Week 2 for our group was mostly about putting the story of the show together and the trivia and Ask Nancy segments. When we got together over Google Hangouts and talked about the project, we decided we would use Daniel Z’s idea about government spying and make it into a narrative show. In addition to … Continue reading Radio Show Progress

@ds106dc #tdc1894 pic.twitter.com/5GRiDcqUVV — Megan Carey (@megancarey95) March 17, 2017

@ds106dc #tdc1895 pic.twitter.com/lKewT6WrBA — Megan Carey (@megancarey95) March 17, 2017

Week 7 was okay. It seemed like less work than last week, but because we were in groups working on a project with other people, it took a little longer than expected. Because our group hasn’t come up with a name for the show or a really solid story yet, I had to avoid being … Continue reading Week 7

For this assignment, I used this Robot Voice Generator to read my spam comments from my blog. I thought it would be interesting to use a robot voice instead of my own voice or a different generator to read spam comments, since spam comments are usually automatically generated by “robots” and usually sound pretty nonsensical. … Continue reading Taking Back Spam

For my design project, I designed a temporary ad for our trivia segment that we’re planning on doing. We have yet to come up with a name for our show, so it will need to be edited in the future, but for now I think this works really well. The font I found at dafont.com definitely … Continue reading Radio Show Design Project

So far in our progress, our group (myself, Daniel H, Daniel Z, Samantha, and Sarah) have basically decided on a 30ish minute spy narrative show similar to the Limetown podcast, with the theme focused on mass surveillance vs. old school human asset spying. We’ve also decided to add in other segments to break up the … Continue reading Radio Show Progress

@ds106dc #tdc1881 https://t.co/pGOX42K3am — Megan Carey (@megancarey95) March 4, 2017

@ds106dc #tdc1876 It was a ship.. that turned into a carrot.. carrying carrots (Turn it sideways and its a fish) I tried. pic.twitter.com/00fXxtRh3U — Megan Carey (@megancarey95) February 26, 2017

I thought this week was a little easier than past weeks. I liked almost all of the assignments. I already am pretty familiar with Photoshop and graphic design. One of the harder parts of this week I found was making two of the assignments related to our spy characters. A big problem I had this week … Continue reading Week 6

For this assignment, I watch the Abstract: The Art of Design. I watched the photography episode on Platon and the graphic design episode on Paula Scher. In the photography episode, they profiled a famous portrait photographer, Platon, who has taken photographs of average people as well as famous figures like Barack Obama, Colin Powell, and Vladimir Putin. While … Continue reading Abstract: The Art of Design

For the Favorite Movie Quote assignment, I chose Kingsman: the Secret Service (one of my favorite spy movies). “Manners maketh man” is one of my favorite quotes from the film. The quote itself is said right before something crazy and badass happens, but it’s also one of the main themes of the film, how a person … Continue reading Favorite Movie Quote

For the Contradiction Creation, I decided to find a negative picture and put positive text over it instead of the other way around. The quote is by Bob Ross, and is probably one of his most famous quotes about positivity, so I wanted to match it with “happy” and positive typography. I had to actually … Continue reading Contradiction Creation

For this assignment I created a fake ID for my spy character, Annabella Smith. Instead of just sticking with the biographical information that I already created for Annabella Smith, I wanted to create a fake ID for a spy, which would probably work best as a passport. I came up with a fake name and a … Continue reading Mary White

For this assignment I created an invitation to a masquerade ball from the Alfred Hitchcock film, which is based on a book, Rebecca. I used a few different fonts, meant to be fancy but classy. Most of the fonts already came loaded onto Photoshop, but I did download some free use fonts. The invitation is meant to be … Continue reading You’re Invited

Minimalism & use of space is shown in this postcard from a UMW Gallery exhibition. The lack of any other graphics, the use of only 2 colors, the large spaces and even spacing between the letters, and the simple font make this a minimalist design and a good use of space. The poster for Steel Magnolias is a … Continue reading Design Blitz

@ds106dc #tdc1874 I tried to draw a circle the way SpongeBob taught me… He's not a very good teacher. https://t.co/I909WsxseN pic.twitter.com/qw9pUhfu4q — Megan Carey (@megancarey95) February 25, 2017

@ds106dc #tdc1869 anywhere with my puppy is my happy place pic.twitter.com/5K7jCi4HcC — Megan Carey (@megancarey95) February 20, 2017

@ds106dc #tdc1868 Obviously the best poster ever created since my name is on it. Go see the senior show! Dupont Gallery! pic.twitter.com/Lktqq47WwP — Megan Carey (@megancarey95) February 18, 2017

This week was a big challenge for me, but I did have some fun with it. Like I said in my Moon Graffiti post, I am not really audio-inclined, and I really prefer having something in front of me to see when I am creating something, so that added even more difficulty to just coming … Continue reading Week 5

@ds106dc #tdc1867 #doctorstrange #timecrystals pic.twitter.com/eewqp60xzw — Megan Carey (@megancarey95) February 18, 2017

Even though I appreciated it and the technical aspects, I was not a huge fan of the Limetown radio show. Part of the reason is that I am not really an auditory learner, so having something to look at is a lot easier for me to get interested in. I love movies and books because … Continue reading Limetown

This is the bumper I made for DS106 Radio. I actually lost my voice recently due to a cold, so coming up with a way to record this was challenging. I was originally going to try to find different audio files of people saying each word (“you’re,” “listening,” “to,”…), but using a robot voice generator was … Continue reading Radio Bumper

“Moon Graffiti” was an interesting show to listen to. I haven’t listened to many radio shows or podcasts, so it was a little different, but I picked up on a few elements of sound to tell the story. Even though the episode was short, the writing and the sounds worked together to make it effective. Mimicking … Continue reading Moon Graffiti

Who doesn’t love making playlists/mixtapes? I might have went a little overboard with 29 tracks, but let’s just say it’s Volume 1 and Volume 2. Almost all of these are early 2000s music from when I was a kid. It’s basically of a mixture between pop, R&B, boyband music, and country. A song or two … Continue reading My Killer Playlist

For the sound effects story assignment, I used Audacity to create a short story using horror sound effects. Finding the sounds didn’t take too long, but layering them and timing them correctly was the hardest part. I chose the sound of rain, a door creaking, a door closing, a creaky house with echoes, ghostly whispers, … Continue reading A Scary Story

@ds106dc #tdc1862 Film? Digital? Macro lens? Zoom lens? Whatever will I do?! pic.twitter.com/MZtbaasaIW — Megan Carey (@megancarey95) February 13, 2017

@ds106dc #tdc1865 pic.twitter.com/hDoF2CQdjJ — Megan Carey (@megancarey95) February 16, 2017