Wire Buyers are coming to a close

Since my last post on the project I made another commercial and then planned out the show exactly. I made new dialogue, of which I recorded part of, and organized everything, down to each commercial and other aspect of the show. It took a really long time, but now …

Jameson

Today I made another commercial for my Wire Buyers radio group. After watching the funeral scene in episode 4, the bottle of Jameson in the dead cop’s hand, the music and the singing all reminded me of my trip to Ireland and ow big Jameson is there, so I decided …

Eloise at the Fishbowl

I saw today’s daily create and had the perfect video of my sister’s evil cat trying to chase/kill my fish and then miserably failing. I enjoy watching it myself and thought I would share it! I simply uploaded it to YouTube, but have embedded it here and added some photos …

Wire Buyers group update

Over fall break the Wire Buyers talked a lot about planning and meeting up via our Facebook group, but today was the first day we actually got the chance to meet face-to-face. We have been using a google document to plan our project and post our individual work thus far. …

Can you hear me now?

Audio week was a little more difficult and time consuming because I had to get used to GarageBand and Audacity, as well as explore new outlets to work with. I worked with my group on our project a bit though and made a banner for our group, as well as …

A wire fence

Episode 12 and commentary:

Zimny’s discussion on the reality of the show is so true to me. The whole show is always so realistic. I love the commentary by Thorson on the opening sequence because she notes the lack of dialogue in favor of image and direction. I love the …

The Wire: Game of Thrones Edition

I did my second daily create today by creating a mashup of the Wire and Game of Thrones. It was pretty fun to put the Wire into a new context and draw parallels with a show that is as dramatic and intense as the Wire, though Game of Thrones is …

Wire Buyers

 

This week my radio group, newly named the “Wire Buyers” have been working on our project. We figured out our name and have designated some work to each person. I think it will be interesting to go through the episodes with the lens of product placement and marketing. For …