I came across this shirt on coursebb website which is really related to this assignment. It is asking to be cool when you are angry which is great message in my opinion. This seems to be a cool guy who can remain cool even when he is angry. Here is the image that is present … Continue reading Happy and Angry T-Shirt
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I would like to summarize what I learned this week. For my reflection on the entire course, please click here or follow the link towards the end of this page. This week was a challenge for me. Throughout the course I had difficulty with storytelling behind the visual, design, audio or video assignments I completed. … Continue reading I Did it My Way
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I must confess that at first I was not at all comfortable with the course material as from the first week I got the impression that the whole course was about designing blogs and websites. I am not such a great programmers at this stage so the idea of writing a huge amount of code … Continue reading Digital Storytelling and Me
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Please click here for assignment page Assignment Stars: 4.2 I chose this assignment because it served my need for the poster I wanted to have on my story. I took several pictures of different dinosaur toys. For this assignment I knew that I have use the magic wand tool in the Photoshop that is helps … Continue reading How to Design a Story Poster with Adobe Photoshop
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Please click here for the assignment page Assignment stars: 4.5 One part of my story was to add an interactive video to it. I creating a video in which a dinosaur is thinking about the thirsty crow story. It was a bit challenging to find a specific tool in any photo editing software that will … Continue reading How to add a video into the thinking box or a callout of an image
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Please click here for assignment page (The assignment I completed is similar to it, not exactly the same) I must say that it is really an easy task to make a GIF animation because there are many. I used GIF Maker website to make my animation. In my story I had three characters. I wanted them … Continue reading How to make a GIF animation from different images
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Please click here for assignment page Assignment Stars: 4 I had to record two pieces of audios in my own voice. The first piece of the audio was about the letting the audience know which radio they were listening to and the second piece was about the advertisement announcement. I also had to download two … Continue reading How to make a radio announcement or advertisement with Audacity
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Please click here for the assignment page Assignment Stars: 4 This seemed a challenging task to me as what I needed for my story was a telephone conversation between a male and a female person. I wrote the script that I wanted to implement during the telephone conversation and then followed the following steps in … Continue reading How to record a telephone conversation with two different voices when both voices are your’s
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We have been listening to the story of the Thirsty Crow since we were kids. The moral conclusion of the story is really great that emphasizes on thinking out of the box and finding new solutions. In my story that stars a Dino Mummy and her two kids is about a Dino family that had … Continue reading The Thirsty Baby Dinos
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Assignment Stars: Above 4 Please click here for the assignment webpage Music by: BenSound Video editing software used: Windows Movie Maker Screen recording software used: IceCream Screen Recorder All of us use internet to find help with all most everything. And luckily there is a lot of online help available free of any cost, thanks … Continue reading Video tutorial: Fast forwarding a video with Windows Movie Maker
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This course has been unfolding precious mysteries for me. In the previous weeks I was able to organize my personal blog, learn photo editing and tell audio stories. This week has been more amazing for me. It was related to the video world. I was able to have a glance into how critics view movies. … Continue reading An Amazing Video Week
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4 Stars Assignment Click here for assignment webpage YouTube video where the clip has been taken from: I love pets. Back home I have got a dog and a cat. Yes, both of them live under the same roof in peace and harmony :). I have been looking at the video assignments to select one … Continue reading Creating Instant Replay with Windows Movie Maker
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For the “Look” and “Listen” parts of the scene, I made points and elaborated them in the form of bullets. The “Analyze” part is more like a summary as it is a reflection of both the “Look” and “Listen” parts moving along together. Look Camera movement backwards to forward. This is to put more … Continue reading How to Look, Listen and Analyze a Movie Scene
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I must confess that when I started reading this article this did not make any sense. It was all gibberish to me. I believe what I had missed was to actually read a bit about the writer to know what authority does he has on movies. So I looked at
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Camera Angles and Techniques Camera techniques and techniques coupled with special effects can make a video amazing. This video has focused on the different camera tricks that can be performed to enhance the quality of the video that is being recorded. There are different techniques describes in the video like “Zolly” which can be used … Continue reading Summary of Cinematic Techniques
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In my previous week’s post I had emphasized on how great it is to comment on other blog posts and learn in the process. There is no doubt you first need to read a blog to comment on it. Commenting without reading is simply spamming which is not good to the blog post and in … Continue reading Is commenting helpful in learning only?
