Our group is the outcasts. The procrastinators. The outcastinators. The procrasts. We didn’t join a group, so we were automatically placed. Despite this, I’m very excited about our show. Jada really took a leadership role, reaching out to everyone to get started. She created a googledoc, where her, Daniel, and I got acquainted and started planning. We […]

To promote our Radio Show, “Silk Road,” I created this gif. In case the gif doesn’t play, here’s a tweet I posted where it works well. Silk Road Promo- our radio show's gonna be great. #DS106 #ds106radio #noir106 #radioshowpromo pic.twitter.com/fAQcj7GjiF — sarah (@karahsinzer) February 23, 2015 Since our show is about the Silk Road, an […]

This is the logo for our show “Inside Talking.” Brian made this awesome logo and got us off to a great start with our show. We have much more work to come from each of our group members. As I said in my summary our show will be in the style of a talk show. … Continue reading Radio Show Logo

This week was fun to say the least. I met some of my classmates and we all collaborated on our Radio show ideas. We even came up with an entire story. Now the hard part will be putting it all together into and amazing project. I really liked hanging out with them, I cannot wait … Continue reading Digital Journey Week 6

You know when girls are super over dramatic and say, “THIS HAS BEEN THE WORST WEEK OF MY LIFE” ? But they are really just blowing things out of proportion and trying to make everyone feel sorry for them? Well, this … Continue reading →

Another week, another reflection. I organized into a radio group a on the later side, but am in the Noir Buzz group. We intend to incorporate darker tales of celebrity gossip into the lives of our characters. We’ll likely make at least some portions of our show a talk-show format with our characters. It should … Continue reading Week 6 Reflection →

This DS106 week, being the first of our radio show weeks, was different from all others in the past. Although it may seem like fewer blog posts and written work, it was approximately the same amount, if not more, with all of the group project work that we started. After forming a group with Aubrey Howland, Brianne Comden, and … Continue reading Check…1…2…Check…Radio Show Week 1

This week we began the formation of our groups for the radio shows. Christine is my roommate so we decided to be in the same group. She knows Brian and Landon so they reached out to her to be in a group, so I joined their group as well. Then the boys included their friend Jack … Continue reading Week Six Summary

One of our Assignment bank assignments was called, “Make ‘Em Laugh.” The goal was to, “Find a good, brief joke in a language other than your mother tongue; if you don’t know any other languages this might be a good … Continue reading →

One of our assignments this week, from the bank, was titled “Make it 800% slower.” (Very original title) The instructions were to, “Find a song to experiment with and slow it down to the point where it becomes an amazing … Continue reading →

Bumper to my the radio show “The Noir Buzz”. It’ll feature juicy gossip incorporating noir lifestyle of our groups  characters.

Another week down…here’s the wrap-up: This week was the starting week of our radio shows! Here’s the blog post I wrote narrating my week 1 process and progress with my group: http://ds106.christineloehr.org/radio-show/week-1-processprogress/ Another task this week was to create a promo poster/ad for our radio show. This was tough in the sense that I didn’t … Continue reading Week 6 Breakdown

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 […]

Stephen Weidmen and I doing the radio show, named Noir at Night. So far we have come up with some solid ideas for the show. We want to talk about modern day noir films and how they compare to the old days and what is different. For the second half of the show, we will … Continue reading Noir at Night →

This week on The Dark Times: We create a radio group call NOIRington (Justin Lawrence, Abigail Dunn, and myself) and will presenting Small Town on our radio show Dead Silence (NOIRington progress).  We also have a poster promo for our show Dead Silence. This Wednesday I also participated in a tweet-along with ds106 radio. My … Continue reading Week6 Wrap It Up: Radio Show

This week as been an interesting one to say the least. We had to form into groups to create our own noir radio talk show. We decided in creating a talk show called THE NOIR BUZZ. This where are characters gather together and discuss about their lives. I am really excited for this. All we…

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This assignment is titled “Can’t Get It Out Of My Head” and is worth 2 stars. Here’s the link to the assignment: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/cant-get-it-out-of-my-head/ This was a pretty easy assignment to complete. All I did was record myself whistling to a song that’s been in my head lately on my phone. Then I uploaded the clip … Continue reading Can’t Get It Out Of My Head

This week wasn’t as challenging as the last audio week. I felt like I knew what I was doing, and while there were times when I still wanted to chuck my computer […]