This week we started working on video. After reading and watching our material for background, I applied what I learned to a scene from Django Unchained. I then completed one assignment, in which I played a game for the camera. I also got some good Daily Creates this week, from memes to Etch-A-Sketches. Most importantly, however, … Continue reading Making the Movie: Week 10 →

Here’s my trailer for my group’s video project titled “College is a Rodeo”. Since we are kind of limited to our place, we’re taking our characters to college. They will be exploring their experiences in this video series, so here the student Danny is introducing himself and showing off what he does just a little. … Continue reading College is a Rodeo (Trailer) →

This is a short video of me just playing one of my favorite games, OFF, in accordance with this assignment which asks us to show what our favorite thing to do is. Incidentally, I’m not really that big on gaming, but I spend a whole lot of time watching YouTube and gaming channels. I figured … Continue reading OFF to Play: My Favorite Thing to Do →

Here is my video essay on a scene from Django Unchained. I really enjoyed watching the movie, and I struggled a little with picking a scene, but I didn’t want to go in too many directions for the sake of time, so I chose something that covered several of our topics while being interrelated. I used … Continue reading Video Essay: Talkin’ Bout Django →

This week, some of my radio group and I got together and decided to organize a video show! We had a bit of trouble connecting with everyone over the weekend due to people having not-school things to do, so for a minute we thought we wouldn’t be able to make a show at all, but … Continue reading Here’s the Plan: Video Show →

This week I made yet another meme. I have made many memes for this class. I also did an “Itch A Skitch” of a cowboy in a little town. Don’t shake your screen — you might erase it!

This week was lots of fun. I really enjoy collaborating and working off of other’s ideas, like we did in the radio show! All of my assignments worked off of our radio show, too, which was even cooler. To start, I made a post with a series of ideas for collaborative projects to do with … Continue reading Collaborate ‘n Create: Week 9 →

Now that the radio show is broadcast, here’s the script of what really happened! I only wrote the bare minimum of what happened so everyone could put their own perspectives into what their characters interpret to have occurred. So this is the real thing, no twists or interpretations! _________________________________________________ The day started as usual. The … Continue reading Turning Tumbleweeds: What Really Happened →

This assignment was inspired by Carlee’s summer tutoring poster in which her character Bonnie Sue and my Danny Keys teamed up to tutor kids! I decided to put together a narrative story through icons of what the summer program was like! In this story, you can see the horse at the top bringing the kids in … Continue reading Summer Tutoring! →

This week’s daily creates were very visual. I found a face in a plank of wood, made a tombstone for something I wish would go away, and made and captioned a GIF from a famous movie!

It’s been months since Johnny died. Outside of work, I’ve kept to myself a bit. I admit, it hit me harder than it probably should have. Still, I’m trying to do better. I kept telling everyone that I’m leaving soon, that I won’t be around much longer. But maybe that isn’t such a good idea. … Continue reading Catching up with an old friend →

Tonight I listened into “World Wide Western News” and “You Might Be a Cowboy If…”. I’m going to reflect on the first one for this post, but I want to congratulate both groups for making such cool shows! “WWW News” had my attention right away when it started, coming in with cool introductory music that … Continue reading Keeping up with the News →

From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: Where are they now? Howdy Danny, It’s Sally here on this new thing called a computer. I’m sending you this e-mail because I don’t know where the heck I am. I ended up in the north in a place called Virginia and I have been told the year is 2016. … Continue reading Back to the Western →

Hey, everyone! I have some assignments queued up for collaborative work between characters, and I decided the best way to find people to work with might just be to post my ideas and see if anyone is interested in one in particular. Or maybe it’ll just be a good way to give everyone a start … Continue reading Calling All DS106 Friends! Collaborative Ideas →

This week was great. My group for the radio show was awesome, and I can’t wait for everyone to take a look at what we accomplished! The radio show is officially published for your listening pleasure. I want to thank my group for being such a wonderful, productive group and for working so hard on … Continue reading That’s a Wrap! Week 8 →

This week my group got a jump start on our work. We had everything from our plot to our segments planned out before break, and today was our deadline for getting our own audio portions sent in to the two who are compiling and editing it all together. It’s in their hands now, but I’m sure … Continue reading Tumbling to the Tune: Progress Week 2 →

This week’s daily creates were all about cow gifs and little story blurbs. Here they are:

This week was all about preparation. I organized with my groupmates for the radio show and we began discussing ideas, character interactions, and contributions. A run-down of what we discussed is in my radio show update.  Once we agreed on a title, I made a poster for the show. Aside from the initial radio show … Continue reading Get Ready to Tumble: Week 7 →

This assignment’s radio bumper corresponds with my group’s show, Turning Tumbleweeds. The intention in this clip was to sound more like Danny Keys, the character I will be using within the show, so hopefully my voice came across as deep and different enough to be apart from my own. I found the background music and … Continue reading Turning Tumbleweeds Radio Bumper →

This radio commercial came out of an assignment that requested the creation of a commercial advertising a product we would like others to know about. In order to work this into my group’s radio show, I made a commercial for my character, Danny Keys, whose only real goods and services is his piano-playing. So, I figured … Continue reading Piano Lessons →

This audio narrative was inspired by an assignment that requested that you create a spooky dialogue with distortions and creative moves to make it sound scary. As I was editing this together, I didn’t like the audio distortions very much for the story, so I layered together a thick ambiance instead of messing with the actual … Continue reading Heavy Fog →

This week’s Daily Create haul was a lot of fun, spanning from finding the time to making an audio journey to misquoting old cowgirls. Here they are: Hope everyone has a great spring break!

This week so far has been full of planning and organizing on the part of my group. We started off by just getting together and trying to work out ideas in a Google Doc, with pages upon pages of ideas and jumbled up thoughts. Once our group was established, we agreed on meeting in the … Continue reading Tumbling Along →

This assignment looked like a fun one to do, despite it only contributing a few stars. The prompt was that we whistle a tune without revealing what the tune is so others can guess! I admit, I’m a sucker for these kinds of prompts. I love referring to things and hoping others can catch on. … Continue reading Name that Tune →

Here is the promo poster I created for my group’s Western Murder Mystery, “Turning Tumbleweeds”. A major part of the work that went into this poster was primarily finding a working title for the show itself. I had colored and edited the images and worked out the wording of everything else the day before my … Continue reading Turning Tumbleweeds: Coming Soon →

This week was full of designs! In order to get started, I reflected on the Vignelli Canon of good design practices. I then used what I learned to interpret Western design and the making of today’s logos. Once I finished reading and analyzing, I put it to the test through my own assignments. I created … Continue reading Designing the Scene →

This poster came out of an assignment that asked us to make a minimalist TV/Movie poster. Unsure of what to do, I decided to go with something I’ve been enjoying quite a bit lately: Gunsmoke, an old radio show which later got a TV series adaptation. I made this poster to reflect the Old West idea … Continue reading Gunsmoke Visualized →

This week I captioned a painting, turned a dog into a GIF, and chose my favored mode of Western transportation. Here are the tweets:

This week we were asked to do a design blitz based off of the logos or signs around us. While I was thinking about this assignment, I realized that most of the items around us have a design or logo somewhere on them. So, here is a survey of the items in my room, more … Continue reading Design Blitz →

This assignment requires us to take a movie and reduce it to four icons that symbolize the major parts of the story. Here are my four icons, but you’ll need to guess what film it is! If you’re stuck, here are some more clues: The movie was released in 1980 It is based in Chicago … Continue reading An Iconic Movie →