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Virginia Radio Ad

February 27, 2025

Our ad is a parody of a tourism ad for historic sites in Virginia. It’s placed somewhere around the 1930s-1940s (after the sites I mentioned would’ve opened) and the main thing about this ad that is supposed to place it in time (outside of the things I mentioned being open) is the racism and Virginia-centrism. …

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Radio Ad

February 27, 2025

Credits:

Kaine Beaumont: Betty, Thomas, and Advertising man

Abigail Fuller: Virginia

HCC Desk: Door

This ad was done in the style of a Kitchenaid mixer ad from post-war 1940s.

Picture: http://www.jitterbuzz.com/indmix.html

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New episode of Love in the cupboard [Radio Ad]

February 27, 2025

Sponsored by KitchenAid™ This ad was done in the style of radio drama’s of the 1940s for a KitchenAid™ stand mixer. CreditsAbigail Fuller – VirginiaDesk – FoleyKaine Beaumont – Advertiser, Betty Joyce, Thomas Citations. Image: Morra, Frank. Retro Kitchen Mixers. Accessed February 26, 2025. http://www.jitterbuzz.com/indmix.html. Music: The Ice Cream Booth (Live) Ziv Grinberg from Artlist: … Continue reading New episode of Love in the cupboard [Radio Ad] →

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Ace Malone Radio Ad Project

February 26, 2025

This project was a blast to make with Jack, Killian, and me. We spent a lot of time doing voice recordings and editing them. Although fiction, we mentioned the real WRVA radio station as the station which broadcasted this hilarious production.

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Radio Ad Assignment | Detective Reginald Ace Malone

February 26, 2025

Our key inspiration was radio dramas from the 30’s , with a southern twist! Introducing ” Ace’ Malone , Private Eye, our fictional detective drama, set in the underbelly of Richmond in 1934. It’s about a detective soliving crimes in style. We think you’ll find the sponsor of this programm quite humorous. This is a […]

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Mysterious Mysteries Radio Ad

February 26, 2025

Sources: Music and Sound Effects from Pixabay.com:“Old Radio Sound” by Tissman. https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/old-radio-noise-46734/.“Door Knocking and Opening” by PTL_Joe. https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/door-knocking-and-opening-240831/. “Dark Bar” by cubercutie. https://pixabay.com/music/traditional-jazz-dark-bar-7386/. All other sound effects, music, voice acting, etc created by Ava and Oliver or the DKC’s podcast studio. Ad Inspiration:Goff, S.B. and Son’s Company, S.B Goff’s Magic Oil Liniment, ca. 1900, bottle […]

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Cave Painting Reflection

February 19, 2025

For our previous assignments we had to make cave paintings of modern products, and present them to the class. For my paintings, I chose Doritos and an anti-depressant. It was very fun trying to showcase just what precisely these products are meant for, provided that cave paintings, while beautiful in their own right, are very […]

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Cave Paintings

February 17, 2025

I enjoyed working on communicating ideas through cave paintings. I don’t have much experience with drawing, but cave paintings are a format where more simplistic drawings fit in. I tried to replicate the style of other cave paintings, using humans, bulls, and birds as references for parts of the advertisements. The first advertisement I made …

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Cave Painting Reflection

February 16, 2025

The assignment itself was very fun to do as not many history projects allow for creativity. However, once beginning the

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Pictograph Reflection

February 16, 2025

For my cave pictograph pictures, I chose Jiffy Pop popcorn and Sharpie permanent markers. I selected modern inventions that cave dwellers could use independently of other modern items, making their functions and implementations easy to understand. For the Jiffy Pop (popcorn), I illustrated the process of a caveman starting a… Read more“Pictograph Reflection”

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