This week Rusul and I outlined our project and what we want to focus on leading up to recording our podcast series. Rusul took the liberty of creating a subdomain to host our podcast series, as a platform for our audience to gather and listen to the three episode special of CyberTalks. I worked on scripts, completing one and starting another, with goals of having all three done by early next week so we can record shortly after that. After the recording session, we plan to spend the rest of the time editing our episodes, using the same platform we used on the radio show, both having familiarity with it. I’m excited to record! And glad that Rusul and I have coordinated so well to make a solid plan of how we’re going about finishing up this class strong. Stay Tuned!
Category Archives: Summaries
Weekly Summary- 4/11
This week was mainly focused on making the trailer for our final project. I’m deciding to combine the trailer post and the summary for the week, so let’s discuss the trailer. Our final project is going to be a blog podcast series focusing on different tech themes, which also taking a bit of a more positive approach. It’s called Cyber Talks, and if you haven’t already watched the trailer embedded above, then you should. For production, we used Canva to be able to easily test how we want out video to be structured. Going through different styles in a matter of minutes proved to be a very time-effective method to find a style that works for what we want to do with the show. We ultimately decided on a glitchy, noir themes trailer, not that I think that would surprise anyone, to present our 3 episode special. The start of the trailer intentionally included a podcast studio to give the audience a sense of being in the studio with us while we record, a form of persuasion to make sure we get as much of a turnout of viewers as possible.
Per usual, here are the 3 daily creates I did this week.
Weekly Summary- 4/3
This week I listened to Noir News the streamed on the ds106 radio channel. I ended up looking back on the discord conversation as well because at the time of the live broadcast I was unable to contribute to the chat. Nonetheless, I really enjoyed Noir News and it felt like an actual news broadcast to me. Starting off with a newscaster voice set the tone perfectly, and I think the focus on robots gave a cool futuristic but realistic take on what future news stories could look like. The commercials had new sounds layering going on to not seem too plain, and having a well known brand commercial in Dunkin Donuts connected the show to our current world and helped find a futuristic/realistic balance within the show.
This week I also did 3 daily creates, and will post them below, per usual.
Weekly Summary- 3/28
It has been filmed! This week me and my group made and edited our final script, focused on a central theme of dating in a more digitalized age with dating apps and algorithms in control. We then used the Podcast Studio in the Digital Knowledge Center to film our base radio show, recording 4 scenes to split up later in the editing process. The recording was pretty straightforward, but editing was a bit more challenging. We used soundtrap, which is a program I have never used before, but enjoyed testing and exploring. Trying to find the right times to layer sounds in the background and not disrupt the flow of the conversation. Finding all of the right timings and cutting clips when needed and easing into bumpers and commercials made for a time-consuming editing process, but I’m glad the experience is under my belt now. The finished product can be found here on SoundCloud!
You know the drill. Here are my 2 daily creates for the week:
Weekly Summary- 3/21
This week was a good start to our radio show project, the first of the bigger projects of the class. Talking to my group went pretty smooth, communicating over discord and settling on a concept for our show and a plan for how to execute that concept. We made an outline and script for our show, making room for commercials and bumpers. This week I also created a promo poster for our show, as well as 2 audio assignments. I used those assignments to create an Aquaphor commercial for the show, using audacity to layer sounds to give additional effects. For my second audio assignment, I used audacity again to create a transition between clips to have something different than a bumper but similar enough that it would flit in. Using my time and effort to create these will help smoothen the process in creating the show come next week.
Outside of those assignments, I did my 3 daily creates this week which are listed under here as has become usual.
Daily Creates:
Weekly Summary- 3/14
This week was a fairly low radar week compared to others. Coming back from spring break was a bit of a challenge to get reacclimated, but pushed on nonetheless. This week, I reached out in the discord and figured out a group to do the upcoming radio show project, and started to coordinate ideas with them regarding our plans for the show (tune in soon!!). Besides that, did the usual for the week and commented on my classmates different posts, and did 3 daily creates, of which will be included below as always.
Daily Creates
Weekly Summary- 2/28
This week I used Canva a lot to create media to represent how I would format a movie scene into a news article, and to create my own propaganda that connects to Eric Little. Although these were 2 separate assignments, I thought it would be a cool idea to combine them into one, having both the new article and propaganda on the front page of this website’s newspaper, The Digital Canvas Times. For the movie scene, I used the nightclub scene from The Terminator, and used a sense of ambiguity behind the event to frame the shooting as a real event that was trying to be published as soon as possible even without having all of the information. Furthermore, the propaganda I put together had a prominent theme of structure that resonates well with Eric Little and his backstory as someone that’s only done what he is told. I also wanted to add different teasers such as identifying the conspiracy Eric is caught up in being an underground anarchy against the societal elites known as The Arrow, and adding a wanted poster of him in the bottom of the newspaper cover.
I also did the 3 daily creates this week which I will show below, as has become tradition.
Weekly Summary 2/21
This week was also focused on video media and video editing. I carefully chose and completed 3 Video Assignments from the assignment bank, those being: Advice to 16 Year Old Me, Signing Words, and Cold Winter Night. It was interesting and fun to create media using video because I also do it outside of the classroom for work related purposes. Shifting focus, however, was a good change of pace and creating different types through these assignments expanded my horizons. I also revisited my goals from the first week that I said I wanted to accomplish this semester, noting I’ve done so much more than I thought I would’ve without even being halfway through the semester. Lastly, I did 2 daily creates this week, which will be attached below.
Daily Creates:
Weekly Summary 2/14
Happy Valentine’s Day! My week was a very busy one, and I’m definitely glad it’s over with. This week was mainly spent watching the videos and learning about video editing and how crucial it is to a show or movie’s success, although most people don’t notice the specifics of it. It was really interesting to put that together towards the end of the week in my video essay and analyze a scene about potential downsides of a surveillance bee. I also did 2 Daily Creates which I enjoy doing just as a break from everything else.
Daily Creates:
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This week was interesting, and I think the experience of delving into audio and the program Audacity has been helpful to my skillset overall. For the 2 audio assignments, I chose to create my own sound effect and whistle a song that was stuck in my head for over 3 weeks and now it’s back (that’s not an exaggeration sadly). I did a “gum bleeding” story using strictly sound effects (thanks Jim Groom for the great descriptive comment), and also made my radio bumper which I hope wasn’t too terrible. Using audacity took a bit of getting used to but I had slightly used it during my senior year of high school for my AP Spanish classes, although we were only recording conversations and responses rather than making media. Other than spending much of my screen time using audacity, brainstorming ideas for a radio show was a nice refresher to use my brain in a different way then messing around with 15 different audios, and so was taking the time to listen to Moon Graffiti and the infamous ds106 radio. I really liked the idea of Moon Graffiti and how it conveyed a completely alternative timeline to the Moon Landing using different sounds, layering of voices, and that big loud crash.
Overall, the weeks are definitely getting smoother as my skillset with media improves, and doing the Daily Creates (the 3 this week) are also a great way to look at things you wouldn’t normally notice or perceive a certain way.
My Daily Creates:
