Author Archives: Andrew Poon

One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish

For this assignment I was tasked with recording myself reciting a poem. I decide to put a twist on it, instead of me reciting the poem Leo Storm, my created character, is reciting the poem. I chose One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish as my poem because it was one of my favorite poems growing up. Another reason I chose this was because it is a classic poem written by Dr. Seuss. The process of making this video was quite simple. I used blabberize.com to upload a picture of Leo Storm, this website allowed me to make an image look like it was talking. After I uploaded the photo, I used an Ai text to speech to record the poem. Once that was complete, I uploaded the file of the voice over of One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish to blabberize.com and this is the final product. I hope you enjoy!

Web Gem

For this assignment I was tasked with compiling clips of me doing well in my sport and make it into a video. The process of creating this video wasn’t too difficult. I had some film from my high school season as well as my travel ball season. I took those clips and uploaded them to iMovie. Once they were uploaded, I just combined all the clips making it into one video. Hope you enjoy!

Tech & Tea

In this image I believe this man’s facial expression is a result from what he is listening to. I think he’s listening to a comedy podcast. He heard a funny joke and as a result we see a smile on his face. Another possibility is he is just a happy man who likes to smile.

JAWS But Backwards

For this daily create I was tasked with taking a movie title and flipping it and putting it on an object. I decided to do JAWS on a surfboard. I chose JAWS because it was a simple title that could be reversed. I chose the surfboard to go along the theme of JAWS.

Week 5 Summary

Week 5 seemed like a short one. We only had 4 blogs not including this one. The main assignment for the week was the video essay. I found this assignment a bit challenging for me. When I was looking over the assignment, I was a bit intimidated because I had no idea how to create a video with a voice over. My initial thought was to go to YouTube and find a video on how to create a voice over video. After watching the video, I felt a little but at ease because I had an idea of what I was going to do. My first step was to find a movie clip to use, I ended up using an opening scene from Star Wars: Episode 1 A New Hope. Once I found my clip, I recorded my voice over on Audacity and downloaded the finish recording. Final I uploaded both to Wondershare, A video editing software, and meshed the two together. Overall, despite the challenge, I enjoyed this assignment and would do it again. The daily creates for the week were kind of boring in my opinion. There wasn’t much that interested me this week compared to last week. They just seemed less appealing to me and lacked creativity. My goals for DS106 haven’t changed and I feel like I am on track to meet my goals I set in week one.

Until Next Time!

Video Essay

For my video essay I chose an opening scene from Stars Wars: Episode 1 A New Hope. The scene introduces C3-PO and R2-D2 which are forms of AIs in this film. The process of making this video was a little bit hard for me. I’ve never created a voice over video before, so I had to look it up on how to do it. I ended up using Audacity to record my voice over then used Wondershare to upload my film clip then I added my voice over clip into the software and meshed the two. This assignment was a learning experience for me and now I have a general idea of what it takes to create a video. Overall, this was a fun assignment to complete a little bit challenging but definitely worth my time.

DS106 Goals Update

Looking back at my goals I set the first week of DS106, I can say that I definitely have learned more about the usage of AIs in class and in general. I look forward to continuing using AIs and learning more about using different types of AIs to complete different task. As far as digital storytelling itself I felt like I’ve learned a lot and still have more to learn about it. I feel like I am on track with my goals, and I am excited to continue learning more and more each week.

How Nice of You

In response to today’s daily create I created this message in response to the compliment bot.

Captain Felix

At first glance this image of Captain Felix is puzzling. Is he happy or is he upset? His facial expression is a mix of happy and sad. However, I think he’s happy because he just accomplished a great feat. Maybe he just flew across the country or maybe he is just happy he’s flying in general. Either way I think the overall message of this photo is positive and he’s happy.

Bye Bye Week 4

This week based on sound and audio. I think this week was my favorite week so far. Getting to experiment with different types of audios was intriguing. I had no idea it was this complex when it came to creating my own sounds and audios.

Audacity

When I first downloaded Audacity and opened it for the first time it was very intimidating. There were so many buttons and controls to utilize. However, once I started messing around with the controls, I found it quite easy to use. It was fun using audacity to create my own sounds and audios for my assignments. I think my favorite assignment using audacity would have to be creating my own radio bumper. I definitely see myself using this application in the future and I recommend this to anyone who is a beginner looking to get into sound and audio work.

Moon Graffiti

This was an interesting audio to listen to. I liked how they used a real audio from a message in case the space mission was to go wrong. Thank goodness nothing did go wrong but still interesting to see they had an audio prerecorded and ready to use. The overall audio was a good listen and there never was a dull moment.

Radio Bumper

I really enjoyed creating my bumper. I love how much freedom we had when creating it. I felt like it really tested my creative and how creative could I get. I think the final product was one of my better works in this class and I hope to hear it in a DS106 radio.

DS106 Radio

This was my first time listening to a radio live and I have to say it was a great first-time experience. Using the discord to communicate with each other was very insightful. Hearing other thoughts and opinions on the radio as it played help me understand some things I didn’t understand.

Audio Assignments

All of the assignments I completed this week were really fun. It really tested how creative could I get with these. My favorite would probably be the sick beat assignment. I am a person who listens to music a lot so creating my own beat was something I could relate too. Also, it was just fun in general making my own beats. It did take some trial and error because some beats don’t mesh well with others but once I found the perfect ones it came out great.

Overall, this week was really good. I learned so much more about audio than I would have ever imaged. I definitely plan on using this knowledge in the future in this class and in life. See you next week!

Tech Noir

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