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Assignment Tutortials
Make a conspiracy board
You know those conspiracy boards you see in the movies. Well now you can make one for yourself! Come up with a story. It can be anything, but make sure it involves a conspiracy. Then take all the people, places, and events in that story and make a picture of …
Read MoreMake some spooky dialogue
Start by recording your own voice. You can say anything, but make it long enough to have interesting shifts throughout the clip. I recommend using Audacity to do this, because its minimalist interface really streamlines the process of voice recording and editing. Once you have your clip, select sections of …
Read MoreAssignment Ideas
My first assignment idea was an audio assignment where you put together an audio clip of you talking, but change it to make it spooky.
http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/spooky-dialogue/
My second one is that you design any kind of conspiracy board.
http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/make-a-conspiracy-board/
Read MoreTDC Ideas
My first Daily Create idea that I submitted was to draw a circle, then expand outward on that circle to draw anything you can think of.
My second Daily Create was to photograph the next animal you see. It can be anything from a pet to something random you see …
Read MoreSardic Investigations – You Don’t Know Jack
My agency was a one-man organization for my private investigator, Jim Sardic. Sardic Investigations, located in the basement of the Javits Center in West Manhattan. The case I received was You Don’t Know Jack; it was about a mysterious figure who would call people over the phone and …
Read MorePost-its
This is for the “post-it notes and grocery lists” visual assignment. Sardic’s day can get pretty hectic, so he has to leave himself all kinds of post-it notes so he doesn’t forget some small but crucial things. It was a pretty simple assignment in terms of design overhead went. It …
Read MoreSardic’s Resume
This is for the “Character Resume” web assignment. Sardic has a rather specific set of skills and experience, and it shows in his resume. Needless to say, he’s a bit of an HR nightmare. His experience makes him look like a thug, his skills could only be used for investigation …
Read MoreTrip Adviser – New York
This is for the “storytelling within the web” web assignment. This was a really cool prompt for a web assignment; it lets you do pretty much anything you want to any site. Of course I wanted to relate this to Jim Sardic and his version of New York, so I …
Read MoreWeek 10 – many more videos
This week I may have gone a little overboard on the amount of time I sank into some of my video assignments. I got way too into it, and I even went to my home town to film one of the assignments with a friend. For this weeks assignments, I …
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