This week had good options and was fine, just hanging in there till spring break. Still thankful we only had to do 2 daily creates class wise good week personal wise less so. Still hopefully everyone else has a good week. Got stuff done and spent time editing videos in bed which was nice cause I needed it my stress levels are literally off the charts. the norm is 1 I got a 19 I need to take breaks.. Anyways Um yeah work hard lots of work love college yippie I guess.
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Video Assignments
1 Second Video – Assignment Bank
Spent more than a second figuring out what I could do within a second and lots of time limiting the video to a second. This was one of the ones I did relating to my character Max, this is her during her learning process of hacking, so although it’s simple since it’s only one second, I think I got the message across. She was learning about destroying firewalls.
sixteen year old me – Assignment Bank
This is the second one I did relates to Max Matrix, at this point I need to make a full tag for her. Still for this one I used Picrew once again the three I used were https://picrew.me/en/image_maker/2279033 https://picrew.me/en/image_maker/2439614/complete?cd=CZejO11znX https://picrew.me/en/image_maker/17569 These three allowed me to add a visual to my narrative つな, Weewa, and ヨイコ are the creators of the customizers. I interpreted the prompt as a call to a younger self not just a 16-year old self. In the end it can out cute and made me consider looking up ways to give Max her own voice.
Favorite Moments in College – Assignment Bank
Finally, this was a nice personal one I definitely plan to delete after this week since I don’t like putting myself or my families face on the internet for too long. Precious memories should be cherished and saved. Anyway, these are all the images I have taken since I enter college that weren’t deleted to make space.
Had a stressful week unfortunately finally I can breathe tomorrow.
Revisiting goals
Well, my goal was rather simple and to the point while remaining open ended to revise them would be to simply add more about what I am interested in. Currently I am still fascinated by the art of lighting in movie creation and then additions of sounds. So, I guess I am interested in more technical details about the creation process of many things. I have always loved breaking things apart and learning to put them back together.
I have never been someone who challenges myself to be completely honest waking up and eating is hard much less pushing myself into an uncomfortable position to satisfy others. Regardless I do my best just like anyone else no matter how far back that starting line is I’m going to take a breath and just keep running. My work speaks to who I am, all over the place but happy to be here. No matter how much I hate the sound of my voice I will keep rerecording no matter how insecure I am I post my work feeling a sense of pride, and make sure to put my best foot forward.
I started off confused and lost simply doing what I assumed was expected of me feeling stressed and overwhelmed.
Worried if my work was too much or too little. Slowly I realized that I was stressing myself too much and needed to take a step back.
I stressed about the first two weeks till I got a fever
I finally managed to relax after the fact and began to actually enjoy the work.
Overall there’s always room for improvement
Weekly Summary 5
This week was rather busy due to all the snow and midterm exams, feeling tired and drained. Grumble…. May everyone else have a good week!
Video Essay
The Groundstar Conspiracy – Wikipedia
For this assignment I decided to go back to the Technoir movie I reviewed before choosing option two for this assignment.
I chose from 7:55 to 9:10 or so to analyze I am not a specialist and there for cannot be expected to point out every detail don’t judge to harshly, analyze the scene yourself and see what you notice. I did my best to take notes from the article and videos we had to watch this week. I did struggle a bit trying to figure out what scene to use but then decided this would be best due to the crowd. They mentioned that large crowds can be used to express certain emotions or used to draw your eyes to certain places. In this, the crowd did the latter. I looked at the lighting, their positions, the clothes they had to wear, and the scene around them. Watch the solider fidget with his gun and how many other stepped lightly. Tried to cover plenty of bases without overwhelming the viewer.
Daily Creates
This week felt very poetic what’s up with that? I am actually very proud of the bird poem. Thought out and actually matches the whole opposite theme thing going on. Less proud of the second one though ahahahahahaha. I was snowed in so just kind of looked at everything in my room and bunched it together.
Week 4 Summary
I admittedly was trying to avoid doing audio assignments since they required me to download stuff but looks like I couldn’t avoid them in the end. Since I was busy, I had to get them done within two days.
I was lost for this since it was such a wide range of possibilities, I am not someone who knows much about radio I only listen to music and its ad free, so I don’t even get breaks for ads anymore. Still, I tried to have multiple ideas since it was plural the first one was the best.
