This is the End – My Week in Review

This is the End – My Week in Review

by @kspeonygarden

| ds106 week 5 end of week, ds106summer2018, Syndicated
July 29, 2018

Hello, everyone! Well, we’re finally here: we’ve finally reached the end of our DS106 class. I’ve really enjoyed this one–this course has opened my eyes to all the different ways of telling a story, as well as shown me how I can improve, creatively. Down below is a broad summary of this past week, for... Continue Reading →
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The Book of Prim

by @kspeonygarden

| ds106final, ds106summer, ds106summer2018, Syndicated
July 26, 2018

The Book of Prim Goblins like shiny objects; this is pretty old news to most people. So it’s no wonder that a goblin, who had somehow managed to sneak its way inside the grand gray house from the impending rain, thirsted for the bright blue gemstone jutting out from the dark, leather-bound book that was... Continue Reading →
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Final Countdown – part 3

by @kspeonygarden

| ds106final, ds106finalprogress, ds106summer2018, Syndicated
July 26, 2018

Hello, everyone! Continuing on with my final assignment, I would like to share what I’ve taken for the photography portion of my trans-media narrative: The photography portion of the narrative serves to provide establishing shots for the story-proper, to help set the stage for where the story will take place. The protagonist is a witch,... Continue Reading →
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Final Countdown – part 2

by @kspeonygarden

| ds106final, ds106finalprogress, ds106summer, ds106summer2018, Syndicated
July 25, 2018

Hello, everyone! I am continuing to work on my final project, and now I would like to share with you the frames for the video portion of my narrative: Because I don’t have the time or skill-set to do a fully animated sequence, this portion will feature just these frames edited together with sound in... Continue Reading →
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Final Countdown – part 1

by @kspeonygarden

| ds106final, ds106finalprogress, ds106summer2018, Syndicated
July 24, 2018

Hello, everyone! I’ve begun working on my DS 106 final project. So far, I’ve completed a rough outline of what I want to do with my story, and how I want to tell it, and I’ve completed the cover design of the story. I drew the cover and colored it in with colored pencils. Afterwards,... Continue Reading →
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Entering the Home-Stretch

by @kspeonygarden

| ds106summer2018, Syndicated, week 4 end of week
July 22, 2018

Hello, everyone! Believe it or not, we’re nearly there–we’re almost in our final week of the semester! I hope you’ve been enjoying yourselves as much as I have. I completed the daily creates for both Saturday and Sunday: @ds106dc #tdc2385 My addition to the digital world (the deer, the bunny, and the butterfly) pic.twitter.com/3EbyjDTQNy —... Continue Reading →
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Fashion Dreams

by @kspeonygarden

| ds106summer2018, Syndicated, VideoAssignments, VideoAssignments1981
July 22, 2018

Hello, everyone! Here is my third video assignment, the Your Dream as a Movie Trailer assignment: I decided to make a 30 second trailer about my childhood dream of becoming a fashion designer. I used clips I found from Pixabay and Pexels and edited them together in the video editing app on my computer; the... Continue Reading →
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Everything You Know is a Lie!

by @kspeonygarden

| ds106summer2018, Syndicated, VideoAssignments, VideoAssignments796
July 22, 2018

Hello, everyone! For my next video assignment, I made a psa about the “true” origin of the nursery rhyme “Ring Around the Rosie:” This video is based on the question of the week I answered in my midweek post on Wednesday, wherein I reimagined the fairly grim “Ring Around the Rosie” as having a more light-hearted... Continue Reading →
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Pretty Words

by @kspeonygarden

| ds106summer2018, Syndicated, VideoAssignments, VideoAssignments539
July 21, 2018

Hello, everyone! I would like to share with you the video I made based on one of our class’s video assignments, “A Word… A Picture… A Story…”: The assignment asked that the student pick 5-10 words at random, find a picture to go with each word, and then put them all together in a video... Continue Reading →
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Coming Up Roses: Week 4 Midweek Sum-Up

by @kspeonygarden

| ds106summer2018, Syndicated, Week 4 Midweek
July 18, 2018

Hello, everyone! We’re about to enter the home-stretch, for the semester. I hope you’ve been enjoying it as much as I have. So far this week, I’ve completed the daily creates for Tuesday and Wednesday: @ds106dc #tdc2381 Try Not to Laugh Challenge World-Championship!! pic.twitter.com/DYcf4FNG60 — Kate Scott (@kspeonygarden) July 17, 2018 For Tuesday’s daily create,... Continue Reading →
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Videos about Videos

