I read Roger Ebert’s Article on “How to Read a Movie”, which informed the reader about techniques on how to read in between the lines when watching a scene in a movie. It definitely opened my eyes to subtle video techniques that some directors use. The concept of visual space and how the use of […]

Here is my Tweet for this Daily Create: @ds106dc Soccer, sunny weather, and coding. Also the picture of that dude supposedly coding is hilarious #tdc1612 pic.twitter.com/oT2rek3qVL — Hasan Shami (@hshami17) June 7, 2016

@ds106dc @youcanimagethis #ds106 #tdc1612 Three things that have made me happy recently.Birthday/Family/NiceWeather pic.twitter.com/r8oQjzLD62 — Joskamery Tavarez (@joskamtav) June 7, 2016

If I had to chose 3 things that have made me happy recently it has been my family, my friends, and my most recent trip to Disney World. Obviously my friends and family make me happy everyday. I have no idea what I would do without them!! There are so many more things then just … Continue reading Things That Make Me Smile

Freshman year is the year where everyone feels nervous, excited, sad, and just a bunch of different emotions. It is a new time for everyone. I came across tis Video Assignment, which was to talk about your freshman year and to be as honest as possible. I am not a freshman, and I haven’t been … Continue reading My Freshman Year

Do you ever watch a movie or a TV show for the second time and find yourself noticing things that you never did before, or hearing things you never did before? This assignment helped me do just that. Not necessarily just seeing new things, but it helped me to notice more the detail and the … Continue reading Dexter: The Analyzation

If there is one week that I think has gone by slow so far, it has for sure been this one. I think it’s because I just started a new job and I’ve been busy, but oh my gosh I am so glad it’s over! Audio week was definitely a tricky one for me. I … Continue reading Weekly Summary 3

3 weeks down, 2 to go! I was terrified of this week because I am completely unfamiliar with working with audio. I was pleasantly surprised that it went much better than expected, but I am still not very confident in my abilities to alter and edit audio. I thought that, overall, Audacity was a pretty… Continue reading Weekly Summary 3

Week Three was very interesting and not exactly what I was expecting.  I had to get a lot of my work done early in the week because I had a wedding to go to over the weekend and everything else was done while in the car for 16 hours in a two day span.  Audio […]

In honor of the upcoming release of Finding Dory, I decided to find a picture and sound to go along with the word ‘fish.’ Who isn’t a fan of Dory and her motto, “Just keep swimming?” Always remember, when life gets you down and make you a Mr. Grumpy Gills (or you have no idea… Continue reading Just Keep Swimming!

I grew up without television, and with a lot of public radio. In fact, actually still don’t subscribe to television- although I do have the internet and a computer, and that allows me to stay culturally up-to-date. I don’t listen to that much radio anymore, but I do listen to a lot of podcasts. My […]

Daily Creates Daily Create 1 I used snapchat to complete the guitar face challenge, and I also made myself a guitar out of pizza.   Daily Create 2 Took a picture of a school board, the numbers on the board almost came in the order of 1 6 0. Daily Create 3 I took three names […]

I was super excited to comment on Daenerys Targaryan’s voicemail and was happy to find there was another Game of Thrones fan in the class.  Honestly in the case of this comment it was much more content focused than process focused. The good morning message was overall pretty good, but as I said I think […]

The task: Take an audio file and reverse it. Then, give three clues as to what the song is and see who is the first to correctly identify the song. Clues: This is a children’s song/nursery rhyme. It can be played as a children’s game. It is often the tune played when you crank a Jack in… Continue reading Reverse Audio Quiz

I listen to podcasts all the time. While walking to school or work, lounging on the porch, travelling, in the bathtub… Between all the music I listen to and all the podcasts I try to keep up with, sometimes I wish there were more hours in the day. I listened to the first minute or […]

