Today’s Issues on KLLM Radio

Today’s Issues on KLLM Radio

by @KaseyMayer

| radioshowweek2, Syndicated
October 20, 2017

Luckily this week was relatively simple because my group met last week and assigned all the roles so that we could all be set and ready to compile everything when we met this week. Honestly, the hardest part this week was finding a meeting time […]
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Group Work in Week Seven

by @KaseyMayer

| Syndicated, WeeklySummary, WeekSeven
October 13, 2017

This week was a radio show focused week with more audio editing practice. This week we picked groups and started working on our radio shows. I feel really good about my group and where we are at right now. My group has decided our name, […]
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Moment of Peace

by @KaseyMayer

| #AudioAssignments, audioassignments1551, Syndicated
October 13, 2017

Finally, I chose this 3.5 assignment that said to convey an emotion using sounds. This assignment said to create an emotion using at least four sounds. I chose to base this more off of my superhero for this class. One of Weather Woman’s favorite things […]
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It’s Calling

by @KaseyMayer

| #AudioAssignments, AudioAssignments152, Syndicated
October 13, 2017

My next assignment was a 3 star assignment to create a ringtone that was 40 seconds or less. My original plan was to edit and layer some guitar tracks to make a ringtone. I spent some time going through freesounds.org trying to find one that worked […]
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Radio Show Progress in the HCC

by @KaseyMayer

| radioshowweek1, Syndicated
October 13, 2017

I actually feel really good about where my group is at for the radio show project. My group members are Maggie, Laila, and Lilah. We started a google doc on Monday so that we could start coordinating. We decided that it would be best if […]
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Haunted Advertisements

by @KaseyMayer

| #AudioAssignments, audioassignments1418, Syndicated
October 13, 2017

For my first assignment this week I chose to alter the 4.5 star spooky sounds assignment to create a commercial for my groups radio show. This assignment technically says create a spooky soundtrack using only sounds. However, I altered it slightly so that I could […]
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KLLM Poster

by @KaseyMayer

| radioshowpromo, Syndicated
October 13, 2017

This is the poster I created for my groups Radio Show, KLLM Radio. So I actually did not do a lot of editing on the image, but I did put a lot of thought into it. The base image is a picture I took while […]
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Designs in Week Six

by @KaseyMayer

| Syndicated, WeeklySummary, WeekSix
October 6, 2017

Week six coming to a close, almost halfway there! First there was my design reflection from one of the offered readings. Overall, the reading just really surprised me with the amount of things that creators have to consider when designing an advertisement or making a […]
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Weather Woman’s Weatherman Transporter

by @KaseyMayer

| designassignments, DesignAssignments1694, Syndicated
October 6, 2017

For my final assignment, I chose this 3.5 design assignment asking me to create an advertisement for a product I wished existed. I created a product for my superhero. A Weatherman Transporter. One of her missions is to get rid of bad weathermen. This device […]
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Design in the Real World

by @KaseyMayer

| designblitz, Syndicated
October 6, 2017

For my DesignBlitz, I found the four following designs. I feel that this design is a good example of message. This is a payment plan poster for the payment plans offered by the Office of Student Accounts. The message is money, needing it and using […]
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Super Tattoo

by @KaseyMayer

| #DesignAssignments2112, designassignments, Syndicated
October 6, 2017

For my “select one” assignment, I chose to make my own superpower tattoo. I cannot stand driving. I don’t like sitting in the car sitting in traffic. I don’t like the drain of watching the road in front of me. The only times I do […]
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Motivating You

by @KaseyMayer

| designassignments, DesignAssignments1887, Syndicated
October 6, 2017

For my second assignment I chose this three star assignment that said to create a motivational poster. For this assignment, I was inspired by something last week and my superhero character. Last week, when I listened to the DS 106 radio, I listened to […]
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Movie Minimalism

by @KaseyMayer

| designassignments, DesignAssignments43, Syndicated
October 6, 2017

For my first assignment this week I chose one worth 3.5 stars. This one said to create a minimalist poster for a movie. WARNING! MOVIE SPOILER BELOW!!! For this poster, realistically you probably would have had to see the movie to completely understand the poster. […]
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Thoughts on Design

by @KaseyMayer

| designthoughts, Syndicated, Thoughts/Ideas
October 6, 2017

I actually found this reading very interesting. I knew advertising was more than simple pictures and text but I didn’t realize there were so many different aspects to design. Massimo Vignelli says that the three most important aspects of design are semantic (meaning), syntactic, and […]
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Action Packed Soundtrack of Week Five

by @KaseyMayer

| Syndicated, WeekFive, WeeklySummary
September 29, 2017

Done with the first month, in to the second. Audio was the overarching theme this time around. For this week we had to do three daily creates. First was combining two fears. Spider's and Smalltalk, oh my!! #ds106 #tdc2085 pic.twitter.com/FhYNTUD8Oq — Kasey Mayer (@KaseyMayer) September […]
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The Impact of Sound

