I just want to start this off by saying I am so glad I took this class. Everyone warned me that it would be hard and a LOT of work, but that the fun was worth it. This statement couldn’t be more true, and it’s exactly what I would say to anyone considering taking the ...

I made this tutorial for the ds106 Propaganda Poster project, which is a design assignment. I used the screen filming tool in QuickTime to film this; that’s a really useful thing that I’m glad I discovered. The background music is from the soundtrack of the TV show Lost. The song is called “Shambala” and it ...

Still a little bit uncertain as to what exactly I’m going to do for my final project. I’ve taken a bunch of video of my horse around the farm, and wrangled my sister into videotaping me riding him, so I have plenty of footage…the question is what I’m going to do with it. I initially ...

My remix assignments that I did this week: 1. Word remixed with Uncle Bob: Fish Word Remix (3 stars) 2. Infomercialize a Time Lapse Composite: Soccer Ball Special (5 stars) 3. Big Caption remixed with Yo Mama: Getting A Brain (3 stars) 4. Countrify a T...

So for my last remix assignment, the generator finally brought up the perfect one: a writing assignment that needed to be “countrified.” If anyone is an expert at that, it’s me! This original piece of work is from this blog. The author chose to do the “Tarantino your story” project, in which she wrote a ...

Whew, lots of video making has been going on. Here’s what I’ve done: 1. Cooking Show: Caramel Brownies (five stars) 2. One Archetype, Five Movies, Five Seconds: Five Gunslingin’ Cowboys (three stars) 3. Video Essay: The Fellowship of the Ring (five stars) 4. Return to the Silent Era: Silent Bourne Identity (five stars) 5. One ...

So again, in doing this project I think I benefited from hearing my classmates discuss their projects last week. This time I attempted the Vintage Educational Video project, and I chose to make the topic…using a microwave. This time around, though, I desaturated the footage first (turned it into black and white) and then applied ...

Now, I’m not much of a cook. My cooking expertise is pretty much limited to Top Ramen, spaghetti, and hot dogs. However, I do like to think that I can whip up some decent bakery items…so for the Cooking Show Assignment, I decided to do my favorite brownie recipe, one that I stumbled upon online ...

Woo FINALLY put together my Movie Trailer Mashup.  I literally have been thinking all week about which movies I wanted to do; I looked at a couple trailers on youtube but nothing seemed to fit together really well. Then I was working on my Archetype project, which I used a True Grit trailer for (if ...

For the One Archetype, Five Movies, Five Seconds project I chose to do the old fashioned cowboy. I love old Westerns and chose a couple of my favorites for this project. Okay, so it ended up being more than five seconds, but I couldn’t resist leaving a little more in there for effect… I really ...

The Indiana Jones movies are just classic and are definitely up there on my Top Movies list. So for the Trilogy Trailer Montage assignment I decided to do the first three Indiana Jones movies. At first I was going to include the fourth one, the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (trailer here if you haven’t ...

I’ve been working on this all week, and have just put together the audio today. Ta-da! My short analysis of the Fellowship of the Ring. I mostly talked about acting and music; while those seem like really basic aspects of a movie, in my opinion, if a movie doesn’t have those then you don’t have ...

And considering I haven’t made many videos…well, I don’t have a lot to go on. Still, this project was AMAZINGLY fun and really not too difficult! So I took this trailer for the movie The Bourne Identity and attempted to make it look like it was a silent film – see project details here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD-uQreIwEk ...

For my first video assignment, I wanted to start with a relatively easy one. This is my first time attempting any video editing, so I really wasn’t sure what to do. I muddled through iMovie, and with my professor’s help I was able to complete the 1 Second Video project. iMovie was difficult to figure ...

I love horses. (In case you hadn’t guessed by now.) So for any project that can be of my choosing, the subject will probably be horses! Professor Levine gave me some good ideas a few weeks ago; one that struck my interest was telling a story from a horse’s point of view. That made me ...

I really don’t like scary movies that much, I don’t do well with sitting in the dark being terrified…but I really like The Shining. So I would like to recreate a scene from that movie for the Make A Scene from a Horror Movie project.  While the classic scene of Jack chasing his wife throughout ...

For the Return to the Silent Era project, I would choose to do The Bourne Identity. There are some really cool hand fighting scenes in that movie, and the character is pretty quiet so I wouldn’t have to worry about a lot of dialogue. Most of the movie focuses on his confusion over who he ...

I love the whole Lord of the Rings series – both books and movies – and I really think the Fellowship of the Ring is just a beautifully made movie. This movie was the first that popped into my head when thinking of a movie to analyze.   One reason why it appeals to me ...

I have had an unbelievably busy week, so here is my slightly belated commentary on the production of our radio show. The hardest part of the show by far was figuring out what we wanted to talk about. The door was wide open on topics, but that almost made our job harder, knowing that we ...