“Create an April Fool and share it with us, no matter what time of day it is where you are. Let’s all be April Fools together.”
My softball team lifts at 6am but we also have to 15 mins early. The upperclassmen decided to pull a little April Fools joke on them.
This week was a lot of compiling our final radio show. Last week we has split the tasks so that we were all doing a fair amount of work. Our main idea was to create a new broadcast. This way we can use all our characters and make a cohesive show while still having individual aspects.
My broadcast was based in Philadelphia and my class character, Natasha Slayer, was the news reporter. I created two stories with a tech noir theme to try and tie this all into the main theme of the class. The stories talked about different cyber uprisings and chaos in the city. In addition to the two news stories I also contributed a commercial to my group. Although this strays from the tech noir theme I chose to make a Dunkin Donuts commercial. I used Audacity to create this using my voice and other background sounds/ music.
Maddie in my group will be compiling all of our recordings into one clip to make the completed show (shoutout Maddie!!).
Lastly for this week, I did two daily creates. The first one I did was the image to image cat creation. I drew a house and generated an image where the drawing was filled in with a cat. I’m not sure if that’s exactly what the prompt was asking me to do but i thought it was silly so i kept it. The second one I did was the tell us what you love. I chose a picture of the beach that I live at. It represents more than just my love of the beach but also home and my family which I love more than anything. Summer is my favorite and spending time on the beach.
“Kim Douillard tells us about things that she loves in her recent blog post. Tell us what you love.”
I chose a picture of the beach because this specific beach is the one four blocks from my house. To me this represents summer, and being home, and being with my family; all things that I love.
“Use the amazing “image to image” tool to make a strange haunted house, weird cat, peculiar shoe or ridiculous handbag (works best in Chrome). It generates photographic-ish images from terrible hand drawings. Here is some @cogdog’s effort at a cat. BOO!”
“Look at this fine form finesse of Italian opera singer Giuseppe De Luca. Can you equal this pose in a selfie? All you need is a couch (well and maybe someone to take the photo).”
This week was mainly focused on the begining of creating our radio shows. I met with my three other group members on Monday over zoom to discuss what our plan was and how we were going to work our show out. I talk more about this on my progress blog post.
The rest of the week was pretty much working on my solo assignments. I started to create my portion of the radio show with scripts for my segment, a commercial, a show flyer, my daily creates, and my two audio assignments.
I wanted my two audio assignments to help me make progress with my portion of the radio show so I chose creating a commercial and creating a news story. I plan to use my commercial as one of the ones my group will be using in our final radio show. I chose the news story assignment because that is basically what are entire show is. Although I still have to come up with another story or two to fill up my 5-7 min slot, this assignment helped me to get a head start. I wrote a news story and had AI read it out. I tried the Colossyan website and was able to create an AI generated presentation from my script but then when I went to download it I had a lot of issues.
My team met over zoom on Monday to discuss the layout of our radio show.
we each started by going over past assignments such as the character creation and radio show ideas. Once we talked about each character we tried to find a way to fit them all together to have a cohesive show. We ultimately came up with the idea to create a news broadcasting show. Each one of our characters are from a different area so the main goal is to report, as our characters, from these different places.
“Radio show idea: we will each be news broadcasters as our character reports about what’s going on in their current city/ state/ country” This is the prompt that we will be working off of to all coordinate our stories.
We plan to meet again early next week to make sure we are all on track with our work and will start compiling all of our audios to one radio show.
Maddie made a google drive for all of us to share our stuff in as we complete it.