by @KaseyMayer

| #audioreflection, Syndicated
September 29, 2017

The first thing that comes to mind when considering audio narratives is “It’s not what you say, but how you say it.” While what you say is definitely important, sound can change the meaning whether through tone, special effects, and music. For example, in Moon […]
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The Origin of Weather Woman

by @KaseyMayer

| superherosoundtrack, Syndicated
September 29, 2017

One of our assignments this week was to create an introduction for our character (like the Powerpuff Girls). To do this, I used my own voice and freesounds.org for the music and sound effects. I started simply with the character name and then into her […]
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Weather Woman Power Sample

by @KaseyMayer

| #AudioAssignments, AudioAssignments406, Syndicated
September 29, 2017

This 2.5 star assignment said to make a weather sound using your voice and objects around you. I needed to get a little crafty with this assignment. The rules of this assignment were that I had to make a weather sound using only myself and […]
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Bumper Break in DS106 Radio

by @KaseyMayer

| radiobumper, Syndicated
September 29, 2017

This week, we had to create a 10-30 second bumper for DS106 Radio. I created this bumper using audacity. I used 2 sounds from freesongs.org and a recording of my own voice to make it. I’m not sure how to describe the sound it starts […]
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Thursday Soundtrack

by @KaseyMayer

| #AudioAssignments, AudioAssignments1524, Syndicated
September 29, 2017

This 4 star assignment said to record different sounds throughout your day and compile them into a soundtrack. So here is my typical Thursday this semester. I wasn’t able to record something from each step of my day, but my Thursdays are pretty repetitive so […]
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What’s the story?

by @KaseyMayer

| #AudioAssignments, #AudioAssignments70, Syndicated
September 29, 2017

This 3.5 star assignment said to create a story using only sounds. For this assignment, I decided to go with something easy to guess, but more emotional impact. All sounds came from freesound.org and then complied using audacity. The sounds were: music, crash, ambulance, flat line, […]
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Who Would Listen to This Radio Show?

by @KaseyMayer

| #radioshowideas, Syndicated
September 29, 2017

This week we had to come up with some possible ideas for a the DS106 Radio show. Here are some of the ideas I had: An origins show for some characters of today’s popular superhero stories. Explain how different characters came to be and who […]
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Trying to Follow DS106 Radio

by @KaseyMayer

| ds106radio, Syndicated
September 29, 2017

I listened to DS106 Radio on Thursday September 28th. It was an interesting experience. For that session, they played the audio for a Batman story. The audio itself was very good, clear with good layering and sound movement from the left to the right. The […]
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Sickness Strikes in Week Four

by @KaseyMayer

| Syndicated, WeeaklySummary, WeekFour
September 22, 2017

Sickness starting circulating at UMW and while I have thankful help off from the worst, I have been feeling not to hot all week and trying to sleep it off. This lead to a lag in my participation unfortunately. I looked at twitter every day […]
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Visual Narratives in the Superhero Universe

by @KaseyMayer

| ds106photography, Syndicated
September 22, 2017

The first reading “Telling Stories in Photos” focuses on how to take better pictures and explains how they can be more than just a picture. The reading referenced a famous photo of a migrant mother. That picture is not only an image of the mother, […]
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A Photographer in the Age of Smartphones

by @KaseyMayer

| photoreflection, Syndicated
September 22, 2017

As of late, I only really take pictures using my phone. I do have a decent digital camera, but I almost ever use it because most of my photos are very spur of the moment. When I was younger and mostly took pictures with my […]
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Exploring My Apartment Through Photoblitz

by @KaseyMayer

| #photoblitz, Syndicated
September 22, 2017

For this assignment, we had to use Photoblitz. Photoblitz gives you several photo assignments that you have 20 minutes to complete. When reviewing the list, I saw a few things that I knew I could get pictures of pretty easily so I decided to do […]
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Saturated Sunset

by @KaseyMayer

| #VisualAssignments348, Syndicated, visualassignments
September 22, 2017

For my last assignment, I chose a two star photo editing assignment that said we needed to switch up the mood of a picture. For this assignment I used a free photo editing software to adjust certain aspect of the first image to change the […]
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Everything But the Kitchen Sink

by @KaseyMayer

| Syndicated, visualassignments, visualassignments1556
September 22, 2017

For this 2.5 start assignment, I had to take a picture of all of the stuff in my purse. Inventory: Book I am reading (This one is Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill-Stephen Kings son) Phone cord with wall and car adapter 15 lip products […]
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Weather Woman’s Wild Quest

by @KaseyMayer

| Syndicated, visualassignments, VisualAssignments1386
September 22, 2017

For this 2.5 start assignment, I had to make a wanted poster using a poster generator. I decided to connect it to my superhero character by showing her vendetta against other weathermen who always get the weather wrong. I got the image for this poster […]
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