For this assignment, we were to make a trailer for a TV show that’s run its course. I chose the tragically short lived sci fi/western Firefly. Apparently you can watch […]

Look, Listen, Analyze Analyze the camera work: The camera in this scene switches to three different views. One, of the broadcasters which seems to be the main focus of the scene. Two, the workers who are working behind the scenes like the camera guy, the sound people, and the director. Three, a person who seems […]

Favorite Actor/Actress Highlight Reel (3 Stars) Description of Video Assignment: “Create a 30 to 60 second highlight reel of your most enjoyable movie scenes from your favorite Actor/Actress.” The Story Steve Carell has always been one of my favorite actors. He plays the boss of my favorite TV show The Office. He plays the perfect […]

Highlight Reels (5 Stars) Description of Video Assignment: “Channel your inner ESPN and clip together highlights of your favorite athlete, set it to some music, and add an intro.” The Story Blake Griffin is one of my favorite NBA players. He plays for the Los Angeles Clippers but I first became a fan of his […]

-How to Create a Highlight Reel- Try this project yourself, following the project link: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/favorite-actoractress-highlight-reel/ STEP 1: Go to YouTube and view, then download (using YouTube converter) some of your favorite movies/clips of your chosen actor/actress. You can find stuff to view by simply typing the name of your actor/actress into the search box and clicking … Continue reading Tutorial- Favorite Actor/Actress Highlight Reel →

This project is as well from the  ds106 video assignments bank, it’s worth three stars. The assignment instructs us to create a 30 to 60 second highlight reel of your most enjoyable movie scenes from your favorite Actor/Actress. Try this project yourself, following the project link: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/favorite-actoractress-highlight-reel/ -Will Ferrell- I chose Will Ferrell as my favorite actor. … Continue reading Favorite Actor – Will Ferrell – Highlight Reel →

 How To Create A Video Like This One Step 1. Choose an athlete (This is Barry Sanders) Step 2. Go to YouTube, viewed some sports highlights and then downloaded your favorites (using YouTube video converter). Step 3. Imported the videos to iMovie. Step 4. Then cut and trimmed the parts of the videos you enjoy the most to small … Continue reading Highlight Reel Tutorial →

I really am using this scene way too much. First it was with my trading card, then it was with my marvel video which I just finished editing and post later, and now this.  The biggest reason why I’m using this scene for my analysis is that I already add this scene on my computer […]

For this week part of our class assignment was to  complete two ds106 video assignments from the assignment bank. For my first assignment, worth five stars, I chose to create a highlight real. Project link: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/highlight-reels/ The instructions for this project requests that the creator, “Channel your inner ESPN and clip together highlights of your favorite athlete, … Continue reading Barry Sanders Highlight Reel →

If you are confused about what my title is suppose to mean for this assignment I’ll explain it for you.  For this assignment we had to pick a theme, create a compilation video about that theme, and then put it to some music.  I think you can guess why I made my title what it […]

Like this assignment but it did prove difficult even though the idea seemed simple enough.  For this assignment I had to create a video that showed the change in time throughout the day at a single location.  Simple right, it was until I realized that I don’t stay at a single location throughout my day […]

Roger Ebert’s article, which can be found below, does make an interesting point.  I normally only watch movies for their entertainment values, but if I were to watch one so that I can analyze it then I think the method he describe would be quite useful.  He suggests that when you are analyzing a movie […]

This is the fourth week summary. I have to admit that this was another good week learning great stuff. During this week i learned many new aspects of video story telling. Everyday, I watched many videos; however, before taking this class, i never noticed the techniques that many of the...

daily create – simple shadow

For this daily create we were prompted to cast a shadow and take a picture of it, so here is my shadow!

-Today’s Daily Create –  “cast us a shadow?” Today’s Daily Create was a photography assignment. We were instructed to cast a shadow, take a picture of it and upload it to flickr. My shadow casting is of a wine glass I was drinking from the other night while doing homework. Wine and homework go so … Continue reading Shadow on the Wall →

So as you can see above this is the Hyperbolic Tiling using this photo:

Today’s daily create was to make a hyperbolic tile! I thought mine was pretty cool. It is a mix of

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Bruce Almighty No sound 6 or 7 different angles Lighting was fairly normal, being that it was not really a

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I believe that John West’s idea of watching a film and stopping it at different points to observe it is

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Highlight Reels Description of Assignment: Channel your inner ESPN and clip together highlights of your favorite athlete, set some music,

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What Do You Love? Description of Assignment: Choose something that you love and make a video of it! You can

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Week 4 Daily Create 2 (7/16) We are making hyperbolic tilings today: The Daily Create 1285 (7/16) Twitter Tweet Hyperbolic Tiling

“How awesome is this? Make your own and show us!” Today we are asked to make a hyperbolic tiling photo! I looked up examples on google images and I found a lot of different and fascinating photos. I used Paint on my computer and created my very own hyperbolic tiling photo. It was pretty easy and […]

For this Daily Create we were prompted to create a hyperbolic tiling. Here is mine, I hope you enjoy!

I was a little confused by this one so I used paint to help me with my daily create! here it is!

–Today’s Daily Create – Make Your Own Hyperbolic Tiling These are pretty awesome! Make your own and share, tag it tdc1285. I used the provided link and uploaded my own photo of the flower below. I played with the settings until I created a tiling I liked. Then I downloaded it to my computer, uploaded it … Continue reading Hyperbolic Tiling →

For this daily create we had to take an image and using thing hyperbolic tiling generator create our own.  I decide to that some abstract art and see what it would look like.  I think my experiment came out quite well if I do say so myself.

A cluster of blue stars fell to the earth, and landed in a boiler room. The room burst into vaper making a high pitch note as if a dog whistle was being used. The star shot back into space from the explosion like a dart going towards a dart board. As it reached its place … Continue reading A weird story about a star →

Today’s daily create was to create a story using as many new words that were just added to the Oxford

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