This week was great. The work was easy and the Daily Creates were fun

Daily Creates

This week, I did Wednesday’s, Thursday’s, and Friday’s Daily Creates.

For Wednesday, the prompt was to use the Secret Agent Name Generator. The name I got was Agent Copper Nightmare. I then looked on Canva to find a design that matched the name. Because of the word ‘copper’, I wanted to find someone with a hair color that was as close to copper as possible. I also wanted the character to be evil because of the word ‘midnight’. I ended up landing on this design. I incorporated the dark clouds in the background for an eery effect

For Thursday’s Daily Create, the prompt was to use an overheard quote as an epigraph. The quote I overheard was “It’s all fun and games when you’ve placed all the boxes, and it’s not working because you misplaced one comma.” I was inspired by the lyrics from the song Take a Break from Hamilton:

In a letter I received from you two weeks ago
I noticed a comma in the middle of a phrase
It changed the meaning, did you intend this?
One stroke and you’ve consumed my waking days
It says

“My dearest, Angelica”
With a comma after dearest
You’ve written
“My dearest, Angelica”

The original conversation was about coding, but I took some artistic liberties to have the poem match the theme of the previous lyrics. Here it is:

“It’s all fun and games when you’ve placed all the boxes, and it’s not working because you misplaced one comma.”

You misplaced the comma

It changed the meaning

One wrong stroke

transformed the message

Spell check didn’t catch it

Was it really a mistake?

The last Daily Create was my favorite of the week. The prompt was to show your pet for National Pet day. I love my pets more than anything and I will take any chance to show them off! Here they are:

I procrastinated doing the Daily Creates this week but I got lucky and ended up with good prompts!

Final Trailer

The assignment for this week was to make a trailer for our final project. My group’s theme for the project is a reality show with our course characters. We met up in the HCC studio to record the trailer on Monday. We stayed for about 45 minutes and took a lot of different shots. Martina edited it and sent it over today and it came out so good!

This week was great and seeing the finished trailer was the perfect way to end the week!

I can’t believe we’re on week 11, that is unreal.

Daily Creates

For this week’s Daily Creates, I did Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday’s. For Tuesday, I struggled to make art with a question mark. The vague Daily Creates are either the best or worst for me. Some prompts, I love the freedom to do what I like, but for others’, I have no idea where to start. I ended up deciding to do a word cloud in the shape of a question mark. I was surprised to see no one else had done this yet. I used synonyms of the word “question” and then questions such as “who, what, when, where, why?” I put those words in a word cloud generator and messed around with the colors until I got a result I liked. Here it is!

For Thursday, the prompt was to make a story out of undecipherable text. The leaves on the book reminded me of a beanstalk, so I thought maybe the text was the original storytelling of Jack & the Beanstalk. While unlikely, it’s definetly not impossible because the story of Cinderella dates all the way back to the Tang Dynasty (my source in case you don’t believe me.) To make this piece, I used canva and found a graphic of someone climbing. I added the graphic and a few sentences from the story. Here is my daily create!

For Friday’s Daily Create, the prompt was to point out some irony. I had some trouble thinking of an example but then I remembered one of my favorite childhood movies: Tinkerbell and the Great Fairy Rescue. In the movie, there’s a storm which means the fairies can’t fly so they have to walk everywhere to find Tinkerbell. At one point in the movie, there is a shallow mud stream that the fairies have to cross, but the garden fairy hates mud. She owns up to the irony of it, and the line was so quotable that it started trending on TikTok. Here is the video.

Commenting

The first thing I commented on was Carson Frank’s Daily Create about the unreadable text. Carson’s DC was that the book invented the traffic cone. I said, “What a brilliant invention! Great for directing traffic, and great for people to steal when they’re drunk. It makes me wonder what they were using that cone for.” My comment was playfully sarcastic, which I’m not sure if it reads that way, but it’s a funny idea to think traffic cones have been around since before traffic. I then commented on Liv’s Door Daily Create. She said that behind her door was an infinite doorway, and she made it a gif. I was really impressed because the gif came out great! I said, “Ooo! I’m impressed with this gif! It came out so well! But the idea of infinite doorways is anxiety inducing ” The gif looked really good, and I was really impressed with Liv’s skill. Next, I commented on Cinder’s unreadable text DC, theirs was my favorite from the week. They found an illustration that looked like men in a pool and said it was the first pool party, which was very creative. The thing that makes me laugh, is that the men are naked and the water is green. I commented, “Hahaha I love this idea and the added speech bubbles make it even funnier. But there’s one aspect that I can’t overlook… if that’s a pool, why is the water green? What are they doing in there?” I am very curious to know if that crossed Cinder’s mind when they made that Daily Create. The last think I commented on was Ryee’s question mark daily create. They used Procreate and played around with the the different brushes to create a question mark. I commented, “I like the chaoticness of this brush! I love Procreate, it’s so much fun to doodle on!” Last I checked, procreate is only available on the apple store, which stinks because I don’t have an iPad and I would love to have the app on my laptop.

