So my groups radio show is coming along quite nicely! Two of the members offered to put all the audio together, another wrote us general plot to go off of and I just email all the information when needed. I finished my segment over spring break pretty early since I left for vacation and didn’t … Continue reading Radio show is a go!

This week was all about audio, design and coming up with a radio show. It was a lot of work and the radio show is nowhere near done but I did do a lot of fun things this week. First up, surprise, three daily creates! 2/21: Create our own words of wisdom poster like Loesje. … Continue reading Weekly Summary 2/19 – 2/26

This is our first week working on the radio show and I think we got a lot hammered out. Our group is named the Gals of the West and consists of 6 of our characters and they take on a murder mystery! We used Google doc to spitball ideas and come up with who is … Continue reading Progress Report

For this assignment I had my character Sally voice a commercial for a cleaning product she uses. It was once her clean, pristine saloon’s well kept cleaning secret that is now out for sale at her saloon, Tumbleweed. Made with her secret cleaning ingredients, Sally claims that it cleans anything and everything! Listen below to … Continue reading SCRUB-A-DUB-BUB

For this assignment my character Sally “Shot” talks about her daily life and what she does. It’s nothing too fancy as she puts it. She talks about getting up and ready for work but not until the kids are in school since she works late into the night most nights. She talks about what she … Continue reading Shot’s life

Besides just doing audio this week we are also required to design some sort of promotion for our radio show. I decided to do almost a flyer type invitation. I created this using canva.com and just changing the color scheme so it’s more of a western feel. Clearly I changed the text that was given … Continue reading You’re invited!

For this assignment Sally narrated a radio bumper for her upcoming group show by The Gals of the West. The background music is from freesounds.org. This is hopefully to be used in the final radio show product with a commercial following this bumper. I really wish my laptop microphone wasn’t so bad because at the … Continue reading Sneak Peak of our Radio Show

This week is all about the creation of our very own ds106 radio show, however this first assignment has no connection to it whatsoever so I decided to get it out of the way. This was a snippet of me whistling a song that always gets stuck in my head and it’s sung by today’s … Continue reading Whistle while ya work

For this week it was all about design. I was to read about design, do a design blitz, 10 stars worth of assignments, a required assignment and three daily creates. This week was a little challenging since I don’t have much experience in the design department but I did it! First up is the daily … Continue reading Weekly Summary 2/12 – 2/19

So since this week is all about design we were assigned to do a design blitz. It’s like the photo blitz only you have a lot more free reign on what you want to take pictures of. I actually found this quite challenging since I was limiting myself to certain objects. I finally got it … Continue reading Hopefully first time’s the charm

For my last assignment to round off 10 starts is to design a cereal box. I had a lot of fun making up my own cereal and creating a box. In real life it would obviously be a sleek matte black box with nutrition on the sides and fun games on the back or small … Continue reading Muscle Flakes

For this assignment I decided to customize my own shoes! I picked Nike Roshe’s just because I do really like the shoe and my little sister has a pair and they’re perfect. I created mine using NikeID.com on my phone. I then created what pattern and color scheme I wanted, screen shot the shoe before … Continue reading American Pride

For this week we are to do 10 stars worth of design assignments. My first one is designing my own tattoo! I’ve actually wanted a couple tattoo’s but I can’t get them just yet because of an ultimatum I was given from my Mom. But the one I designed below says “She is strong.” in … Continue reading Don’t tell my Mom

Out of a list of three given assignments we were required to do one of them. I chose to do the Western Wanted poster. My poster was made using Canva.com and I found my western outlaw from the link provided within the assignment. This assignment was a lot of fun for me because I got … Continue reading Starr WANTED

As I dive deeper into this weeks assignments I never really noticed how little I know about design. From listening to the podcast and going through the design resources provided I do feel like I have learned a good amount. I learned how color really pulls the eye, like in old western movie posters. The … Continue reading Western Design

For the start of this week we are to learn about design through The Vignelli Canon by M.Vignelli. I knew a little bit about design due to fixing photos for my high schools news magazine and also attending design workshops but since I came to college I kind of forgot about all that. Re-reading this … Continue reading Design and Vignelli

This entire week was all about audio, something I never really have done anything with or focused much on. I learned a lot, like, a LOT! I have my audio reflection on what I learned via a story about the moon and through my first ever ds106 radio experience so you can check that out! … Continue reading Weekly Summary 2/5 – 2/12

This post is just a recap of my first ever listen to ds106 radio and my thoughts on it and audio in general. This is the second half of my post for my audio reflection tag, my first was moon graffiti. Without the visual of the movie being played in front of me, sound was … Continue reading My new old friend

So this post is just a nice little rough draft of what could be a good radio show. Like so rough that it’s in bullet points and this is all I have. I imagine everyone’s characters will have to tie in as well as what their characters do so these are some brief ideas. a … Continue reading Brain Blast!!!!

For this assignment I was to stage a fast food order taking place. I edited my voice so that the two sound differently when I speak so you can distinguish between the worker and customer. The customer’s order was complicated and half the things she ordered aren’t even from the same place. She also was … Continue reading Big Mac and a french fry Frosty

For this assignment we were to sing along to a song we used to get the lyrics wrong to. Taylor Swift’s Blank Space to the music world by storm and whenever it came on I would try my hardest to sing every correct word. However, one part where she says “got a long list of … Continue reading Starbucks Lovers

For this assignment we were required to tell a story of only sounds while using our character. This story is of Sally and her daily life, just without words. All the sounds used are from freesound.org. I started off this project by writing this here post you’re reading and thinking of how I am going … Continue reading Sally’s sounds

This assignment I decided Sally should talk about her saloon a little bit since not many know of this fine establishment! Sally has a great place just her rough housing brothers may put a damper on things! This assignment wasn’t hard, the hardest part was coming up with what to say. Other than that I … Continue reading Sally’s Saloon

We were assigned to do a radio bumper this week and here’s mine! It’s obviously nothing special and my laptop fan is loud as heck and I have no idea how to fix that but here it is! I tried to go for that western vibe but I think I just sound kind of funny. … Continue reading Don’t move a muscle!

I decided to split up my audio reflection. This post is about Moon Graffiti. I really enjoyed this radio episode. I love how the sound effects really gave me a sense of what was happening, whether it be the crash in the very beginning or sounds of them being on the moon. The music also … Continue reading To infinity and beyond… or not…

Well this is it for week four! This week was all about visuals which I had some fun with! We were required to do 3 daily creates, 2 visual assignments given to us, the option of one or another visual assignment, again given to us, six stars worth of visual assignments – one using our … Continue reading Weekly Summary 1/29 – 2/5

This 2.5 star assignment required one to take a picture and then focus only on one color. The color I chose was red simply because it is on of my favorite colors and it’s abundant in my apartment! I used LunaPic to help me achieve this image!

For this 3.5 star assignment I was required to use 4 lines, 5 dots and one curve and make something out of that. I decided it was going to be using my character Sally and her ability to pour a mean shot and this is what I got!

For this assignment we were to recreate a scene from a movie. I picked The Shining because some of the best memes on the internet are made from those movie scenes. Clearly I couldn’t have an axe going through the wall, nor did I have a knife that big but this is my recreation!

For this assignment we were to find a picture of a couple in love and create a back story to it. I just googled a picture for this and the one above was the one I liked the most. Here goes my extremely made up story about them! It was August 10th, 9:34 a.m., Josie … Continue reading A picture’s worth a thousand words