This last week was great working on my final project. Luckily, I planned and was able to finish it early and before Thanksgiving break. It has been a great pleasure being a part of this class this semester. I have learned so much, have grown so much, and I have …
For my final project I have decided to fly solo and show the change of music from the 80s to today (2019) by creating a 20 to 25 minute video featuring approximately 30-40 second clips from 39 songs that I have hand selected from the various decades of the 80s …
This week was a lot of fun creating tutorials, doing remixes, and completing the mashup assignments. It really helped with my creativity. My most difficult assignment this week was an assignment called Animoji Karaoke where you sing or lip sing your favorite song using Apple’s Animoji. It was difficult because …
This assignment I did is called Animoji Karaoke where you must sing or lip sing your favorite song using Apple’s Animoji. So, I chose to do the song “All to Myself” by Dan+Shay because that is my favorite song right now. I really enjoyed doing this assignment, and it was …
The remix assignment I did is called Comic Book Effect [Remixed]: Subtle Switcheroo you must take a picture and add a comic book effect to it, and the remix part was to change something on the original assignment, but enough so it is hard for people to notice it. I …
This assignment I am doing a tutorial for is called A Snapshot of a Story where you must create a haiku of your favorite myth. The two tough items here are choosing a myth that you can sum up in a small number of syllables and words and counting syllables. …
This remix assignment I did is called A Snapshot Of A Story [Remixed]: Add A Sidekick is where you have to make a haiku about a myth, and the remix is to add a sidekick to it. Therefore, I chose to do this on goldfish because they could be a …
This assignment I did is called Storytelling Through Text where you have to create a story through texting, so I did this one with my mom. My story is quite short, but I texted back and forth with my mom to create the story, and then took a screenshot of …
This week was a lot of fun getting to do some more video assignments. My most difficult assignment this week was an assignment I did called The Recursive Camera because of all of the work I had to do with Prezi, and I don’t use Prezi that much, but it …
This assignment I did is called Text + Diagram -Into A Movie where must find an explanation of a concept and a diagram that simplifies the explanation of that concept and create a video on that. So, I decided to this on the Keto Diet because I am currently …
This assignment I did is called The Recursive Camera where you must do the following:
“You’ll need a camera. And you’ll need another frame. Hold the frame in one hand (don’t let you hand cover the side facing you), and take a picture with it in the center of the …
After looking at others project ideas and reflecting on my own, I think I would like to go with this idea:
“A story of an 80s movie, told as if it’s a video diary. So Breakfast Club, we’d choose one character, and tell the story from just that one person’s …
Video week was a lot of fun. Usually I don’t make a lot of videos, especially ones where I am in it because I am so self-conscious, but enjoyed all of the assignments this week. My favorite assignment that I did this week was an assignment called Play It Backward, …
This assignment I did is called Compilation Video! where you must pick a theme and download videos from YouTube of items in that theme and make a compilation video of that. I chose the theme of airplanes taking off, so I found approximately 9 to 10 videos and downloaded them. …
This assignment I did is called Activity Time Lapse where you must create a time lapse video of an activity. Using the time lapse feature on my iPhone I shot myself preparing dog’s dog food and giving it to him. Then, I dropped the video audio and added in some …
This assignment I did is called Play It Backward, Jack where you must take a video of something in your life and put it in reverse, so I took a video that I took of the world’s tallest rollercoaster in New Jersey called Kingda Ka when I rode it earlier …
This assignment I did is called Observe Something Grow where you must make a collage of and video of something growing older or bigger, so I the object I chose do this for is a balloon. I recorded myself blowing a balloon up, and then I used iMovie to mute …
I did my video essay on a scene from the 80s movie 9 to 5 to go along with the 80s theme and because it is one of my favorite movies. I just picked one of my favorite scenes from it. I focused on the analyzing the camera, and it …
This week was a lot of fun. I particularly enjoyed having a lighter week but also revisiting some assignments. This gave me time to reflect on everything that I have done up to this point in the semester. My favorite assignment that I re-did was an assignment called Sound Scapes …
The radio show I am reviewing is the show Tubular Tunes. Starting out, I loved the intro, it had a nice stranger things vibe. The first radio commercial was really funny, especially the part about getting it on VHS. The first segment about all of the elements that make a …
Here are the two assignments I re-did, why, and how:
Assignment 1
Original:
New:
Explanation:
This assignment is called Sound Scapes where you must create a sound piece out found sounds. I re-did this one because I really enjoyed creating it the first …
This assignment I did is called Combophoto where you must take splices of photos and put them into a single photo. I took the following two pictures below, and I put them together. However, I split the first photo into two halves before putting both photos together, so this was …
This assignment to connect the three daily creates you do this week together in a story was challenging this week because when I was doing my daily creates, I had to put a lot of thought into my responses to make sure that I would be able to connect each …
This assignment I did is called Sound Scapes where you must create a sound piece out of found sounds. For this I used GarageBand on my mac because there are a wide variety of sounds to choose from to use on there, and you can get really creative on it. …
After finishing this radio show project, and having a lot fun and great experience with it, I can’t wait to see what these later projects bring to the table. One project idea I had for the 80s theme was a life in the day of the 80s where you do …
I enjoyed the radio show project this week. The main difficulty with the project was not creating it, or putting everything together, but communicating with everyone in the group. However, my group and I pushed through and made it happen. We created, what I think to be, an awesome and …
This week has been a lot of fun collaborating with my group and creating this radio show. As I said last week, our topic was to create analyses of popular 80’s television shows. I decided to do Full House for my analysis. I started out just recording my analysis, and …
This week was a lot fun getting to work on this radio show project. It was nice to take a break from just doing a bunch of assignments to actually working on a project. My most difficult was not doing any assignments, but forming a group and getting everyone on …
For our group radio show project, my group started out thinking of doing hit songs from 80’s movies, but then we decided to switch to a different topic because of copyright issues and that sort. We ended up deciding to do analyses of 80’s TV shows. Our plan is that …
For this assignment, I created a poster for my group’s radio show project, which is called “80’s Television Half-Hour.” To create the poster I started out using an app on my laptop called SketchBook. Here, I typed up the text I wanted for the poster with some 80’s style …