This week was very chill which was amazing because I was swamped with 100 other things this week. I’m really looking forward to next week and filming my trailer with my group.

This week was chill. From Daily Creates to the Radio Show, I was able to check everything off my to-do list, with time to spare!

Daily Creates

This week, I got an early start on the Daily Creates. I did Sunday’s and Monday’s and both were easy and fun.

Sunday’s Daily Create was to create the 4th law of robots. To make my response for this, I had to research what the first 3 robot laws were. The understanding I was getting of the rules was that they are there to protect the human and the robots. I felt like they covered the bases with that so I tried to add a comedic twist. I said “a robot may not imitate humans (hence the “I am not a robot” question)” I also took inspiration from Sarah Honeychurch’s response to this prompt which was “A robot must enhance human creativity, and not seek to replicate it.” I loved this response because there are very few things I hate more than AI art. Not only is it bad for the environment, but it looks ugly. Hopefully my rule will prevent AI art because AI uses examples of real art to train itself.

Monday’s prompt was to make digital dust. Normally I try not to spend more than 15 minutes on a Daily Create, but I’m willing to bend this rule when I’m really enjoying the prompt. I found the digital dust to be really fun. The first 10 minutes were me playing around with the website and determining how to use it. I spent probably about another 10 or 15 minutes making the prompt. I kept messing around with it until I felt like I had gotten a cool outcome. Here is my result, I think it looks best when you go to view and change the color to Velocity Direction.

Comments

This week was tough to find things to comment on, however I was still able to get 5 comments done. The first comment I left was on Sunday and it was under Sarah Honeychurch’s Daily Create. As I mentioned earlier, I really liked her response and I wanted to let her know. I said “Best answer. No topping this one.” I stand by my comment because, as I mentioned before, I hate AI art. I think there are pros and cons to AI usage in any other context, but I really struggle to find a good thing about AI art. Moving on to a happier note, the next thing I commented on was DS106’s Radio Logo. I said “I really like this logo. The neon effect looks good, especially against the cloudy night sky; it makes the visual pop! I also think the neon effect adds to the TechNoir aesthetic.” I thought their logo came out very nice and I loved the contrast of the design to the background! Next, I commented on Rylie’s Riveting Region’s Week 1 Radio Progress. I was interested to see how other groups were doing in their process and I was happy to see Rylie say it was going well, I commented, “I really like this progress report and I love your title for it. Very silly.” The title was “Is This Thing On? Oh, It’s Not Yet?” and I thought that was very funny. After that, I commented on Live it Up With Liv’s Week 2 Radio Progress. I already had an idea of how her progress was going since I’m in her group but I wanted to read her blog too. She gave all her group members shoutouts for being the best, so I commented, “You’re the best too! I feel so lucky to have gotten such great groupmates! It made this project so much easier.” Our process has not been an easy one but we’ve been kind to each other throughout it and it has made for such a positive experience. Lastly, I commented on Cinder’s Daily Create for Hidden Faces. They talked about the hidden faces in wall outlets so I commented “When I was little, I came up with stories on why the sockets were sad. I remembered wondering why the creators didn’t make them smile.” Additionally some outlets also have a little slit on the left “eye” and I always thought that looked like an eyelash.

Radio Show

The process of our Radio Show this week was tough. The majority of the process was smooth. We met on Monday to work on scripting the show. We all collaborated on the beginning, end, and outline of the show, but each person individually crafted a question to ask and an answer from their character. Personally, this week, I worked on adjusting the background music in my advertisement based on some constructive criticism I received. I think it sounds better now, and hopefully others will agree, you can view it here.

I also created the outro for the show which I pulled from the ending of our intro. I’ve seen other podcasts do this, most notably TMG studios with Cody Ko’s laugh before they took it out. You can view the Fearless Femmes outro here.

We recorded on Wednesday but about an hour after we left the podcast studio, we found out our file was corrupted so we had to rerecord it on Thursday. The rerecording went well, the only thing that’s a bummer is I feel our first version was more authentic. That being said, I am happy with our finished product, and I am very thankful that my group members and I worked so well together. You can read more about our trials and triumphs here and listen to our podcast here!

Other than the very unfortunate accident with the corrupted files, this week was easy. I’m glad my group was able to recover quickly enough so that the rerecording didn’t put a damper on the rest of the week. This assignment worked out better than I thought it would. I enjoyed the little aspects of creating the show, and I enjoyed getting to know the people in my group. Hopefully next week will be just as good.

Get it? Because 7 ate 9. A joke is always funnier when you have to explain it.

