No more status updates.  No more summary posts that says we are X% of the way through the semester.  This is my final post.  My final summary blog.  My final tweet.  My final soundcloud post.  My final YouTube upload.  Five weeks has been completed.  And I put more creative thought into this weeks final exam…

I am so worried.  My friend was all over social media last night.  He was posting pictures and videos of some scary stuff that was happening in his office.  I’m going to try to piece together the timeline here in this blog. He started off with some strange tweets about how creepy his office felt…

Week 1.  Week 2.  Week 3.  Week 4.  Week 5.   Four weeks down.  One to go.       This week, we were tasked with completing twelve stars worth of assignments from the video assignment bank.  Three of these assignments had to relate to our previous weeks answer to “Question of the week”.  Last…

Hola.  For this 4 star video assignment, I was tasked with creating a video that corresponded to an audio story I had told earlier in the semester.  You can find the instructions for this assignment HERE.    My former soundcloud audio assignment will be linked below as well in case you want to hear that…

Hello all!  I found this 3 star assignment I decided to do this week that I believe is rather fun.  If you would like to try it yourself, the instructions can be found HERE.  The assignment entailed creating a video that included “butt” edits.  I was asked to replace something in a video with a…

I found a 4 star assignment in the video assignment bank that I found pretty interesting this week.  You can find the directions to complete it HERE.  The instructions tasked me with creating a video containing my favorite video transition.  I have posted a link to a video below that is on my youtube channel.  The…

I found a video assignment in the ds106 assignment bank worth 2.5 stars.  You can find a link to the assignment itself HERE.  The assignment asked me to create a 1 second video that told a story.  But as a twist, this week we were supposed to link all of our video assignments to our…

This class is coming to a close very quickly now.  We’re about 80% of the way through!  This is my mid-week summary for week 4.  This week centered around techniques for video editing, and movie related camera techniques in general.  There wasn’t much in the way of creation for this week.  Except of course for…

In order to learn more about, I watched 4 videos showing examples of different film-making and editing techniques.   The first I watched was “Examples of Editing techniques”.  The video showed many examples of different scene transitions and editing techniques.  The first shown was the jump cut.  It worked very well from a comedic stand…

Prepare yourself for the dark (hah) version of twinkle twinkle little star. I consider it my masterpiece.  It is a response to the question of the week, which was to rewrite a nursery rhyme to have the opposite feel/meaning as it had before.   Original: Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How we wonder what you are.…

Roger begins his article by introducing us to how he got into the “shot at a time” technique of critiquing films. He even trys to instill in the reader that this is something anyone can get into. Roger provides his own experience in teaching a film class to provide evidence of this notion. he described…

Six summary posts down.  They are dropping like flies it seems.  I hope to be able to express everything I did for this half-week in this post.  So lets get started.   To begin, I will discuss my daily-creates for the week.  The first I completed on Saturday.  It entailed creating a unique info-graphic chart…

I was presented with an interesting task this week.  One of our assignments was to describe an alternate timeline of events, and make an audio clip of that brave new world.  I have done just that!  Below you will find a link to my soundclip alternate history sound clip.  I hope you enjoy it.  If…

I found an assignment on the audio assignment bank that reached out to me.  I wanted to do it, and not to do it at the same time.  The details of the assignment were for the user to create a mashup of sounds that the user really dislikes.  I wanted to express my hate for…

For this audio bank assignment, I was tasked finding 4 or 5 sounds that I find personally pleasing.  The assignment details for this can be found HERE.    This assignment was worth 2 stars according to the details on the website.   Below you will find a link to the mashup of all those sounds!  I…

Your dual daily dose of double daily creates are here.  Below you will find my two daily creates for the end of the 3rd week of my Digital Storytelling class.  The first daily create I will discuss is just below this paragraph.  We were tasked with coloring a nifty photograph of what appears to be…

I created a story this week entirely out of sound clips.  You can listen to it on my soundcloud link below.  See if you can understand what the moral of the story is.       The assignment instructions for this interesting piece can be found here.   If you would like to make a story…

Hello all!  It seems we are halfway through the class, because here our 3rd midweek summary is upon us!     As usual, another summary means another set of daily creates.  These are almost always my favorite part of the week as they involve a quick random bit of creativity.  For the first time this…

This week we were to listen to and review certain aspects of a soundcloud podcast titled “Moon Graffiti”.  The podcast was a veritable cornucopia of sound effects mixed with voice to produce a drama filled time twisting journey of weirdness.  The podcast starts off with a large mix of alarm noises and actors reading off…

Its time to review my R&R for the week.  No, not rest and relaxation.  Though I could totally use that right now.  I am referring to the Reading and Resources we are to reflect upon for this mid-week deadline. I came into this class with only a small bit of experience in editing audio. I…

The daily creates for this half-week were fun to complete.  The first that I completed on Tuesday 6/5/2018 (found here if you would like to try it) was confusing in what they were asking for.  I pretty much guessed at what I should do.  But that was the fun part.  I wanted to use a…

Another Sunday has come and gone.  This week we focused on design, and image manipulation.  We used tools like Photoshop and Gimp to manipulate images into fitting our own desires. I started the week by doing two daily-creates.  The first daily create (which can be found here) was about creating the description for a fictional…

I found a really neat design assignment that tasked me with creating my own superhero image.  This design assignment was worth 4.5 stars, and the details can be found here if you would like to try it as well.   I call my superhero Tacky Man!  Here is the image I was able to generate…

To complete my timeline altering story-line of the events surrounding 9/11, I have selected a single image to manipulate.  The image I have chosen is one of President George W. Bush aboard an aircraft carrier.  Behind him you can see a banner displaying the words “MISSION ACCOMPLISHED”.  This was in 2003, and President Bush was…

Below you will see an image of a fake book cover. The imaginary book was created as an homage to our question of the week from this past Wednesday! Mine details an important change in history. The prevention of the events surrounding 9/11. Continue reading to learn more. This post was modeled after an assignment…

    Hello all!  I have another nifty summary to present here today.  To begin my (half)week, I did my daily-creates.  This weeks selection seemed to focus mainly on fonts.  For Tuesdays daily-create (linked here in case you want to try it) I had to think long and hard to create a super-creepy message.  This message…

Our question of the week this week was “If you could change one event from our history, what would you change, what be the results, and why would you change it?”   I didn’t particularly like any of the topics presented.  I thought about talking about the Cuban missile crisis for a bit.  But there…

This week I was tasked with taking pictures of things that exhibit the basic principles of design.  I found searching for this to be hard.  The easiest place in the end seemed to be within the pages of magazines.  Ill give you one guess what I found to exhibit these principles the most.  Yep, thats…

The second deadline of a busy week has now come to its conclusion.  In this post I hope to summarize what I have accomplished in the last three days.  Keep in mind this assignment is typically completed within a deadline of one or two weeks.  It was a lot of reading and photography work.  …