This is an odd assignment, if viewed out of context. I look like I’m off some meds. Oh well. Let the blackmailing begin. Here it is:
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This is an odd assignment, if viewed out of context. I look like I’m off some meds. Oh well. Let the blackmailing begin. Here it is:
After reading and listening to this week’s agenda, I was very intimidated by it due to all the audio. Turns out, it really was not that bad! Audacity was not that intimidating and the audio assignments were enjoyable! The process of doing all the assignments was not too troubling, you can read more about my process in the posts. I absolutely loved how eye-opening the Radio Show was. I never heard the sounds when I was watching the show, it is so cool how much you can pick up on by simply just listening.
The Wire:
Episode 3-
Omar is back! He is still just as threatening as he was in season one. He has his new significant other and it back in the game. McNulty was shown having time with his kids and has a separation agreement. He finds out Daniels is going to put in his papers and become a lawyer.
McNulty thinks he has figured out the case before Bunk and them, so when he goes they make him feel degraded. Turns out the girls were prostitutes who witnessed a murder of another fellow prostitute. There was a scene where McNulty just stares at a picture of the girl he fished out of the water. He seems to be having a hard time letting go. In the meantime, Stringer goes and talks to Ds “baby momma” to encourage her to go visit him in jail.. But then he ends up making a move on her!
Politics comes back into play in this episode. With the mixer where the dock worker, Saboka, tries to butter up politicians and the dinner with Valcheck. Stan Valchek is now blackmailing Burrell about the Barkstale case and the money to get him a better team to investigate Saboka.
No matter where Avon is, he always has some control! Avon warned D to take a break from drugs then later that night, a lot of the prisoners got a bad pack of drugs and had a reaction to it. The ending scene was significant because Avon was just sitting there reading his book during all of it, showing he knew it was going to happen. I just thought, what is Avon going to get out of this?
Episode 4-
The opening scene was interesting it showed Frank just staring off into the distance talking about how Baltimore gangs are selling their cargo. He now wants to bring the cameras back, but yet, Frank knows he knows exactly who, what, and how the stuff is getting stolen. “You can’t win a war on drugs in prison where the hell you gonna win it”. The warden has a good point, prisons are supposed to be tight and secure, if we can’t control inmates how can we control everyone else? Of course, Avon had a plan with the bad drugs, he knew they’d want to figure out who did it so in return he would get years off. Avon always seems to find a way to get what he wants. Nick and zig remind me a lot of Avon and D. They both are two partners in crime, they have each other’s backs no matter what happens.
Daniels went to submit his papers, but Burrell tried to convince him not to by putting him on Valcheks detail. Daniels is finally getting what he wants, he asked to pull his own people and is going to get a promotion. Kima still can’t get rid of the cop side of her. Daniels then asks her to be a part of his new detail. At dinner with Daniels wife and Kima and her wife, they both parallel each other. I liked the scene where Rawls and Jimmy pass and Rawls just stares, you can just see the amount of hatred he has for Jimmy.
Episode 5-
The opening scene showing Zig is trying to be tough when gets shown up in front of his people, undermining his authority he already lacked. Nick ends up trying to go to Zigg’s rescue by attempting to get his car back as well as make the payment due date later. Daniels asked Craver to join the detail he’s running so it is now only missing McNulty! Although McNulty is not on the case he is still trying to work the case about the girl he fished out of the water. Bubs is still present in this season, which I love because he brings so much character to the show. He found Omar for McNulty so Omar could testify and is the same old Bubs. I love how the show, is starting to tie in all the characters like McNulty’s wife, soon to be ex, shows a house in one of the dock workers, Nikki.
When Valcheck got a list of all the summons, he got very defensive about loosing that one can in the stacks. The cases parallel, Omar is now testifying against Bird, directly after the summons scene.The case is finally connected to drugs rather than the homicides. Avon and stringer are trying to work out a plan to get their business up and running again. Stringer is showed more and more in his business class, then holds a meeting with his crew. All the drugs seemed to have shifted on over the east side of Baltimore which is now where the case is being made. Loving how everything is now coming together!
After live tweeting to this episode, I realized so many new things. You never really realize how much sound can influence the whole show! I have a high respect for the background noises and all the sounds. Without the images in front of you, it is amazing what you can hear.
Here are a few of my tweets:
Many of the sounds actually did parallel with another scene in the episode.
