Starting Off

I have kept grinding on my work throughout the week, so there was nothing really different going on. I made another blog post talking about our progress on the project, which is going very smoothly. We are splitting up the work pretty evenly and we have great communication. We are able to have a back-up plan and solve things when it goes wrong. It was another great start to the week.

Final Project

(For now the video is blurry but we are working on it!)

For the final project, I decided to go back into my group from the last project, Coni, Martina, Macie, and Kristen. We worked really well together last time, so we wanted to work together again. We decided to do a short film, as we felt it would challenge a lot of us to work on our video editing, but also be a bit more manageable in terms of time.

We then decided what we wanted the vibe or plot of it to be. We all found out that we watch (or have watched) reality tv shows before, so we decided to draw inspiration from classic reality tv such as “The Real Housewives” or “Jersey Shore”. We acted as our course characters, except a bit more dramatized in order to heighten the drama for the show. We set it in the future to fit the themes of the course, cyberpunk/tech-noir. We made sure any topics we discussed (or fought) over in the short film were relevant to the theme, such as robots or big corporations.

The filming was also pretty fun. We are not all actors, but we were able to become comfortable in front of the camera quick. We all took a section that we filmed and edited it ourselves, and then sent it to one person (again, shout out Martina), to put it all together.

This has honestly been one of the best groups I have worked with as a student here at UMW. We communicated well, and were all able to share our ideas confidently. I couldn’t have asked for a better group, so shout out to Coni, Martina, Macie, and Kristen (or Krissy, Lady Bird, Sapphira, and Krysta).

I feel I have learned a lot from this project. Not only just through working with a group, but the processes we went through. I have definitely gotten better at video editing, it might still be a bit amateur, I am getting closer to becoming more advanced. I still have a lot to learn though, but this project helped a lot.

Overall/Class Reflection

Overall, I feel that this class has really helped me become more advanced in many different aspects. Through audio, visual, graphic, or even just through creating this blog and posting everyday, it has taught many new things about my online presence.

With the daily creates, I was able to express creativity and think outside of the box in order to follow the prompt, but also put a spin on it. If I were to pick one of my favorite daily creates of the semester, it would definitely have to be putting a monument somewhere it doesn’t belong or the word art one.

One of my favorite visual projects would have to be my Hated in the Nation video essay. We all had to pick a scene from this episode of Black Mirror, and analyze it through a cinematic lense, as well as through the themes of cyberpunk/tech-noir. It didn’t take a lot of editing, but it was still fun as I love to watch video essays on YouTube, so I loved making my own.

My all-time favorite project would have to be my Bills graphic. I wanted to take one of my favorite sports teams and honor it through a graphic. It was fun to incorporate the teams colors, as well as some iconic players who made a difference this past season. It was challenging to figure out ratios, colors, images, positioning, all these different factors, but I think it worked out great in the end.

Looking back on my goals for this class, I said I “wanted to expand my digital presence, as well as get more practice using softwares to create videos, podcasts, and graphics”. I believe that I did exactly that. I am very proud with how the blog turned out, and am also grateful for the people I was able to work with on these different projects. I feel that I learned a lot from them. I learned to use many different softwares, like ClipChamp or Premier Pro, SoundTrap or Audacity, and even Dr. Oblivion, in order to achieve my goals. I think I will truly miss this class, and can’t wait to use everything I have learned in the future.

Starting Off

Gearing up for finals, I am starting to feel the stress, but I am managing it well. This class is actually the least of my worries, as working in such a great group has made it that much easier. We have been making way on our short film, and I am very excited to see how it will turn out in the end.

Group Project

I go more in depth in my blog post about our progress so far, but we have been meeting a lot throughout the week through FaceTime in order to plan out the plot, script, as well as deciding who will do commercials or bumpers.

We then decided to start filming on Wednesday, where we met at Ball Hall in order to film some scenes. We rented a camera from the HCC, and used it in order to record, and it came with a microphone on top of it.

I also made an animated intro for the show, taking inspiration from classic “Bravo” reality-tv, but making it fit the cyberpunk, tech-noir theme.

Overall

Overall, can’t complain! It was really fun to film the scenes with my group! I am not much of an actor, but I feel like we all did good with staying in character and making it realistic. It will be a really busy week next week, but I am ready. See you for the final week of DS106!

Starting Off

I had a pretty chill weekend! Probably, a little too chill though, as I didn’t get much work done. The only thing I could really say that I did was continue working on what my group had planned for our final project. We will meet on Monday to film some parts of it, which should be fun!

Final Project Trailer

My group decided to start of the week on Monday by filming at the green screen studio in the HCC. We just filmed some intros, as well as some clips that we can edit together. Martina then took on the task of editing the whole thing together (thank you again Martina!), as long as the group set up the order of everything and sent in all the audios. Here it is!

Daily Creates

Daily Create #1

Our first daily create of the week was to use this random animal generator, and make whatever animal we got our pet! I got this fish, which is named Tang. I thought he looked quite lazy, so I thought he would love to sleep in his ship-wreck, as well as love eating fish food.

Daily Create #2

For the second daily create, we were asked how we would survive in the wilderness! I already know I would not do very well. I am a very social person, and I rely a lot on technology (which are my own faults). I think I could last for a couple of days, but eventually want to give up. But, I also thought of one of my favorite childhood shows, Total Drama Island. I see myself in some of the characters, specifically Courtney, although they are all a bit crazy.

Daily Create #3

Lastly, for the last daily create, it is National Pet Day! We were asked how we would celebrate, which sadly I will be spending it talking to them over FaceTime. They are at my home with my parents, so I only really get to see them over breaks. But, I will send them a Happy National Pet Day from here at school!

