One of Roger Ebert’s most interesting tips on how to read a movie was that there really are no concrete rules to be followed when filmmaking. There are guidelines and generalities, rather. I like this approach to movies because sometimes when things get too technical they can lose their meaning and emotion. I found it compelling …

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Daily Create Week 4 – # 1 Panorama clone yourself #tdc1983 #ds106 #ds106dc Why have multiple me, when we can have multiple puppies (I just did this today before I saw this.) 🐶🐕🐩 pic.twitter.com/4p8OyaIkC4 — De. Norman (@de_normal1) June 14, 2017 http://daily.ds106.us/tdc1983/   Yeah, I’m not taking any more selfies, plus, who doesn’t want to […]

Compile your favorite photos from your experiences, trips, hobbies etc and make them into a video. Try to organize them chronologically to tell your story as you work your way through college. Make the video at least two minutes. This 4.5 star assignment was on the first page of video assignments for this week. I …

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Have you ever just stared off into space blankly thinking, “I feel like I’ve forgotten something…?” I usually remember what it was…about 10 minutes too late.   TFW you can’t remember if there’s something you’ve forgotten #ds106 #tdc1982 pic.twitter.com/EfhbwqZK4F — Andrew (@Andrew21663620) June 14, 2017

Video #2: Where Do You Want To Go? Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Have you ever wanted to travel, but don’t have the money? Well what if you miraculously did? Where would you go? Who would you see? The Where Do You Want To Go assignment involves making a video of the top place(s) you would love to travel Read More

Video: #SixSecondArt Rating: ☆☆☆☆ When I was younger, my family and I would go to El Salvador every summer. While there, my parents would put my siblings and I in art classes. These art classes had kids of all different ages and each week we would have a new project. These projects ranged from painting to Read More

Reflection: Look, Listen, Analyze When I watch a movie I never take into account the audio or the camera work involved. This assignment was a little trickier for me because I would zone out and begin watching the movie instead of doing the assignment. So I decided to keep myself engaged I had to pick Read More

Reflection: Learn How To Read A Movie According to Roger Elbert, filmmaking takes more than just picking up a camera. To him it’s all about what you do with the camera that makes a film special. In his article, How To Read A Movie he discusses how important angles are. Angles are essential because they Read More

Daily Create #13 Today’s daily create involved chosing a classinc piece of art and transforming the way people view it by giving it a scenario/caption.  For the artwork I decided to pick American Gothic by Grant Wood.  I used the website provided to download the image. In regards to the caption, I chose it because I Read More

#ds106 #tdc1982 TFW the sheep fad is over and everyone has moved on to babies. pic.twitter.com/1mgAW2vw7U — Jenna Wood (@jwoodds106) June 13, 2017 First of all, I see the acronym ICYMI ALL THE TIME on Twitter and I could never figure out what it meant. So thank you daily create 1982, for showing me what …

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Daily Create #12 Today’s daily create involved customizing your personal map. The place I chose was Scottsdale, Arizona because I was born there. Also because it’s one of my favorite places to visit! I personalized my location by using the website provided. At first, when I was using Map Stack I had some issues. I Read More

This week was all about telling a story through sound. I found the points made about audio storytelling by Ira Glass and Jad Abumrad quite interesting. I also enjoyed listening to the TED talk and Scott Lo. I especially liked the Moon Graffiti audio story. I had a lot of fun putting together the different …

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The goal of this assignment was to record sounds that I hear daily, but may be unfamiliar to others and turn it into an audio story. For this assignment, I chose to let everyone hear the sounds I hear everyday out on the farm. The audio clip below will walk you through the first half …

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This week was quite the challenge. I had never done any editing on audio or video like that and was woefully unprepared for the difficulty and time it takes to do audio editing. I had editing my sound effect story once and had prepared to upload it but thought I’d check it first. Good thing...

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For this 4.5 star assignment, I had to create a mixtape of songs. I chose to do this for our hero from the sound effect story. His music needed to be epic, telling that he is a hero worthy of being known. What had he done to earn his fame? Slayed monsters, saved princesses, or...

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Weekly Summary #3 Audio week has been an adventure! At first, I was nervous because I hate recording my voice, but everything turned out alright! My week started off with a little background information. This included Ira Glass and Jad Abumrad’s storytelling advice and techniques. I learned a vast variety of material from their videos, Read More

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Comment Feedback This week was different than most because we were required to interact more with our other classmates. At first, I was nervous because I’m not one for social interations over the internet. However, once I completed my first couple comments I became more comfortable. I thought that this week was better because in Read More

For this 4.5 star assignment, where I had to take a speech and a song an put them together, I chose to take Dwight D. Eisenhower’s D-Day speech from 1944 and match it up with a song from the band Two Steps from Hell. I felt that the speech and state of the world at...

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When the town is attacked, when the villagers are terrified, someone has to step up and go face these bandits. Save the town. I’ve always loved the classic tales of evil doers and the heroes that step up and become legends by doing great and heroic deeds. Typical D&D stuff. The kind of thing you’d...

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Assignment links: Summaries & Reflections Ira Glass & Jad Abumrad TED Radio Hour & Scottlo’s Lo Down Moon Graffiti Audio Assignments Sound Effect Story – 3.5 stars Make it 800% Slower – 3.5 stars B-Flat – 3.5 stars Cheesy Radio Ad for Your School – 4 stars Daily Creates TDC1976 TDC1977 TDC1979 TDC1980 I had … Continue reading Week 3: Audio… fun but frustrating

Right off the bat, Moon Graffiti forces you into panic mode alongside the engineers at mission control. It begins with a reenactment of the worst case scenario – a “moon disaster.” There is a rapid beeping, signalling critical error, and the static message from the astronaut giving mission control a program code that they aren’t … Continue reading The greatest speech never given

Audio storytelling is something that I thought I had some knowledge of but, listening to the stories I realized that my experience with audio storytelling was simply stories that were told via audio podcast. There wasn’t really any storytelling to it. Listening to Jonathan Mitchell’s podcast Moon Graffiti I realized that to truly tell a story...

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The fallacy of tu quoque stood out to me as the grown up, politics version of “I know you are but what am I?” and I just had to make an image for that. I thought, what better to demonstrate that point than a cat and a dog.   Tu quoque – politics version of...

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This was the week that was!!!! In the midst of everything else the wifi on my computer crashed. I’m now hooked up to an ether net connection that is less than optimal. Talk about old school…at least it isn’t a dial-up connection…that would be rich. […]

Whenever I think of audio as a media form I usually only think of radio. But that’s not the only form of audio media, other things like podcasts have taken over as a significant portion of the audio medium. Ira Glass introduces the basics of storytelling and talks about how the stories are built and how...

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The purpose of this assignment was to create a mash up of a band’s or artist’s greatest hits, in your opinion. I chose to create a mash up of what I consider some of Bruce Springsteen‘s greatest hits. I chose to look at Springsteen’s songs because I had been listening to his songs a lot …

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The purpose of this assignment was to create a bumper for the ds106 radio station. A bumper, as defined on the assignment’s page, is “a short recording that identifies the radio station with signature music or an expression that makes sure the listeners know what they are tuned into.” For my bumper, I chose to …

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Weekly Summary Week 3 Welcome to the end of Week Three. Not the most interesting week besides having time to play a video game and fix my messed up gifs. I did get to go to my sister’s high school to watch her get about a dozen scholarships and, for the first time, none of […]