We were asked by the professor to write a letter to future DS106 students. I thought this was a fantastic way to reflect upon the semester and understand what does and doesn’t work. I hope that future students enjoy the class and have a little fun. For my final project, I chose to complete Rose’s … Continue reading "Week 15 Summary – Thanks for the Travels!"

Part 1: The Plan If you knew her past, you’d know that this has always been her goal. She enjoyed what she did, but she knew it couldn’t be sustained. Rose was ready. She had assembled her team and had done the research. That’s more than what you can say for any of the other robberies … Continue reading "The Final Heist"

It’s OK to let your creative side shine a bit, no one is going to judge you! Get your work done in the beginning of the week, or at least slowly work on it throughout the week. There is no way you can produce good work in one day. Yea you’ll get it done, but … Continue reading "Dear Future Students,"

She had finally done what she had planned to do. She clutched her sack of money close to her as she watched the horizon move quickly past her. She didn’t know where the others were planning to go, she didn’t care. She had her share, and was now going to live a more relaxed life. She … Continue reading "The Final Heist – Part 5: Goodbye – Writing Assignment"

Want to learn what happened to our outlaw, Rose Oakley, and her plan? You can check it out from your local news source. I started with another news article before using the xray goggles to create my own story of Rose’s heist. It’s difficult writing like a news journalist. I’m not very good at it, and it starts … Continue reading "The Final Heist – Part 4: Read All About It! – Web Assignment"

The Gang: Pixeled     On the far left is big Tom. He’s a twitchy fellow, and often keeps his hands on his guns. In the middle is handsome Pete. He’s a real slick outlaw and can trick almost anyone out of their possessions. Finally on the far right is Jess the Mess. Jessie is … Continue reading "The Final Heist – Part 3: The Gang – Visual Assignment"

This is supposed to mimic the Fair that Rose is using as cover for her big heist. This sound clip was created using three sound files found on freesound.org. 1) A Carousel, 2) Horses Trotting, and 3) Children laughing and screaming. The carousel had to be toned down because it over powered the other sounds, … Continue reading "The Final Heist – Part 2: The Fair – Audio Assignment"

If you knew her past, you’d know that this has always been her goal. She enjoyed what she did, but she knew it couldn’t be sustained. Rose was ready. She had assembled her team and had done the research. That’s more than what you can say for any of the other robberies she had performed. The … Continue reading "The Final Heist – Part 1 – Writing Assignment"

I have to come up with a story, something that I can use as a final project. What better story to use other than my western character I have been working on this semester! I’m not that creative of an individual, so having a character with a background already created makes this assignment a little … Continue reading "The final idea (draft)"

Week 13 brought about the web. I’m not sure how I feel about it. I guess the creativity came out of using web applications to produce stories and ideas. I guess, at least to me, it’s difficult to define this medium. I started out the week by completing a story using x-ray goggles. The Web … Continue reading "Week 13 Summary"

Original text: 根據72分局消息稱，6日上午7時50分，一名年僅15歲的女子在乘坐地鐵R車時被一名亞裔變態男性侵，根據受害人口供表示，案發時R車正行駛至4大道交36街，突然坐在女子身邊的一名年約20歲的亞裔男子開始偷摸受害人大腿和後背。受害人驚慌之下在Dekalb大道站逃出地鐵，但是該變態男竟仍不放棄，尾隨該女子一同走出地鐵，並繼續揉搓受害者後背，直至女子逃出地鐵站，男子便慌忙之下逃離現場。 For this assignment, I simply looked up a Chinese news article and took a section out of it to be plugged into google translate. The resulting translation did not make much sense to say the least. According to news that the branch 72 , at 7:50 on the 6th , a 15 … Continue reading "Web Assignments – Google Translate Fail"

I found this assignment extremely interesting. The first part of the assignment asked us to think about open source tools: Count the number of open source programs you are using on your computer today. How many commercial software programs could be replaced with free and open source alternatives. I counted 4 commercial products on my … Continue reading "Web Assignments – Privacy on the Web"

I’m gonna admit, I used a friends pinterest account to gain access to their website. This is because I’m tired of creating all these darn accounts and trying to keep up with them. I’m a simple person, and I guess this can be conveyed into my dream room. I screen shot each image I found … Continue reading "Web Assignments – Create Your Own Room"

