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  1. afghanwoman

    My week 15 Summary

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    My Final project A wish  Plot: This movie is based on true stories; happening in most of the third world countries like Afghanistan. Unfortunately, force marriages are really common on those countries. Young girls are forced to marry older men due to several issues such as financial problems and punishments. This movie is about an […]
  2. afghanwoman

    The ADAAM’s Radio Show

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    The ADAAM’s Radio Show The ADAAM’s radio show group consisted of five people Alex, Anapaula, Abbey, Dewitt and Me. we chose canvas, Twitter, Email and meeting in person as our communication tool; we used these tools to communicate and share our work process. We had two in person group meetings which was held in October […]
  3. afghanwoman

    My definition of Digital Storytelling

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      In my week 3 post I wrote the followings: Story telling is the act of entertaining, educating a particular group of audience. Story telling is something that has always been around. It was used for different purposes such us giving knowledge about something or sharing thoughts and opinions or more likely to entertain one. […]
  4. afghanwoman

    My Best work of DS 106

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    I had organized my blog posts in their proper categories while creating them. Thus, it was really easy to find my best work. I knew my best works, so I just went to their categories and select them. I chose five items as my best works; which are from the following categories: one from visual, […]
  5. afghanwoman

    Advice for future Ds106ers

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    For give advice to the future DS106 class; I used video as my media. I first created a poster for DS106 and a poster for my advice; I used pizap  and picmonkey  for editing the posters. I downloaded a 3d animated video from YouTue. The animated video was called my fish people . I selected […]
  6. afghanwoman

    My Final project

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    A wish  Plot: This movie is based on true stories; happening in most of the third world countries like Afghanistan. Unfortunately, force marriages are really common on those countries. Young girls are forced to marry older men due to several issues such as financial problems and punishments. This movie is about an ambitious Afghan girl. […]
  7. afghanwoman

    Tutorials for video/audio assignments

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    Tutorial for Recycled media  Recycle the media During the Fall 2012 iteration of ds106 taught at UMW, we collected media from students that was unused in their previous work uploaded to http://dropitto.me/ds106phonar (the password was “photos4life” newly added media might take some time to be moved- we have to feed the squirrels that do this manual labor). […]
  8. afghanwoman

    Tutorial on making a ringtone

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    Make your own Ringtone  Using Audacity, trim, join end-to-end (cut/paste), and/or play side-by-side audio files in order to create your very own ringtone. Ringtones should be a maximum or 40 seconds to conserve phone memory (besides, most cell phones don’t ring longer than 30 seconds or so…the extra 10 seconds is just in case). Be […]
  9. afghanwoman

    Tutorial for Recycled media

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    Recycle the media During the Fall 2012 iteration of ds106 taught at UMW, we collected media from students that was unused in their previous work uploaded to http://dropitto.me/ds106phonar (the password was “photos4life” newly added media might take some time to be moved- we have to feed the squirrels that do this manual labor). The content was migrated […]
  10. afghanwoman

    New Assignment ideas

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    Description: cartoonize it Cartoonize your favorite pet; for this assignment you can use any photo editing programs you desire. there are many photo editing programs online as well; which are very easy to use. The one I would recommend is befunky.com; it is really fast and easy to use. after cartoonizing your favorite pet; put […]
  11. afghanwoman

    Cartoonize it

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    Description: Cartoonize your favorite pet; for this assignment you can use any photo editing programs you desire. there are many photo editing programs online as well; which are very easy to use. The one I would recommend is befunky.com; it is really fast and easy to use. after cartoonizing your favorite pet; put them in ...
  12. afghanwoman

    Just Dance

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    Description: This assignment is to create a dance video by combining dance styles of three different countries or cultures. Select those parts of the dance videos, that you download, that would go well together. Afterward, combine those three dance clips; and mute its music.  After muting the videos original music, add new dance music to ...
  13. afghanwoman

    A Taste of Remix/ Mashups

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    Remix This  Review of the two references  Steal Like an Artist “Creativity is not magic; Creativity is for everyone” said Austin Kleon. Thoroughly, everyone can be creative if he/ she put some effort to it. Thus, creativity can be in any form whether one would remix an existing material or create something from scratch. I ...
  14. afghanwoman

    Reflection on remix and Mashup

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    Reviewing the references and examples were a great help to me in understanding the concept of remixing. I have always heard about remixing a song but I have never heard about remixing a video. Therefore, it was very interesting to learn about remixing the videos through the references and examples. On the other hand, I ...
  15. afghanwoman

