I chose to create a wanted poster for my character using mobilefish.com. I didn’t know what to do for her photo, considering Rose Oakley (at least to my knowledge!) isn’t a real individual, and therefore doesn’t have a photo I can use. I ended up finding a photo of an outlaw woman and using that as … Continue reading "Design Assignmnet – Most Wanted Poster (3)"

Rose Oakley Rose was an orphan. She never knew her family or their fate. She never cared to learn of them. She figured if they couldn’t be there for her then, they couldn’t be available to her any other part of her life. The orphanage was tough. It made her realize she couldn’t trust many … Continue reading "Writing Assignment – Your Character’s Past"

In 10 years, I’ll either be in a ditch or living the high life. Ain’t no way I’m letting the law get ahold of me. Either the years of running from the marshal’s will catch up or I’ll have made it big time. I’m fearful of the law. I’m fearful that things won’t turn out … Continue reading "Writing Assignment – Your Hopes, Dreams, And Fears"

Tombstone 2.

Week eight was great (look at that rhyme!) My group was able to finish our radio show, and I was also able to comment on this weeks progress in my radio show progress post. It felt odd not having to do any assignment bank projects, but that was definitely for the best considering the amount … Continue reading "Week 8 Summary"

Here is the link to my groups Traveling Gal’s Radio Show! You can read about the creation of the radio show in my radio show progress blog post. Hope you guys enjoy!

This week was a ton of fun! It was great finally getting together with my team members to record our radio show. There was the idea to have everyone record their segments separately, but I’m glad we chose to have a show where each of us are able to interact with each other as our … Continue reading "Radio Show Progress Week 2"

Story for the cowboy 2. Random Cowboy name

I’ll admit it, I really dropped the ball this week. It’s stressful finding a balance between this class and my other courses. I will work on that. Now that midterm week is over it should be easy getting back into the swing of digital story telling. We created a google doc for our radio show … Continue reading "Week 7 Summary"

Those darn kids and their hashtags 2. SoundTrip Traveling by train and across parks. Enjoying the sounds of the outdoors and the city bustle #dailycreate @ds106dc pic.twitter.com/n6TniIKdqG — Sophia (@stherria1) February 24, 2016

Once again I used freephototool.com to create my image! I simply overlaid text onto a background image of some western travelers. I loved the background image I found due to its simplicity and natural color tones. I really liked the idea of a “coming soon” poster, as since our radio show is still in production I … Continue reading "Radio Show Promo"

It has been difficult. I wasn’t able to give my full attention to the group and the ideas that everyone had. I’m really excited for the outcome but I think this assignment just fell on a bad week (I know, excuses, excuses). It’s difficult working with other people and not being physically present to share … Continue reading "Radio Show Progress"

You’re tired and you see a house ahead. You don’t think it’s following you anymore. Until you hear it. The unsettling sounds that it never left. You quickly get inside the house and find somewhere to hide. But you still hear it. It seems to be going from room to room. What is that noise … Continue reading "Audio Assignment – Spooky Sounds"

Working with design has been my favorite so far. While I initially did not enjoy the responsive reading, I had a great time analyzing different western themes and how design has changed them over time. I struggled with the design blitz assignment simply because I’m still getting used to flickr. I guess at the moment I’m not … Continue reading "Week 6 Summary"

Viewing western movie stills along with western movie posters underscored how design has grown and changed over the years. Older movie posters were bright, colorful and “popped”. They attempted to grab the audiences attention. The same can be said with movie stills of their titles. While some films were in black in white, it still did not … Continue reading "Western Design"

Semantic, Syntactic and Pragmatic “Let’s examine them one at the time. Semantics, for me, is the search of the meaning of whatever we have to design.“ Maybe it’s because I’m not exactly the most artistic and creative person, but I found his discussion regarding design semantics to be entirely too pompous. What happened about creating … Continue reading "Response – The Vignelli Canon"

