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REBEL CITY Activists

Story Time:

It’s year 3070, in a place called REBEL CITY – which is a monument to both human innovation and exploitation. The city’s skyline has a jagged silhouette against the constant hum of neon advertisements, with their colors flashing in the rain-soaked streets below. The rich resided in the sky-high towers, their lives a mix of augmented reality and corporate manipulation, while the ground-level slums festered with crime, rebellion, and forgotten dreams. Amidst this clear division, in the heart of this dark labyrinth lived three activists: Sapphria Mae, a mysterious and dangerous ex-corporate agent who went rogue and now fights against the very system she once served. Sapphria uses her looks and charm to get what she wants from adversaries and confidants; She has never heard the word “no” and doesn’t mind getting her hands dirty. Veronica Malone is a hard-boiled detective and is disillusioned by the corrupt city she once swore to protect. Veronica is a no-nonsense, sharp tongued, witty, highly intelligent, street smarts type of lady. And last but definitely not least, there’s Evelyn (Lynn) Calico. She is a relentless hacker and journalist with a knack for exposing the truths that no one dared to speak about and the dirty secrets that the corporations tried to bury.

The three activists share an apartment in the downside slopes of REBEL City. Their home is a cramped loft filled with hacked terminals, blueprint sketches, and forgotten memories. It is a base of operation—a blend of old & new tech and improvised tools where they plotted to tear down the corporate empire one scandal at a time. While also being a sanctuary for their quiet rebellion against the ever-tightening grip of the megacorporation’s.

Climax:

Evelyn uncovered a chilling truth of a Hyper-Corporation, the most powerful conglomerate in REBEL City, had secretly developed a mind-control program capable of turning the city’s population into obedient slaves, controlled through neural implants and vast data manipulation. Desperate to stop the plan, the trio knew they had only one chance to stop HyperCorp’s sinister operation: they had to infiltrate the high-security central facility where the program was being finalized. Sapphria, with her lethal yet charming skills and shadowy past, led the charge to break into the heavily guarded tower, while Veronica, using her knowledge of the city’s criminal networks, provided cover and intel. Evelyn, meanwhile, was tasked with broadcasting the evidence to the public—if they couldn’t physically stop it, at least they could expose the truth. As they neared their target, the city seemed to hold its breath, knowing the stakes were higher than ever.

LONG STORY SHORT: (CONCLUSION)

In a brutal final confrontation inside the tower, Sapphria fought her way through a maze of mercenaries, her past catching up with her as she encountered former associates now turned enemies. Veronica, ever the cynic, found herself in a deadly standoff with a corrupt city official who had once been her ally. Meanwhile, Evelyn succeeded in hacking the broadcast network, only to realize that HyperCorp had one last weapon: a viral AI virus designed to wipe out any resistance. In the chaos, the trio barely escaped, but not without losses—Sapphria, gravely injured, vanished into the underworld, while Veronica was left to pick up the shattered pieces of the law, she once believed in. Evelyn, despite the risks, broadcasted the truth to the entire city, igniting a revolution that swept through REBEL City like no other. The corporate overlords were no longer untouchable, but the war for the soul of the city had only just begun, and the three roommates, though scattered and scarred, had become the catalyst for the spark that would one day burn it all down.

Meeting New Friends in DS106 Week 8

This week, our class had to form into our groups for the upcoming radio show assignments. my groupmates and I have all introduced ourselves to each other and created a fun group chat! We also have already planned a zoom meeting on this coming Monday to bring all of our ideas together. I’m very excited to talk with everyone and narrow our focus to prepare for the upcoming weeks in this class. This group radio show project will take this class to a new creative level! It has been fun getting to be individually creative but I’m very stoked to get to share creativity with others in this class.

Daily Create SHENANIGANSSS – Your Weekly Adrenaline Rush This link is to my 3 daily create posts! I got to post on one of my favorite days of the year, Pi Day!! I also got to be silly and have fun with the daily creates this week. The topics were a nice welcome back from spring break!

I’m excited for weeks 9 & 10!

Daily Create SHENANIGANSSS

Daily Create #1: What item should be named after you?

I think a mango smoothie should be named after me! 🙂

Daily Create #2: Colorize a Photo with a Silly Color

For this DC, I said I was going to name the color of the white sand – “White Sand” LOL I tried to be silly!

Daily Create #3: Pi Day

One of my favorite days of the year!! It’s fricken Pi Day people, wooooohoo! I posed a GIF of a woman running while eating something and I also posted a “Classic” apple pie picture next to it. I captioned this, “MEEE ON MY WAY TO GET SOME PI(E) RN”

**I had apple pie, it was amazing!**

Week 7 – As A News Anchor

For assignment #1, I took it a step further than reporting The Terminator in a news article and I reported on the scene of The Terminator with a Police Station Shootout as a news anchor. The video I created represents how I think this news would be reported.

