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As a primary source for the 90s, Saving Private Ryan works very well. The movie was made and released at a time when the World War II was being discussed and remembered after the 50th anniversary of D-Day a few years earlier reminded people that not many WWII …
The true historical accuracy of the film lies not in the greater story, but in the details, given that the film was loosely based on a real incident and never claimed to tell a true story. When it comes to the story, the movie is based on the story of …
The film Saving Private Ryan was released in 1998 from director Steven Spielberg and starred a large handful of big names in Hollywood including, Tom Hanks, Edward Burns, Matt Damon, and Tom Sizemore. The movie is based on a true story from WWII about four brothers who joined the armed …
Arkin, Daniel. “Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks on the Legacy of ‘Saving Private Ryan’ The Oscar-winning director and star look back on the seminal, kinetic World War II drama.” NBC News, May 31, 2019.
Auster, Albert. “Saving Private Ryan and American Triumphalism.” Journal of Popular Film & Television 30, 2 …
As this semester comes closer and closer to ending I have to start thinking about what in History interests me the most looking ahead. Thinking about my past assignments and what I enjoy I honestly cannot say that there is not a singular thing that I like more than others, …
So the prompt is to pick my favorite methodology or historiographical school and talk about it and how it fits in history and so on. I honestly don’t know how to answer that question though, I like the study of history on its own and I don’t have a favorite …
So the topic this time around is to discuss how digital tools are beneficial to the professional world, naturally being a history class of history majors the focus being more on the historical profession than anything else. I had to look up the definition for digital tools to make sure …
In order to build an archive you have to have some kind of power, this is not saying you have to be a politician or a monarch in order to decide all of what is remembered in history, an archive can be considered whatever is saved in order to make …
When I was in high school, I thought I wanted to be a marine biologist, it was something that had always seemed fun and exciting to me. I had always been interested in History, however, I was one of those strange kids that liked history and science rather than history …
My last blog post was my final project telling the story of Mickey Mouse using some digital and some written techniques.
DS Phase 1:
The first digital storytelling technique that appears in my post is my timeline of Mickeys life.
I went on canva and started with …
For my final project I decided to tell the story of Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse using the new knowledge I learned about digital storytelling, some online resources, and my own knowledge of the Mouse himself. I will be telling my story through a combined use of written word, photography, video …
So this week has been rough….
I started with a normal week, trying to get all the assignments done and going to work like normal. The first half of the week was relatively easy, the second half was not so much. I had trouble finding a good video making software …
My last visual assignment was the three and a half star “It’s Vacation Time” assignment, which was honestly my favorite. As much as I said I liked the dog assignment this one tops it.
The montage in this video was supposed to be made up of pictures of my favorite …
The next assignment I did was the four star “Where do you want to go?”. The directions were to make a montage of pictures or videos of places that I would like to go on vacation and put it to music.
In order to do this I had to …
I really do love dogs, they are always so happy and sweet and most of them are gentle as well, not to mention all the love that they hold for just you and your family. Because of that, my next video assignment is all about dogs.
My next assignment, …
The first of my video assignments this week is my assignment that relates to the nursery rhyme from the question of the week. I chose the song “do you know the muffin man” I thought that would be a good one to be able to change the mood of.
So far this week we have started to learn about videos and movies and how to edit them, we have not technically learned how to make them, but there was some stuff on camera angles and filming techniques.
The first assignment was to read the article “How to …
This half of the week required two daily creates, coincidentally, both required an aura of beauty.
The first one was about trees, we were supposed to find a tree and talk about it. By the time I was able to sit down and work on my assignment it was a …
Part two of this half of the week was to watch some videos about some stuff about working on movies, things such as camera angles and editing techniques.
I chose four of the videos to watch, the first was “Examples of Editing Techniques”.
I found this one really interesting because …
Last week we did audio, the weeks before we did design, looks like now we are doing video and movies.
Jumping right on in, step one was to read and reflect upon/think about Robert Ebert’s “How to Read A Movie”, which is exactly what I did. I thought Ebert’s …
This week was extremely hard, I felt that there was a lot to do in a short amount of time, especially this second half of the week, my full time job also started this week so I had to learn how to budget my time a little better. Lucky for …
So the final assignment I tackled this week was the assignment to create an audio story of our alternate history assignment from last week. When I was working on this and finding my sound effects I decided to just tell the story through sound effects because when I tried recording …
For my next three stars I put together the sound from hell. I used freesound.org and searched up some of the sounds I hate the most then layered them on top of each other.
The first sound in the layer is the screeching of a train stopping on the …
To help myself along in making the twelve stars of progress , I chose to do the Collection of favorite sounds.
I started off with fresounds.com and started to search for and find some noises that I found pleasurable to the ear. I narrowed it down to five different noises.…
To get to my five design stars I chose to design a t-shirt, and once again I used my spirit animal, Winnie the Pooh.
Another one of my favorite quotes from him is not one that is very well known and I do not actually know where it is …
So in addition to the twelve audio stars, daily creates, and participation, I also had to do five stars of design work, just to keep my skills sharp.
I chose the Favorite Movie Quotes for two and a half stars and I used my favorite quote ever from Poohs Grand …
Part One of this weeks assignments is to complete 12 stars of audio assignments, two of which have been chosen for us. I chose to do the sound effects story first and decided my story would be about going to the movies. I used audacity and freesounds.com to do so …
So once again the daily creates this half of the week require a fair amount of creativity.
Friday, June Eighth
I chose to do Fridays daily create which was to write out your name in tifnagh characters. At first I read the assignment and completely skipped over the part where …
Overview:
So throughout the week, besides the daily creates, I had to do a crash course in using audio in digital storytelling. I downloaded the Audacity Program and spent some time confusing myself about whether or not the LAME plugin for Audacity was downloaded and installed correctly. Then of course …