Unfortunately my camera has not been functioning. A solution? Use past photos from my trip to Chicago. I actually enjoyed this aspect because it allowed me to go through my saved pictures and really analyze them for different aspects of design. I will also take this time to vent about my frustrations with flickr. I … Continue reading "Design Blitz"

While it might not be from a movie, I thought it would be fun to create a trading card for the current TV show I’m binge watching on Netflix: Sons of Anarchy. As the week has progressed, I’ve become better at layering images on top of one another using the tools at freephototool.com. I first started … Continue reading "Design Assignment – Movie Trading Cards"

Congratulations! 2. 42! 3. Clouds touching the highest points

This assignment was really neat, mainly because I enjoyed looking at the image representations for each word that can be found at The Noun Project. These simplistic icons are just fun to look at. I finally decided on representing a modern western movie and it’s story. I picked out the icons that not only portrayed … Continue reading "Design Assignment – One Story / Four Icons"

I love minimalist movie poster designs. The simplicity in it makes it all the more enjoyable to view. For this assignment I chose to do a minimalist movie poster on the movie The Martian. The movie already had a basic poster. Simply the actor, Matt Damon, looking into the camera with a quote from the … Continue reading "Design Assignment – Minimalist TV/Movie Poster"

I chose to do this assignment again because I really enjoy learning about the oulaws of the past. Once again I used the website mobilefish.com to generate a poster after settling on an outlaw. “Jim Burrow (18??-1888) – Jim Burrow, originally from Alabama, grew up to rob trains with his brother Reuben “Rube” Burrow in … Continue reading "Design Assignment – Most Wanted Outlaws ds106 Style (2)"

I was initially really worried about working with audio. Not only because I was having difficulty with my hardware, but who likes to hear their own voice? Not me. In the end, I enjoyed this weeks assignments a lot more than I had anticipated! That’s always a good thing. I had a lot of fun … Continue reading "Week 5 Summary"

Audio can make or break a story. It can shape appropriate moods for the underlying story or create awkward and uncomfortable pairings. One of my favorite movies is Interstellar, this is in large part due to the soundtrack (and the visuals are pretty fantastic). While many critics have joked that the soundtrack is just Hans Zimmer falling … Continue reading "Audio Storytelling"

Have you ever heard of the podcast “Stuff You Missed in History Class?” The two presenters pick out fun/interesting historical topics that aren’t well known. I was thinking why not do that with our western theme! An older western story, character (real or legend) or scene could be broken down and explained. Any one like … Continue reading "Radio Show Ideas"

My radio bumper involved three recordings laid on top of each other from freesound.org ; 1)a man shouting “yeehaww”, 2) my voice, and 3) banjo music. I tried putting some twang in my voice (not sure if I succeeded) and worked on fading out the banjo music on audacity so it didn’t end so abruptly. … Continue reading "Audio Assignment – Create A Ds106 Radio Bumper"

Where is Dr. Oblivion? 2) Invention 3) Modern pony express

I struggled with this assignment mainly because I don’t have rhythm. My solution? Play with racquetballs. I took two of my racquetballs, began recording and simply played around with them. I even accidentally knocked over their container (which can be clearly heard in the video). By the end of it, I had a clip of … Continue reading "Audio Assignment – Rhythms with Things"

I had a lot of fun with this assignment, mainly because I enjoy whistling. It was easy to record myself on audacity and upload the file onto SoundCloud. Can you guess what song it is? It’s the chorus of a pretty popular song that I heard on the radio (and I just couldn’t get it … Continue reading "Audio Assignment – Can’t Get Out of My Head"

When I finished this assignment, I was surprised that my file was only 19 seconds long! For the amount of time I spent working on it I expected it to be longer, but I’m happy with the final project. The story I tried to create was that of my outlaw, Rose Oakley, running from the law. … Continue reading "Audio Assignment – Sound Effects Story"