Romeo Uniform November

Romeo Uniform November

by @KatieHartraft

| #AudioAssignments, Assignments, audio, AudioAssignments2178, Syndicated
February 18, 2018

I added my message to the radio on Frequency 2156 (after some interference prevented me from doing so for a long while): The website could have enthralled me for HOURS (and it did for at least one). It is so interesting how everything is tied together under one “radio” and that […]
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Who is Charlee Faraday?

by @KatieHartraft

| Assignments, Syndicated, writing, writingassignments, WritingAssignments1867
February 18, 2018

Charlee Faraday is a combination of the Lone Wolf and the Neutral Character. She prefers spending time alone, finding her time is most productive and beneficial that way. She also is okay going with whatever situation is given to her, as long as she has a direction she plans on going. […]
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Disney Song Based Off World War Z??

by @KatieHartraft

| #AudioAssignments, Assignments, audio, AudioAssignments2102, Syndicated
February 17, 2018

I took up the challenge of creating a Disney medley story by taking lyrics from Disney songs and mashing them together to make a story. I based mine off a section in World War Z. In the chapter “Blame”, at the Vostok Station in Antarctica, Breck Scott is a man who played on […]
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Some of the Good Sounds

by @KatieHartraft

| #AudioAssignments, Assignments, audio, AudioAssignments2146, Syndicated
February 17, 2018

This assignment I had to mash up some of my favorite sounds. One of my favorite sounds that I couldn’t get into the clip was wind blowing through trees/leaves. In digital form it usually ends up sounding like wind noise (which I do like, but it just didn’t work for this […]
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Both Together and Separate

by @KatieHartraft

| Reflection Posts, Syndicated
February 17, 2018

In the video, “How radio creates empathy“, Jad Abumrad’s idea of “co-imagining” seems closely related to the idea of written text and reading. All readers have are words on a page, from that they have to imagine every image and detail of the senses. But with radio, as Abumrad mentioned, listening to […]
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Another Week? Time is an Illusion in the Apocalypse

by @KatieHartraft

| Syndicated, Weekly Posts
February 12, 2018

I order to manage my time better on the Daily Creates, I did the first one when I had other work due the next day, so I would urge myself to finish faster to be able to do my other work, and I did the second one about twenty minutes […]
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From Time Travel in Paris to Zombies in Busan

by @KatieHartraft

| Reflection Posts, Syndicated
February 12, 2018

La Jetée is told through photographs splits the difference between movie and written story. We are given visuals to enhance the experience, but the physical action going on in the plot is played out in our heads. Terry Gilliam took my attention by making me look at what he included in […]
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Blitz and Glamour

by @KatieHartraft

| Assignments, Syndicated
February 11, 2018

The Tips for Better Photography page had some pretty basic yet insightful tips that I will definitely attempt to incorporate into my work. “Get Pickier” helped me a lot after my photoblitz had ended. Usually, I take many photos that might be good and decide which to keep later. This […]
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The (un)Dead Doppelgängers!

by @KatieHartraft

| Assignments, Syndicated, Visual, visualassignments, VisualAssignments1921
February 10, 2018

I chose the assignment “We’re the Real Life Brady Bunch” and gave it an apocalyptic/supernatural twist. The family here is everyone but me who lives in our suite (rooms 210 and 212). BUT, something strange has happened: there are doppelgängers of ourselves coming after us! Not only that, but they’re […]
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She Came on the Pawsenger Train

by @KatieHartraft

| #VisualAssignments1884, Assignments, Syndicated, Visual, visualassignments
February 9, 2018

My dog, Checkers, came to visit me in Fredericksburg! If you hear me talking about my puppy, I’m really talking about my twelve-year-old shi-poo (shi-tzu poodle mix). Even though I’m more of a medium-large sized dog person, I love Checkers to bits. While the train station isn’t on campus, […]
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Staying Afloat in the Swarm

by @KatieHartraft

| Syndicated, Weekly Posts
February 5, 2018

This week has been a little harder to keep my head above the water. The beginnings of my weeks are more jam-packed with school, work, internship, and clubs, which meant I left more of my assignments until The End of the week. I plan on keeping more on top of […]
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The NEW End of the Whole Mess

by @KatieHartraft

| Assignments, Syndicated, writing, writingassignments, WritingAssignments1552
February 5, 2018

“…I have a Bobby his nayme is bruther and I theen I an dun riding and I have a bocks to put this into thats Bobby sd full of quiyet air to last a milyun yrz so gudboy gudboy every—brother, Im goin to stob gudboy bobby i love you it […]
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Fortune Cookie

by @KatieHartraft

| Assignments, Syndicated, writingassignments, WritingAssignments2070
February 5, 2018

The little piece of paper reads: “Do not be overly judgmental of your loved one’s intentions or actions.” Of course, I find a small source of food in a somehow preserved fortune cookie and it mocks me. I already had Bryce telling me yesterday that I wasted ammo on zombies […]
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There Will Come//The End

by @KatieHartraft

| Reflection Posts, Syndicated
February 5, 2018

This week, I read two short stories: the 1950 Ray Bradbury story “There Will Come Soft Rains” with the main character being a house and the 1986 Stephen King story “The End of the Whole Mess” with a narrator writing until he can’t anymore. Bradbury’s story really drew me in since […]
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Quidditch, Explained Up-Goer Style

by @KatieHartraft

| Assignments, Syndicated, writingassignments, writingassignments2092
February 4, 2018

To play the team game from the well-known boy wonder books is different from what most people think. You run with sticks to pretend to fly. You throw a ball around and try to make it in the round point places. I am the round point place guard player. There […]
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Amazon in the Apocalypse: Item Review

by @KatieHartraft

| Assignments, Syndicated, writingassignments, WritingAssignments2161
February 1, 2018

A while back, I was scrolling on Amazon in my bunker (using my bike generator to keep my laptop going) when I saw the BEST gadget: the Cyalume ChemLight Military Grade Surface Trip Flare. Basically, you set up a trip wire, and when something (human, zombie, etc.) sets it off, […]
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Cracking Open that Apocalypse Starter Kit

by @KatieHartraft

| Reflection Posts, Syndicated
January 29, 2018

The reading/viewing of this week has been so thought-provoking! I’ve earned a deeper look into the catastrophe genre, its history and reasoning, and also a general view of how stories should be told overall. The first chapter of Bryan Alexander’s work got me thinking about what makes a story a […]
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Two Deadly Weeks into The End

by @KatieHartraft

| Syndicated, Weekly Posts
January 28, 2018

This week has been a very creative whirlwind for me! I’ve taught myself some basic image editing, played around with blog post format (structurally and contextually), and spruced up my site to balance with the new content I have made. The first assignment I completed this week was the Apocalyptic […]
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Zombies Are People Too

by @KatieHartraft

| ds106, Syndicated, tell it/tweet it, writingassignments, WritingAssignments2160
January 26, 2018

“So you … corralled all of these zombies into this mall?” “I prefer to call them biters, but yes I did.” I stand with a teenager named Kelly inside of an abandoned mall. Abandoned may not be the best word for it, since it is filled with dozens of zombies, or biters as Kelly calls […]
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Patient Zero

by @KatieHartraft

| About, ds106, intro, me, Syndicated
January 18, 2018

I'm Katie, a sophomore at UMW double majoring in Creative Writing and Communication/Digital Studies 🤖 So excited to see how this Digital Storytelling course goes and what comes out of it! #ds106 #theend106 @theEnd106 — Katie Hartraft (@KatieHartraft) January 19, 2018 I have been infatuated with apocalyptic narratives for longer than I can remember. It […]
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