I’m sure that I’m not the only one that feels relieved that this class is finally over with. I will agree though that I have learned many interesting techniques, and will probably use all of them in the future. For my final project I decided to use Joe Pesci as my character and send him through a […]

These past two weeks were the same as the previous weeks. I enjoyed the assignments, but not the road I had to take to figure out how to complete them.  I did learn some valuable lessons in the process though. For one, Sony Vegas Pro 11 does NOT work well with Windows 8.1. I also learned […]

I cannot even begin to explain what a royal pain in the ass this project was for me. It took me a week of banging my head against the wall, viewing pre-teen’s tutorials on YouTube, and an afternoon in the Digital Knowledge Center to discover that my version of Sony Vegas while a very capable […]

If only this could really happen. Things would be a bit different for me. I would still have enlisted in the Marine Corps though. I could have made this video funny, and made jokes, but I decided to take it a bit seriously just in case some damn cosmic phenomena takes place and this actually […]

  What could be better than tracking down highlight clips of the greatest sports team in the history of the world? That team of course would be the NY Yankees. They have won 27 world championships; that’s more than any other team in any other sport. Having said that, the process was both fun and […]

  I absolutely hate it when works of art are censored for “our own good”. But I felt this assignment would be relatively easy to complete especially since it is worth 5 stars. I chose to work with a scene in the Martin Scorcese classic “Goodfellas”. In this memorable scene, Joe Pesci has the table’s […]

Breaking Bad was one of the finest series ever to grace our television screens. I could have easily made this trailer a few hours long but I have many other assignments to tackle this week. I used Wondershare to complete this assignment, and used www.savefromnet.com   to download the videos from YouTube. I clicked and dragged the clips […]

I used Wonder Share Video Editor to create my very own play by play commentary for this assignment. First, I scoured YouTube for a football video that would work well. The video I chose was of the 1986 NFC Championship game between the NY Giants and the Washington Redskins. Since I wanted to create just […]

I created this assignment because I always wanted to be a sportscaster. I thought it would be a great way to make a living. Being able to travel around and see the games, and be part of the spectacle is something that would be both fun and rewarding. This particular clip I chose to use […]

I love YouTube. I used to click around watching all the funny stuff and I still do on occasion. There are a ton of different genres on YouTube as well, everything from parody and life hacks, animation and mash-ups and so on. These genres have their own merit, and I have viewed many of them […]

  As I learned about some of the different techniques of filming in the provided links this week, I became aware of many aspects of a movie scene that I never really noticed before. The panning of the camera, the 180 degree rule, lighting, cutting, and zoom are all present in the scenes I compiled […]

According to AMCfilmsite.com, Dramas are serious, plot-driven presentations, portraying realistic characters, settings, life situations, and stories involving intense character development and interaction. Usually, they are not focused on special-effects, comedy, or action, Dramatic films are probably the largest film genre, with many subsets.  This definition completely describes the film “Good Will Hunting”. Sure, there a couple […]

As with most films, I’m sure there are many behind the scenes dealings and goings on that aren’t made readily available to the public. This is simply the nature of the business. It takes many people and many companies to produce a major motion picture, and when there is that many hands in the pot, […]

When I saw opportunity to dig into this scene, I couldn’t pass it up. “Good Will Hunting” is definitely one of my favorite films and I can overlook the fact that both Damon and Affleck are Red Sox fans and say that their Academy Award for “Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen” was very well deserved. […]

    Signatures are a funny thing. No matter what we normal, un-famous people are signing, we somehow act like we are signing the Declaration of Independence. I remember when I was a teenager in the 1980’s I wanted my signature to look professional, and “classy” if you will. So I tried to neatly and […]

  I have always been fascinated by the sinking of the Titanic. Not only was it a disaster of epic proportions, but now thanks to the movie, people have a romantic sense about it. I mean, a ton of people died on that ship and in the icy water and if you were to ask […]

http://www.pinterest.com/jeffl26/my-dream-vacation/ I have traveled across the globe for the last 20 years, but it was always in an official, work related capacity for the most part. I have always dreamed of having a month or two to just get up and go where ever I felt like being. Of course the disposable income to actually make […]

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I will be the first to admit that I am no spring chicken, that I am not your average college student, and that I am not as book smart as many of you. Having said that, I will say that I am extremely proud of the knowledge I have accumulated throughout my life outside of school thus […]

So it’s official. I am now a producer of a radio show. I love radio. I have listened to Howard Stern religiously for the past 25 years and while I never desired to get into the business, I certainly appreciate the lengths at which he goes to in order to entertain us on a daily basis. […]

I completed my 6 Daily Create’s early this time around. There was a wide variety of assignments to choose from this week as they ranged from doodling to video, to writing and photographs. My first Daily Create that I decided to take on was the “Letterhead” of tdc1002. Below you will see that I utilized a […]

After some careful deliberation with my assignment partner, Mike Black, we settled on the idea of a “Do-it-Yourself” type of program with a twist. We would bring together two people from different walks of life, and certainly different financial statuses and see how they work together. Our plan is to add a bit of a comedic […]

I know that some or even most of the submissions will be from some seriously philosophical writings and there is nothing wrong with that. I however have always absorbed knowledge better if it makes me laugh a bit while I’m learning it. I was on a long layover in Dallas/Ft. Worth a couple of years […]

I have owned a Nissan Xterra for over 7 years. It has been pretty good to me. When looking around my pile of incredibly boring reading material, I came across the old 2007 Xterra Options catalog and felt that I could certainly over dramatize something out of this! So I chose the section on off […]

I know I won’t get credit for doing another answering machine assignment, but I wanted to do another one anyway. I have always loved the Hannibal Lecter series of films, and Anthony Hopkins. Hannibal was on tv last night as I laid down for the night, and I immediately thought of this assignment. So here’s […]

I remember the days of getting home to my empty apartment and going straight to the answering machine to see if I had any messages. Sometimes I did, other times not. Sometimes they were good messages, other times they were from the ex wife digging for more money. But the answering machine became an integral […]

I’ve spent an awful lot of time in the deep south over the years, and I do miss it quite a bit. here are towns down there that simply don’t have things that most cities and towns up here have. So when some of these folks find themselves in town and they decide to “indulge” […]

Well this week was just like every other ds106 week and was fun filled and entertaining. I must say that I have a pretty impressive butt shaped imprint worked into my desk chair seat cushion. This week was about design, but it encompassed many different aspects of design and required us to use our skills in various areas. […]

This kind of baffled me. I am still not quite sure what his daily create is asking of me, but here it is. I guess I feel like just about everyone in this class would say or feel that there is a lot of work involved, and while it is fun, it can be a […]

I see the motivational posters all over the place, in corporate offices, schools, you name it. I have also seen those de-motivational posters, which by the way crack me up to no end. But the actual motivational ones can be inspiring and entertaining as well. They say you can leave the Corps, but the Corps […]