I mentioned this in my Radio Show Progress report but the audio assignments have been my favorite part of the class, so I really enjoyed returning to them this week. It was also nice meeting with my groupmates this week to discuss our show and I think we’re all doing a good job. I’m excited to see what the finished product looks like.

Daily Creates

This week I did Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday’s Daily Creates.

Monday’s Daily Create was asking how we celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. Other than wearing green, I don’t have any traditions so I shared a video that I had seen Monday Morning to spread the St. Patty’s Day spirit. The video is a Disney Pixie Hollow Short about fairies who use the end of a rainbow as a slide. It’s a cute video that I thought others would appreciate. You can see the post here.

The next Daily Create was “What Does Confusion Look Like?” I put a twist on the prompt and put in a picture of what confusion feels like to me. When I’m confused, it’s like I’m hearing the words but they’re not registering in my brain. When I was making the post, I wanted to make it clear that the words are going in one ear and out the other but I’m trying to comprehend them. I used Canva to make this post. I took a stick figure sticker and a line from my math notes to put through the figure’s ears. I also took a scrambled letters picture and put it on the figure’s head to show what he was thinking.

The last daily create I did was creating a message with a punch card. My message said “Everything is Not as it Seems,” which is the title theme song from Wizards of Waverly Place. I was inspired by Wizards of Waverly Place because I loved it when I was a kid, and I noticed that when you clicked on the punch card website, the address it lists as an example is located in Waverly Place, New York.

Comments

At the beginning of the week I found it difficult to find things to comment on, but as the week went on it got easier. I started the week by commenting on Cinder’s Daily Create talking about their St. Patrick’s Day tradition, I commented “That’s such a sweet tradition. I love that you kept it alive so many years later.” I thought it was so nice that they had kept up a tradition that has beenn around since they were a kid. I won’t lie, I’m a bit envious that there were so many cool traditions that people had for St. Patrick’s Day, I guess my family is lame. The next post I commented on was Ryee’s DC for the Confusing Picture Prompt. They posted a picture about the upcoming MCU movies saying that they are too confusing now, and I completely agreed. I said, “This is so real, and the sad thing is it’s not even good anymore. I had no problem watching all the movies until No Way Home, and I loved WandaVision and Hawkeye. It’s too much mediocre content and it’s coming out too fast.” I was a big Marvel fan, and when I rewatch the older projects I remember why I loved it, but I feel like they are focusing on quantity over quality and I miss the old movies. The next thing I commented on was the video promo by Sincerely, Kristen. Kristen is in my group so I was excited to see the promo she came up with, and I thought it came out good. I commented, “This came out so good! I love the flashy transitions and the music in the background. I think this promo is a great reflection of our show and the content we’ll produce.” In the video description, Kristen said she used Canva templates to make the video which is something I can relate to because I like the transitions on Canva since they’re so easy to apply. The next post I commented on was Noir You Didn’t’s Design Project, I thought they did a good job of capturing the TechNoir essence. I said, “I like the broken hearts. They’re not the signature broken hearts, and they look like glass hearts that a bullet shot straight through. I know you said you wanted to reflect the TechNoir theme, and I think the black, broken hearts add to it.” I thought their design promo was a good example of what a podcast promo should look like. The last thing I commented on was Alewis22’s Daily Create where they posted for the Confusing Picture prompt, they posted the black/blue or gold/white dress. I said, “Similar to this, have you seen the pink or teal shoe? I can see both, but apparently, it’s supposed to say something about your brain.” I’ll leave a picture of the shoe for those interested. I enjoyed commenting this week because I feel like I normally comment on the same people’s posts, but this week I was able to break out of that bubble.

Radio Show

My progress for the radio show is going well. I was working hard to create some quality work for this show. The first thing I made was the advertisement. The advertisement assignment took the most time to craft, because I had to create a product and a script for ad but once I had everything recorded it was very easy and quick to make. The next thing I made was the podcast intro. The advertisement took me almost no time, so I was on a roll when I decided to make the intro which ended up taking the most time. I struggled to find the audio pieces I wanted to use and how to fit them in to the intro. At one point, I scrapped the whole thing and started over. I like how it came out but I can’t listen to it too much because I can hear every little mistake. The last thing I made was the design promo, which was the easiest assignment. I made a bumper sticker so I looked on the internet to gather some ideas on what it should look like. I also used Canva templates to help me out. The most work I had to do for this assignment was creating a steering wheel graphic with lighting bolts to symbolize a horn honking. I think all my assignments came out good, some I think are better than others but that’s pretty normal for the work in this class.

Final Thoughts

I really enjoyed the work this week and even though it took me a long time, I think the work reflects my efforts. Normally, I end my summary saying how I’m excited for next week, but I am honestly a little nervous. Although I am excited to see the finished product, I’m a little nervous to record and edit the podcast. Hopefully next week I’ll look back at my apprehensiveness and laugh.