For my fourth Assignment for my final project I chose to do an Audio Assignment worth 4 stars, totaling 15 stars. The assignment instructions were to take an existing piece of audio and use audio tools (I used Audacity) to change the sound.  The original audio I used was from a 2012 commercial of toaster …

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For my third Assignment for my final project I chose to do another Design challenge for 3 stars.  For this assignment I had to write out the name of my character, in not only a cool font, but a font that means something more than just the text. I used Paint 2 to create this …

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For this Design Assignment I had to create a word cloud that describes my character, for 4 stars.  I chose the closest shape that they had available that looked like the doughboy.  Finding words that described him was the easy part! Chubby, fluffy, giggily, fat, puffy, etc… The residents of Pillsbury are again, the nicest …

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For this Visual Assignment I created a silly movie poster using my final project character, the Pillsbury Doughboy.  I had to create a movie poster that then was transformed to silly, and then incorporate the doughboy. This was for a total of 4 stars. The horrors of Pillsbury is a horror film that is set …

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For my second assignment I had to record myself preforming my favorite hobby in my spare time.  It was 4 stars, and I decided to do it with me playing video games.  I do a lot of other things in my spare time, but video games is defiantly a big part of my spare time. …

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The first video assignment that I chose to do was 4 stars, and what I had to do was create a video that showed off my college career so far.  I chose to use just pictures that I had on phone through out the 3 years so far.  I started out by looking through all …

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For the Look, Listen, Analyze assignment I chose Kids in the Hall’s The Monkeys. The video in the playlist was blocked due to copyright of the Nerdist, so I just looked up the video under Nerdist’s channel and found it. Look My first look through was an interesting one, not anything that I thought it …

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To an untrained eye movies are just another story being told to audience.  But there is so much more behind that.  There are thousands of hours of thinking of the idea, setting up the idea, producing the idea, and executing the idea.  All of the steps are insanely difficult in their own ways, but that …

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Star: 2 1/2 stars For this assignment we had to greet the people of our “village” with a good morning expression.  I chose to keep it calm and simple.  I chose this, because I don’t see a person being too excited about saying good morning on a loud speaker every day.  This would become quite repetitive …

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Star: 2 1/2 stars Back when Friends was the best show on TV (and still playing) I was pretty young, and loved to watch the show with my parents.  Of course my parents made me cover my eyes when the intimate scenes would happen.  Ross was my 2nd favorite character besides Joey.  This was one of …

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Star: 4 stars One of my favorite songs out at this time is Redbone by Childish Gambino.  The song has many distinct characteristics about it, such as the fading in and out of his voice, and the strong instrumentals in the background.  As soon as I saw the description for this assignment I knew that I …

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Star: 3 1/2 stars My typical Sunday’s are spent praying to my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. I could of done the typical sound effects of me getting up, and brushing my teeth, showering, but that is exactly what you said not to do.  I went with a different flip of my Sunday mornings.  The …

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In Moon Graffiti, the mood is set right away.  Your stomach begins to drop, you get goosebumps, my feet began to sweat. There is a lot of background noise and back and forth communication between mission control and an astronaut named, Aldrin. The creator adds a lot of sound effects added to make this scene more …

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I really enjoyed the Dissecting Joanne Rosser, Papermaker piece. The way the audio is edited really helps with the overall story.  When done right you almost can’t tell that it is even edited at all. This relates back to Vignelli, when something is thought-up correctly, the design disappears to the eyes of the reader. In the TED …

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In Ira Glass’s videos he proclaims the do’s and don’t about story telling.  He explains that the best thing that you can do for yourself is to tell with your personality.  Use the emotions that you felt at the moment to really draw the listener into the story.  As they show in the third video, he …

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This is a Gif of David Tyree, of the New York Giants, making a nearly impossible against catch against the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XLII in 2008.  Right before the catch was made, Eli Manning made an insane escape from pressure to avoid a sack.  This catch set up the game winning touchdown, …

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“Look to the light.” – David duChemin I took this picture on my kitchen counter top.  Now I know what you are thinking… It is a master piece! I know, I was thinking the same thing.  However, back to reality… This is my favorite picture I have taken that isn’t unintentional. This picture could of turned …

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My name is Brandan Herlinger, and currently I am a rising- senior at the University of Mary Washington.  I am 21 years old, and play on the varsity soccer team. I hope you guys find out a lot about me, and like my content.

HOW WELL WOULD YOU DO IN 15 MINUTES?! The last 15 minutes was an interesting one… I was challenged to complete a photo scavenger hunt.  This test could be completed anywhere, but I chose to complete it in my house for reasons which include my laziness. Another reason I chose this location was, because I …

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