Final Project For my final project, I chose to create a story called Let’s go on a Trip. While it was not the most creative title, I thought it was a pretty creative tale. It is a story centered around a young woman named Cassie, who lives in New York City and works as an …

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Here are the tutorials for how I created the different audio pieces that were used in my story, Let’s go on a Trip. Creating New Orleans and New York City Sounds For the story, I created two pieces of audio for the reader to listen to at certain points in the story. The two pieces …

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Here are the tutorials for how I created the design piece that were used in my story, Let’s go on a Trip. Creating the Postcard For the story, I only created one piece of design media, a postcard. In the story, Cassie has a collection of postcards from the places she has visited, and she …

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Here are the tutorials for how I created the different visual pieces that were used in my story, Let’s go on a Trip. Creating the Central Park and World Map GIFs For the story, I created two GIFs. One was a glimpse of what goes on in Central Park and the other was the map …

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Cassie felt like she woke up mere minutes after she had fallen asleep. When she looked at her clock though, and saw it was 8:32, she knew it had been at least a few hours. In the city that never sleeps, it was easy to stay out late. Especially on a Friday night. Cassie had …

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Reading and Analyzing Movies This week I read Roger Ebert’s “How to Read a Movie.” In this article, Ebert talked about a few rules of thumb that are used when analyzing movie scenes. He talks about how he goes through movies and freezes the screen at random moments to look at the different aspects of …

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This week one of the assignments I chose to do was What’s Your Skills? It was worth 4.5 stars. The goal of this assignment was to show the world something you have a passion for. I chose to show a video of my horse’s first show jumping round she ever did. During a show jump round, …

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One of the assignments I chose to do this week was Classic-Modern Mashup, worth 4.5 stars. The goal of this assignment was to take a modern music video and combine it with a classical composition. I chose to use Sia’s Chandelier music video and Beethoven’s Fur Elise composition. I I chose the music video for Chandelier …

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It was supposed to be my dog…. Yikes. @ds106dc #tdc1987 Try Fotogenerator yourself!

The clip I chose to analyze for this assignment was from The Newsroom. I chose to look at this clip because it is the one I thought would be most interesting to look at because of it’s content and the goings on in society today. Camera Work Throughout the clip, the camera switches views over …

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Ebert and How to Read a Movie I found Roger Ebert’s “How to Read a Movie” quite interesting. I am a big fan of movies, but Ebert’s article had me thinking about the different techniques that people use when they make movies. Generally, I watch a movie because I liked the story the trailer told …

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Bus Driver Spends Day Picking Up and Dropping Off Children in the Area #upworthy @ds106dc #tdc1986

Mermaids of Brooklyn @ds106dc #tdc1985

When I’m nervous my horse talks to me… @ds106dc #tdc1984

This week was all about telling a story through sound. I found the points made about audio storytelling by Ira Glass and Jad Abumrad quite interesting. I also enjoyed listening to the TED talk and Scott Lo. I especially liked the Moon Graffiti audio story. I had a lot of fun putting together the different …

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The goal of this assignment was to record sounds that I hear daily, but may be unfamiliar to others and turn it into an audio story. For this assignment, I chose to let everyone hear the sounds I hear everyday out on the farm. The audio clip below will walk you through the first half …

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Ad hominem arguments @ds106dc #tdc1980

The purpose of this assignment was to create a mash up of a band’s or artist’s greatest hits, in your opinion. I chose to create a mash up of what I consider some of Bruce Springsteen‘s greatest hits. I chose to look at Springsteen’s songs because I had been listening to his songs a lot …

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The purpose of this assignment was to create a bumper for the ds106 radio station. A bumper, as defined on the assignment’s page, is “a short recording that identifies the radio station with signature music or an expression that makes sure the listeners know what they are tuned into.” For my bumper, I chose to …

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The goal of this assignment was to tell a story using nothing but sound effects. I chose to tell the story of someone going to the beach on the first day of a vacation. The story starts with the person taking off in an airplane to head to their destination. Then the first thing they …

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Imagine – The Beatles – John Lennon https://youtu.be/DCX3ZNDZAwY  via @YouTube @ds106dc #tdc1979

Call me optimistic, but I think they are summoning a creature similar to a butterfly to bring hope and beauty to the land. #tdc1978 @ds106dc

Check out this link to see my Talk Obama to Me video. #mellencamp #tdc1977 @ds106dc http://talkobamato.me/synthesize.py?speech_key=b7c1337fb3bb1b0d8198dc3406fe6bbd

This week was definitely more challenging for me than last week. However, I also enjoyed the assignments a little more than I did last weeks. The Vignelli Canon was actually a very interesting read for me. I have enjoyed photography for many years, but I mostly took pictures because the subject appealed to me or …

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I’ve got my head in the clouds… or does it just look that way? @ds106dc #tdc1973

In The Vignelli Canon, I liked how Vignelli talked about the three different aspects of design that are most important to him. I enjoyed being able to, essentially, get into the mind and thought process behind another designer’s choices. Reading about the semantics aspect in his book helped me to think more about what I …

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The purpose of this assignment was to pick a movie scene to turn into a GIF. I chose the scene in Tangled, where Flynn and Rapunzel are at the Snuggly Duckling. While they are at the Snuggly Duckling, Rapunzel gets all of the big thugs to share their dreams with her through a song. I picked …

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The goal of this assignment was to create a sporting gif that depicted a certain element in a sporting activity. The sport I chose was soccer because it is a sport I love. I found a video on youtube that had Tosun’s goal against Benefica. Once I had the video url, I changed it from …

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The four concepts I chose to include in my design blitz are color, dominance, rhythm, and proportion. One of the ideas about color that I learned this week, had to do with what different colors mean and what they can say in a picture. I learned that warm colors are not only more inviting, but they …

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The purpose of this assignment is to take an existing image and change the concept in where you are and what you are doing. I started with a picture I had taken at a clinic a couple years ago. I used a photo editing application, called Movavi, to remove the background and add a new …

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