For my final project, I decided to take one of my interests, women’s lacrosse, and make it appealing to someone who knows nothing about the sport or has never seen the sport played. I am a member of the UMW Women’s Lacrosse team, and I love to share my sport …
For the first week of my final project, I spent the majority of time picking what project I was going to do and creating a detailed plan of all 3 media elements that I would use. I decided for my project, I would do in introduction to women’s lacrosse. Although …
I really enjoyed Week #12 and the mashup/remix assignments, because I got to be creative on many different mediums.
To start out this week, I did three daily creates on Twitter.
A poem about painting. #tdc3378 #ds106 pic.twitter.com/wrjcF9Bu9v
— Lucy Schraff (@LucySchraff) April 12, 2021
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#tdc3380 #ds106 pic.twitter.com/CTkmIQCjTr
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For this remix assignment, I was challenged to write a haiku poem about a haiku poem (just like I did the first time I completed this assignment), but this time around, I needed to introduce a Dr. Suess character into my haiku. So here it goes:
A haiku haiku…
The last time I did the Logo Switch Up assignment, I decided to add the Wawa logo onto a Huggies diaper ad. This time around, the Logo Switch Up Remix prompted me to do a logo switch up set in the 1950s (the era of Happy Days).
To create this …
For 4 stars of Mashup Assignments from the assignment bank, I did the Disney Mashup assignment. This assignment challenged me to take my favorite Disney songs and make them flow into one song.
To create this mashup piece, I used Garage Band, and cut out different segments of each …
For 4.5 of my 8 stars of Mashup Assignments from the assignment bank, I chose to complete the Movie Mashup Assignment. The goal of this assignment was to think of one of your favorite movies, then think of a movie similar to it, and use those two movies to …
This week, my focus was on creating my ~10 stars of video assignments. For these I created a lyric video for one of my favorite songs, Hold In, Hold On by Kid Bloom. I also created a What I Eat In A Day Video to show what I eat on …
For my second video assignment this week, I did a what I eat in a day video.
For this video, I recorded everything I ate this Wednesday, and compiled it into one video. I used iMovie to make this video.
First, I added all my clips into a new project …
For one of my Video Assignments from the assignment bak I decided to create a lyric video for the song Hold In, Hold On by Kid Bloom.
For this assignment, I used I movie to create it. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to add a a background to the video after …
After reading other’s project ideas, my perspective on potential projects I could do is broadened. While video projects are definitely not my favorite, I think picking a topic that I am truly interested in will ensure that I put out my best work. Being passionate about the topic of your …
This week was one of the first weeks in a while where I struggled with the work. It wasn’t an overload of work, and none of the required readings/videos were exceedingly confusing, but I am unfamiliar with creating videos, and I think that inhibited me from being my most creative …
For my video essay, I chose to analyze a scene from Game of Thrones (not that this is very surprising). For my scene analysis, I chose to use Ned Stark’s death scene. I chose this scene because it was very emotional, and I knew that I would be able to …
If you’re on TikTok, you know that point of view videos have become pretty popular. When I saw this assignment, I thought it would be a good choice for one of my video Assignment Bank assignments for this week.
For my POV video, I decided to make a POV: …
For another of my video assignments this week, I decided to create a compilation video. I was super excited to make this video because I had a bunch of clips already complied from high school, where I would film my friend’s younger sister running out of the house to …
For one of my assignment bank video assignments this week, I chose to do a “But” edit, which is when you create an edit of a preexisting clip in which a certain part of the clip is replaced. For example, the description of this assignment used Lil Pump’s Gucci Gang …
This week, I enjoyed listening to my classmates radio shows, remixing my old posts, and coming up with new ideas for a future project.
Aside from that, I did three daily creates this week. I connected these TDCs by relating them to memes, as you can see here.
This …
One of my favorite things that I did for this class this week was listening to the radio shows that people created. After spending my last two weeks creating my show Un-University, I thought it was really cool to see how other people’s shows turned out and what they were …
For my second revision of a previously posted assignment, I decided to revise my assignment A Haiku Poem About A Haiku Poem (the title is pretty self explanatory).
Here is my original poem:
A Haiku Poem Five seven five seems easy But Haikus are hard. Haikus about cats Haikus about…
For this revision/remix of a previously posted assignment, I decided to revise my post What A Crappy Font Will Do, which was based on this assignment bank post.
In my original post, I was challenged to remix a font of a familiar logo in order to change the …
This week, in order to connect my three daily creates into somewhat of a story, I chose to connect them with a common theme. For my three daily creates, I chose to connect theme by the theme of memes. Memes are something that are a great storytelling tool, because they …
Coming in to the last two weeks working on the radio show group project, I was initially intimidated. It is out of my comfort zone to do group projects with people I don’t and to put my voice out there where all of my classmates can hear it. However, at …
This week, I spent the majority of my time working on and editing my groups radio show, Un-University. This whole experience was really fun, and I summarized the process of finalizing the radio show in my post Radio Show Progress Pt.2.
After planning the show last week, this week …
This week for our (Rachel, Cailyn, and I) radio show, Un-University, we mostly put together our plans for our radio show.
After meeting on Zoom last week and planning out each segment as well as creating various bumpers, we were all ready to record. We met on Zoom again on …
This week, I spent most of my time focused on brainstorming for my radio show Un-University alongside Rachel and Cailyn. I really enjoyed this process and using audio and design assignments to build toward one larger project. You can see how we’re getting along on my last blog post. …
This week I had a lot of fun getting together with my group (Cailyn, Rachel , and I) and starting to create our show, Un-University (or U.U.).
For our radio show, we came up with the idea for a podcast like radio show, where we’ll discuss being a student in …
For my second audio assignment of the week, I chose to create a piece of audio that could be used for a transition or intro for our radio show Un-University. For this assignment, I was inspired by the Assignment Bank assignment Create A Ds106 Radio Bumper, and decided to …
For this audio assignment, I was inspired by the Assignment Bank audio assignment Sick Beat. However, instead of making a random beat for my own fun and creativity, I decided to use this opportunity to make an intro/beat or song for my radio show, Un-University.
Here is my intro …
For our radio show (Rachel, Cailyn, and I), we decided to produce a show about our experiences as a college student in a pandemic. While all of us can relate, this storytelling format radio show will be a good platform for us to tell our stories and relate to this …
This week for design week, I really enjoyed myself. The software that I used most (and have been using the most throughout this course) was Google Drawings. I would love to begin using other software such as GIMP, Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe Illustrator. However, it is either too costly or …