For the next assignment, I created Femme Fatale Propaganda. This propaganda would come from those that are femme fatale haters and those that support the patriarchal system and feel like FF should be punished for challenging this way of thinking. Although, jokes on them because Sapphria, along with the other FFs, will not change for these systematic patriarchal standards. This was one of my favorite creations yet!

Daily Create Shenanigans 😉 are always fun! I made 3 daily creates this week. I have an opposite view post where I posted a pic of myself that my phone would see if I was talking to my besties in a group chat. I also posted a cute little fairy tale story and a favorite movie gif from Miss Congeniality! #Classic!

Let’s Check Out the Classes PSA’s! Sapphria Mae Edition! I checked out the PSAs from the class and I chose a few that Sapphria would like/love and why. Overall, we learned that President Trump would most likely become one of Sapphria’s next victims… and he’ll be losing a lot more than the skin of his ear LOLLL. We also learned this week (Nothing new) that Sapphria like to watch men beat each other up (In sports) and Sapphria agrees that people are on their phones WAY too much. Although, it doesn’t necessarily affect her, so she doesn’t really care.

This week was awesome! I voted and I commented back and forth with my peers. Woohoo!

Let’s Check Out the Classes PSA’s! Sapphria Mae Edition.

Sapphria Mae would have like this post about the Propaganda rather than the actual propaganda itself. I’m not exactly sure where on the political ideological spectrum she would be but as a femme fatale I don’t believe she would like the current President very much. Which may or may not be personal, I don’t believe she admires or likes many men. Trump would have probably become one of her next victims and lost a lot more than the skin off of his ear.

Battle of The Birds – Sincerely, Kristen; Sapphria Mae would love this propaganda. I don’t believe she’s the biggest sports fan, but she loves competition and rivalry. What’s better than watching men beat each other up? Less work for her to have to do.

Sapphria would probably agree with this Propaganda. She doesn’t use a cell phone a lot and she see’s others overindulging themselves into their screens on the daily and not paying attention to what is going on in the world. Although, she enjoys it because that means less people are paying attention to any scandals that she may be getting into.

Macie Burke Reporting on the scene of The Terminator – A Police Station Shootout!

I chose to report from the scene of The Terminator after the police station shootout. I created this video using Canva. I used 3 different sound effects. I also recorded myself in a little bubble while talking about what happened at the shootout. Sometimes when I watch the news, I see that they show both, the news anchor that is talking, and the actual released footage that they can show to viewers. So that inspired me to do it this way.

**And yes, I’m using my hairbrush as a mic, lol**

Some of the information in this news-video is incorrect or not as telling as it could be… Not saying that news channels do this to us or will give us only the information, video footage, or parts of the story that they want us to hear or see… but this news video does that. I edited the movie clip to show basically only “The Terminator” and the police officers. I gave no other deeper background or context of the story even though I could have. I mainly showed the violence, the aggressor, the victims, and the gore of it all. I didn’t show Sarah once in this clip, even though all of this happened because the terminator wanted her dead.

Sometimes I feel like some people or context will get left out of stories because news anchors only have limited time to give whatever is deemed as the most “important” information. I made this video seem as if it was the terminator against the police. Not the terminator doing whatever he has to do to get to Sarah. Things may not always be as they seem at first. As a news anchor or news channel, this would give me the opportunity after this video released to get people hooked to the story and wonder what happened and why. Then I could release another video with more information on it. And so on.

I also tried to make this a PSA as well. At the very end I tell residents in California to stay home and be safe and things like that. I feel like news anchors also do that as well.

Overall, had a lot of fun creating this. I also got comfortable with recording myself on a video clip. Yay! Hope you guys like it.

Daily Create Shenanigans ;)

Favorite Movie Gif Daily Create:

#tdc4791 #ds106 Gif of my favorite movie

This gif is of Sandra Bullock in Miss Congeniality. It’s hard to pick a single favorite movie but this one will always be in my top list. I love this movie because it humorous and because I love the message in it about this strong female character who learned about self-love and self-acceptance.

I also can relate to this GIF when I’m hungry “I’m starved and I’m armed. Don’t mess with me” hahaha

Opposite View Pic Daily Create:

#tdc4792 #ds106 “Opposite view” Pic

This is what my phone sees when I’m in a group chat with my besties, hehehe

Once Upon a Time … Daily Create:

#tdc4793 #ds106 One upon a time …

Princess Mira of the enchanted forest had the power to speak to the great creatures that roamed her land, including the mighty Thunder Beast. When an evil sorcerer cast a spell to drain the kingdom’s magic, Mira called upon the Thunder Beast, whose roar shattered the dark enchantment. With the magic restored, Mira and her mythical friends protected the kingdom, ensuring that peace and enchantment would forever reign.

