The second week of working on the radio show project was quite a fun experience. Our group, Noir Not the Father, met a few times throughout the week to write up the dialogue between the characters, choose all the sound effects and decide where we wanted to place everything. Here is a link to our … Continue reading Noir Not the Father!

Unfortunately this week I was only able to get two of my daily creates done. It was a really hectic week with midterms and the radio show project. But here are the two that I was able to do! The DS106 as Deep Space 106 with my variation of a little ufo style space ship. … Continue reading Creating things on the daily

So this week was a little different than most weeks. Instead of focusing on a new topic all together we used this week to develop more skills in editing and developing audio. For starters, we all grouped up into our DS106 radio groups. I chose the “Noir not the father” group. The group plans on … Continue reading Weekly Summary

For my last couple of stars I decided to do the spooky sounds assignment. For this assignment I used a collection of samples I had to create a scene where my character Jack was waiting in the rain, outside a small town for a client of his

So for another three stars I decided to do the “make it slower” assignment. I had a lot of fun with this assignment and ultimately was really satisfied with the end result. The example given on the noir site by artist Nick Pittsinger was really amazing. I honestly never thought Justin Beiber could be enjoyable no … Continue reading Make it slooowwwweeeeerrrrrrr

I was listening to some new artists I found over the last week and one of the songs I was listening too gave off a very “noir-esque” feel to it. At least it did for me haha. If you stumble across this post give it a listen, even if you don’t agree you might like … Continue reading Noir-esque music?

For four stars of my audio assignments I decided to do the “make your own theme song”. I wanted to make this theme song in spirit of my Noir character Jack Sadler. I used samples and synthesizers to create this ambient, relaxed song that I imagine would represent the life of Jack Sadler. The song … Continue reading Theme song assignment

Before and after picture- For this assignment I wanted to drastically alter one of my favorite beer bottles. My idea from the start was to change the bottle into more of an hour glass shape and invert the colors. I am not too great with photoshop yet but I think the end result was close … Continue reading Daily Create

This week was all about design. Other then the work that I have done for this class I have had zero experience with digital design and photo editing. I have had experience with sound editing but after reading the information on the noir website about this weeks work I could tell that the design we … Continue reading Weekly Summary

I have never sat down and thought extensively about copyright laws before and certainly never considered some of the things talked about in the readings and videos. Copyrights to my have always just been something lumped together with trademarks, and siting sources. I had never considered how much copyrights can actually limit the creative process. … Continue reading Copyrights

This assignment was my four star assignment for the week. I had a lot of fun with this assignment and learned a lot from it. I wanted to dedicate this assignment to my noir character so I started out with a picture of a place that I imagined my character would live. I then started … Continue reading DS106 Wallpaper!

This three star assignment kind of explains itself. I have a lot of friends who enjoy playing online video games like call of duty but I cannot stand it. Whenever I hear them playing it sounds like they are playing exclusively with a bunch of little kids. For this assignment I had to focus mainly … Continue reading Honest video game cover

This assignment was two stars and fairly easy to do. I wanted to make this assignment somewhat dedicated to my noir character. My character does not live in a time where there were laptops so I had to imagine him in a setting where laptops existed. From there I decided he would like a pale … Continue reading Laptop Lingo

For three of my twelve stars I chose to do the wolf in sheep’s clothing. Here I took a image of both logo’s and placed them over each other. I had to cut around the chic-fil-a logo with a tool. Then I matched the color of the KFC background and used a blurring tool to … Continue reading Wolf in sheep’s clothing assignment

For my daily creates this week I chose to do the food jewelry assignment and the old fashion radio broadcast assignment. I also chose to do the make a video of the arcade game assignment but after trying to get the arcade game to work for over an hour I had to give up and … Continue reading Daily Creates

For my design blitz, I chose to take pictures of design elements that I found around downtown Fredericksburg I thought that this Sign for Carl’s ice cream was a good example of form/function/message. The sign is clearly custom for the establishment and uses a fancy font and and image of an ice cream cone in … Continue reading Design Blitz

For my movie choice I chose to watch The Big Lebowski. I had seen the movie once already and thought it would be fun to watch again while looking for elements of noir. I really liked the prompt for this assignment because one thing that has stood out to me while learning about noir is … Continue reading The Big Lebowski and Noir

The Vignelli canon was a very interesting read. I can’t say that I have ever read anything specifically about design before this. The book really illustrated how design of one sort or another is absolutely everywhere in our world. Design is used in everything from art and architecture to city planning. I really enjoyed one … Continue reading The vignelli canon

This weeks assignments were all largely audio based. This was exciting for me because I have to previous experience with audio editing software as well as digital audio workspaces. In the past I have used Audacity,Virtual dj, Traktor, Reason, and FL studio. I am most familiar with FL studio and prefer it over most other … Continue reading Weekly Summary

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So I decided to do the make a song assignment. Here is a little 80’s themed track I put together using FL studio. All custom Synths

So this assignment was to create emotion through sound. The emotions I chose to create were stress and anxiety. When looking into “soundscapes” I noticed that most people attempted to create a scene that would evoke powerful emotion. I wanted to create a scene of loneliness in a way that felt inescapable such as being … Continue reading Emotion through sound

So for my story through sound assignment I created a fictional scene involving my noir character Jack Sadler. In the scene, Jack and his partner have driven out to meet someone involved in a case that he had been recently hired for. Jack doesn’t usually take a partner along with him, especially during a routine … Continue reading Story through sound

So the assignment was to make a quick radio bumper for ds106 radio. I didn’t have too much trouble recording the audio in audacity and had a bit of fun editing the vocals in FL studio. I changed the pitch a bit and equalized the sound in an attempt to make my voice sound more … Continue reading Radio bumper

For this week we focused on visual aspects of noir. The first thing that I did to prepare for the weeks work was review the material listed on the noir site. I really enjoyed the material that was listed and learned a good amount from it. The most common theme that I noticed was the … Continue reading Weekly Summary

My noir character would not realistically carry a bag around so instead I am going to describe what one could expect to find in his desk on a normal day. Top of the desk can usually be expected to be covered in scattered newspapers. A typewriter sits next to a leather bound book in which … Continue reading What’s in your Bag?

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  So for my poetry art I decided to dedicate my poster to the development of my noir character. I chose a poem that would fit him as a character as well as his timeline. The poem is “Stopping by Woods on a Snowing Evening” by Robert Frost. The poem speaks of a farmhouse in … Continue reading Poetry Art