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.
Use new techniques that will make my content engaging.
I want to learn more about my creative side. Most courses that I’ve been taking are business related. Some possible skills I’d like to work on: Selecting imagery and music, feeling more comfortable with recording myself, and familiarizing myself with these new online publishing formats.
So far, I feel like I have achieved these current goals. I effectively told a story in my sound effect story creation. Also, when creating my character, Sapphria Mae.
Learning how to use audacity, using iMovie to create a scene analysis, and getting more comfortable with Canva. I’ve used Canva for a good portion of the assignments. I think I’ve definitely found more creativity in myself and have gotten much more comfortable and confident with using these platforms and formats. For example, on week 2 I put all of my “posts” in one post because I thought it would look better. So, each day I would add to that one post. I then received feedback on the post and saw other students work and I see that it’s much better to format the post individually because I can share them easier and receive comments on the individual posts. I’m also not hording them all week and then blasting everyone with my work all at one.
Revised/Refine Goals
Effectively tell a story through my character. I’ve gave little bits and pieces of my character throughout each week’s assignments, but I can’t wait to actually put together many pieces and elements of my character that I’ve built up in different ways and put it all together. Especially in the group assignment. While also incorporating the class themes.
Use new techniques that will make my content engaging, such as; Adding music to my work from now on, adding in extra details, designs, and images to enhance my work. Learning all of the new material has been a little challenging in itself but now that I’ve had some practice with the basics, I would like to take it up a notch each week.
I’ve loved getting to be creative in my own way in this class. I haven’t recorded myself yet in a video but eventually I’d like to challenge myself to do that. Getting more comfortable with recording myself and hearing myself in audio recordings is a big goal that I would like to accomplish.
Review your assignment posts and weekly summaries. How do they make the case for your efforts to challenge yourself? Do they do a good job of showing and explaining the evidence?
I’ve reviewed my work, and I believe that I have put in a lot of effort to challenge myself. At least one assignment per week from the assignment bank I try to pick a higher rated or starred assignment. I try not to only do the one or two starred ones. Working on the new platforms and learning how to use different tools has been challenging for me in itself because I’m very unfamiliar with them. I think some of the greatest work that I did was during the week that we worked on with and sounds. I put in the effort to create a cool ds106 radio bumper, made a new beat, and created a sound effect story which was very rewarding when hearing the final outcome. Also hearing the bumper live on the DS106 radio station with my fellow peers. Creating and forming the outline for my character was also a big accomplishment of mine in this class. A couple assignments that I’m proud of making that incorporated my character are: Missing Person’s Alert – Where Did Sapphria Mae Go?, Let’s Get Some Dinner where I created a Sapphria Mae Menu, and this week I created a video on Tips from Sapphria Mae and Her Local Femme Fatal Friends. I can’t wait to introduce her even more to the class.
Are there areas where you feel you need help?
I think I need help with video editing. This has been the main thing that I’ve struggled with in this class, was creating and editing video content. Although, this week has shed some light on how I can improve. I have some ideas for future assignments. I also have been looking at my peers work for tips and ideas on what I could in the future.
I chose to find a picture on Google for this one because I don’t currently own a bike. Although, I wish I did!! Riding a bike was one of my favorite things to do outside as a kid. By myself or with friends. I also chose a bike that represented our class them, Cyber Punk bike!
I posted a canvas with 3 pictures on it that represents my safe haven; Which are the beach, the spa, and the gym. I always find peace, clarity, and happiness when I go to these places. I find them very important to my mental health. I’m glad I got to share that with you all and I loved seeing everyone else’s safe havens as well.
I loved seeing everyone else’s work so far this week and I can’t wait to see and comment on you all’s work for the rest of the week!
I ranked fruits from 10 (being a fruit I like but not my favorite) to number 1 (which is my favorite fruit). In Canva I found a top ten video design that I used. Then I found pictures of fruits on google or on Canvas element tab. I started places the pictures from 1 to 10 on how I felt about them. I then chose backgrounds for each page in the video that was fitting to each fruit and moved the numbers to the top left-hand side of the page. The last edits I made were to the size and placements of the pictures.
I really enjoyed using Canva for the first video assignment and wanted to practice using it again. I didn’t realize how powerful of a tool Canva really is!!
For one of the assignments that I chose to work on this week was the 10 tips Assignment from the Video Assignment Bank.
The 10 tips in this video clip are from my character Sapphria Mae and all of her femme fatale friends.
I created this video using Canva. I found a bunch of other femme fatale inspired photos on Google and used them throughout the video. Then I came up with most of the content for the tips but used google for some inspiration for a few of them as well. In Canva I found 10 video clips that I liked and tried to diversify each one with new designs that were fitting to the tips and the pictures I added to them. Then I added the tips and pictures in and then customized each page. Most pages already came with text boxes, the specific fonts, and the designs/art on them as well so I didn’t really have to focus on that too much.
After completing that, I did some final editing to the number of seconds on each clip. I did about 8 seconds per slide because I figured that would give people a decent amount of time to read the tips and view the pictures. I uploaded the video to my Vimeo account and then linked it here to this page.
I hope you all enjoy the tips from Sapphria Mae and her friends
I completed my Daily Creates and had fun communicating with my peers. I also had fun looking at others work and commenting on their pages!!! Great job on the video essays everyone!
The video essay was a little challenging for me because I hadn’t done one of these before, but I quickly got the hang of it and found a solution. I did my essay on the Black Mirror episode “Hated in the Nation”. I’ve watched other episodes of Black Mirror but hadn’t seen this one yet, so I enjoyed watching this episode and getting to pick apart a scene to analyze.
The material and readings this week were very relevant and helped me created the analysis for my video essay. I loved learning about how to capture an emotion! That was my favorite part of this week’s readings. I also enjoyed relating our Technoir theme to my essay and kind of putting all the puzzle pieces together.
Lastly, I enjoyed voting and checking out everyone’s work for this week! I found some new techniques or processes that I may try for the week 6 assignments from looking at my classmate’s work. Thank you all for including what you did and how you did it.
I did my video essay on the Black Mirror episode called “Hated in the Nation”
I thought it was interesting how camera shots and angles can create an invasion of privacy, secrecy, and exposure to the viewers in this scene. I got to analyze how the views of the camera effected the both the viewer and the characters emotions. Also, how different shots can magnify, intensify, and capture how characters feel in the film. It’s really something that I never had to think about but it’s quite interesting.
One thing that I really liked learning in the materials from this week is how to capture an emotion. It’s really a lot to take in and apply on your own because there are so many different things that go into this process. Although, what caught my attention the most is how emotion takes time to capture. Depending on how long a scene is, is one of the factors that depends on how the viewer will capture the emotions. You could play the same scene twice, and speed one video up and slow the other one down and it can change the entire emotion. It was interesting trying to find that in my analysis. The way the camera stood still and exposed the woman’s dead body in the scene, the way the detective was looking back and forth at the body and at the doctor for more information, and the other lady’s eyes seemed to stay more peeled on the lady’s dead body than the doctor in some scenes.
It was also interesting to tie into how this scene represents tech noir. This entire episode really represented tech noir by blurring the lines between humans, insects, and machines, and AI and robotics. The government tried to come up with another solution to bees becoming extinct by creating these “ADIs” automated drone insects. Long story long, a few people died because of the corruption of the drone insects. It really built a relationship between the natural and the artificial and how the natural can corrupt the artificial. I guess they were just a product of their environment. If used correctly it would have been a great idea, but because of human corruption, they became detrimental and disrupted the sensory capacity of human perception. It really pushes the line that is drawn between how much humans should depend on AI, robotics and automation to do natural processes.
I haven’t done a video assignment like this before, but I create this video on iMovie to upload the video recording and then do a voice over. I then uploaded it to Vimeo to share it here.
