What a wild ride. Goodbye, The End.

What a wild ride. Goodbye, The End.

by @KatieHartraft

| Assignments, audio, Reflection Posts, Syndicated, Video, Weekly Posts
April 30, 2018

These past few weeks have been a whirlwind, I one-hundred percent cannot believe it’s already the end of the semester. Here are the Daily Creates I completed: #tdc2290 I’m floating along, having fun, but also I have no clue what I’m doing pic.twitter.com/BBoE7XSOSI — Katie Hartraft (@KatieHartraft) April 17, […]
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It’s Just About The End of The End

by @KatieHartraft

| Assignments, Syndicated
April 26, 2018

With the semester winding down, my group’s final project is only just starting! I can’t believe it’s the last week of classes, though I am ready for it. This class has been amazing and has taught me so much more than I thought it would at the beginning. via GIPHY (side […]
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A Dozen Weeks In

by @KatieHartraft

| Syndicated, Weekly Posts
April 16, 2018

This week has been super fun creating fan media for my book, World War Z! I loved having the topic already chosen (the contents of the book and some from the movie adaptation) and then having a refined list of things from different categories to choose from (I highly applaud […]
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Millard Rausch Isn’t Who He Says He Is??

by @KatieHartraft

| evidence, Reflection Posts, Syndicated
April 15, 2018

When thinking about evidence, there was one thing I wanted to break apart more than anything: Dr. Millard Rausch’s first appearance. I went and rewatched the video from week 5 where Dr. Rausch came into Martha’s office. I noticed that he mentioned a student who was on the slack but […]
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A Fragment of What World War Z Sounded Like

by @KatieHartraft

| #AudioAssignments, Assignments, audio, AudioAssignments2118, Syndicated
April 13, 2018

I was going to do a visual assignment, but the audio assignment Create A Place was just too interesting to NOT do. I flipped through my copy of World War Z, trying to find the best setting to use (and there are so many to choose from!). At one point, […]
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Phalanx, the Cure for All Your Pandemic Worries!

by @KatieHartraft

| Assignments, design, designassignments, DesignAssignments807, Syndicated
April 13, 2018

I knew I wanted to go into design again, and a thought that kept resurfacing was the fake vaccine that was prevalent in World War Z. Phalanx was a vaccine for rabies, and since the zombie pandemic was initially labeled “African rabies,” it was sellable. The whole thing was a […]
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Why So Serious? You’re in Zombieland!

by @KatieHartraft

| Assignments, Syndicated, Video, VideoAssignments, VideoAssignments1160
April 13, 2018

More fandom creations of World War Z! I did the assignment Why So Serious? in which I had to put funny audio over a dramatic (even traumatic) scene from the movie adaptation of my book. Initially, I wasn’t quite sure what comedy to dub over World War Z. I played around […]
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World War Z Remixed Ending

by @KatieHartraft

| #AudioAssignments, Assignments, audio, AudioAssignments71, Syndicated
April 11, 2018

The ending to the movie World War Z is much different than that of the book, but it lent itself into remixing quite well. I went through a good number of scenes online to see which I wanted to remix, and the ending was the one with the most normal […]
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Week 11…Give it up for Week 11!

by @KatieHartraft

| Syndicated, Weekly Posts
April 9, 2018

This week has been very busy but very fun! I am honestly proud of all that I’ve made and I am so thankful for this class giving me the opportunity to work on all these creative projects I would not have come up with elsewhere! The biggest undertaking I had […]
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Five CDE Questions Answered

by @KatieHartraft

| Assignments, Syndicated, Video, VideoAssignments, VideoAssignments2220
April 9, 2018

Vanessa Locke asked me to answer some questions for whatever reason… so I chose a few and responded (in many cases a little too thoroughly and I had to sped things up or edit them down). Making this video wasn’t too challenging. Again, I had to use my phone to […]
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28 Days Later 2 Days Later

by @KatieHartraft

| Assignments, Syndicated, Video
April 7, 2018

I watched the film 28 Days Later on Thursday. I had heard a lot of hype about this movie before I saw it, but to be completely honest I wasn’t a huge fan. I think the major reason the movie didn’t strike me was the quality of world building wasn’t […]
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Alt-F4 Lip Sync

by @KatieHartraft

| Assignments, Syndicated, Video, VideoAssignments, VideoAssignments1706
April 6, 2018

I decided to undertake the Lip Sync Along assignment and tie it in to our radio show and The End. I really wanted to download everyone’s radio show and do a little bit of all of them, but when I couldn’t immediate download all of them I started working on […]
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Chipmunk Ben Wyatt and Ron Swanson

by @KatieHartraft

| Assignments, Syndicated, Video, VideoAssignments, VideoAssignments1246
April 3, 2018

I chose to do the Chipmunk Style assignment and it was the best stress reliever I could have had this week. I didn’t know what show or movie I should have done for this assignment, so I asked my roommate. The first thing she thought of was “anything Ron Swanson and/or […]
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Week 10 – We’re in the Double Digits Now

by @KatieHartraft

| Syndicated, Weekly Posts
April 2, 2018

Making videos this week was really fun, though time consuming. I only had my phone to work with, since I sadly left my good camera at home, but at least it still ended up producing really nice quality! To tie a video into the radio shows we listened to, I […]
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Night of Reading the Dead

by @KatieHartraft

| Reflection Posts, Syndicated
April 2, 2018

Roger Ebert’s essay “How to Read a Movie” spoke on how camera angles and positioning of characters within a frame are incredibly telling to the essence of the scene. I more so enjoyed his point that more can be seen through multiple people’s eyes. Ebert said: “For example, I had been […]
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How My Shoes Saw the Dawn of the Apocalypse

by @KatieHartraft

| Assignments, Syndicated, Video
March 31, 2018

I was making one of those trendy videos of your shoes as you’re walking when something crazy started happening on campus. I had just gotten lunch at Blackstone when the screams broke out, then there were flashes of strange light all around me. I had to find a safe space […]
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Never Before Seen Footage of Patricia Wellington Before She Became a HGTV Star

by @KatieHartraft

| Assignments, Syndicated, Video, VideoAssignments, VideoAssignments478
March 30, 2018

