I loved Maggie’s music video featuring clips of McNulty from The Wire with Adele’s song “Set Fire to the Rain.” I thought it was really clever since Adele’s songs are always dramatic and McNulty, himself, is a drama queen in my opinion. I loved how the emotion of the song reflected McNulty’s emotions as well, and […]

Mashup Trailers | Create a trailer out of movie clips, tv show excerpts, news sources, viral videos, or even other trailers. Consider which pieces you are combining and what the new message is. 5 stars. For my second-ever mashup experience (the… Continue Reading →

I made a music video for the song Pumped Up Kicks by Foster the People that features scenes with Omar Little from The Wire. This assignment was worth 5 stars. I found a compilation of scenes of Omar on Youtube that was originally fourteen minutes long. I downloaded it as well as downloaded the song “Pumped Up Kicks.”  Then I imported […]

Reading Movies Here is my blog post in response to the readings we did this week. You can read my Look, Listen, Analyze assignment here. Inspired This week I was inspired by Meredith and Jessica. Video Assignments For my 10 stars of video, I gave Samuel L. Jackson a chipmunk … Continue reading

I chose the scene where Avon and Stringer fight after Avon gets hurt by the drive-by. This scene was from Episode 8 of Season 3 and it’s at the end of the episode starting at roughly 52:00 until 57:15/ the end. After reading Ebert’s article, i was really interested in his idea of good vs. […]

First off, i’ve never heard of the film M, which makes me sad because it’s a masterpiece! So, i’m glad i’ve at least gotten to watch the opening scene. A problem i feared when watching this is the obvious language barrier. But, if a film is THAT good, should it be a huge difference? Since we’re […]

So for this daily create, I decided to imagine what would be on my clothesline right now if I used a clothesline.  Since there is a nice crisp in this Fall air, there would definitely be a football jersey and jeans hanging, and even thought they were just washed, they would still have grass stains […]

I found the readings this week to be really interesting and approach storytelling and the analysis of storytelling from some different angles. A big thing that I took away from the things we watched and read was that manipulation is a huge part of storytelling. Editing clips together and using … Continue reading

I chose to analyze the scene from season 3, episode 9 of The Wire where Carver and Colvin are discussing what to do about it being apparent that the body was dragged. LOOK The shots opens with the yellow police tape running across the middle of the screen. We then see … Continue reading

For today’s daily create, we had to draw a washing line. I did the usual things you would put on a clothes line except for one.

For my second inspire, I chose Meredith’s trailer for The Office. I really love how she edited clips from a comedy show into a very dramatic trailer for what could be an action movie. In some ways, it was even more humorous because it was presented in that format. I … Continue reading

For my first inspire, I chose Jessica’s video of the Emperor’s New Groove in 5 Seconds. Most things are hard to summarize in 5 seconds, but she managed to pick the right clips so that anyone can get the gist of the movie, whether or not they’ve actually seen it. … Continue reading

Today’s Daily Create – clothes line

This week I was inspired Brittany to do the “This is my Story”. I didn’t know what I was going to do for my Video Assignments but I looked at what a few people did and Brittany’s assignment really inspired me.  The one thing that I liked about her “This is my Story” was the […]

Module 2 Reflection Our goals for the Wikipedia module were to learn about Wikipedia’s history, learn about Wikipedia’s processes for adding/editing information, determine the cause of the 91% male editing dominance on Wikipedia, and to create our own Wikipedia page with information. Jessica and Emily had the great idea to…

For my third assignment of the week, I decided to do the Play it Backwards assignment, worth 2 stars. I decided to do a scene from The Wire, and I wanted to take a sad scene and make it happy. I used the shootout scene from season 2 episode 9, where the little boy is […]

One of the things that caught my attention in episode eight of the third season of The Wire was how far Pryzbylewski has come from season one. It seems as

For my first daily create for this week I decided to do the zeugma poem. I didn’t really know what this was at first so I looked at some of

For my final video assignment this week I did “This Is My Story” (3 stars). I chose this one because I have, oddly enough, always wanted to make one of these videos where I tell my story through writing even though it is on video. The hardest part was choosing a topic to talk about. […]

MOVIE READING OF FRITZ LANG’S “M” In a similar fashion, the film by Fritz Lang’s “M,” conveys certain meanings via visual cues for example black and white cinema (for me anyhow)– appears to be more intense then color, it leaves more to the imagination.    In the opening scenes of “M,” the audience is purposefully drawn …

For my second video assignment for this week I did “High School Memories” (4.5 stars). I thought this would be a fun assignment to do, especially being able to reflect on my high school years. No, they weren’t the best four years of my life but I did have a lot of fun while they […]

I decided to do the Create a Music Video assignment using clips from The Wire. I was inspired to pair clips of McNulty being McNulty with Adele’s “Set Fire to the Rain” after Freamon asked McNulty if he has to set fire to everything. I instantly thought of the song and … Continue reading

I did today’s writing daily create on writing a few zeugmas. I combined mine into one angry zeugma-packed poem of sorts. Today is production day for The Blue & Gray Press newspaper and it has been quite exhausting. I’ll just say that I was inspired for this poem. Today I’m editing articles and my life. […]

Meredith Fierro has done an excellent job in creating a silent film.  Her post give such detail on her steps that it inspires me to try to do one myself.  I love the trailer that she picked, the music, and I could not get over how authentic the black screen with the white print and […]

Here is a photo montage of my vacation to Germany and France. The background music is my favorite classical piece Canon in D Major by Pachelbel.

Hi there! I thought this assignment Return to the Silent Era (4 1/2 Stars) would be a good one to tackle! Last week in the DKC (Digital Knowledge Center) We focused on video editing. So as part of our training we get to work with different assignments in the ds106 assignment bank. Because of this, I was definitely ready for this week! […]

Here is Smooth Criminal – Michael Jackson that has the audio stripped and replaced with scary sound effects. The video itself is kind of weird and spooky looking so I decided that a scary sound effects backgournd would match up pretty well.

For my second video assignment, I decided to do the Chipmunk Style assignment [worth 2.5 stars] because it just seemed like so much fun. I decided to use the most serious show I could think of, which was of course Game of Thrones. I really love to cringe through this scene so I figured it […]

For my first assignment this week, I made a silent film trailer [worth 4.5 stars] for the first Lord of the Rings movie. I got the trailer from here on youtube. I downloaded it, and imported it into  iMovie, along with one of the songs from the soundtrack. I muted the movie clip, and added in the […]