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Hey, Professor Walen! Zane here – it’s been an interesting summer semester, and I’ve learned a lot through my first coding course! I’m glad to have completed it, and happy that with our final, I’ve been able to go back and implement some new things into my assignments.

1. Glitch: Firstly, I created glitch art that was more “glitchy” I guess you could say. Originally, I created a compilation of different video game glitches, and created a few of my own glitch art pieces in photoshop. However, when I was trying to figure out inspiration for some social media posts for our school basketball team, our class came to mind, and I decided to theme some of the posts around glitchy art. The end result is here:

2. Creating an Audacity Glitched image: For my second portfolio item, I figured that I would create a glitched image with audacity, as I didn’t get to do so over the course of the semester. I took a selfie with my webcam, and then figured out how to glitch it up through audacity – the results are a bit haunting. The original:

And the glitch:

3. Screensaver: With my screensaver, I added a little bit of flare, and implemented an outline to the “Hello!” in my screensaver. I’ve been trying to figure out how to connect the lines within the screensaver – hopefully I can figure that out soon, as though I like the somewhat glitchy look of the screensaver, I’d like it to look a little cleaner. You can see that here – also, I attached an image of how it looks, because as I click on the link, for whatever reason, the blue outline isn’t showing up on the text. https://editor.p5js.org/zaneburk9/full/96I_KOT0b

4. Bot: Going back to the first week of class, I decided to work a little bit on my bot to make it a bit more personal to Spongebob. I added more variables in the bot that are direct quotes from Spongebob himself, and imrpoved the general grammar in the bot as well so that the tweets are a bit more coherent. Find that here:

For my final project, as I said before, I completed a trailer for my upcoming series that I will be completing on my youtube channel. The most fun, but also challenging aspect of completing the trailer, was creating the concept/themed art for each series, and making an information card to put on the trailer that matched up with the artistic theme of each series. For my Viewer’s Choice series, I themed it around being colorful, and splatters of paint, as I see that series as being one that a variety of people have a hand in creating, as I ask for opinions from all of my social media followers as to what the video should be. For my weekly vlogs, I wanted a clean, sharp look that was attractive to look at and memorable, but also flexible, which I believe I achieved. Finally, for my Zane After Dark series, I was looking for a night-like, neon lights type of look, which again, I believe I did a good job of creating. Apart from that, however, I used clean transitions and some intro cards to build up suspense for the upcoming series. Check out the trailer below! Warning, the song I selected does have some vulgar words in it – I selected it because it is currently one of my favorite songs, however it’s new and I couldn’t find a clean version when I created the trailer.

For my final project, I decided to implement my current hobby, which is my youtube channel, with the 80s theme of the class. Originally, for my videos, I was completing daily vlogs. However, after some careful thought and deliberation, I decided to instead change over to a three day a week schedule, with each day corresponding with a different show. These shows will be firstly, a weekly vlog, secondly, a “audience’s choice” show where my followers decide what the video will be, and finally, and almost most importantly, “Zane After Dark,” a talk-show that I plan to host. My final project will be the trailer for my new shows that I will create, which I am very excited to do. I have completed some basic logo art to start, however, which I have attached.

What a fun week in Digital Storytelling! My assignments this week were fun, and the remixes were even more fun. To begin my week, I worked on my mash-up assignments.s

Firstly, I got one of my favorite logos, but I added text that made it look like it was used for a MUCH different purpose than it is:

Next, I placed one of my favorite superheroes in a modern, public setting of today. See if you can find him!

Finally, I mashed up one of my favorite movie characters with a backdrop that did not match him at all. You can tell pretty quickly!

For my remixes, I had a couple of interesting choices. Firstly, I added a snobby, overly-artistic critic review about my picture above:

After that, I had to make my Fruit Of The Loom graphic as weird and ugly looking as I could!

Finally, I made three different daily creates throughout the week, which were a lot of fun:

It was a great week in DS106, and I’m excited to see what next week holds.