Hey guys! We have come to the last blog post of the semester, and honestly I didn’t think I would have this much fun with this course. I was initially afraid and anxious about the course because it was named “Strategic Presentation” and I really hate presenting. It was a huge relief when Professor Dorrielan mentioned in the first day of class that we are actually not going to do any presenting, and the fun just started from there.

My first memorable takeaway from the course was definitely the first project, which was creating the tutorial video. I myself had a lot of fun with this one because I’ve always wanted to create a video game review, and this course was my first step in doing so. I was able to research the best programs to use and styles I could do to better present the video. It actually only took me like half an hour to take the video/play the game, but almost took me the whole day to do the editing! Fortunately enough, the program I found to edit videos was amazing and very user-friendly (Davinci Resolve) So if you want to edit your videos, I would definitely recommend that. Best thing about it is that it’s free!

My second memorable takeaway was the copyright week. I didn’t know certain photos weren’t available for reuse and every photo in the internet has a specific “use” for them. I only knew that videos had copyright and so do songs but I didn’t know that pictures did as well. I did not know things like Creative Commons existed and if I didn’t take this course, I wouldn’t have found Creative Commons and found certain uses and how to properly look for ones you can use online! So I would probably take this information until I die. This was honestly so helpful and I’m going to be using it a lot.

Lastly, I just want to mention how much fun I had during lecture. Even though it was a night class, I did not dread to go to lecture and actually enjoyed coming in. I sat in the front row and the front row people had the funniest people, which made the lecture even more fun. Professor Dorrielan is actually a really fun professor and I was hoping to take him again, but I didn’t see him in any of the available classes for next semester which was a bummer. Hopefully I get to take him again soon!

Alright guys, I guess it is time for me to log off. I had a lot of fun and I hope you guys stay safe!

Here are several memes that I think relates to my website very well!

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/wooloo
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/twitch-emotes
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/people/videogamedunkey

Each of these memes are related to my website because all of them are related to Gaming! Wooloo is one of the first few Pokemon to come out in the new game they released, Sword & Shield. Everyone found the Pokemon so adorable that it turned into this really funny meme where they put captions on it with its face everywhere on twitter!
The second one is something very well known, twitch emotes. If you don’t know, Twitch is a popular streaming website where gamers can stream and interact with people. On the right side of each stream is a chatbox, and for the longest time, people would just spam the Kappa emote, shown above, in everyones stream to be “Funny”.
Last one is VideoGameDunkey. He is most known for his League of Legends videos, but he does several other games as well. He is well known for his humor and his silly playstyle that still kind of works? He still does really well even though he just sounds like he is fooling around.

Davison tells us that there are three components in each meme, The manifestation, the behavior, and the ideal. He mentions that “The manifestation of a meme is its observable, external phenomena. The behavior of a meme is the action taken by an individual in service of the meme, and the ideal of a meme is the concept or idea conveyed.” (Davison 2012).

All these memes have something similar to them, other than them being gaming memes. All three of them convey this manifestation of “troll” like behavior that people nowadays find funny. People would caption things, even if they don’t mean anything, and it ends up being funny.

The behavior I would say is how often these were used. I think these wouldn’t be that funny, but people eventually found it funny because of repetitively people used them and how often people saw it on their timeline.

The idea would basically be that ff people see these enough, they end up becoming funny and used several times that people just catch on. That’s the idea that is conveyed in these memes. Troll like content that aged well basically.

The specific manifestation could definitely relate to my audience in a way where if I do something that a small group of audience I have found funny, and they share this certain image of me or something I said around and eventually catches on outside of that friend group, it can become this meme. Anything can go viral nowadays, most of them you least expect. The troll like behavior that my audience can possibly make, like what most gamers do, is what relates it to them.

Hey guys! I made a Podcast talking about Raising a Reader, which I made a PSA announcement about in my previous blog. Raising a Reader is a non-profit organization that work directly with parents to help kids learn cool reading habits!

In this short review/tutorial podcast, I talk about what Raising a Reader is, how it is connected to my website, how it is connected to me personally (I talked a little bit about my childhood, so definitely worth listening to!), and how you can participate in the program! I also talked about the benefits of joining the program, which again is worth checking out!

I suggest checking them out and supporting them because it’ll help a lot of children out! https://www.raisingareader.org/

I also collaborated with fellow students who also talked about Raising a Reader. I suggest checking them out as well!

Hey guys! I made a PSA talking about Raising a Reader, which is a non-profit organization that work directly with parents to help kids learn cool reading habits! I suggest checking them out and supporting them because it’ll help a lot of children out! https://www.raisingareader.org/

Check out these links that were used in my video!

The header I edited basically conveys the type of games I play. I play a lot of RPG (Role Playing Games) and they involve weapons like swords. The background (grass) reminded me of a game I used to play religiously, which is League of Legends. The overall image tells the audience that it is basically a gaming blog, and the sword coming out of the book with a blurry magical effect giving it a magical and game like feel.

I found my source images from Creative Commons, and I know I can use the two images after going under both and clicking who it is licensed to and the attributions, and both indicated that I can use the images as long as I give credit and avoid using it for commercial use (Will post the links below).

I had a little background in photoshop. I often used it when I was younger, years ago when I was a member of an online anime forum and we would include a signature (image) which use anime characters and I had to learn how to use photoshop tools to make my own signatures. I only really changed the proportion and added a blur effect on a duplicate layer, and then changing the opacity of the layer over the original layer to add the magical glow effect to the images.

It is different because compared to the other softwares Davison explained, Photoshop involves several layers where you can edit each layer and change the opacity or how much you want shown for each layer. The difference is definitely the number of layers and what you can do in the layer.

https://ccsearch.creativecommons.org/photos/07e621c4-05a8-48ff-9ea0-3f3df4897d56

https://ccsearch.creativecommons.org/photos/114dad01-b5fa-4924-84f4-6b54bd42efa9

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