    The Importance of friends

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    Recycle the Media “Your task for this assignment is to Mashup at least 7 different pieces of this media to make a new story, and use at least 2 different types (e.g. audio and image, image and video. The story most likely would be done as a video, but see if you can make these ...
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    My Remixed assignment

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    Remixed Assignment What do pets think about? [Remixed]  Original assignment What do pets think about? The purpose of the original assignment was to create a series of video sequences of pet; that shows them in contemplative mode. Then to record over that the narration of what they might be saying to themselves. Remixed card “Play ...
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    Buffalaz

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    The purpose of this assignment was to find a video (music, newscast, etc.) in a language other than English; and caption it in English. For this assignment I used an Afghani Pashto song called Tasara Meena larm ; and I translated into English. I used windows live movie maker to caption it in English. Since ...
  18. afghanwoman

    Mashup Assignments

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    Ben Harwood’s Track Blazing Troubadour The purpose of this assignment was to make a movie trailer by taking a trilogy or any series of movies; and combine scenes from all the trailers to make one trailer.  Therefore, I chose the Fast and the Furious series one, two and three trailers; which were The fast and ...
  19. afghanwoman

    Remix This

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    Review of the two references  Steal Like an Artist “Creativity is not magic; Creativity is for everyone” said Austin Kleon. Thoroughly, everyone can be creative if he/ she put some effort to it. Thus, creativity can be in any form whether one would remix an existing material or create something from scratch. I found the ...
  20. afghanwoman

    The final project planning

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    The media project that I am considering to create as my final project is biography of Miles Davis. Miles Davis was a great trumpet player, an innovator to all musicians and the influential artist in the jazz era. He was also a major contributor to the development of jazz; thus his creativity and novelty made ...
  21. afghanwoman

    Video City

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    A step toward education This video is a redub project; indicating the women’s important step toward education. The goal of this assignment was to take a movie and rescript the audio of a key scene. Women in my country have been strongly discouraged from gaining an education; even they were legally banned from attending any ...
  22. afghanwoman

    The Silence of Fast Five

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    The purpose of this assignment was to take a 3-5 minute trailer of a modern movie and render it in the form of the silent era; by converting it to black and white and replacing the audio with a musical sound track. On the other hand, use of title cards was recommended for this assignment ...
  23. afghanwoman

    The Hand

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    The purpose of this assignment was to either create a horror scene or re-create a scene from a horror movie. I wanted to be creative therefore; I considered creating a horror scene of my own. Thus, the first thing I did was writing the script for this assignment. The movie I created was 45 minutes ...
  24. afghanwoman

    My story through words & pictures

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    The purpose of this assignment was to tell a story using 5 to 10 randomly selected words; with the images found in Google. I have always wished for peace, love, justice and equality in my country. Therefore, when I saw this assignment I instantly considered doing it. Afghanistan has been in war for decades now, ...
  25. afghanwoman

    A step toward education

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    This video is a redub project; indicating the women’s important step toward education. The goal of this assignment was to take a movie and rescript the audio of a key scene. Women in my country have been strongly discouraged from gaining an education; even they were legally banned from attending any kind of schooling during ...
  26. afghanwoman

    The world of Movies

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    My Video tool  The only video tools that were available in my computer were Windows live movie maker and Jing . But I recently downloaded MPEG StreamClip , CamStudio  and Fraps from ds 106  tools depository. I have familiarity with Windows live movie maker and Jing as I have used it in my public speaking class and ds 106 class. I used Windows  live movie makerto create ...
  27. afghanwoman

    My Day to Day of ds106

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    My favorite-The purpose of this daily create was to create a series of our favorite things. Since this is the week of video editing; therefore I chose to film my favorite things one at a time. Then I used MPEG Streamclip to combine the scenes together; after combining I recorded my voice separately in audacity ...
  28. afghanwoman

    The Preproduction of the video assignments

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    I liked that there are many choices for this assignment in video repository. For the coming weeks video assignments I considered to create the following videos. The first video that I consider to do, is Making a scene from a horror film. The purpose of this task was to create one’s own or recreate scene ...
  29. afghanwoman

    Exploring a Great Movie Scene Summary-Ocean’s twelve

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    After analyzing oceans twelve clip; I went to IMDb to seek more background information on the movie. Under trivia facts I found out that this movie was the sequel to 2001’s Ocean’s Eleven. Interestingly, Steven Soderbergh who was the producer insisted that this film should also be made at the same budget as the Ocean’s ...
  30. afghanwoman

    A way to Cinematic Techniques

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    The visual aspects The camera shot was taken from right to the center, providing a Medium shot; which indicated the interaction between the actors. Thus, the shot presented that the two characters are hiding. Then, there was a cut from that scene to a more close up shot scene; which put that character on the ...

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