Moving Movie Scenes

Moving Movie Scenes

by Jack Mulrey

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March 26, 2012

This assignment was surprisingly difficult. It’s easy to think of my favorite movies, but to think of scenes that had a lasting impact is a much harder task. The ones I chose all moved me for the same reason. They … Read More →
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Video Essay

by Jack Mulrey

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March 25, 2012

I was really nervous going into this assignment, as the example we saw in class was outstanding. That said, I liked how the clip we watched focused on one element of “The Shining” rather than trying to tackle the whole … Read More →
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First Video Assignment: Return to the Silent Era

by Jack Mulrey

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March 25, 2012

This is the first movie I’ve ever made. As such, the main challenge I faced was in learning how to edit video. It didn’t start out so well. I didn’t know there was a difference between Movie Maker and Windows … Read More →
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Final Project

by Jack Mulrey

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March 24, 2012

I was a bit slow out of the gate getting this post up, but I’ve been thinking all week about how to tackle the final project. I took a databases class a couple of years ago that focused on web … Read More →
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Daily Create Recap

by Jack Mulrey

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March 18, 2012

TDC70: Gates Computers are strange devices. Perhaps unconventional, but it’s what I thought of. TDC69: 3 Hours to Live For this one I also took an unconventional approach. I know it was supposed to be a video, but I really … Read More →
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Final Pre-Production Assignment: Opening Credits

by Jack Mulrey

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March 18, 2012

For the opening credits assignment, I plan to redo the credits from Goldfinger: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9Ar18t04dg In the more simplistic style of Dr. No: Dr. No was the first Bond film, and had a smaller budget than subsequent films. The opening credits … Read More →
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More Pre-Production: Silent Film Prep

by Jack Mulrey

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March 18, 2012

This assignment is prep work for the return to the silent era video assignment. At first I thought this assignment seemed pretty simple. Then I saw Silent Star Wars. That’s going to be hard to replicate. That said, seeing the … Read More →
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Video Pre-production Part 1: Analyze a Movie

by Jack Mulrey

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March 18, 2012

When I read this assignment, I immediately thought back to high school. In English class my senior year, we devoted all of the time after the AP exam to film studies. This entailed the entire class analyzing several films, then … Read More →
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Some thoughts on the radio show thus far

by Jack Mulrey

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March 11, 2012

I’m about to start the final push for the radio show, so I figured now is a good time to talk about what the process has been like so far. We (I’m working with Brian and Chelsea) did most of … Read More →
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Imitating Weather

by Jack Mulrey

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March 2, 2012

This was my second assignment submission. The assignment is to imitate some form of weather using only your voice and things within arm’s reach of your computer (if you’re messy it makes things a lot easier). I got the idea … Read More →
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First Submitted Assignment

by Jack Mulrey

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March 1, 2012

This is the first assignment I’ve created, and it was really fun to complete. In initially I wanted to have the assignment be “write and illustrate a children’s story, then display each page in a gif,” but I decided that … Read More →
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Audio Daily Create Recap

by Jack Mulrey

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February 26, 2012

I don’t know why, but I find the audio daily creates much harder to do than the other categories. That’s not to say I don’t like them, but rather that they seem to take longer for me to do than … Read More →
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Not your car radio

by Jack Mulrey

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February 26, 2012

I listened to this radio show on Radiolab in order to get myself acquainted with the type of radio we’re dealing with in ds106. Honestly, I don’t have much experience (almost none) with this type of radio. In some ways … Read More →
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Second Audio Assignment: The Contest Nobody Could Win

by Jack Mulrey

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February 26, 2012

For my second audio assignment I decided to do the mashup/guess the songs challenge for 2 stars. This was really fun to make. I wanted some sort of theme for the mashup, so I made the clips be the first … Read More →
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First Audio Assignment: Hans Gruber’s Voicemail

by Jack Mulrey

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February 26, 2012

For my first audio assignment I chose to do Movie Voice Machines for 3 stars. At first I thought audio assignments would be simpler and less time consuming than design, but I could not have been more wrong. Turns out … Read More →
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Design Daily Creates