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I don't have the book ready yet but here is the title page. @ds106dc #tdc1644 pic.twitter.com/nMieP264VH — Mohammed Taractar (@taractaonline) July 15, 2016 Well what book title can an Arab from the desert part of Arabia think of when writing a book? Especially when it is about his confessions. I believe that due to scientific … Continue reading Confessions of an Arab
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Be a Vegetarian bro, @ds106dc #tdc1645 pic.twitter.com/QhKHN4K5si — Mohammed Taractar (@taractaonline) July 15, 2016 This is a kind of funny image. It looks to be two friends who have been together since a long time. They both used to enjoy meat. But the gorilla has become a vegetarian now and is trying to convince the … Continue reading Be a vegetarian
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Here is the web to do magic to ur photo. https://t.co/s6oCxpLrDu #tdc1647 @ds106dc pic.twitter.com/IDxLjvYwP1 — Mohammed Taractar (@taractaonline) July 15, 2016 Here is a simple online application to c64 your picture. When first I saw the daily create, I was confused how I am going to get the image into the desired format. I … Continue reading I still look good
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I am not that much of a painter but still I would like to travel to space with this! #tdc1649 @ds106dc pic.twitter.com/uAy7xRwSZD — Mohammed Taractar (@taractaonline) July 15, 2016 The task was to draw anything but the pen or mouse cursor had to draw continuously. I did draw continuously. I did move twice along the … Continue reading I am Going to Mars
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What did I learn this week? This week I had to look back on the mistakes I made previously and try and rectify them. I did visit blogs from other course participants and learned a lot from them. I am hopeful that much of the changes that I brought in to this week’s work are … Continue reading So how was week 3?
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4.5 Stars Assignment Length of audio: 44 seconds Please click here for assignment page This was a challenging assignment. I had to tell a story without words. So I thought of a scary night where a person gets into a haunted house. There he finds out that the house is possessed by a scary creature. … Continue reading The scary night, with audio effects only
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2 Stars assignment Length of audio: 17 seconds Please click here for the assignment page I downloaded the Audacity free audio editing software and installed it on my computer. Then I downloaded and installed the required Audacity plugin to convert audios to mp3. First I thought of sentences that I wanted to say as a … Continue reading Me as the RJ for DS106 Radio
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Summary of Dissecting Joanne Rosser, Papermaker I made the following notes from the Dissecting Joanne Rosser, Papermaker Show that proved useful when I was listening to the radio story and then making a summary of it. An audio presentation must have simplicity on surface and a lot going on in the background, Paragraphs arrange the … Continue reading Insight into radio storytelling
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Ira Glass According to Ira Glass, there are two building blocks of audio storytelling: Anecdote: According to what I understood from the video Anecdote is a sequence of actions like one thing happening next to other in audio storytelling. This is an example of the whole thought process that must be in a correct sequence … Continue reading The art of audio storytelling
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I provided real feedback comments to other bloggers from my summer class. They were not at all “you are great” kinds of comments :). I have provided feedbacks to restaurants, retailers, salespersons, online website and many more but have never provided a feedback of my feedback. So this was a challenging blog post to write … Continue reading Feedback of my feedback
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This is how I "Oh Yaaa" at night to frighten people!!https://t.co/MhRW3E71sc#tdc1641 @ds106dc — Mohammed Taractar (@taractaonline) July 9, 2016
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This is more kind of a Shadow of a "Shadow", Isn't it?#tdc1643 @ds106dc pic.twitter.com/G0ntZIVcGf — Mohammed Taractar (@taractaonline) July 9, 2016
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