Fun topics this week!!!

Femme Fatale Propaganda

I created a negative, name-calling, and hateful type of propaganda towards femme fatales and temptresses. Femme Fatales that are in Noir Films can be seen as dark, dangerous, and seductive; Or known as being too “free”, wild, or unorthodox. This poster was intended to have a futuristic take on anti-femme fatale propaganda. This propaganda would come from those that feel anxious or threatened by women holding some type of power and then trying to suppress them. Femme Fatales may not always have the best intentions but in a deeper look into the hatred for femme fatales, it’s also about people and media portraying that women overall should be submissive, obedient, and innocent. Rather than independent or dominant.

Femme Fatales can also represent power, and that idea goes against the masculine rule of patriarchy. The idea that a woman must subject herself to submission in order to survive. Although, even in a lot of femme fatale noir films women face animosity from men and in the end their “power” or “dominance” is taken in some type of way. Which really defeats the whole purpose. It’s seen that these are evil women who need to be punished or called out on.

My character Sapphria Mae’s archetype is femme fatale so that is why I created this poster. I know in real life, even in futuristic times, she would probably face some type of hatred for her not adhering to the rules of patriarchy. Some may think that she needs to change, or she needs to fix her attitude. But she doesn’t. And she won’t. Muahah. Her power and independence are eternal and will never be able to be diminished.

Femme Fatales are not always the enemy. In either case, they will rise in adversity and will not be defeated by anti-fem propaganda.

I hope I demonstrated emotional appeal in this propaganda poster, aside from the reading to go along with it. Comment below and let me know what you think.

Summary of the Week

Here we go!

Revisiting Goals from Week 1!

In the link above is my post for revisiting and revising my goals. Overall, I think that I achieved the goals I had originally set for myself. I did revise them to be more fitting for the rest of the semester, also made sure to make the goals challenging for ME. One of the main things I need to work on is video creation and editing. Although, this week and last week’s video assignments allowed me to practice more with that. I definitely feel more comfortable with video editing after this week. I’m excited about incorporating all of this into the future group assignment. I think that is really where a lot of my revised goals will be accomplished at.

I decided to go will choice B for this week’s Assignment Load

My choice of any 3 video assignments from the Assignment Bank. Involving my character in some way in at least two of them!

Assignment #1:

Tips From Your Local Femme Fatales. For this assignment, I made a video using Canva that talks about 10 tips that my character, Sapphria, and her close femme fatale friends could give to you all.

Assignment #2

Ranking Fruits from 1 – 10. I did this video for myself. I wanted to practice making videos with Canva a little bit more. The only other video I’ve created with Canva was for assignment #1 up above. I explored different video designs, and I found one that actually counts down from #10 (Fruits that I like but not my fave) all the way to #1 (My favorite fruit). This was a very simple assignment, but I really wanted to explore more on Canva and practice using the tools on there for future weeks ahead. I create a lot of regular poster designs but up until this week I had no idea you could create video designs on there as well!

Assignment #3

Where Would Sapphria Go? In this video creation I came up with 3 places that I feel like my character would love to travel to. I chose Giza, Monaco, and Tokyo. Sapphria Mae loves Exclusivity, Expensive things, and unbelievable experiences. That is what these places will be able to offer her!

NEXT...Daily Creates

Daily Creates – Week 6 🙂 This week I made 2 daily creates. In one of them I stuck with our class theme by posting a cyberpunk bike. The other post I talked about my safe haven!! I also loved seeing everyone elses work as well this week.

LAST THING

I voted for the top 3 post I loved the most! Great work everyone!

Where Would Sapphria Go?

https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/1058807579/a371614746

Assignment #3 from the Video Assignment Bank this week; Where do you want to go?

The places in this video are all of the places that my character wants to travel too for her various reasons; To Giza, Monaco, and Tokyo. I chose these places for Sapphria because they are either exclusive, expensive, or entertaining to her. Sapphria loves secret treasure and will go on a risky mission to find it. She also loves living in lavish with other people’s money. And she thrives in the fast lane giving her many things to keep her busy.

I created this video on Canva, AND I successfully added music/sound effects to it! I found the sound effects on freesound.org. For each slide I added a fitting background color to it, I also added pictures of each place, and I added pictures of my character, her beloved sapphire gems, and airplanes or travel photos. For each different place I added a new font that I felt was themed or appropriate for the place.