Well the Class is almost over and this is the last thing that I need to do for this semester. I’t been an interesting class, wasn’t what I was expecting at first but it definitely grew on me. It’s going to be weird to not open up photoshop or Audacity every other day but life moves on. and I sure have created some pretty impressive works… well it impressed me. I’m sure most people can do better but this was my first time working with most of these programs. The Final Project, this was both a pain and a pleasure. I had a lot of fun doing it because I got to … Continue reading →

Alan’s students where asked to simply submit 2 assignment ideas to the daily create page my 2 ideas where Take a picture of something then comp it up and bit it back together in a different order. this is a fun little thing to do, I got this Idea from a picture which I guess the file got corrupted because part of the picture was flipped. My second idea was to make a video which told an odd story behind something in your house. we all have those things which we can simply say “I got that on Vacation” but this was more meant to get stories which you wouldn’t normally associate with the item.

the WIRED Feature – What’s Inside You? assignment is actually quite simple despite the 4 star rating. The most difficult part was figuring out What’s Inside Me? Even this can be quite simple if you ask yourself the right questions. I used this assignment to create character profiles for my final project. Getting Started First thing I suggest doing is open up your favorite word processor program and type “What’s in Me?” This is the fundamental question for this assignment Now we need to come up with 5+ words which represent us, these will usually be nouns or adjectives. Think about extracurricular activities you are involved in (Music, Sports, Art), Courses you Enjoy (Math, Science, History), … Continue reading →

At my house we are currently in the middle of a move, so this means going through all the millions of boxes of your family’s stuff and deciding what stays and what goes. While rummaging through these boxes I came across my sisters old cell phone… a brick of a phone if I ever saw one and it made me think about how this thing come to be the slim things we have today. Thus we have Product Evolution, an assignment where you make a YouTube video showing the progression of technology through the ages. There where already these types of videos  out there, and plenty on computers and cell phones.  So … Continue reading →

This is an assignment I did way back but Alan had suggested I use my version of it as a assignment submissions so I created Text Impersonations, where you took a text based conversation and impersonate their voices. The process of making the conversation was quite simple. I recorded my voice reading the messages, as close as possible to what I wanted them to sound like, and changed the pitch, speed, and frequency of each clip. I knew the person who posted the Status though most of the people who commented I had no idea who they were so I had to get creative with the way their text conveyed into sound. The two people with … Continue reading →

Remix is the only art, call it what you want but you were “Inspired” by someone else’s work. This week we delved into the art of Remixing but I guess first we should answer What is a Remix? So you got what a Remix is? Good! lets delve straight into the remix work we did for this week. The Remix feature or The Assignment Repository is quite interesting… though some of the  combinations just don’t work out so well… I guess that’s the point. We also did some Mashup work. we were to complete 7 stars and here’s mine Movie Trailer Mashup- 4 Stars Recycled Material- 3 Stars It was actually quite … Continue reading →

Remix, Everything is a Remix. That an interesting concept, It’s something I enjoy because I have definently notices a trend in movies these days. it’s either a Remake of an older movie, an adaptation of a book (or god forbid a video game), but sometimes a remix is a good idea. I definently remember a video we watched early on in the semester, Where Good Ideas Come From, which expressed this idea about combining (Mashup) and reusing (Remix) ideas to create bigger and better things. A Remix is something which uses whats already out there to make something new. one thing I really appreciated about this is when they talked about most great … Continue reading →

A mash-up of movies, for this assignment we were to take 2 movie trailers and use the audio from one and the video from another to create a new a different story or feel. For this assignment I took two movies which I look forward to seeing, The Great Gatsby and The Collection. It was actually quite a simple process, these two trailers where particularly well suited for each other because both started with a sort of club type party intro which now go horribly wrong as the Great Gatsby has killed his party goer and takes a girl hostage to be his love slave. as one man who has escaped Gatsby’s clutches goes in search of Mr. … Continue reading →

Recycling is a wonderful thing, why let those unused clips and pics rot in a media land fill when we can rework and reuse them? For this assignment we took a look in the recycling bin and made a video story using those items. Winter Is Coming is a ...

It’s nearing a close and we have learned a lot and made a lot of cool creations using tons of mediums. now it’s time to put our training to the test and unleash the stories within in the Final Project. To get a fully intricate final project I had to really think about what is the greatest form of storytelling I could think of. To no surprise to myself I wound up thinking only of Dungeons and Dragons (D&D). For those who do not know much about the original RPG after my project is complete you will have a great understanding of the Worlds of D&D and the people who live in them. … Continue reading →

2 weeks of video and all I can say is video editing is ROUGH, though I think I say that every time I start a new section in this class so what can I really say. I played around with Adobe Premier these past few weeks and though i have far from mastered...