My first Daily Create – A Found Poem, I was inspired by the idea that Sarah Honeychurch had done for her poem. Sarah used the first words of the subjects of the emails that were in the inbox folder for the day. I basically did the same, except for a few of the poem lines in mine I added the second word to the subject email.
Here is my poem
Invoicing HR No Reply Cancelled Taking Leave Expected Approved
Daily Create #tdc4779
My second Daily Create – Put it elsewhere, I found a photo of the desert with the statue of liberty cropped in the picture. I chose this photo because it gave me tech noir vibes and it was fitting for the daily create task. The photo seemed a little darker and black around the edges and the statue of Liberty was not green but a tan-ish color with little pebbles of blue sparkles around it. Here is my photo:
I had a lot of fun with the audio assignments this week. That was one of my main goals of taking this course; That I will get more comfortable with recording myself/my voice. I accomplished that!
The first assignment I started with was creating a radio bumper for the DS106 radio station. I’ve never made anything like this, so the material was new to me. It took me a little while to get set up, but it wasn’t too bad.
My favorite part about this assignment is that my bumper got played on the DS106 radio station. How cool is that?!
Listening to Moon Graffiti & Other Weekly Materials:
I’d never really thought about how important and powerful sound is in storytelling. While listening to “Moon Graffiti”, I could tell you what the setting was, the tone/atmosphere, how the characters feel, and overall, what’s going on just by listening to this audio story.
Abumrad’s videos were very insightful and broke down sound, storytelling, and creation down to its core fundamentals. Very intuitive videos!
I talk more about the reading materials in my post.
I created a Sound Effect Story where people were having fun on a roller coaster ride. The sounds I put together were of people screaming, laughing, talking, clapping, and having fun with rollercoaster sound effects.
This was my first time creating something like this and playing around with all of the other tools on Audacity. Click the sound effect story link above to learn more about how I created the sound story.
I chose to complete the Sick beat – Assignment this week. The only real requirement was to “just get groovy dood.” I enjoyed making this beat, so I hope you guys like it too. Check out my post for more info.
The last creation I made this week was completing the P!NK’s Emotions Assignment. The inspiration behind this assignment is from my character Sapphria Mae. I wanted to use this opportunity to build her personality a little bit more through music.
I used Audacity to create this P!nk Mashup. I used different songs from P!nk that I felt were inspiring and relatable to my archetype character. I felt these songs would be relatable on an emotional level.
Last but not least! I came up with some radio show ideas for our future assignments. I think this group assignment will be a great experience. I can’t wait to meet and talk with my group members and use some of our ideas together to create our radio talk show! My ideas are posted in the link above.
Overall:
I lowkey thought I would have a really hard time this week’s assignments because I wasn’t familiar with the material. Although, it all came to me really quickly and I learned a lot about audio storytelling, the power of sound effects and music, and so much more. I also got the opportunity to build up my character a little more which I love!!
Oh, and I didn’t forget to vote on my FAVE post this week! Great job everyone! Thank you all for another awesome week!
Radio show where a group of college students start a radio show together. They start making millions of dollars and then they try to steal the show from each other or sabotage each other on the show. Maybe they start making comments like “Hmm.. We all know someone who is selfish” and it gets quiet or awkward and then the chill one out of the group is like “Hey you guys shut up, we have a new song to share with the people, hahaa” and then a 20-30 second snippet of a beat/song plays. And so on and so on.
A lifestyle radio show where the group will talk about random topics as if they were the actual archetype characters. Topics like dating, eating healthy, or we have people “call in” and tell us about their crappy roommate and we all give them a piece of unsolicited advice. I know this sounds simple, but I think it could actually turn out to be really funny. Example, someone calls into the radio show and is like, “I have a question for Ms. Femme Fatale” and they ask a question about dating advice haha or someone else calls in and asks the Mastermind Bank Heister how he makes an honest living. Mainly the show will be for entertainment purposes and will intend to be sarcastic, humorous, and things like that.
