One of our Assignment Bank assignments this week was labeled, “Dramatic Reading Remix.” Our instructions were to, “take a song that you love, and record yourself doing a dramatic reading of the lyrics. Then take another piece of music (obviously … Continue reading →

As a contribution to my group’s radio show and the five points of character assignments this week, I decided to complete the “DS106 Radio Commercial”. However, instead of inventing a product for a movie or TV show character, I fabricated one for my own character, “Jewel”. The prompt states: Create a commercial featuring an item … Continue reading NO-NV Does the Trick!

The first step this week was to create a group for the radio show. I’ve known Landon and Brian for a little while so Brian messaged both Landon and I on Facebook to see if we wanted to be in a group together. (Obviously, it was a yes). Then I brought my roommate, Shannon, into … Continue reading Week 1 Process/Progress

One of this weeks audio assignments was called “One Question.” The directions were to “take one open ended question. Ask a bunch of people. Mix and compile. This could be video or audio only.” I decided to ask my oh … Continue reading →

There’s been so much great work going on in this class! I definitely recommend checking out the stuff I have listed below. Here are some of the places that I’ve been commenting this week: 1. http://jcpdigitalstorytelling.com/assignments/slow-down-there/ 2. http://landonepp.com/daily-create/food-create/#comments 3. http://briannecomden34.com/assignments/lets-take-things-slow/#comment-94 4. http://www.phoenixtakesflight.com/thoughts-and-ideas/our-radio-poster-the-noir-buzz/#comment-6111 5. http://www.storytelling.abigaildunn.org/noirblog/ds/calebs-theme/#comment-32 6. http://thedarktimes.chelseairizarry.org/assignments/shadows-theme-song/#comment-76 7. http://ds106.steverechter.com/audio-assignments/scoring-800-percent/#comment-54 8. http://www.tylerdaig.com/Blog/assignments/audio/song-reversed/#comment-70 9. http://landonepp.com/assignments/corner-pockets-theme-song/#comment-126 10. http://kkeelee.com/assignment/your-theme-song/#comment-134

Week one of Radio Days…check! I started this week’s work early, by searching for a group on Monday. Luckily, I have a couple teammates in this class, and we knew that it would be ideal to work together because we have the same schedule. We joined up with another student, as well, and together we are…”the maNOIRpulators”. … Continue reading Pros of Progress

When considering the five points to be dedicated to my character this week, the “Character Bird Calls” assignment grabbed my attention because “Jewel” is attracted to specific things in life, given her nature and profession. By completing this assignment, I am able to add a bit of depth to her character, as well. The prompt … Continue reading “Jewel’s” Calling…G.W.D. (Gym, Work, Drink)

This week we got together on google doc to incorporate all of our ideas. It’s going great for all of what we’re coming up with. We’re still working on mending our ideas together to see what works and what doesn’t work. Right now I’m trying to find celeb gossip that has a noir style to […]

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 →

In the midst of the first radio show week, I tried to focus my audio assignments on prompts that would contribute to our show idea. Therefore, the first assignment I decided to complete was the “Create a DS106 Radio Bumper”. This would be round two for me with this assignment, as I created one during … Continue reading A Sultry Bumper for a Sultry Show

Weekly Summary 6 Post Radio Show Progress: For our radio show this week, we came up with a name, and background story. We met this morning to discuss dialogue and more of the story. I posted about our progress yesterday, but since then we have agreed on a lot more. Anyway, I don’t wanna give too … Continue reading Why was 6 afraid of 7 →

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 →

This week we were asked to start working on our radio show.  I must say that I am actually looking forward to starting to actually make the show and see how it turns out in the end. I really like the poster that my group has for out radio show and think that it adds […]