Badass Bumper (2.5 Stars)
Creating this assignment was creatively daunting for me. I have never made a radio bumper before and had some trouble getting my head around it at first. Although I probably […]
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Song Stuck In My Head
When I read this assignment I immediately thought of a song I usually get stuck in my head. It’s rather strange but a lot of people who’ve seen the movie this is from would get this instantly. Great, now it’s stuck in my head again. Read more →
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A Puppy’s Thoughts and A Toilet’s Lament
I did a fun daily creation that made us caption a photo using the phrase “I’m sorry.” For some odd reason I chose a toilet. It was supposed to be about a woman during “lady time” but now that I look back at it, it seems like its someone apologizing for what they said when they really needed to go… Read more →
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Nobody’s Ever Called Me A “Morning Glory”
My train leaves at 2 am. I took a nap so I wouldn’t fall asleep in the cab but instead I tossed and turned thinking about this wretched city and I how I was excited to leave it. The...
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Daily Create: Pizza!
For this daily create, I had to caption what this puppy was thinking. As I was thinking of things to -
Daily Create – Wednesday
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A Very Observant Dog…..
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Noir106 Tips & Tricks with Maggie Black Week 4
A winter night at a university campus that knows how to use its digital tools, one DKC tutor is still trying to find the answers to Noir106’s persistent questions… Maggie Black. It’s a challenging and frustrating week for many in Noir106. Audacity and audio assignments are a challenging case to tackle, requiring time and attention… -
Make it Slower
Music producer Nick Pittsinger slowed Bieber’s “U Smile” down 800% and the result was ethereal magic. Find a song to experiment with and slow it down to the point where it becomes an amazing piece of ambient music. If doing this with Audacity or any other non-linear digital editor, you’ll likely have to perform multiple … Continue reading Make it Slower → -
Cute & Confused
Today’s Daily Create was to add a caption to suggest what this little guy/gal was thinking. I tried to make sure she remained cute but threw some confusion in there. […] -
What A Beautiful Day: The Calm Before The Storm (3.5 Stars)
These are a bunch of sound bites clipped together to make a very quick story assignment. Harvey decides to take a stroll through his vineyard to check the grapes and […] -
Daily Create 2/3/2015
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Audio Assignment: Sound Effects Story(3 and a 1/2pts)- “Sebastian’s Drive to the Office.”
For this sound effects story, it was focused on Sebastian Crane’s drive to the San Francisco Chronicle, where he works. In my head, I wanted this to resemble a film in the way that time elapses between the cuts. So … Continue reading → -
Daily Create 2-4-2015
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Audio Assignment: Car Chase Commentary (3 and 1/2pts)- “The Heroic Cone.”
Making this video was probably one of the most exciting things of my night (and that is not even sarcasm). I searched for “most boring video” on YouTube and found a video of a cone placed on the sidewalk with … Continue reading → -
Reverse Audio Quiz
Hey guys this assignment is pretty simple, if you can figure out the answer. Find an audio file and reverse the music. Once you have reversed the music place the file in a blog post and give three hints as to what it is. See who can figure it out first! http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/reverse-audio-quiz-2/ 2 ½ Stars … Continue reading Reverse Audio Quiz → -
Audio Assignment: Remix a Song with Some Speech (4pts). Steve Jobs and “I Lived”
Steve Jobs’ commencement speech at Stanford in 2005 is probably one of my favorite speeches. I have a few quotes from this speech saved on my computer and whenever I read them, I am put in a better mood and … Continue reading → -
Cute puppy alert
For todays daily create we had to decide what the puppy is thinking. I thought he had sad puppy eyes so I decided to make him say “life is ruff sometimes.” -
Audio Assignment: Line Remix (3 pts.) Graduation Speech
My line remix contains lines from the following films (in this order): Grease, Forrest Gump, The King’s Speech, Jack, and Titanic. In doing this assignment, I started out with the first line from the scene in Grease where the principal … Continue reading → -
Messy Winter Wreck
Unit 4 Audio Assignment – Sound Effect Story Back to Audacity after being away for a long while. I think if it was completely new I might catch on faster, but instead I ended up with former version shortcuts etc. needing unlearning. … Continue reading → -
Sound Effect Story
Tell a story using nothing but sound effects. There can be no verbal communication, only sound effects. Use at least five different sounds that you find online. The story can be no longer than 90 seconds. http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/sound-effects-story/ 3 ½ Stars This was a very challenging assignment getting acquainted with Audacity. I worked and worked and … Continue reading Sound Effect Story → -
Puppy Dog Eyes
Today’s Daily Create was to caption a picture of a little puppy. Here’s what I created: -
Distorted Bumpers
My radio bumper is fairly short- only 11 seconds. The audio clip I used was Prelude no. 14, because I liked the piano introduction. I heavily distorted it, though. The first layer was the original audio, cut to my liking. The second was cut, pitched down, inverted, normalized, echoed, and faded. On the second layer, … Read More → -
All Hail Jota
For my next audio assignment, assignment 1432, they asked If I had the opportunity to create my own theme music, what would it sound like? I IMMEDIATELY knew I had to go get the instrumental of Superstar by Lupe Fiasco! All time favorite song right there. I would listen to it before every highschool soccer game… oh […] -
I’m a Noir-tist
This week, I organized my blog, by adding categories and links to the menu completed my 3 daily creates: —parks and rec 2048 …i keep playing this —paper sculpture this was interesting with my wrist —instructions for something you use daily brushing your hair! did my 10 points of visual assignments –what’s in your bag (3) A look inside … Continue reading I’m a Noir-tist → -
Cinematography
The First movie I watched was The Hitch-Hiker. Below are the 3 still captures I chose to depict the noir in this film. This photo captures noir because it is an example of a distinct shadow. The silhouette in this photo depicts a hitch-hiker which ends up being the the actual hitch-hiker killer in the movie. … Continue reading Cinematography → -
Cute Puppy Alert
“I could still bite your face off”. So much anger inside such a little puppy. Gotta love em! -
8 stars, oh my!
So since I only did 2 other audio assignments to total 8 stars besides the required one, I just decided I was going to post all of the assignments in one post! The first one (the required one, 3.5 stars) I already blogged about and put it in a separate post because it has to … Read More -
Melodrama
The sound effects of Hollywood came from the men who worked there. Sound was new and exciting adventure because a lot of it was experimenting with different things. These men came up with different techniques to develop the sounds of Noir Films. Even though people who reviewed these films would call them Melodrama’s because of … Continue reading Melodrama -
Daily Create: Caption the Puppy
Today, we had to caption a puppy. I love puppies. I love my puppies. Anyone who…
