So I decided to make my final project creepy so I did Spooky Sounds which is similar to the Sound

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The full assignment is linked and is listed in its entirety below: Find or take a photo of an eye. Take another image of whatever you want, and overlay the image onto the eye. Make the image in the eye smaller so that it looks like a reflection in the person’s eye. Turning down the opacity of the […]

Another pain staking attempt to prove to myself that I am a “GIF” master. It is really proper that I did this assignment because it is currently raining. This assignment GIF The Weather, Man!! (4 stars)I almost gave up on but I continued to persevered. There is not a lot of pictures this time because I […]

For todays audio assignment (4 stars)I created a commercial for the radio. I created this for my final assignment. So far created 5 (4 star) assignments is pretty rough, but I have managed to weave a better story because of it. To start this project  by going to  Freesound and searching using the word “Beats”. I was looking […]

I this visual assignment Creating Camp Posters  (4 stars) I learned how to take poster making to the next level. This poster is special because I am created for my story. First I googled “space” pictures using google. I then took a screenshot and of the image, and opened it into iphoto so I could crop it. […]

I created my own assignment! It is the Movie Bar Code assignment in the visual section of the DS106 Assignment bank. I just wanted to make a quick tutorial because I know it seems a little daunting at first but it is really not hard when you get down to it. I’ve made one myself … Continue reading You Probably Can’t Scan This At The Supermarket

Monday Once again I’m doing the diary-format for the weekly summary. Today I watched the video for the week, did the reading by Ebert, and watched three of the videos–the draft of my post is in the works. Tuesday I tweeted out the Daily Create and made a post about it, then continued writing the … Continue reading Week 4 Weekly Summary

Reading Movies + Video Reflection Film Scene Analysis Video Assignment #1 Video Assignment #2 Daily Create #1 Daily Create #2 Daily Create #3 Daily Create #4 Although there were far fewer assignments to complete this week than any of the… Continue Reading →

I chose a movie clip entitled “The greatest movie scene ever? – Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus!” on YouTube, hoping I wouldn’t have too much to say (I know my last post was a little long for Professor Polack). Well I was wrong. For one, this video clip did not include an octopus, so that title … Continue reading I looked, I listened, I synthesized.

For 3.5 stars of my Video Assignments, I picked an assignment called What do Pets Think About? Here’s what it says to do: Your pet cat, dog, turtle, snake [fill in name of pet here] spends a lot of time with you, do you imagine what they are thinking about? Create a series of video sequences of them … Continue reading A Day in the Life of a Royal…Dog

F+or 4.5 stars, I did the Narrative Ambiance assignment, which asked us to: Take a favorite poem, inspiring quote or passage from a book (or even a movie monologue, if you like!) and record yourself reading it. Then set it to original video you’ve recorded with some kind of music or sound effect in the background. … Continue reading Eleutheromania

I was ecstatic to find that the ending to Tetsuo: The Iron Man, was in our list of options for movie scene analysis. It has long been a favorite movie of mine, I’ve always admired how such a low budget… Continue Reading →

The assignment was to take related clips from a TV Show or movie and cut them together. This seemed like a daunting task at first, searching through each episode of a tv show to find the exact clips needed. Luckily… Continue Reading →

This assignment was a bit of a difficult one, yet it was also one of my favorites from this entire course. Making a full short film from scratch takes a lot of prep and patience that I’m not sure I necessarily… Continue Reading →

Week 4 was our week to do video in DS106. I enjoyed this week just as much as audio week as I have a passion for doing video and audio. I also got to fuse those two passions together in one of the video assignments! On to week four! The reading movies assignment was helpful […]

Week 4 is complete and now we move on to the Final Project portion of the course! For this week, I learned a lot about film techniques and how much of an impact they have on a piece of work. I have always been under the impression that the work itself is the main focus and […]

This reflection proved to be my favorite assignment of the week. Being able to incorporate what we learned this week into analyzing a movie clip ourselves was very telling to how much we had learned. For this assignment, we analyzed the clip in three different ways. First: Analyze the camera work. The goal of this […]

My Aquatic Life My Favorite Thing to Do Assignment– 3.5 Stars Swimming has always been my favorite activity to partake in during free time. Throughout my swimming career I have swum competitively for CYAC Swim Team a local year round club team, which is based out of Charlottesville, Virginia, the JSL summer league team Boar’s Head, … Continue reading My Favorite Thing to Do

Reading: Angles and Cuts The first video I watched was the video on the match cut. When I researched this further I realized it was also known as a “match on action.” A match on action is an editing strategy in which a singular action is seen from multiple different points of view or angles. … Continue reading How to Read a Movie

How Deep the Rabbit Hole Goes Video Reflection on a Scene from The Matrix. Visual This “Red Pill Blue Pill” Scene from Wachowski’s The Matrix focuses on the conversation between Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) and Neo (Keanu Reeves). In the clip, Neo has become aware of the matrix, an artificial reality used to keep the human mind occupied … Continue reading Look, Listen, Analyze

Juggling: Literally and Figuratively How to Video Project– 4.5 Stars What is juggling exactly? According to the dictionary, to juggle is “to continuously toss into the air and catch (a number of objects) so as to keep at least one in the air while handling the others, typically for the entertainment of others.” While this is the … Continue reading How to Video Project

In this Daily Create, a mechanical pig is the main attraction! The assignment called for drawing a picture of a “mechanical pig” in a blue zoo. I figured you cannot get more blue than an aquarium zoo and a mechanical swimming pig!  @ds106dc #tdc1652 my mechanical pig is the main attraction in this blue zoo! #pigscanswimtoo pic.twitter.com/aswnJ8BAx7 […]

In week 4 of DS106, I learned a lot about reading,analyzing and working with videos. I really enjoyed the interaction with the class this week as well. I felt like I got to converse with more people than ever before and put more time into looking into all of the other projects and assignments other […]

For this video assignment, I got to choose a funny video clip, play it, then slow a part of it way down, like instant replay! This assignment was a total of 4 stars.  Like the monkey above, I love to laugh. My friends and family share the same sense of humor as I do, so needless to say […]

In this video assignment, the main objective was to choose 5-10 words and create a video putting images and words together! The rating for this assignment is 4 stars.  The words I chose were:  coffee, love, Chanel, glamorous, fashion, pearls I am truly a girly-girl. Most of the things I think of in my spare time have to […]

The scene I chose is from Scent of a Woman, with Al Pacino. The first part I will analyze is,  Analyzing the camera work:  For this part, the volume is on mute and I looked specifically at the camera angles and views that they used in filming this movie What I noticed straight away, is that the […]

The Cereal Killer was created and debuted in 2006 with the film “Cereal Killer.” He wears a Scary Movie mask and wields a knife and a mace & chain. He lives only to make bad jokes and kill anyone in his way. Probably anyone not in his way too. Since 2006 he has been in […]

I found Ebert’s suggestions on how to thoroughly read movies pretty fascinating. I’ve long been captivated by cinema and it was once my dream to be a screenwriter, I would often re-watch my favorite movies to exhaustion attempting to gain… Continue Reading →

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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I’m really happy with what I have created for this class so far but I am also happy that this semester is almost over! I think I have improved so much in photo editing alone because I have to do it so frequently for the daily creates and I love that. This week was a … Continue reading Week 4: Are We There Yet?