It was a fun experience to travel around the DS106 community and to be able to see all of the awesome work that everyone has been doing. It is always interesting to see what your peers are doing and it provides ample opportunity to learn from each other. Below are some comments that I have … Continue reading My Comments Around the DS106 Community →

Movie Voice Machines – 2 1/2 Stars For this assignment you had to create a voicemail for fictional character. I chose to make a voice-mail message for my character Jeffrey Davidson. I used sound cloud to record myself. I attempted to deepen my voice to sound like man (did not do the best job) and […]

Despite not joining a group until after the deadline, I think my group and I have made decent progress this week. We decided to create a noir with an updated, digital vibe. This will give us a chance to experiment with text message and computer sounds. Our main character will be a female computer hacker […]

Emotions Through Sounds – 3 Stars For this audio assignment you had to portray an emotion through sound effects. I chose to do this assignment for my character dossier Jeffrey Davidson. The story I was trying to tell though sound effects was when his mother died. I have mentioned in some of my earlier posts […]

This week we worked on our radio show. Our group is called Eagles in the dark. Our theme for the radio show is “Most Wanted”. The design idea blog. It seems like we made a great deal of progress thinking and collaborating on the story line of our show. I commented on 10 different post: First … Continue reading Weekly summary- 6 →

This design project was meant to help me work on NeoNoir’s midterm radio show, and so it is not worth any point value or created from a specific prompt. For this design project, I combined some old design prompts and made a minimalist bumper sticker using computer icons. Our radio show is meant to be […]

I started my week off with a healthy dose of Audio Assignments. I started by working on Leave It To Who? in lieu of my character Delilah Valentine. It took me forever to find a free download for the theme music, but I did eventually find it. I wouldn’t recommend the site however, cause it gave a … Continue reading Week 6 Summary →

I’m excited to share this commercial a friend and I made that will hopefully play during NeoNoir’s radio show. It is worth three audio points for the week of 2/16 to 2/22. We made the commercial as though it would sell to the main character of the radio show, who is an internet hacker attempting […]

With our radio show project coming up soon, I have created a promotional poster for our show, Noir Not The Father! Since our show is a Maury-style talk show, I found a great photo depicting a crowd reaction from a similar show. The photo is actually taken from the Jerry Springer Show, which is very… Read More

This Audio Assignment can be found here: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/being-a-music-producer/ Lyrics: “Sitting in the dark I peel my bleeding heart Laying here alone Deep in the ocean My heart sits torn In a trench full of wishes With a soul that’s too worn Just a man who is breathing Yet living like he’s dead. (x2) Pondering what to … Continue reading Saved By The One – Original Recording →

radio show progress http://cmattes2.com/radio-show/noir-not-the-father-progress/ radio show design project http://cmattes2.com/radio-show/148/ my 10 comments http://edithandart.com/assignments/audio/leave-it-to-who/#comment-32 http://trysoccer29.com/writing-assignments/lawrences-theme-song/#comment-168 http://trysoccer29.com/writing-assignments/yeah-i-can-rap/#comment-169 http://edithandart.com/uncategorized/multi-way-gloves/#comment-35 http://www.brianburnsofficial.com/radio-show/noir-not-the-father-promotional-poster/#comment-108 http://lifebysavanna.com/design-assignments/a-lil-radio-show-promo/#comment-109 http://sayheyjanaye.com/radioshow/house-of-noirprogress/#comment-123 http://www.dsnoir106.kassiarivera.com/blog/assignments/suspense/#comment-68 http://lifebysavanna.com/audio-assignments/tiffany-bumper-radio-show-work/#comment-110 http://ds106blog.missmoonstarsun.com/radio-show/radio-show-progress/#comment-83 10 stars of audio assignments 4 stars http://cmattes2.com/assignments/shes-dead-isnt-she-4-stars/ 1 1/2 stars http://cmattes2.com/assignments/guess-what-song-1-12-stars/ 3 stars (character) http://cmattes2.com/assignments/ol-micks-emotions-through-sounds/ 2 stars (character) http://cmattes2.com/assignments/commercial-that-describes-ol-mick-2-stars/ This week was a little different from the past weeks we have had. … Continue reading Wrapping Up Week 6 →

I found this picture I uploaded a year or two ago. The picture on the left is of me in 8th grade and the one on the right is of me in my Senior year of high school. I’m using this as my Daily Create because of the irony. The Daily Create was to take a … Continue reading Before and After →

Our show theme is a noir round table where we will discuss questions and topics relevant to the noir stereotypes our characters represent. Since three of my group members all have the jerk with a heart of gold I am a little nervous as to how this will work with my lone mysterious woman. We […]

I used free sound to find all of my sounds, and Audacity to edit them all together. I took an original ringtone and embellished it with intense booming sound effects.  

