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The Voices In My Head Won’t Be Quiet
I figure I should cite the work in here that isn’t mine. The music came from AudioBlocks, a website for royalty-free music and sound effects, and the Bob Ross quotes came from a GoodReads list here: https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/102372.Bob_Ross The prayer is just the Hail Mary in Latin, and all of the sound except the music are me.
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Wilderness
The original: It was nice to come up here to the wilderness just to take a breath. No one ever made their way up here, and when they did, they were always gone once the spectacular sunrise was over. No, these summer midafternoons were mine, all mine. I could relax, listen to the creek and the wildlife that surrounded me. If I closed my eyes, I could hear the whispers of the cattails gossiping or the creak of the trees as they discussed the virtues and drawbacks of different philosophical ideals. By the time the pine trees brought up Descartes, I was fully invested. This was my place, my home,…
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The Waitress
For context, the following scene takes place during the events of Marvel’s Avengers. Sadie knew she shouldn’t have reacted how she did, but she was just so angry at it all she couldn’t help but storm out. You don’t say, “I love you,” to your ex, especially in front of your new girlfriend. That was a faux pas on James’s part. No, faux pas is too forgiving. It was a complete betrayal of her trust. He’d been calling and texting her all morning, even though he knew she was working. The cafe was packed this time of day, but despite that, Sadie stole glances at her phone. “I don’t love…
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Weekly Summary 1
This week was a lot of getting things set up and working. Some of it, like a YouTube account and website, I already had set up. Others, like Twitter and Soundcloud, I had to make. That was the bulk of the work this week, setting things up and experimenting with them. One of the more frustrating things about this week was that nothing seemed to want to work like it should. My phone and computer didn’t want to talk to each other, it meant that I had to scrap the plans I had and come up with something on the fly. That, and I felt like there wasn’t much guidance…
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Goals
My main goal for this course is to get more experience creating in a wider variety of mediums. I consider myself a creative person and fairly well-versed in the whole “make something” process, but I have less experience actually putting things out there. I hope that I will do more of that final step in this class. Also, I would like to push the limit of what I already know how to do and learn skills I didn’t know I wanted. In my experience editing videos in the past, I have found that I don’t know how to do things until the need to do the thing arises, and then…
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Evening Waterfall
Bob Ross hosted The Joy of Painting in the ’80s and ’90s, but really, painting was just a medium for the world to experience the joy of Bob Ross. His peaceful paintings and gentle mannerisms are relaxing, and the final product, which the viewers are encouraged to make their own version of, is always beautiful. Ross makes a point of encouraging people to make their own version rather than recreate what he’s making exactly. Interspersed between the instructions of how to paint along with him, Ross adds narration about his own life and experiences. He complains, lightheartedly, that he doesn’t get enough time on the air to do everything he…
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Introductions
Hello everyone, my name is Katie and I’m really excited to be taking this class. Not going to lie, I have the technological skills of a grandma, so none of these introduction things are very sophisticated. As time goes on, I will hopefully get better and learn as we go.