Overall

Overall, it was a pretty chill week, again! I am excited, but also nervous for the workload of the next couple of weeks, but I am ready to work with such a great group again as we work on the final project!

Starting Off

It is finally April, yay! Starting off with the new week, I am proud of my group work from the past couple of weeks! I started off just commenting on other’s work, as well as listening to our radio shows! I was happy to see there was some less work this week, as well as having some time to think about my final project. My group is considering coming back together to work on the final project together, which I am excited about! We worked together really well!

Radio Show Listening

We had to tune in to listen to our own radio shows, as well as one of the other groups shows. I go more in depth in my blog post, Radio Show Review, but I listened in on the DS106 radio, where they went over news events around the world. It was really good, and I had a lot of fun listening to it.

Daily Creates

Daily Create #1

For the first daily create of the week, we were asked to make a art with a question mark. I immediately thought of the website we used for a former daily create called Visual Poetry, where you could draw something with words. I simply made a question mark out of the words “Question Mark”.

Daily Create #2

For the second daily create of the week, we had to open the door and show what was happening behind it. I thought to do a infinite doorway, a never-ending tunnel!

Daily Create #3

For the final daily create of the week, we were asked to find or edit a photo of a location that had an ironic name! I decided to do a more run-down, industrial area, and give it the street names of “Paradise Road” and “Luxury Avenue”.

Overall

Overall, again, it was a pretty chill week. I really enjoyed listening to the other radio shows, as well as getting ready for the final project in the next coming weeks! I am ready for next week!

Starting Off

Starting off the week, we kept on chugging on for our group project. I talk about it more in my radio show progress post, but the week started off great as we continuing planning for our radio show! We came up with a script, as well as organized the radio bumpers and commercials to make the show sound more cohesive. We also recorded at the DKC’s podcasting studio, which was super cool, it felt so professional! Although disaster struck, which you will have to read my blog post to find out…

Radio Show

Here is the final product of our radio show! It was so fun to make, as well as use the resources at the DKC! Martina was a real one and edited it all since we decided it would be good to just have one person edit it for cohesion so shout out to her! Although we ran into some obstacles, we pulled through, and made a great radio show! Enjoy listening!

Daily Creates

Daily Create #1

For the first daily create, we had to make some fun particle art! I tried to make a heart, but you can kind of see it. This was so fun to play around with!

Daily Create #2

For the second and last daily create of the week, we had to find a face somewhere! I was scrolling through my camera roll, and found this photo of the Capitol Building from when I visited D.C. over spring break! As I said in my post, it is kind of hard to tell, but I saw the two tall trees as the eyes, the Capitol as the nose, and the street as the mouth!

Overall

Overall, it was another great week for the books! As I have mentioned a lot, I loved my group, and I loved the radio show we came up with. I learned a lot about the materials we could use in order to make a radio show, as well as how to work efficiently in such a great group! See you next week!

Starting Off

My motivation is in the gutter, but I must keep chugging on. I am excited for the upcoming weeks, as I am thrilled to start on the radio show. I can’t wait to get to know some of my peers as well as their course characters. We scheduled to do a Zoom meeting on Monday, as well as made a shared Google Doc in order to put all of our thoughts down and to start planning for the radio show.

Radio Show Progress and Promo

As far as progress goes, I love my group! I talk about it more in my blog post, Radio Show Progress, but so far, everything has gone good in terms of everyone staying on task. We were pretty quick to contact each other, as well as make a plan for a Zoom meeting in order to introduce ourselves. Also, we were comfortable in sharing ideas, as well as assigning tasks to people. Several radio bumpers and commercials have already been made, as well as an intro for the show!

For the promo, I knew I wanted to make a design that would represent our group, as well as the vibe we were going for during the show. I made it on Canva and used Google in order to find any images to use. I used a lot of neon, bright colors, as well as a font, that truly keeps the cyber-punk vibe. It is simple, yet effective as it gets across what the radio show is truly about.

Audio Assignments

For the first audio assignment, I did a radio bumper! I go more in depth about the process in my blog post about it, but I made it for the radio show for our group project! I made it as a back-up in case we would need an extra one, but I had fun with it! I liked being able to be creative in terms of making it more futuristic and tech-noir related.

For the second (and last) audio assignment, I made a commercial! We are going to use it in our radio show, and I knew I wanted to make it advertise something we could see in the near future. I decided to advertise a little robot helper that can help with everyday tasks, like cooking or cleaning. Like I said before, I go more in depth in my other blog post, but I wanted it to be realistic to the possible times we could live in in the future.

Daily Creates

Daily Create #1

For the first daily create of the week, we had to find or take a photo that represents confusion! I was a bit stumped by this, but I thought of some art pieces that definitely fit this prompt! Confusion by Cleofas Orozco Blancarte is mind-boggling and makes you think of what you are truly looking at.

Daily Create #2

For the second daily create of the week, we had to make a punch card! I decided to do an iconic line from the movie series, Hunger Games, since a new book was released this week about Haymitch, Katniss’s mentor.

Daily Create #3

For the last daily create, we were asked to recreate this pose. But, I wanted to do something a little different, so I made him a superhero! Flying through the city with a big, billowing cape, about to save the city!

Overall

Overall, it was a pretty good week! I was able to manage my time well, and I loved meeting my group members and getting to know them a bit more! I am very excited to do this radio show, as it will allow me to step outside the box, and also practice using audio equipment! Now on to the next week…