This is my next design create. If movie posters told the truth!! Take a movie poster and make it say what the movie is really about, or what it is really like. I went with this little piece, called Avatar (or AVATARDED), which was super expensive. Sadly, with James Cameron, the costs-quality relationship is inversely ...

I decided to have a go at the albums without sound idea! I randomly generated a quote : “face the truth” random wiki article: Glow random flickr picture: by zoologist1998 To create this poster, I used the glowing edges effect in photoshop and played around with fonts and their properties!

 Out of the whole series of fictitious album covers (without sound), this was my favorite. Eric Sena, the creator of this idea and of this album cover thought of a fun and creative thing to do. He is creating a new album cover each day using random entries from Wikipedia, QuotationsPage, and Flickr. So he basically ...

WOW. What a week. First of all, I finished my audio final projects. Both were on the dating theme we chose together in class. I made the first one about dating in a different language. It’s an audio essay describing my personal experience. The second one was a condom brand-slogan collection. I had a lot of ...

ULTRA – FLORIDA

Ron Burnett makes a very interesting point, which I mentioned in one of my previous posts where I was criticizing radio and comparing it to TV. He mentions that stories are not limited to words, they are expressed through shapes and forms and colors and motives. I think that the notion that an image can ...

As for my second project, I decided to do something a little more fun. The toughest part was of course, finding the best fitting song. I wanted it to be short and sweet, with enough opportunities within it to have it stress certain parts of what I say. I decided to go with the song ...

My first audio piece is about dating, more specifically, in a different language. I wanted to do a sort of audio essay about my first date with a person who did not speak my native language. Here is the first draft! After getting some feedback from my classmates, I decided to completely change the original ...

Audio draft of piece 2 that I posted yesterday night!

It is not very easy to talk about cancer, but it is very important to be aware of this topic since so many people have to deal with it. Apparently, half the population has to deal with cancer at some point in their lives, which is incredibly disturbing to me. To be honest, it scared ...

If it doesn’t sound right, it isn’t right. I think that is something that resonated throughout this whole excerpt. It is incredibly interesting how polarized the difference between written and spoken language can be. Why is it that some of the things we have been taught for years in school become unusable in the case ...

SPRING BREAK!!! Enjoying the sun and warm weather in Florida! This week was really fun! It consisted of two daily creates, a response to one of the radio shows we listened to (I chose the valentine day’s one, because I liked it a lot!), my first vox pop, and a post explaining my plans for ...

Have you enjoyed all the snow we have gotten so far this winter? Find out what a few random people in Ann Arbor think!

I am really glad that we ended up choosing the theme “Dating”, because I think it is not too difficult to come up with ideas for a radio show revolving around this theme, since most people have some sort of experience with dating. I think that I am gonna record myself going around Ann Arbor ...

Dailycreate!!!

This was quite surprising. I noticed a few unexpected things after listening to this radio episode. First of all, I really like the idea of telling a few stories. At first 58 minutes seemed like a really long time, but it was spread out nicely across the different stories. Of course, some I liked and ...

SnowCreate

It is incredible how fast time passes. My first phase of midterms is over. The video section is….over. I feel like soon I’ll be going home already, which is definitely nice but also somehow scary. This week was wrap up week. I finished my final video projects, which were super fun to do and I ...

In her book titled “Listening In“, Susan Douglas mentions something that made me stop and re-read the sentence once more just to be sure that I understood it correctly and really have reason to disagree. And I do. She mentions the special kind of “vibe” that the radio creates, for example when you listen to ...

This is a recording of my friend Lucian laughing at me

I had a beef steak today…so this is a recording of a cow mooing!

Video Project 3…I am finished. And this one was the most fun for sure. The original idea was that I would make a video in a way so that you could follow a normal umich student (if there is such a thing) on their normal day. In the end I used footage from several days ...

Video in video, music, slow motion, fast motion, transitions. Sounds simple. It is not! Trust me. I spent many, many and many more hours on this than expected (I know that Rob Hess told us today that everybody was saying that, but this took way too long). I am very happy with the final product ...

What an interesting week. This one was definitely different. I don’t think I have ever made this many videos! Currently still working on my final two video projects and after that I can’t wait to jump into audio. This week consisted of two video creates, one daily create and my first video project! I really ...

I absolutely loved the NFL lip sync! walking and talking

Daily Create!

This was my trip to Chicago during the first semester here at UofM. I decided to grab my friend Santiago and go out for an adventure in the “Windy City”. As I was wondering what I should do as my first project to familiarize myself with iMovie and some of its functions, I decided to ...

Coolest thing I learned