Return to the silent era, where instead of dialog you had a pianist playing in the theater. For this I chose Magic Mike, My female  friends have recently watched this movie and advised it as an option. I found some old time silent movie music on ...

Supercuts are a serious of clips which highlight a sertain aspect/clique/theme/line which is overused or just frequently implemented in a piece of media. For my supercut I chose True Bloods Ginger. For those of you who have never seen True Blood, I ...

In honor of Firefly’s 10th Anniversary of it’s cancellation I decided to do a tribute assignment to them in the Genre/Song Mash up. in this we were to take clips from varies TV shows/movies that exhibit a similar aspect and set it to a popular song of today. For Mine I chose Alligator Sky by Owl City and did a science fiction style spaceship motief featuring shots of Serenity, the space ship from Firefly. I thought the song lined up perfectly with the shots, and I tried to capture the emotional bond between Captain Reynolds and Serenity. Clips include many shots from star wars, star trek, Firefly and others. I hope you enjoy your flight, ad … Continue reading →

Video editing is something that I have no experience with but It should be fun getting to know the new programs that we have at our disposal. I have Windows Movie Maker as well as Adobe’s Premier though I have Never even opened either of these programs on my computer before this week. so here is the work we did this week 3 take movie Assignments for next week I’m sorry for the lightness of this weeks submission, with the storm as well as cleaning up after her and having to start packing up my house for a move and studying for 2 tests and 2 major projects it was a busy week … Continue reading →

Ok so instead of diving right in  we are going to take things slow for this section, which i appreciate because I’m not very familiar with video editing at all. So Lets start with pre production Play by Play A common theme for a lot of videos on youtube already. watch a video of anyone playing a videogame or anything sports related you will hear this sort of commentary. For this I kind of want to use a video I have recorded of a fire poi performance (I used a frame from it in a daily create) and record my own commentary of the event. and maybe add some funny sound effects for it from … Continue reading →

Well not in pieces… (spoiler) …Yet. This week we were asked to take a scene from a famous movie and analyse it in 3 different steps. Visual Only. So turn down the volume and enjoy the visuals. In this clip they switched camera views like 20 times in the first 2 mins of the clip, It was a little absurd and was starting to make me dizzy. I thought the “Graphic Novel” style of lighting, because the movie was based off of a graphic novel,  was interesting. When there is an Obvious “Silent” part where they pan into the different sects of people in the society in really makes you think… what about I … Continue reading →

Our Radio Shows went live this week, I hope everyone had a great experience with it. I learned a lot about the power of using quality software and equipment in the process of not just audio but any of these assignments we do. I noticed that I produced a more creative and fine tuned product after I started playing around with the Adobe programs, granted they are not as user friendly (or at least not towards me) but with the appropriate amount of toying around with it you can get the hang of it. We were asked to critique a fellow DS106ers radio show as well as our own this … Continue reading →

When Super Digit made it to the very bottom of the pot he heard a strange noise… yet this noise was familiar to him in a way… then it hit him. Placed on the bottom of the pot directly underneath the center of the Island was a Heat sensitive BOMB which would explode if the temperature of the soup reached a certain critical temp. The soup had already started to bubble it was only a matter of time before the soup started to boil vigorously and trigger the bomb. Super Digit used his Super Powers to freeze the bomb and permanently destroy all of the vile systems held in the explosive. When He returned to the island the inhabitants were rejoiced at the cessation of the bubbling … Continue reading →

The Autumnal Show. The stories of autumn, the vocals are sort of muffled in the beginning …and it’s hard to understand her. But I like the background fire noise and soft music. Though she becomes clearer when she reads the movie? I thought that’s what she said. I thought it was cute how they mashed up clips from The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown as well as Tigger from Winnie the Pooh (it auto corrected Tiger to Tigger for me). The audio sounded like it was being recorded from the speakers instead of working with the original audio and often got really soft for no apparent reason to me and the whole first … Continue reading →

Audio ‘week’ a time when we cast away our eyes and rely on our ears. This week for me was yet again another week of learning and playing with new software, this time Adobe Audition. It was weird getting use to… and I think the biggest learning process was learning what I could and could not do with it. I can’t dissect the entire audio file to leave only the music or only the vocals with the other completely intact and unaltered because the sounds have already been merged. it’s like photoshop when you are creating the you have the different layers but once you are done with photoshop it flattens it to one single … Continue reading →