Tutorial for 800%

Tutorial for 800%

by jbrooks5

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December 11, 2015

This is a walkthrough of this assignment which requires you to slow a song down 800% too create an ethereal version. It’s important to distinguish between expanding the song (which makes the tones lower) and slowing it down. The process… Continue Reading →
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How to Make a Story Map

by jbrooks5

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December 11, 2015

The KnightLab Story Map is a fun way to tell the story of a trip in an organized manner. I used this in my final project about a wanderer to help me tell their story from their various destinations. Steps:… Continue Reading →
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They Call Me the Seeker

by jbrooks5

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December 11, 2015

Stories are nothing until they are observed. Whether they’re heard, seen, or even felt, stories are just thoughts and memories that drift until connected to others through observation. That was the role of the seeker. To observe. To search low and… Continue Reading →
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Making of “The Seeker”

by jbrooks5

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December 11, 2015

I came up with the idea for this project after seeing the Story Map assignment in the visual assignments. Thinking of a journey made me think of the song “The Seeker” by The Who, which became the primary inspiration for… Continue Reading →
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13/14 Weekly Summary

by jbrooks5

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November 29, 2015

Remix Assignment – Judge Judy Eyes Made Boring Other Remix Assignments Music Mash Up – 4 Stars Movie Poster From the Future Past – 4 Stars Daily Creates: @ds106dc #tdc1413 Technically several boxes, but the idea is the same https://t.co/TCZb60mjVk… Continue Reading →
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Movie Poster From the Future Past

by jbrooks5

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November 29, 2015

For the This Doesn’t Belong Here assignment, we had to take two scenes from two different movies and mash a picture out of them. I used one scene and technically a movie poster, but I feel the affect is the… Continue Reading →
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Music Mash Up

by jbrooks5

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November 29, 2015

For the 10 Second Song Mash Up assignment, we had to take a couple of seconds from 4 or 5 songs and mash them together in a 10 second audio clip. Here’s what I came up with: I didn’t want… Continue Reading →
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Judge Judy Eyes Made Boring

by jbrooks5

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November 29, 2015

My remix assignment was to do the GIF Me Again About My Eyes assignment and make it into a bad powerpoint presentation. I don’t know how to post a powerpoint in a blog post, so you can just download the Boring… Continue Reading →
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Week 10 Summary

by jbrooks5

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November 2, 2015

This week we learned a bit about video making and how to use camera angles, effects, and audio to make a good video. Assignments: How to (Poorly) Play Guitar – 4.5 stars Do This Every Day – 4.5 stars Write… Continue Reading →
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Do This Every Day

by jbrooks5

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November 2, 2015

For the Signing Words assignment, we had to make a video of ourselves creating a word in sign language. This is what I made: We’re supposed to let the viewer guess the word we make. I chose a word that’s… Continue Reading →
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How To (Poorly) Play Guitar

by jbrooks5

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November 2, 2015

For the 30 Second Documentary assignment, we had to make a 30 second video without commentary as a documentary of sorts. One of the suggestions on the assignment is showing what it’s like to do something you haven’t done before,… Continue Reading →
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Jack Brooks: Not Monster Slayer 2015-11-01 22:17:02

by jbrooks5

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November 1, 2015

This scene from “Good Will Hunting” extensively uses single shots while the two characters are talking. One character tends to always be on the right, the other the left. It starts and ends with the camera in front of the… Continue Reading →
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Ebert and Angles

by jbrooks5

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November 1, 2015

Roger Ebert’s points of how the angle of a shot affects the tone of a scene in a movie is illuminating. Most people watching films make no notice to the way a scene is shot, but it can have a… Continue Reading →
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Week 9 Summary

by jbrooks5

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October 26, 2015

Grumpy Desperados Show Review Digital Storyfellers Show Review Slayer Cat Shirt – Required Assignment Web Assignments: Vacation of a Lifetime (3.5 Stars) Johnny Obvious Resume (3 Stars) I found this week to actually be enjoyable. I enjoy writing reviews and it… Continue Reading →
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Vacation of a Lifetime

by jbrooks5

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October 26, 2015

I had to think of a dream vacation and create a pinterest board of it for the My Dream Vacation assignment. Here it is: Couldn’t get the widget to work properly, unfortunately. So my dream vacation would involve going to… Continue Reading →
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Johnny Obvious Resume