I thought the idea of this Daily Create was really funny and wanted an image of someone riding on the hood of a car to demonstrate how useful pedestrian flypaper would be to add an extra seat to self driving cars.  I mean it’s not like they need to be able to see through the […]

Doing audio this week was a real eye opener as to how time consuming audio can be to complete well.  I really enjoyed learning to layer sound with Audacity and while I don’t think I have a complete knowledge of Audacity by any means I am more confident in my ability to use it.  I’m […]

Here are links to the work that was completed this week Summaries Reflection summary on Abumrad and Glass Short Story Reflection Summary Reflecting on comments and the blogs Audio Assignments Celebrity Speed Dating The Sounds of my Morning Daily Creates Daily Creates for Week 3 (I did two of the four) Concerns/Questions Paragraph Questions and Concerns … Continue reading Weekly Summary 3: Half way to the finish →

  I’m a huge Ira Glass fan (and NPR lover in general!), so I really enjoyed listening to him talk about his methods of storytelling. I listen to the This American Life podcast all the time, but have never really paid too much attention to all the details. Hearing him lay out his techniques gave […]

This assignment was to take a song and slow it down to get an ethereal/ambient effect. After listening to the example the assignment linked to, I decided I had to try it out for myself. Here’s the inspiration for my work. First, the original Justin Bieber song ‘U Smile’: and then the song slowed down […]

My only concerns are about next week. My guess is we’ll be tackling the visual side of storytelling. I haven’t edited anything visual since my freshman seminar class. A Videogame Canon with Professor Zach Whalen. We used Audacity too and created videos using the program Fraps. My only question is about next week. What will … Continue reading Questions and Concerns following Week 3 →

@ds106dc #tdc1610 pic.twitter.com/BqNHE2IotI — D.J. Wernitznig (@DJWernitznig) June 5, 2016 @ds106dc #tdc1609 pic.twitter.com/1kstThWWuo — D.J. Wernitznig (@DJWernitznig) June 5, 2016

I listened to the How I Got into College episode of This American Life. A brief summary of the main story of the episode – This episode was largely about the story of a Bosnian refugee, Emir Kamenica, who is convinced that his life was changed by a teacher, Ms. Ames, after he impressed her with… Continue reading How I Got into College Story Reflection

I went back and read all the comments left on my blog. It was mostly praise, which of course I won’t complain about. I appreciated the advice in some of the comments too. These comments were my favorite. I enjoyed visiting the other student’s blogs most. I liked seeing the design of everyone else’s blogs. … Continue reading Reflecting on comments and the blogs →

I chose to do three shorter stories The first is about a grant writer who believe’s that’s just “it”. She goes to a leadership seminar and goes through these exercises first and receives feedback to do better. She struggles at the panel and you can tell she is not happy. She returns to her job where she … Continue reading Short Story Reflection Summary →

Ira Glass explains the difference between a high school paper and telling a story on audio. In highs school we have a topic sentence, followed with facts backing up whatever our point is. Audio uses two building blocks: the anecdote, and the moment of reflection. The anecdote is where everything builds off of each other. … Continue reading Reflection summary on Abumrad and Glass →

Original assignment may be found here (2.5 Stars) The assignment tasks you with recording different noises you her throughout the day. The noises can be whatever you want. I decided to my Sunday morning routine. First I’ll explain how I did the assignment. Using my iPhone 6, I opened up the Voice Memo app. I recorded … Continue reading The Sounds of my Morning →

Done with my first week working with audio. I do listen to podcasts and other radio stuff occasionally but I have never actually worked with it myself. Although I did not find it to be too daunting and enjoyed some of the stuff. I liked creating the Sounds Of My Day assignment, I guess to […]

When looking through the list of stories to choose from to listen to the one called “Doppelgängers” really caught my eye. I’ve always been fascinated how people from complete opposite sides of the world could look like each other. Not necessarily does the term doppelgänger mean that two people look the same txt are not … Continue reading Doppelgängers: Food vs. People