Author Archives: Kristen

Super Fun Creates

This week was probably one of my favorite week of creates so far! Not only did I really enjoy creating them I really loved seeing everybody else’s interpretations of the creates.

I completed Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesdays creates read and check them out here:

For Monday’s create I created a GIf based off one of my favorite childhood movies “Alice in Wonderland (2010)”

Monday

For Tuesday’s create I showed the perspective the grass outside sees during sunset. Very beautiful view if you ask me.

Tuesday

Wednesday’s create was my favorite surprisingly. I don’t normally love creating stories or poems, but this one came fairly easy to me. Click here to read the 2 part post about the magical/mystical world of “Neverwinter”

Wednesday (part 1)
Wednesday (part 2)

I hope you enjoy the creates this week as much as I did!

Sincerely, Kristen

Lots of Creativity

I really enjoyed all of the assignments this week. I love editing posters, videos, newsletters, etc which is what this week mainly consisted of.

To start off I completed e daily creates this week Monday – Wednesday. I loved all the prompts especially the short story. I feel like i’m getting much better at the daily creates when it comes to creativity.

This week I created a GIF based off my favorite movie, took a photo of the sunset from the grasses perspective, and wrote a short story about the mystical land of “Neverwinter”.

For Wednesday’s create the only problem I ran into was the word count error. I wasn’t aware that there was a limit to the amount of words you can use, but it makes sense. This caused me to have to make 2 parts.

Click here to check out the creates for week 7!

Daily Creates

The two poster assignments this week were super fun to create. I created one sports related poster and one newsletter based off the movie “The Terminator”.

I created both assignments on Canva since i’m familiar with the site. For the sports poster I based it off my course character’s favorite activity after work, which is watching football with her dad.

In that poster I explain why I used the colors, fonts, specific teams, and pictures to convey a certain emotion. Check it out here:

Sports Poster

For ‘The Terminator” poster I created it was a bit harder since i’m not as familiar with the film. I had to do some background work on the film to fill in the missing holes that could make my poster more exciting.

In this newsletter I explain why I used the color schemes I did as well as the photos I chose to convey a certain emotion. Check it out here:

Newsletter

Overall this was on of my favorite weeks so far in terms of editing. I also loved seeing everyone elses daily creates and posters! Some honorable mentions are Rebecca’s Radiant Realm’s newsletter and @Coni’s Wednesday daily create short story.

Hope you guys enjoyed week 7, see you in a couple of weeks!

Sincerely, Kristen

Reporting From The Scene

I decided to analyze and create a newsletter from this scene from the 1984 film “The Terminator”

I have never fully watched “The Terminator” fully through, so one thing I had to do after watching the scene was fill in any missing pieces that would help me create the newsletter.

This consisted of looking up why the Terminator was looking for Sarah, where the film is based, who is the protagonist and who is the antagonist.

Here is the finished project

I created this newsletter using Canva. I used a simple newsletter template and adjusted the font, photos, and colors. I bolded and added the color red to give the sense of urgency and terror which is what I would personally feel if I had an encounter with the Terminator.

I added eye catching yet simple photos which is what I believe a missing or wanted poster normally looks like.

This was a very fun creative assignment. I’m absolutely loving editing in Canva especially.

Sincerely, Kristen

Battle of The Birds

I’m a huge football fan (my personal favorite team is the Baltimore Ravens) and I plan to got into sports marketing after graduating. Also I have mentioned that my course character Krysta Ghosting is also a huge football fan and watches it to unwind after a long day at her restaurant.

What that being said I decided to create a NFL game flyer/poster

Here is the finished result:

First I chose to do the Ravens vs Eagles because thats a huge eye catching rivalry. This game has always been a highly viewed and anticipated game in past years.

Since this is a Baltimore Ravens home game I decided to add more of the ravens colors in the flier. I added a very minimal amount of eagles colors, but just enough for audiences to be able to identify the team.

The purple, black and white is not only the ravens franchise colors, but the colors are also bold and eye catching.

I used two different fonts “Alegreya Sans sc” font and “Mokoto” font. The “Alegreya” font is what I used towards the top of the poster. It has a sports like vibe to it which is why i picked it.

I added the “Mokoto” font towards the bottom of the poster. I feel this font gives more of a video game type of vibe and I thought it would be cool to mesh the two fonts together.

This has been one of my favorite posters i’ve created so far. I really like the color scenes and images I chose. I created this poster on Canva as well.

Hope you enjoy!

Sincerely, Kristen

Do I agree with Postman?

It was interesting reading all of the postman’s different thoughts on technology. One thing I found interesting that the postman mentioned was the dangers of “one-eyed prophets”.

I believe technology has so many benefits as well as so many cons. I have personally encountered so many individuals who only harp on the bad parts of technology, while I understand their point of views, being a digital studies major I have gotten the privilege to see so much of the good technology has brought to the world.

I think what the postman was talking about in terms of “one-eyed prophets”, I think it can definitely be dangerous and can lead people into having a fear of technology which is very common in present days.

In the film “Who Framed Roger Rabbit”, good vs evil and winners vs losers is very prevalent. The character “Judge Doom” if it isn;t already obvious in the name was the antagonist in the film. He created a new technology called “the dip” to get rid of toons for good.

Postman mentioned that the introduction of new technology connects to winners vs losers. In “Who Framed Roger Rabbit”, Judge Doom technically was the loser in the film because other characters were not fond of his new technology and wanted it destroyed.

Judge Doom and Eddie Valiant competed against each other for one to get their way and ultimately fight/argument. I thought of this as an example of media wars which Postman described as new technologies competing with existing ones.

Emotions

The first song is titled R.E.M by Ariana Grande

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVPEP_KSldA

0:09 – Love the beat feel very happy

0:17 – Love the harmonies feels out of body

0:52 – Feel very happy and excited love the beat change

1:16 – 1:33 – I feel hyped at this moment I love singing along to this part

1:55 – Out of body feeling because of the harmonies

3:15 – So happy at this moment mainly because of the beat and energy change in the beat and sound. I feel very calm yet very fulfilled.

3:44 – The outro is so cool it makes me feel peaceful, serene, and smiley

Envy The Leaves by Madison Beer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGGr-Z4JrSc

0:06 – Off the rip I felt a heavy gloomy vibe

0:29 – Still a very gloomy vibe, but peaceful because of the pretty harmonies

1:09 – I no longer feel a gloomy vibe, more of a serene and peaceful vibe

1:54 – Happy and content at this moment. I love singing along at this point

2:12 – A much darker energy because of the beat and sound change but still very moved and at peace in this moment

2:55 – 3:16 – Kind of out of body, happy, even a bit sad at the same time. Super cool beat change.

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Daily create

First daily create of the semester! This was actually more challenging than I expected. I was stuck thinking about an unexpected coincidence and once I got it in my head I didn’t know how I wanted to create it. I did stick to the 10-15 minute rule when creating my post, but I may have brainstormed for a bit longer. Participating in the daily create challenge already has me realizing that I need to stop trying to be perfect at everything. I’m definitely noticing that I feel wired to make sure everything is done in the “correct way”. I’m excited to see how much easier the daily creates get for me throughout the semester. #ds106