Did the audio story telling assignments and was shocked by the moon graffiti I didn’t really understand the title until I finally listened to it. I was fun discovering how many sounds I unconsciously recognized.
Lots of drawing this week, and then there was one I didn’t understand at all so I didn’t end up doing to at all.
Radio bumper was not my favorite part of the week, but I managed to get it done, getting through something even when it doesn’t interest you take a lot of energy out of a person.
Overall, this week’s audio-based elements were a surprise but not a bad one exactly. Got to try new things and experiment with new programs that I haven’t used before. So, it was a great experience learning to use more to add elements to the stories I create and to appreciate the small detail others add.
Sound Effect Story
One assignment everyone must do is the sound effects story: This is a challenge to tell a short story (no longer than 90 seconds) using nothing but sound effects! And make it something more interesting than waking up, taking a shower and eating breakfast. We highly recommend using http://freesound.org to find free sound effects for this project. The BBC Sound Effects archive is another good source.
Freesound – Coughing 001.wav by frenkfurth
Freesound – Heart Rate – Normal, Increased Rate, Cardiac Arrest, Flatline.mp3 by thegreatperson
Freesound – Choking #2 by Universfield
Freesound – Kid running down the stairs by pfranzen
Freesound – Slam door.MP3 by SoundsForHim
Freesound – scream_male_Bram_AAH_and_OH.aiff by thanvannispen
These are the elements I used to create my story it is in fact a drama yes! Going to be a murder drama but I deemed that to be inappropriate so it’s just an unfortunate accident. There was no inspiration just hopes for something sad. Took a while to find a good balance of sounds and what can and can’t overlap. Like the live story I heard Tuesday I wanted to add extra elements to make the story feel more real. For this I stuck to Freesound for my effects. Hard to find a good door opening sound though almost made my own.
Live Listening Session
Participate in a live listening session with ds106 radio this week: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, 7:00-8:00 PM. We will be listening to audio productions and sharing our thoughts on what we hear. You might even hear your bumpers. We will use the #ds106radio channel in Discord for our discussion. If you didn’t get the Discord invitation in week 1 let us know and we’ll resend it. Blog about the experience and tag it ds106radio.
Tuned in at 7 to a nice song about being free, Lime town, a small town in Tennessee where everyone suddenly disappeared without a trace.
I ended up paying more attention to the story then the sounds for a while but managed to snap back to attention. There were many sounds that triggered certain emotions and memories. Clicks of lighters, bangs of movements, soft sounds, and tones of voices. The story was full of sounds of atmospheric music and plenty of other things. Snapping wood in half sounds like that? I never really paid attention. Despite the abrupt end it was a compelling story you couldn’t pull away from. The sounds pulling you into the story and driving your imagination the entire time. Adding deeper elements to a story and really bringing it to life.
I managed to tune in 2/4/25 on Tuesday a bit upset to realize I was dropped into an ongoing tale.
Radio Bumper
We will be working with ds106 radio this week, and in some future weeks, so we want you to try your hand at making your first radio “bumper” – a 10-30 second short audio that announces the radio station that is played between songs to remind listeners what they are tuned in to. This should be saved as an MP3 file, and then upload it to SoundCloud. Make sure in Soundcloud that you enable the option to allow downloads (so we can add it to ds106 radio!) Your audio must be embedded in your blog post summary of this assignment. You can embed Soundcloud audio by putting the plain text URL on its own line, and when you publish, WordPress will create a player to allow visitors to listen. The radio bumper is an assignment in the Assignment Bank, so you should tag your blog post correctly when you’re done. You may be able to get Dr. Oblivion to help out, if you ask nicely. Tag: radiobumper
For this I naturally had to go for the Technoir vibe my first thought was all about industrial sounds however I switched to thinking more along an unsettling vibe. I used one of the sounds from freesound made by a creator called looplicator. It was just perfect with some additional modifications I made it more unsettling. I was far less sure of what to actually say unfortunately.
I did try to look ups some examples after a bit of trial and error I ended up with this.
It took a few tries, but I managed to get it done. Ended up coming out far shorter than I wanted since I wasn’t the most inspired and did not know much about radio going in. So, mine is not cool or anything more about telling the viewers to relax and just enjoy. Since my original one was too cynical according to a friend.