This interview was conducted on the BCD Show.
George James (Host): It is my pleasure to introduce you to Henry Armand and Katrina Williams, the producers and writers of After the Ball. (applause)
GJ: Henry, Katrina, your short film just came out about a week ago now. What was your …
What you have been waiting for is finally here! Final projects, Baby! Well… sort of. This week is all about prepping for the final project. Planning out the piece and starting work. Let me walk you through my idea.
Script
For my project, I chose to take one of my …
Mashups and Remixes (Do you know the difference? Neither do I). This week was a lot of fun. I think I spent most of my time on audio and video work (rather than earlier exercises to rework) because I had worked on that the most recently. Thrown in a couple …
Okay, I can’t seem to stop working with projects like this. I love them too much. I remixed my Music Video assignment, but this time I tried to make it humorous, rather than serious. For this, I chose to use the song “Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh,” which I …
This music video was one of my favorites to create. The powerful song paired with the two videos I chose almost made me cry every time I watched it during production. This work is based on a remix of the “Audio and Music Video Mashup” using the remix card “In …
If you’re like me, you like watching your favorite scenes from movies over and over again. Thus, when I saw the prompt “Favorite Movie Clip,” I was really excited to find all of my favorite scenes from Home and compile them into one epic mashup. The challenge specifically …
Have you ever noticed that Disney seems to have at least one striving-for/dreaming-of/wishing-for something song in every musical movie or TV show? I was recently listening through a bunch of this kind of song and realized how many there were. To illustrate this, I created a mashup of some of …
Well, we’ve reached the end of video week part 2, and what a week it has been. From Daily Creates to Random Word Stories, this week has been exciting. The video editing projects weren’t all Disney this time, but I still loved working on them. Let me break it down …
Well, we have gotten this far through the year. Time to start thinking about final projects. Okay, ideas… ideas… please tell me we have ideas… Well, time to hit the drawing board again. What kind of project would I want to do for a final project? Here are a couple …
Have you ever found a song that just makes you think of a particular character? For me, it was the song “Truth Be Told” by Matthew West and Evan Hansen from Dear Evan Hansen. There was something about the message from the song that seemed to fit with the character. …
Okay, please tell me you’ve been there too. You are watching a movie (action, romance, comedy) and there are two characters that you can’t help shipping together. Only… things don’t end up quite as well as you had hoped. For me, the pair was Ben and Rey from the new …
I feel like I say this every week, but this week was one of my favorites. With a focus on video editing, as well as a chance to return to the assignment bank, this week was filled with activities and creativity. Let me break it down for you.
How many times have you watched a movie and only cared about the actors? When it comes to the director and producer part of the credits, you start speeding ahead to see if there is an after scene. Well, you might want to think about that for a second. The …
A couple of weeks ago, I created a commercial for my radio show. I specifically wanted it to be funny (more than I wanted it to be a ‘buy me now’ commercial). This week, one of the assignment bank options that I picked was “Create A Commercial.” I …
Have you ever been browsing the internet shortly after a new film or TV show was released and struggled to avoid spoilers? Well… I’m not helping that problem. In fact, I’m making it worse. I chose an assignment called “Spoil a Movie in 30 seconds or less” and …
I apparently can’t get enough of this Disney mashup project. For those of you who have been reading my blog, you’ll remember that I redid my Disney mashup from several weeks earlier. This week, for the assignment “Sound to Visual,” I put my mashup to video. The original …
I’m honestly not sure where to start with discussing this week. From listening to my show air on DS106 Radio to remixing a couple of my past assignment bank work, this week has been a blast. Let me break it down for you:
On Monday night, I got …
I’ll warn you now, this assignment is a weird one. It started as a remix assignment. I browsed through my past work and decided to re-do the Catchphrase Assignment. I wasn’t sure how I wanted to change it so I hit the Remix button a couple of times until I …
If you are like me (and indeed, most of the United States) you probably grew up watching Disney. Movies, TV shows, books, music, my childhood would look very different without them. A couple of weeks ago, I created a mashup of some Disney songs into a strange, crazy collection. Yet, …
You’ve all probably heard of Snapchat stories (or even YouTube stories). Let me introduce you to a new one: Twitter Tales (using Daily Creates). The idea is to integrate the Daily Creates into the story so that they become part of the story. Here’s an example:
Today has been rough. …
A central portion of my work on this blog has been loosely connected to the theme “What’s (Y)our story?” But, how does my story affect others? What makes it meaningful to you as my audience? And how do I tell it in a way that it will affect others?
I …
Just when I thought my radio show was amazing, the creators of Un-University proved me wrong. Let me start at the beginning:
On Monday, my show “Remember When” aired on DS106 Radio. It was the first show of the evening. Honestly, it was kind of exhilarating and terrifying at the …
OUR RADIO SHOW IS LIVE, BABY! Wow, what a week it has been. As of this time last week, I was unsure how editing was going to go and if everything would fit into one show. I figured out the former and was right about the latter. Let me just …
Every good show begins with a lot of prep. This week was primarily focused on prepping for our radio show next week. Daily Creates, audio and design work, group discussions, this week had a little bit of everything. Let me break it down for you.
Daily Creates
This week, I …
Event posters, remember when those were a thing? I remember sitting every week waiting for my music lesson staring at the bulletin board and all the event posters. It only seems right that I create one for our upcoming radio show.
When I was first creating this poster, I decided …
Commercials. Blegh. When they interrupt a perfectly good radio show, I always get annoyed. They are boring, repetitive, and I usually don’t care about the product. When we were tasked with creating a commercial for our radio show (“Make Your Own Radio Commercial!” prompt), I decided to try …
Have you ever listened to a radio interview? The host usually asks the guests a couple of questions about what they like and their project/whatever they are on the show for (i.e. a new book, a movie, a song, etc.) However, how often do you hear the hosts being interviewed? …
With a focus on design, this week surprised me. Who knew how much work was put into a simple book cover or a movie title scene. I also got the chance to experiment with some common design examples, such as book covers and t-shirts. But let’s not spoil it all …
Have you ever seen a missing person’s poster? I remember sitting in Walmart as a kid, looking up at all the missing kid posters and wondering what had happened to them. During this week of design, a different thought has come to mind. What if I created a similar poster …
