Weekly Agenda Two Daily Creates Video Assignments Video Path Two Pt. 2 QOTW Overview The second week of video work was relatively unproductive to me as far as digital storytelling, I was not feeling too well and had to deal with some other coursework that caught up with me. However, Haley, Rachel and I were … Continue reading Week XI

Minimalist Travel Posters Based In Movies (3 Stars) Create a minimalistic travel poster for a location in film, TV series, etc. I completed this assignment at Canva.com. I personally have been using this website for years and I am absolutely in love with it; there is so much you can do! Before I even opened … Continue reading Minimalist Travel Poster: “The Handmaid’s Tale”

Summarize A Movie With Animated GIFs (5 Stars) Use no more than 10 animated GIFs to tell the story of the movie of your choice. I completed this assignment doing typing in “handmaid’s tale gif” into the search box of Google Images for animations. For the most part, I aimlessly went through the masses of … Continue reading “The Handmaid’s Tale” in GIFs

Okie dokie – here is the finished video! Closing comments: On Lorraine Baxter I would like to believe that this project – even in sticking to the main concept we devised as a group – ties into my character’s interests and post-apocalyptic skillset as a reporter/communications savant and documentary journalist. As a shepherd, a project …

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So at this point, I have assembled footage of my dogs (which came out PERFECTLY if I do say so myself – Simon was an excellent actor, standing at attention by the front door; he’s such a good boy), and also some places on campus and around my house. I will be hitting the grocery …

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After the first week, nobody has assembled any footage to my knowledge. But we still have time and we only need to come up with like under two minutes of raw footage, so it’s pretty low stress. We are, at this point, discussing more in-depth what kinds of settings we want to include in our …

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When we first formed our group, David, Rachel and I agreed that we wanted to do a video that was structured in a way that enabled individual contributions that could easily augment each other in a more fluid, collaborative way. We decided that our video would be a montage of sorts – one that layered …

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Watch a Movie/Make a Movie For this assignment, I chose to watch the film “28 Days Later.” Supercut it – “28 Days Later” Create a supercut montage of overused dialogue, themes, motifs, filmmaking techniques, etc. for a particular character, tv show, film, and/or public figure. A supercut is a “fast-paced montage of short video clips … Continue reading Watch a Movie/Make a Movie

Six Stars of Video This week I chose two video assignments to complete. Here they are… Personal Stories (3 stars) Create a short video that, 1) shows us who you are, 2) shows us your past experiences This can be texts, pictures and possibly other videos that will be put together using all of your current social media … Continue reading Six Stars of Video

10 Apocalyptic Questions Complete the 10 Apocalyptic Questions assignment. Download the original clip in the assignment, record your answers to at least 5 of the questions, and then edit it all together. Things are crazy out there, man. Decoder rings, missing hats, dinosuars? Who knows where this will all end. Brave researcher Vanessa Locke has some questions … Continue reading 10 Apocalyptic Questions

Week Eleven WEEK ELEVEN WAS SO BUSY FOR ME! There were so many assignments due this week for DS106, all fun, but a lot to do and get finished for Monday. I enjoyed continuing with video this week. My YouTube channel is looking like something real now. With continuing the video section of our course, I … Continue reading Week Eleven

This is our final video that we did over the course of two weeks! None of us wanted to be in the video per-say so…