Back to the sounds of the water like with Bubs and McNulty #ds106radio
— Danielle Niepokoj (@dniepoko) September 19, 2014
You can just picture Rawls face when he is laughing #ds106radio #ds106
— Danielle Niepokoj (@dniepoko) September 19, 2014
Picturing all the scenes relating to the sound! Very interesting without the picture in front of me. #ds106radio #ds106
— Danielle Niepokoj (@dniepoko) September 19, 2014
You could just feel that anger from the noise of the chair #ds106radio
— Danielle Niepokoj (@dniepoko) September 19, 2014
Daily Creates:
Assignments:
Hints:
Answer: All of Me by John Legend
Country Sounds- Sound Scape
My Morning in Sounds
For my third assignment for this final project, I chose to do Storytelling within the Web {*****} again. The reason I chose to do this assignment again was because I wanted to show how Sabrina reacted to Libby’s attempt to blackmail her. She obviously is going to seek revenge…I wanted to show everyone exactly how she was going to do that. And with what she would seek revenge with.
I spent the most time on this assignment than any other assignment I have done for this final project. I wanted to make it realistic and the webpage that I used my Hackasaurus tool on was really long. This tool amazes me every time I use it. You can really change anything!!! I changed everything from the product reviews, summary, price, and even the related objects!!! I chose to hack a Amazon web page. Yes, Sabrina is going to buy something to seek revenge on Libby.
Go to the full Amazon web page to see all of the details – even the minor ones. Just kick back, relax, and read!
Here is the product Sabrina just purchased:
Here is my favorite part about the changes I made to this web page:
Do you have any predictions about what farm animal Libby will turn into???
Song blog post title: One Way or Another – Blondie
Ok. This post fits into a lot of categories. First of all, I created it. Secondly, I am using it for my final project. And lastly, I had to add the tags for it. Whoah! How cool is that??
The assignment is called Connected Clips. I rated this assignment as two stars. The assignment is simply to find related clips from your favorite show and put them together. I wanted to have a collection of clips that were related for my final project but there was no assignment like that so I just created one!
Here is my video:
This is the blackmail video that Libby is going to use with Sabrina. I know I haven’t gone into too much about my final project, so that will come later! {The due dates for the assignments we submitted is before our week alotted to work on our final project}. DON’T WORRY, you will read more about this later! I will add to this blog post!!! I don’t want to give too much away without introducing the characters first.
I got the clips from various episodes of Sabrina, the Teenage Witch from YouTube. I was specifically looking for clips of Sabrina doing magic in public places – where someone could easily see and blackmail her! I converted the clips to MP4 clips through KeepVid {which is an amazing site and a definite lifesaver!} I saved the clips and imported them into my Windows Movie Maker. I cut the clips using the trim tool because I only needed the little bit where she does the magic. Most of the clips were full episodes or half of an episode.
I uploaded my video to Vimeo and submitted the assignment! I will be excited and nervous to see if people like it. I hope they do!!! :)
Blog post song title: I Put a Spell On You – Hocus Pocus
By the time Friday evening rolls around, I’m pretty useless. Friday nights are good for a decent beer and maybe a movie. Friday nights are also good for DS106.
I’ve spent the work week cataloging a slew of new books. It’s boring, soul-killing work. I did reward myself with some Makerbot time today though. I printed a companion cube (today’s Makerbot daily print).
As it was printing, a group of upper school kids came in and checked out the Replicator as it was printing.
Kid A: “What are you making?”
Me: “A companion cube.”
Kid A: “OH MY GOD! ARE YOU SERIOUS? I’VE GOT TO MAKE ME A COMPANION CUBE! Hey, she’s making a companion cube!”
Or at least it went something like that anyway. Unbridled enthusiasm–that’s what it was, and it’s what was needed at the end of a tedious week.
I also rewarded myself with some DS106 tonight. I caught up on videos, thought about movie scenes that I could use for GIFing, popped in Clue, and settled in to read some DS106 blogs while keeping one eye on the screen. I stumbled across a blog post by Kelsey Matthews. She also GIFed a scene from Clue. Talk about your plate of shrimp.
I decided to use the cut-away to Yvette in the billiard room with the tape recorder. She’s recording Tim Curry’s explanation as to why the guests (Col. Mustard, Mrs. Peacock, Mrs. Scarlett, etc. etc.) are being blackmailed by the party host.
It’s not as cool as I was thinking it would be, but that’s ok. One day. One day I’ll have something just as awesome and artful as this.