I love the Onion, it’s fantastic satirical news. After downloading X-Ray Goggles, I found an article on their website regarding graduation. The article was already fantastic. I decided to change it up a bit to describe something that I’ve been struggling with this whole semester as a senior: post grad plans. It’s the dreaded question, … Continue reading "Story Telling Within the Web – The Onion and Post Grad"

For the daily creates this week we were tasked to link our tweets into a single story. I attempted this by creating a poem (and I tried to make it rhyme!) He has tried to navigate the maze to her heart. Am I doing this right? @ds106dc #tdc1555 #dailycreate pic.twitter.com/z2edP9aIth — Sophia (@stherria1) April 12, … Continue reading "Daily Create Week 13"

I had trouble accessing UMW domains, I’m not sure what went wrong, but here is my weekly summary. Below are my mashup assignments I did this week. I’m really happy about this because it allowed me to incorporate a lot of design work. I’m more into that than I am into video production. Holiday Mashup (3 … Continue reading "Week 12 Summary"

Starry DC Night Starry DC night. Thanks to https://t.co/uwiRWFHgAF @ds106dc #tdc1547 pic.twitter.com/20ZhDPVqyG — Sophia (@stherria1) April 4, 2016

Above is a picture of my sister on a family vacation and right below that are the two emojis that fit her expression. I found the emojis online (google image search) and edited them into an image together using freephototool.com. What do you guys thin...

I guess I wasn’t super subtle, but I couldn’t help myself! The two iconic images I chose to mash together were the flare scene from Jurassic Park and the kiss from Romeo and Juliet. I first removed the character from the Jurassic Park scene by cloning the rain around him. Then I added the romeo … Continue reading "Mashup Assignment – This Doesn’t Belong Here"

I chose my three favorite holidays (Christmas, Thanksgiving and St. Patricks day (not really a holiday but still fun)) and stitched them together in an image using the online photo shop tool freephototool. I used cartoon images simply for the reason that despite the fact that they have different artists, they still can fit together. The only … Continue reading "Mashup Assignment – Holiday Mashup"

This week was once again difficult. Not because of the assignments, but because of the scheduling and organization problems I had balancing my workload. I just began EMT training so it’s been difficult, but fun driving up to Vienna and back to work on school and fire department training. This week my group completed our puppet … Continue reading "Week 11 Summary"

While originally my group was going to go for a puppet version of Parks and Rec, that idea fell apart and just turned into a puppet story of our characters. It was easy considering the story was a continuation of our radio show. Looking back at the film a lot can be changed. Sound can … Continue reading "Video Show Week 2 Progress"

March Madness Surreal imagery Am I doing this right? @tdc1544 @ds106dc pic.twitter.com/HWn33pWbme — Sophia (@stherria1) April 1, 2016

Week 10 was not as difficult as I thought it would be. I was especially nervous for the Video Essay portion of the week. This assignment was a lot more fun than anticipated. I really enjoyed choosing a scene and applying my thoughts and ideas on the directorial choices and what I got from it. … Continue reading "Week 10 Summary"

I really enjoy film and film analysis. While I enjoy watching films, I haven’t gotten the hang of making them. I found How to Structure a Video Essay extremely helpful for this assignment. Even though my video editing skills are waaaaaay behind his, it gave me some good ideas on how to properly edit my voice … Continue reading "Video Essay"

I’ve got a lot of favorite things I enjoy, but this one seemed fitting after coming home from a long week. My dog Boomie loves everyone. She is the most un-loyal dog there is! All I had to do was walk through my door and act excited. I filmed this using a horizontal view on … Continue reading "Video Assignment – My Favorite Thing To Do"

It all started with a simple text from Maria: “Wanna do the video assignment together?” That’s when it fell into place. And obviously we had to bring Kelly, our fellow radio show host, in on the group. I suggested we do something with puppets, it allows us to create very unique and silly characters we … Continue reading "Video Show Week 1"

Since we have a pretty loose idea of what we wanted to do, I chose to keep it fairly open to interpretation. I ripped the opening scene from youtube and uploaded it into Windows Live Movie Maker. I then downloaded some images of puppets and spliced them together (we don’t know how we’re going to … Continue reading "Video Show Trailer"

My lame excuse 2. Bike to work day was on the 20th!

I’m finding it more and more difficult to manage my time properly regarding some of these assignments. I really struggled to find a radioshow time that I would be available to listen to, and in the end, I couldn’t coordinate with my schedule. That’s my own fault, and something I’ve been trying to work with … Continue reading "Week 9 Summary"