by @kspeonygarden

| ds106summer2018, Syndicated, video reflections
July 18, 2018

Hello, everyone! In addition to reading Roger Ebert’s article about reading and analyzing movie scenes, I also looked at several short videos about various filming techniques, which I’ve listed below: This video is a collage of all of the zooms–both zoom-ins and zoom-outs–used in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. This video displays many different well-executed techniques in film... Continue Reading →
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A New Angle

by @kspeonygarden

| ds106summer2018, how to read a movie, Syndicated
July 18, 2018

Hello, everyone! As we’re focusing on films and film making, this week, it’s worth starting with an article written by the late Roger Ebert, How to Read a Movie. Mr. Ebert starts his article by describing one of the methods of teaching film analysis back when he taught film at the University of Chicago in... Continue Reading →
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Third Week Wrap-Up

by @kspeonygarden

| Syndicated
July 16, 2018

Hello, everyone! Since my last mid-week post, I completed the Daily Creates for Saturday and Sunday: @ds106dc #tdc2378 A conversation between Hades and Persephone pic.twitter.com/PdNV6Fet5a — Kate Scott (@kspeonygarden) July 15, 2018 @ds106dc #tdc2379 Thorn & Arrow – look for their newest ad in fashion magazines, soon (not really) pic.twitter.com/f1G6y829Lg — Kate Scott (@kspeonygarden) July... Continue Reading →
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Sound Off – part 4

by @kspeonygarden

| #AudioAssignments, AudioAssignments1523, ds106summer2018, Syndicated
July 15, 2018

Hello, everyone! This is the story of what it might be like if The Beatles never broke up (based on the alternate history story I told, last week): I grabbed all of the sounds and the music from Freesound.org and the Free Music Archive, with the exception of my own voice, which I recorded on... Continue Reading →
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Sound Off – part 3

by @kspeonygarden

| #AudioAssignments, AudioAssignments2119, ds106summer2018, Syndicated
July 15, 2018

Hello, everyone! I made a recording of myself performing a tongue twister as fast as I could, and set it to some music: The tongue twister in question goes, “Send toast to ten tense, stout saints’ ten tall tents.” The background music is a track I found on the Free Music Archive, “Glouglou,” by Komiku.... Continue Reading →
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Sound Off – part 2

by @kspeonygarden

| AudioAssignments2146, AudioAssingments, ds106summer2018, Syndicated
July 15, 2018

Hello, everyone! I am a woman of simple tastes: there are certain specific sounds that warm me up inside, more than most other sounds, and I have made a compilation of sorts of those exact sounds: The sounds, in order, are a kitten meowing, a train whistle going off, a thunder storm, and waves crashing... Continue Reading →
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Sound Off – part 1

by @kspeonygarden

| #AudioAssignments, AudioAssingments70, ds106summer2018, Syndicated
July 15, 2018

Hello, everyone! I would like to share with you all my sound effects story, about a person who stops an alien invasion and saves the world from certain destruction: The narrative opens with someone walking down a busy street, on their way to work, when a flying saucer arrives and begins attacking, causing everyone else... Continue Reading →
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Halfway Through the Week, Halfway Through the Semester

by @kspeonygarden

| ds106summer2018, Syndicated, Week 3 Midweek
July 11, 2018

Hello, everyone! We are officially halfway through this semester! So far, I’ve completed the daily creates for Tuesday and Wednesday: Tuesday’s daily create was to create a wish list for a specific historical figure, and I chose to compose one for William Shakespeare. At first, I wanted to create a wish list for the Greek... Continue Reading →
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Bedtime Stories

by @kspeonygarden

| ds106summer2018, Moon Graffiti, Syndicated
July 11, 2018

Hello, everyone! Yesterday, I listened to the episode by The Truth podcast titled “Moon Graffiti.” The episode detailed an imaginary scenario revolving around a real letter meant to be read by then-president Richard Nixon, in the event that astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong failed to make it back from their mission to the Moon in... Continue Reading →
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The Sound and the Fury – Considering Audio Storytelling

