Character Work
Watching from the Background
I thought about creating ds106 wallpaper (4 pts) when we did design assignments, but I decided not to. Now, I decided to go for it and incorporate my character and others into it. At first, I had the idea to use the silhouettes from my Steadfast Sleuths poster in the …
Read MoreA Pinteresting Trip
This week I got together with Lauren Falkenstein and Kayleigh Barbee to do the “You’re a Pinteresting Character” assignment (4 pts). The idea was to get 20 pins about a character (we ended up with 25) and see if people could guess the character from the pins. However, …
Read MoreGroom, Don’t Let Go!
Looking through the different assignments to find one that could work for a collaborative assignment was kind of difficult. However, the Professor Groom Poster (4.5 pts) was easily adaptable. Janelle Pierangelino and I decided to work together to create a movie poster that included Jim Groom, Sasha Kellogg, and Sebastian …
Read MoreHello Sarah? It’s Sasha!
My radio show group decided to write voice messages into the script so we could complete the assignment about leaving a message. This way, we could make sure each character had enough air time and also subtly add the theme of missed opportunities and mixed messages in the show (because …
Read MoreGood Morning Sasha Kellogg
For the “sound effects story” assignment (3.5 pts), the only things I could use were sound effects to tell a story about my character, Sasha Kellogg. I used Audacity to mesh the sounds together, which was a lot easier than I expected. I decided to recount Sasha’s morning …
Read MoreSasha’s Reminders
Writing post-it notes and grocery lists is something I do all the time, so completing the “post-it notes and grocery lists!” assignment (2 pts) is pretty natural (I just had to make notes that my character would make). Sasha Kellogg definitely would make post-it notes for herself. She …
Read MoreWhat’s in Sasha’s Bag?
Sasha Kellogg is a classy woman who always keeps her handbag with her. The visual assignment “what’s in your bag” (3 pts) tells more about Sasha, because her bag holds the things that she feels she could not go without. Additionally, looking up items from the 1950s was …
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