by Jack Mulrey

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February 23, 2012

Finally time to stop putting this off and post them: TDC42: Somewhere I used to work. It was pretty awesome. TDC41: Prized Possession TDC40: Someone else’s artwork TDC39: Dat bird angry TDC38: How old I feel…yeah TDC37: Toy in action … Read More →
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She’s not supposed to be there

by Jack Mulrey

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February 19, 2012

For my last design assignment, I did “Wait, where’d that guy come from?” for 3 stars. My cousin likes to photoshop Gaga into family photos, so I decided to take that idea and expand it to more well-known groupings. I … Read More →
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If Movie Posters Told the Truth

by Jack Mulrey

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February 19, 2012

Clint Eastwood kind of irks me. I like his old stuff, but Gran Torino was just too much. I found the original movie poster using a Google image search. I chose one that had plenty of space after Clint’s name … Read More →
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Really Reality TV

by Jack Mulrey

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February 19, 2012

Farm vs. Marriage “Planting the seed of a bad idea” The heroine, Flora Poste, always referred to as “Robert Poste’s child”, stays at Aunt Ada Doom’s isolated farm in the fictional village of Howling in Sussex. As is typical in … Read More →
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Second Design Assignment: 4 Icons

by Jack Mulrey

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February 19, 2012

I sometimes like really bad movies and books. I recognize that they are bad, but I like them anyway. This is an example of one. I found the icons at thenounproject.com and clipartfort.com. I couldn’t figure out how to copy … Read More →
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Actual First Design Assignment: Propaganda

by Jack Mulrey

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February 19, 2012

This was my first real design assignment, worth 3 stars. I’ve always liked the propaganda posters in UMW’s library, so when I saw this assignment I jumped on it. The most difficult part of completing it was probably selecting the … Read More →
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Visual Daily Create Wrapup

by Jack Mulrey

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February 14, 2012

TDC29: Something upside down TDC030: Somewhere I lose things I used to argue that it’s an organized mess but now I’m pretty sure it’s just a mess TDC31: Something memorable Class trip! Sicily is pretty awesome. TDC32: Something I aspire … Read More →
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Last Visual Assignment!

by Jack Mulrey

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February 12, 2012

I finished up my visual assignments with this 3-star animated gif. Die Hard is without a doubt my favorite Christmas movie, so I decided it was the film to use. This is a scene toward the end of the movie, … Read More →
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Visual Assignment 4: Patty Pioneers

by Jack Mulrey

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February 11, 2012

This is my first 1-star assignment, and it was really easy. I did learn a cool editing trick doing it though. I started with a picture of James Gosling, the father of Java, and then pasted an already-cropped picture of … Read More →
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Visual Assignment 3: The Fat Cat

by Jack Mulrey

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February 11, 2012

I thought I’d have a go at the fat cat challenge for my third visual assignment. It was a pretty simple 2-star project. The hardest part for me was selecting the image to modify. I wanted something dramatic. After a … Read More →
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Second Visual Assignment: Parent-child Headswap

by Jack Mulrey

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February 11, 2012

This is my second visual assignment, worth 2 stars. While it is not technically a parent-child headswap, I figured an adult-baby swap is close enough. There were two parts of this assignment that made it difficult. The first was selecting … Read More →
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Second Visual Assignment: Parent-Child Headswap

by Jack Mulrey
February 11, 2012

This is my second visual assignment, worth 2 stars. While it is not technically a parent-child headswap, I figured an adult-baby swap is close enough. There were two parts of this assignment that made it difficult. The first was selecting … Read More →
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More Daily Creates

by Jack Mulrey

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February 7, 2012

TDC25: Comforting Sound TDC26: Lazy Feet TDC27: Noisy! TDC28: 10 Second Ringtone
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Catching up on Daily Create posts part 1

by Jack Mulrey

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February 7, 2012

TDC011: Luke and Duck Tongue Twister TDC012: News Update TDC14: Funky Shadow- still not sure what was making it TDC16: Heartbreakingly Beautiful? You betcha. TDC018: Object in Motion TDC20: Blur! I like this one a lot. Car keys with a … Read More →
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Second design assignment!

by Jack Mulrey
February 4, 2012

I confess, I’m doing assignments that aren’t due tomorrow as a means of putting off those that are. At least it’s productive. In honor of one of my favorite movies:
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