This Audio Assignment can be found here: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/being-a-music-producer/ Lyrics: “Midnight Driving away without headlights I need to breath but it’s too tight This stress inside of my mind So much to do but no time Places to see but I’m not free No ones here to miss me Who am I Why am I How am … Continue reading Here For You – Original Recording →

To create this poster I first had to search through countless pictures of outlines of people standing on google images. Surprisingly or not there is a lot of pictures and mostly of people dancing or jumping for joy. Once I found this picture I used http://apps.pixlr.com/editor to add text to picture. After I had added […]

The last assignment I did this week was called “Inflate your language”. It was worth 2.5 stars. Here is the assignment page. For this assignment, I used inflationary language to tell the story of how my character, Billy Steel, met his wife Jackie. Inflationary language is a style created by comedian Victor Borge in which… Read More

This assignment was a bit tricky because I had to search through you tube a lot to find a commercial that would work without the video to go along with the audio. I did this by listening and not watching the screen. After I found the right audio I converted it to audio only using … Continue reading Commercial That Describes Ol Mick- 2 stars →

Here is my Emotions Through Sound assignment that is 3 points. For this assignment, it was actually really easy to complete. Last audio week I wanted to convey calm feelings in this assignments. This week I decided to convey suspenseful emotions. In this scene, a person is hiding in a closet from a murderer. The...

The emotion I am trying to convey in this post is a relaxed feel until Ol Mick drinks too much. From the beginning up until the puke the feel is calm with what seems like a pre party environment. The band is tuning up and everyone is having slow conversation until Ol Mick breaks the … Continue reading Ol Mick’s Emotions Through Sounds- 3 stars →

For Sunday, the daily create was to take a picture and have a second picture that is altered in some way. I took a picture of my roommate in regular clothes than covered her regular clothes with other things in a crazy way.

Tuesday night, I got to listen in on the radio show of Mildred Pierce. It was so fun to listen to it and comment on twitter about it. Several of us seemed to enjoy the quirks during the show. From the audience applause to the spoiled brat of a daughter. The way that it went, … Continue reading Listening to the radio show of Mildred Pierce →

For this week, our group met up at the Technology Center to discuss what we were going to do for our story. Unfortunately some of our group couldn’t make it. The snow didn’t help. But it seemed that we made great progress. Instead of typing up everything that we talked about for those that could … Continue reading Radio Show Progress →

The radio show that we have decided to do is a travel back in time mystery. Two of the characters are based in the present time and the rest are back in the 1940’s. The ads that we were going to do are one for perfume, bulletproof vest, and aging cream. We haven’t gotten a … Continue reading Radio Show Design Project →

This was fun. This assignment was to make it seem like you were having a conversation with yourself in different personalities. I like doing different accents when reading books to my daughter. I used those to make up the different personalities for th...

This assignment was to make a fake 911 call. We were to have fun with it. Since my daughter likes to do some of the creative stuff with me, she was the 911 operator. It was hard to catch us not laughing trying to find something funny to come up with.

This audio assignment was to us sound effects to tell a spooky story that is about a minute long. I chose to use the sound of a thunder storm, a ghost whispering, a lady screaming, glass breaking, running on carpet, door shutting, and running with keys outside. I think it tells a quick story of … Continue reading Spooky Sounds- 4 stars →

This week seemed like such a easy week workload wise compared to the other weeks of this class. I did find it a little difficult to actually find a group for the project, but once it happened it was so much fun sharing ideas with other people. One thing we had to do this week … Continue reading Week 6! →

Creating this poster was kind of a challenge. First off I could not download GIMP so I used an online poster maker. I was happy to find out that the site I used was actually a pretty good design tool. To start I had to think of the concept of the Maury show. I thought … Continue reading Noir Not the Father. Tune In! →

This week we had to do another tweet along assignment for DS106. I did not like it as much as I liked the previous week one and I had trouble getting into the story, it just didn’t grab my attention as much and I had trouble staying focussed. I didn’t find much suspense and interest … Continue reading Tweet Tweet.. →