by @kspeonygarden

| audio reading and resources, ds106summer2018, Syndicated
July 11, 2018

Hello, everyone! Earlier this week, I looked at various resources related to audio storytelling; a page on Canvas detailing various software, such as Audacity and LAME, to help record and edit sound, as well as various sources to help find royalty-free sound effects to help enhance one’s audio story to make it more immersive; then,... Continue Reading →
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Week 2: Electric Boogaloo

by @kspeonygarden

| ds106summer2018, Syndicated, week 2 end of week
July 8, 2018

Hello, everyone! Another week has finally passed–it feels like it’s gone by extremely quickly and lasted 1000 years, at the same time! Since my mid-week post, I completed three design assignments: the alternate book cover assignment, the alternative history assignment, and the superhero design assignment. I also completed the daily create prompts for Saturday and... Continue Reading →
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The Beatles 2019 Europe / US Tour

by @kspeonygarden

| designassignments, DesignAssignments2255, ds106summer2018, Syndicated
July 8, 2018

Hello, everyone! In my mid-weekly post, I answered the question regarding what might happen if The Beatles had never broken up. I wasn’t quite sure how to translate that into an image–at first I thought about editing photos of John Lennon and George Harrison and edit them to look as old as Paul McCartney and... Continue Reading →
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Holding Out for a Hero

by @kspeonygarden

| designassignments, DessignAssignments2115, ds106summer2018, Syndicated
July 7, 2018

Hello, everyone! For the additional design assignment, I decided to design my own superhero. I made my hero one who can control water, and named her Eventide. To design her, I used HeroMachine 3. I honestly found the website to be rather difficult to figure out at first, and I found coloring (namely, copying the... Continue Reading →
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By the Book

by @kspeonygarden

| designassignments, DesignAssignments1324, ds106summer2018, Syndicated
July 6, 2018

Hello, everyone! Last week, I mentioned that one of my favorite book series is the Theatre Illuminata trilogy; while all three of those brooks are pretty flawed, in hindsight, they will always have a special place in my heart. So, for the alternate book cover assignment, I chose to create a new cover for the first book, Eyes... Continue Reading →
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The Weekly Half-Way Point

by @kspeonygarden

| ds106summer2018, Syndicated, Week 2 Midweek
July 4, 2018

Hello, everyone! At the start of this week, I watched the two Ted Talk videos by designers Paula Scher and David Carson, and then I completed a series of tutorials on the Canva website, which I discussed in more detail in this post here. I found all three resources to be rather interesting, in terms... Continue Reading →
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Design and Dash

by @kspeonygarden

| designblitz, ds106summer2018, Syndicated
July 4, 2018

Hello, everyone! Earlier this week, in addition to watching the Ted Talks by Paula Scher and David Carson, and going over the tutorials on Canva.com, I reviewed the eight principles of design on the Adobe Spark website; afterwards, I completed this week’s designblitz, wherein I took twenty minutes and took pictures of various book, magazine,... Continue Reading →
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Designed by Design

by @kspeonygarden

| design reflection, ds106summer2018, Syndicated
July 3, 2018

Hello, everyone! This week, we’re focusing on design and all the different ways to go about it. So far, I’ve looked at three different resources, all of which discuss design and the act of designing in different ways; two were Ted Talk videos by Paula Scher and David Carson, respectively, and the third was the... Continue Reading →
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Happy New Week! – End of Week Sum-Up

by @kspeonygarden

| ds106summer2018, Syndicated, week 1 end of week
July 1, 2018

Hello, everyone! The first week is over just as soon as it started. Since my first bi-weekly summary post, I completed three daily creates–the prompts for Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday–and posted them all on Twitter. I also went through one of the galleries on the Abandoned America website and wrote a summary on that. After... Continue Reading →
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And it Turned into a Photoblitz

by @kspeonygarden

| #photoblitz, ds106summer2018, Syndicated
July 1, 2018

Hello, everyone! Yesterday, I went and completed my photoblitz. I went around my house and in my backyard taking pictures following the prompts, managing to complete 12 out of all 15. The one prompt I had the most trouble with was the one where my camera had to be moving, to give the subject the... Continue Reading →
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Star Your Engines – part 3

by @kspeonygarden

| ds106summer2018, Syndicated, visualassignments, VisualAssingments1549
July 1, 2018

Hello, everyone! I decided to do one more prompt for the Visual Assignment, this time for creating a warning poster. I went with something with a fantasy theme, in line with the answer I gave a few days ago on what my favorite type of story was, which I said was fantasy. So, making a caution... Continue Reading →
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