This week was fun, as we began the transition from radio to video assignments- video being a format I am more accustomed to. To finish up our unit on radio, I was required to write a post about my experience with listening to shows this week-both my own show as well as someone elses’. To […]

This week was a mix of easy and complicated. For this week, we had the choice of completing video assignments or making a video show with groups. Some of my radio show group decided we would make a video show. We met a lot on twitter and Google Docs to discuss ideas and finally picked...

My review of the radio show Get A Clue http://cmattes2.com/thoughts-and-ideas/get-a-clue-review/ My final reflection on Noir not the father http://cmattes2.com/radio-show/final-noir-not-the-father-reflection/ My daily creates http://cmattes2.com/daily-create/week-9-daily-creates/ My video essay (I apologize for the poor work) http://cmattes2.com/uncategorized/not-a-video-essay/ Week one planning of Noir Not the Father: The Reunion http://cmattes2.com/radio-show/week-1-of-noir-not-the-father-the-reunion/ link to my character category http://cmattes2.com/character/ This weeks new concept of … Continue reading Wrapping Up Week 9 →

So first I will start out by saying…I enjoyed most of this week except really for the video essay. I don’t mind doing videos but I’m not that great at editing or speaking in them. I’m not fond of my talking voice and I’m still getting used to editing videos but I’m getting there! Radio … Read More

This week I met with the same group of people that I did my radio show with. We decided to make a video show of the same concept as Noir Not the Father. After discussing for a little bit we decided to make a show about our characters getting back together for a reunion after … Continue reading Week 1 of Noir Not the Father: The Reunion →

4 out of the 6 people in my radio show group including myself decided we wanted to create some sort of video show. We had all sorts of ideas lined up but at the end we found one. We had a lot of interaction on twitter and Google Docs to go over our ideas and...

Letter to my future self in video form; Daily Create for 3/22/15.

Listening to Noir Not the Father live on ds106radio was an awesome experience! I enjoyed it because my group put in so much effort and it was nice hearing our finished product. I also liked being on twitter when our show was being aired and seeing everyone’s thoughts on what was going on. There was … Continue reading Final Noir Not the Father Reflection →

My first daily create this week I had to make and record an audio of a poem about how I feel about rain. I did not have a chance the day before to make the poem so I had to do both for this daily create. I recorded directly to sound cloud and it took … Continue reading Week 9 Daily Creates →

How to Read a Movie So for the first step in this two part process, we had to read Roger Ebert’s “How to Read a Movie.” It was really interesting that the different camera angles in movies create such different contexts in scenes. I’ve never thought about the camera angles in such detail before but … Read More

This week concluded the radio show work and introduced video. To start off this week, I listened to the radio show “Get a Clue” and participated in the live tweeting session. My biggest praise I gave tot his show was … Continue reading →

Due to popular demand of how much we loved our group..THE TUNE SQUAD IS BACK! Though this time we are taking it to the big screen and coming at you with a video instead of a radio show. We sadly lost a important member, Gambino, but the Tune Squad is now taking on The University … Continue reading Tune Squad Takes on The Mafia →

I was unable to actually tune into our radio show this week due to the fact that I was working with another class group project, so after it I went through and looked for the hashtag and it actually appeared that we did not have anyone tune in to our show and I have read … Continue reading Tune Squad Reflection →

The past two weeks we were required to tune into DS106 radio which is actually becoming on of my favorite past times, it really has helped me grasp more of the concept of noir and what it is. I also like it because it has brought to life some of the things that we have … Continue reading Dinner at 6? →

I really enjoyed this video about various cinema techniques. Frantic zoom in the “Shaun of the Dead” is a technique that portrayed the underlying sense of the movie. I am not sure if I have seen that technique anywhere else before […]

First off I want to thank my awesome group members! These gals are awesome and I am so proud of what we put together without even meeting, well Erin and I met, but other than that we never met as a group. I am SO proud of y’all. I think we did an awesome job! […]

After my show aired on ds106 radio on Tuesday night, I was lucky enough to be able to listen to Vixen’s Ventures. I wish that I didn’t have to work so much so I would have been able to tune into ds106 radio a lot more, but unfortunately I had a busy work schedule this […]

The daily create assignment for 3-19-2105 was to take a photograph with an artistic blur.

This week we were assigned to read Roger Ebert’s “How to Read a Movie” as well as watch three videos of our choosing (from a list). I chose to watch The Shining-Zooms, Camera Angle and Techniques, and Examples of Editing Techniques. I do not really know much about reading into films or movies, so all […]

For the video essay assignment, I decided to watch the movie Notorious by Alfred Hitchcock. For my video essay, I focused on the scene when Grant tells Bergman about the about his plan to have her seduce one of her past acquaintances. I read through Roger Ebert’s How to read a movie. I concentrated my...

Yesterday, we were asked to create a poem about the rain and today we were asked to read out the poem. My poem is called Remember to Look for the Umbrellas. The poem is about my tendency to forget to look outside to see people carrying umbrellas. The window in my room is at an...

I put a slight twist on the ‘Special Person Montage’ assignment for the week of 3/16 to 3/21. It is worth 5 points. I wanted to use this assignment as an opportunity to show my significant other how important they are to me. I dug through old footage we filmed together last year and attempted to […]

On Wednesday, March 18th, 2015, my and Sarah Kinzer’s radio show entitled ‘Silk Road’ aired on the ds106 radio site. It was delightful to participate in the ‘live tweet’ and learn what others thought of our work. I was surprised by how well it was received, and the experience made me realize how much fun […]

On Wednesday, March 18th, the radio show I worked on- entitled ‘Silk Road’- aired directly after a radio show called NOIR at Night. The people behind NOIR at Night definitely interpreted this project in a way that I never would have imagined. Instead of creating a fictional narrative involving their character dossiers like Sarah and […]

Above is the trailer for Sebastian Crane’s segment in the “House of Noir” episode next week. This trailer is intended to give the audience anticipation for next week since Sebastian will be dealing with a love crisis. I used a … Continue reading →

Doing this video essay was more difficult than I anticipated. Choosing a scene to analyze was the simple part, but put my notes into words for the audience was tricky. I chose the final scene of “Notorious” since I felt … Continue reading →

My group’s radio show was played on Thursday this week. Me and two or three of my members were active on twitter during the show so we saw a lot of thoughts about it. I was a part of the Skype call with the Professors and I was nervous at first. I don’t do the...

On Thursday night, I listen in on the radio show, the Noir Buzz. The basis of the show was an interview with an actress about a film she is in. There is a mix between interviews with her and scenes from what I thought was supposed to be the movie she was in. The show...

This group (The Noir Buzz) took a different approach to the assignment. They didn’t create a story, like a majority of us did, instead they did a gossip show (I think). It didn’t sound like there was a lot of original dialogue, a lot seemed to be made of music and movie clips. It was … Continue reading Radio Listen →

Remember to Look for the Umbrellas! It’s dreary outside, It caught me by surprise while I was walking outside to class the droplets pass by me and fall on my sweater and as I was walking it only got wetter If only I had looked outside the window before going to class So, we were...