by jbrooks5

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October 26, 2015

Johnny Obvious This is for the Character Resume assignment. Nobody else in the world can tell you the exact situation like Johnny Obvious can. His unique skill set can benefit… somebody. Maybe. Probably. More than likely he’ll just annoy people.… Continue Reading →
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Jack Brooks: Not Monster Slayer 2015-10-26 18:08:55

by jbrooks5

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October 26, 2015

Slayer Cat Shirt For the Storytelling Within the Web assignment, I decided to juxtapose two things that you normally wouldn’t think about together. Slayer is known as one of the most brutal thrash metal bands of all time. I thought… Continue Reading →
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Digital Storyfellers Review

by jbrooks5

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October 26, 2015

The first segment of the show is well done. The speaker speaks a bit too quickly, but the pace of the segment moves along at a nice pace. The music in the beginning is a bit too loud as well.… Continue Reading →
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Grumpy Desperados Show Review

by jbrooks5

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October 25, 2015

I was assigned to review the Grumpy Desperados Radio Show. First off, the sound mixing is poor, particularly in the closing segment. The music is far too loud and made it difficult to understand the presenter. On that point, the… Continue Reading →
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Summary of Weeks Seven and Eight

by jbrooks5

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October 19, 2015

Audio Assignments: Guess the Reverse Song (3 stars) Tonight’s Ambiance (3.5 stars) Required Radio Show Assignments: Where We Challenge the Truth Brooks and Brooks Consulting Daily Creates Our group started the weeks off pretty well. We quickly decided on a… Continue Reading →
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Daily Creates Weeks 7 and 8

by jbrooks5

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October 19, 2015

Here are the daily creates I did for the two weeks: @ds106dc #tdc1367 Migrating for the winter https://t.co/D6yqWvrdYh — Jack E. Brooks (@Jbrooks5E) October 20, 2015 @ds106dc #tdc1368 If it's really important to her, she wouldn't have lost it. Sometimes… Continue Reading →
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Guess the Obscure Reverse Song

by jbrooks5

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October 19, 2015

This is a Reverse Song Quiz. Can you guess what it is? This should be a pretty big challenge for most people, since I don’t know anybody personally that has even heard of this artist. Of course, if you’ve read… Continue Reading →
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Brooks and Brooks Consulting

by jbrooks5

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October 19, 2015

For the Radio Commercial assignment, we had to make a commercial we would put in a break in our radio show. This is what I came up with: I based it off a bunch of lawyer firm commercials I had… Continue Reading →
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Where We Challenge the Truth

by jbrooks5

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October 19, 2015

This assignment had us make a radio bumper for our groups radio show, where we had to inform the listener of what they were actually listening to. I tried to make it clear that our show is a little bit… Continue Reading →
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Tonight’s Ambiance

by jbrooks5

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October 19, 2015

For this assignment, we just had to take a song and slow it down so you just get the basic sounds of the song and make it sound ethereal. The song I chose I had just heard for the first… Continue Reading →
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Week 6 Summary – Design

by jbrooks5

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October 5, 2015

The Design Safari was a fun and interesting challenge. It was cool to look at the intricacies in the logos and ads we see everyday. I didn’t get around to taking as many photos as I wanted, but I’m still… Continue Reading →
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Week 6 Daily Creates

by jbrooks5

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October 5, 2015

@ds106dc #tdc1362 https://t.co/WSBSd5cRN5 — Jack E. Brooks (@Jbrooks5E) October 2, 2015 For this we had to take a picture that showed the changing of the seasons. It was pretty cold that day so I just took a picture of the… Continue Reading →
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Holding Back Tears

by jbrooks5

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October 5, 2015

“Two lovers met at a patio in the city. He had a big surprise for her. With Michael Jordan setting the mood with his keen guitar playing, he proposed to her. She didn’t have to hesitate in her answer. They… Continue Reading →
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You Know It’s Me

by jbrooks5

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October 5, 2015

I realized I actually accomplished more than 12 stars worth of assignments doing just 4, so for the fifth I went with something incredibly easy. Design a License Plate just has you use any kind of license plate creator online… Continue Reading →
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Dream Within a Dream

by jbrooks5

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October 5, 2015

Inception is a fun thriller movie involving dreams. And dreams within dream. And dreams within dreams within dream. You get the point For the Minimalist movie poster assignment, it took me a while to think of a movie that could… Continue Reading →
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