For the GIF assignment, for Computer Science 106: Digital Storytelling, I summarized Season 1, Episode 10: The Cost of The Wire. I picked five scenes that had what I felt were either crucial moments, and/or crucial lines. To create the GIF set, I imported the episode into Adobe Premiere to trim down the episodes into the scenes I wanted to use to to make GIFs. I also added in the lines as text on the video clips. After that, I imported the various video clips into Adobe Photoshop as layers, changed the speed of the frames, and saved the segments as GIFs.
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It’s a Kodak Moment in the House!
This audio work is a “commercial” I made for my a radio show project for my Computer Science 106: Digital Storytelling course at UMW. The project involved making a radio show that included themes or characters or plot points from the television show The Wire. My group’s radio show was a backwards radio show in that our content was commercials based on the actual product placement in The Wire. Kodak cameras were featured in Season 2 Episode 3: Hot Shots. Ziggy specifically references a “Kodak Moment” as Nick and his deal with Double G plays out.
To make this commercial, I took the audio from the scene where Nick and Ziggy are discussing the camera deal with Double G and the audio from an actual Kodak Commercial and combined the two in Audacity. I moved the introduction part of the music in the Kodak commercial to the end of the commercial audio to serve as background music for when Ziggy is talking about the Kodak cameras Nick and him are stealing for Double G. I cut down the audio from The Wire scene to just the specs and pricing of the cameras, as well as Ziggy’s “Kodak Moment” line.
Sources:
1. The Wire Season 2, Episode 3: Hot Shots
2. Digital Image Studios, Kodak “Moment” Commercial, www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkG18KiSMGk
Dunkin’ Donuts Commercial
This audio work is a “commercial” I made for my a radio show project for my Computer Science 106: Digital Storytelling course at UMW. The project involved making a radio show that included themes or characters or plot points from the television show The Wire. My group’s radio show was a backwards radio show in that our content was commercials based on the actual product placement in The Wire. Dunkin’ Donuts products were featured in several episodes, so I decided to make a Dunkin’ Donuts radio commercial. I made the audio clip by using segments from The Wire and incorporating them into a real Dunkin’ Donuts commercial that used to air on television. I edited the audio clips using a free audio editing software called Audacity.
Sources:
1. The Wire Clip: Funny Bunk and Freeman Interrogation by hoodpolitics www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EeFa8QOq_Y
2. Dunkin’ Donuts – Fritalian Commercial by patricknelson www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2y_GwKzxck
3. 2010 Dunkin Donuts Commercial by TellyFarnsworth www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyfjXbQojzc
