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Noir Downpour: Week 9

This week was fun, as we began the transition from radio to video assignments- video being a format I am more accustomed to.

To finish up our unit on radio, I was required to write a post about my experience with listening to shows this week-both my own show as …

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The Fifth Wall

I put a slight twist on the ‘Special Person Montage’ assignment for the week of 3/16 to 3/21. It is worth 5 points.

I wanted to use this assignment as an opportunity to show my significant other how important they are to me. I dug through old footage we …

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Silk Road: The Listening

On Wednesday, March 18th, 2015, my and Sarah Kinzer’s radio show entitled ‘Silk Road’ aired on the ds106 radio site.

It was delightful to participate in the ‘live tweet’ and learn what others thought of our work. I was surprised by how well it was received, and the experience made …

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NOIR at Night: The Listening

On Wednesday, March 18th, the radio show I worked on- entitled ‘Silk Road’- aired directly after a radio show called NOIR at Night.

The people behind NOIR at Night definitely interpreted this project in a way that I never would have imagined. Instead of creating a fictional narrative involving their …

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Arty Blur

Today’s Daily Create (3/19/15) was to make a blurry photo.

Instead of taking  new photo, I used a favorite that I’ve always wanted an excuse to put online and turned down the ‘sharpness’ using Aviary photo editor.

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Danger: Folami Turay

 This is a design assignment and is worth three points for the week of 3/09 to 3/15.

 

As we were supposed to work with our characters this week, I envisioned this warning sign as being posted around the city by my character Tom, for Sarah Kinzer’s character Folami. Folami …

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Noir Downpour: Pt: 7

Sometimes, you have to prioritize your work, and that’s what I did this week.

As it was the week before spring break, there were several midterms due. Thus, I was forced to prioritize and choose to focus on my radio show instead of Daily Creates.

The show is currently uploaded, …

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Commenting: 2nd edition

Hi! Here are all of the posts I commented on for the week of Feb. 23rd to March 1st.

1) http://umwteaching4tomorrow.com/daily-creates/bad-blood/#comment-136

2) http://rhilaluman.com/weekly-summaries/let-spring-break-begin/

3) http://edithandart.com/daily-create/conquered/

4) http://umwteaching4tomorrow.com/daily-creates/heels-4-dayz/#comment-137

5) http://www.dsnoir106.kassiarivera.com/blog/the-daily-create/daily-create-deep-space-ds106/#comment-160

6) http://kinzer.us/noir-106/the-only-one-night-stand/#comment-131

7) http://trysoccer29.com/daily-creates/sunny-sunday/#comment-230

8) http://lifebysavanna.com/daily-creates/daily-create-out-in-space/#comment-133

9) http://www.mariamk.com/radio-show/house-of-noir-logo/#comment-187

10) http://www.stephaniebwhite.com/assignments/treat-yo-self-do-it/#comment-245

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NeoNoir: 2nd edition

We’re done! We’re done! We’re finally done with the radio show!

On Thursday night, Sarah Kinzer and I stayed up into all hours of the night hashing out our script and making a plan.

On Friday night, I recorded the voices of ‘Sophie’ and got a friend to record the …

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