Our radio show is complete!!!  Stephen Weidman and I spent many hours on Wednesday night to come up with a completed version of our radio show. We combined our bumpers and then created one more to complete the three bumper requirement. These bumpers were created by uploading a song into audacity and simply adding our … Continue reading Week Two Radio Show Progress →

This week was one of the funnest yet! I know I said that last week but it keeps getting better and better. Stephen Weidman and I met up to discuss our Radio Show that we will be working on over the next week. Our ideas are coming together very well and I am excited to … Continue reading Weekly Summary →

For our radio show I decided to create this poster of smoke coming out of a handgun. I found this picture online and then used Picsart to at the text and a filter. As we talk about modern noir films and our cop characters host part of the show, I feel that this picture is … Continue reading Noir at Night poster →

Stephen Weidmen and I doing the radio show, named Noir at Night. So far we have come up with some solid ideas for the show. We want to talk about modern day noir films and how they compare to the old days and what is different. For the second half of the show, we will … Continue reading Noir at Night →

The last assignment that I did this week was the Character Call. It said to make an audio that would be an attractant to a  character. I chose to do one for my character Conway who is a police officer. I used to soundbible and audacity to mash up there audio files. I used a … Continue reading Character Call →

I did an assignment the week where I created my own theme song. I did it based on my character, Conway’s life. I chose to use the instrumental “centuries” by fall out boys. This is a good song for him because he will be remembered forever. I added a countdown to the beginning of the … Continue reading Conway Theme Song →

One of the assignments that I chose was to do a slow motion version of a song. I picked the song by User called climax. I thought this was appropriate because of the already drug out lyrics. I used audacity to slow the song way down turning it into a 6 minute song. I then … Continue reading Usher Slow Mo →

One of this weeks assignments was to reverse the music of a song file. This assignment was made simple because of the editor in Audacity. I have never thought about reversing a song so this assignment was interesting. It made the song make no sense at all but hopefully you will be able to figure … Continue reading Song Reversed →

This week was far more fun than any other week so far. The assignments were much more creative than before and I thoroughly enjoyed them. We started off the week with a nice read about design. I learned many of techniques and origins of designs that I have never even thought of before. The films … Continue reading Weekly Thoughts →

The Four star assignment that I chose for this week was to create a topographic lyric poster. I used a combination of word and paint software to create it. I chose lyrics from Sam Hunt’s “Break up in a small town”. The bolded YOU represents the importance that you are the one that has to … Continue reading Topographic Lyrics →

One of this weeks assignments was to create an album cover using a picture of yourself. This is my hot new album named “Party in the back”. It is a country rap album that turns dirt roads into clubs. The picture that I used was from last Halloween when I dressed up as Joe Dirt. … Continue reading Album Cover →

One of the assignments this week was to cartoonize an image of yourself or somebody else. I used this image of myself to imitate my character Conway practicing his shots for his job. I used the app called picsart to do this assignment. This image goes hand in hand with my character so i thought … Continue reading Cartoon You! →

One of this weeks assignments was to create a movie poster that captures the story through minimalist design. I created this poster for my character Conway. It is a black and white picture of the magazine and bullet to his gun that he does his “work” with. It looks noir to me using the contrasts … Continue reading Conway’s movie poster →

One of this weeks assignments was to create a design blitz using the ten concepts that were given to us. This assignment was rather tough because I felt so overwhelmed with all of the concepts. They literally show up everywhere without me even knowing it. This pictures are things located around my house that are … Continue reading Design Blitz →

This week I chose to watch Double Indemnity by Billy Wilder in 1944. I chose this because I was interested in seeing the design that was put in place in this time period. The setting was in Los Angeles in the 1940’s. The space created a dark, old theme for the movie allowing it to gain … Continue reading Double Indemnity Reflection →

This was a very interesting read for me after I fought myself to fully engage into it. There were so many things about design that I have never thought of especially about its origin and why things are designed the way that they are. One of my favorite points that he brought forward was the … Continue reading The Vignelli Canon Reflection →

Copy right laws can be very confusing and seem to not have a strong back bone. There is always loop holes in laws and copy right is no exception. Fair use is a very tricky subject. It seems to be so close to copying or cheating but its legal. I feel that it is not … Continue reading Copy Right →

After this weeks visuals and reading my eyes extremely opened to how important audio is to a story. Audio completely sets the mood for a scene as I stated in my weekly summary. It is extremely important that audio is used to decide whether the moment or scene is risky, or dark, or happy, basically … Continue reading Audio Reflection →

This week was extremely challenging. We switched from the writing side of Noir to the picture side and now this week to the audio side of Noir. I never realized how much audio played a role into things that i watched until this week. I was trying to imagine watching this weeks video without the … Continue reading Weekly… →

My thought on a radio show related to Noir would be a dark sided sports show. I would like to talk about all of the sports news going on today but add Noir themes to it. These themes could rely heavily on the audio side of Noir with music playing in the background of sports … Continue reading Radio Show Idea →

This week was all about images and Noir. I gained some heavy knowledge of how it could be present all over the place. The activities that we did made me really grasp the idea even more. The movies were a complete struggle to watch, because lets face it, I am used to 21st century films. … Continue reading Weekly Post →

In the film Killers Kiss, these two screenshots stuck out to me as Noir. In the first one the character two the left is holding a cigarette, which just screams noir. There is a long hallway with various shadows that a key points in a noir film. It gives a since of sneakiness in this … Continue reading Noir Visual Storytelling →

How to boil water: Step 1: Reach into the cabinet and grab a pot to your desired size Step 2: Check the pot for any residue from previous use Step 3: Turn the sink on Step 4: Allow a desired amount of water to pour into your pot: Step 5: Important!!: Turn the sink off … Continue reading Daily Create: Instructions to an everyday activity →

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  This assignment was to take two picture of something at the same angle but have one thing that is slightly different. Coming up with ideas for this was challenging but I finally came up with an idea. Pay no mind to the different angles of the picture, I tried my best to get the … Continue reading Where is the Error →

This assignment was to take a picture and add lyrics that go with it. This picture was sent to me from a buddy who served in Iraq. This picture and the lyrics by Toby Kieth’s american Soldier really strike my character because he was from a military family. He truly believes in being patriotic and … Continue reading My Favorite Lyric →

This assignment was to take a picture and change it so that it looks like it was drawn. I chose this picture of Bella, a labrador retriever I bought my brother for graduation. The filter did a very nice job of focusing on her darker features such as he...

This assignment was to take a picture of the bag that you use everyday and explain the items that are in it. Since I do not carry a satchel, I chose my book bag because it is very essential to my everyday life. The main things that never leave this bag are laid out to … Continue reading What’s In My Bag? →

Photography, to me has never been something that a lot of thought or attention needs to be payed towards it. Photography has always been a spur of the moment type of thing. I like to capture something in a photo that really connects with me at that second. I do not walk around looking for … Continue reading My Photography Experience →

At the end of Wild party Queenie tells Mr. Black to leave so that he does not get executed. I would like to add a ending where Queenie strikes back. Look what you’ve done! Beat it you fool! Dont Stand there Run! If they get you you will get the chair! Run! Get out! Take … Continue reading Wilder Party →