraine specializes in photography, documentary, and journalism and her role as a Shepherd will prompt her to use digital media and reporting techniques to highlight, document, and preserve as much of our world and of the apocalypse as she can, I wanted to put her in an outfit …
Here is a GIF illustrating how I imagine The Last Man (on Earth) would be; if I, personally, were the last person on earth, I imagine my presumably somber and lonely mindset would prompt me to wander a beach, longing for the days when the water and …
SO this week I learned that it is illegal to download audio from YouTube…
And that any “helpful” programs that are meant to execute such downloads for you are pretty much always scams that introduce all kinds of malware and viruses to your laptop. Even if the guy at the …
For one of my audio assignments, I chose to create a collection of my favorite sounds based on my home growing up. In this clip, you hear the rumbling snores of a big dog, piano music playing in the background (in this case, The Entertainer by Scott Joplin), a podcast …
For this assignment, I decided to reorder five songs from the Burlesque soundtrack to reflect one woman’s journey towards embracing her womanhood – including an internal battle over appreciating and expressing her sexuality, finding a sense of empowerment in her femininity, further exploring her own personal style and manner of …
Below is the resume of my character, Lorraine Baxter. She is the “shepherd,” so she is keen on getting to know people personally, connecting, and considering the health and safety of others during times of tribulation. She has a background in photography, cinematography, communications, and rhetoric. She has worked at …
Visual Assignment:
This is my favorite photo that I have ever taken. I took it at some restaurant in Chicago. Why? It’s been ten years, and I still don’t know. Maybe it’s the lighting. Maybe its the feeling it leaves me with when I look at it. Maybe …