This just in: new, raw footage of the famous HGTV star Patricia Wellington has recently surfaced in the media. We see here the roots of her budding career, and the only glimpse of the fabled “Susan” anyone has ever captured. This video is from her audition to the show that […]
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Week Nine, in sum

by @KatieHartraft

| Syndicated, Weekly Posts
March 26, 2018

This week has been a nice sluggish week after the rush of producing our radio show. Speaking of our radio show, here is my reflection of the experience (along with the listening of others’ shows): Radio Show – A Glance Back The assignment I redid this week was the write […]
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Radio Show – A Glance Back

by @KatieHartraft

| Reflection Posts, Syndicated
March 26, 2018

My Radio Show Gif It Good: a post about how my addiction to gifs is never-ending 📺 #theend106 #ds106 https://t.co/jhnQe4DlO0 pic.twitter.com/ebMKOIaKSa — cypherpunk106 (@cypherpunk106) March 5, 2018 The production of my radio show was both fun and tedious. Writing the show was great, adding in every detail we could and […]
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World War Z Alternate Ending

by @KatieHartraft

| Assignments, Syndicated, writing, writingassignments, WritingAssignments1552
March 26, 2018

Chesapeake, Virginia [Charlee Faraday walks with me through the city she is currently living in and trying to raise back up (from the dead, so to speak). Her role is small but important, a local radio newscaster, talk show host, and DJ.] I don’t know why you’re deciding to interview […]
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Has it Been Three Weeks or Three Years?

by @KatieHartraft

| Syndicated, Weekly Posts
March 19, 2018

A good chunk of time has passed and a lot has been happening! So here’s a recap. Daily Creates My daily creates these past couple weeks have continued to get my creative juices flowing in different directions while my group and I worked on our radio show. @ds106dc In The […]
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Radio Show Planning, What’s Going On??

by @KatieHartraft

| Assignments, Syndicated
March 4, 2018

This week my group came together and we planned out much of our radio show. We came up with our group name, Alt-F4 (props to Chris for coming up the the idea) which is the keystroke to close windows on a computer (AKA to bring about The End). Together we […]
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Week 6 in the Bag

by @KatieHartraft

| Syndicated, Weekly Posts
February 26, 2018

Thanks to this week working in design, I am now aware of design all around me, everywhere I go. I understand why certain designs get my attention and how they do so. I have familiarized myself with Canva this week, which has quickened the rate I am able to make […]
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Oops I Blitzed It Again

by @KatieHartraft

| Assignments, design, Syndicated
February 26, 2018

Space and hierarchy. The majority of this sign being open space makes the message more immediate. Also the 2 is the most important information on the sign so it is the largest symbol. #theend106 #ds106 #designblitz A post shared by Katie Hartraft (@katiehartraft) on Feb 25, 2018 at 5:12pm PST […]
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CHARLEE Lettering

by @KatieHartraft

| Assignments, design, designassignments, DesignAssignments2101, Syndicated
February 25, 2018

For this assignment, I had to use the cool letters website to get inspiration for writing my name. I instead used my character’s name, since after a while my own name started to look too weird to continue. The first Charlee represents her collected-yet-still-getting-the-ropes nature. Next is her bolder […]
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Charlee, We’ve Got You Covered

by @KatieHartraft

| Assignments, design, designassignments, DesignAssignments1732, Syndicated
February 25, 2018

Charlee Faraday, featured above in her own issue of Charlee Magazine. I decided a great post to add to the building of my character, Charlee Faraday, would be to do the assignment “We’ve Got You Covered.” I used Canva for this assignment, finding a template magazine cover and altering it […]
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Design is Much More Complicated Than I First Thought

by @KatieHartraft

| Reflection Posts, Syndicated
February 24, 2018

via GIPHY Paula Scher’s Ted Talk “Great Design is Serious, Not Solemn” touches on something I often have to look at: keeping my work fun and created not just for the sake of meeting a deadline. Her speaking on how popular styles (regarding anything) make the artist start to churn […]
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World War Z – New 2018 Cover!

by @KatieHartraft

| Assignments, design, designassignments, DesignAssignments2187, Syndicated
February 23, 2018

I have created my own cover for the book World War Z by Max Brooks! Below is the original cover: And here is my cover: I tried making my version less gritty (except for the Earth) and more modern, since much of the book looks retrospectively at the past […]
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Charlee Seen at Her Job!

by @KatieHartraft

| Assignments, design, designassignments, DesignAssignments2188, Syndicated
February 23, 2018

Charlee is seen here at the art and hobby store at which she works. She doesn’t necessarily love working there, but she likes her coworkers and gets a lot of hours so she sticks with it. The store here is one that I have back home, called Paper Source. […]
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End of Week Fine, I’m Doing Five!!

by @KatieHartraft

| Syndicated, Weekly Posts
February 19, 2018

This week I went deeper into my understanding of Audacity and then put that knowledge to use in my assignments. The mix of my favorite sounds was quite relaxing to make, and I am proud of my Disney mashup that was just plain fun to create. Also this week, I made my […]
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