Alzheimer’s disease is defined by the Alzheimer’s Foundation fo America (AFA) as “a progressive, degenerative disorder that attacks the brain’s nerve cells, or neurons, resulting in loss of memory, thinking and language skills, and behavioral changes.”(http://www.alzfdn.org/AboutAlzheimers/definition.html) My Grandmother has Alzheimer’s. She … Continue reading →

Tutorials Assignments Final Project For my final project I wanted to try and tell Snow White’s story through a realistic lens. I attempted to blend key aspects of the story with real life scenarios as well as creatively and successfully … Continue reading →

PSA Billboard Tutorial Colorize It Tutorial The tutorials were actually kinda fun to make. I tried to keep in mind things I wish I had known or tutorials had said about making assignments. I also wanted to incorporate photos that … Continue reading →

Movie Trailer Mashup Using Recycled Media Remix week was probably my least favorite week of the whole semester of ds106. While I think remixes are great and can lead to some awesome stuff, I mean how great was that buffy … Continue reading →

For the movie trailer mashup I was supposed to take a movie trailer and change the audio to put a new spin on it. I overlayed Al Green’s Lets Stay Together over the movie trailer for Obsessed using Windows Movie … Continue reading →

I used seven images and an audio clip to create this video. I used gimp to edit the photo of the hand over the other six images. The audio clip I edited in audacity to clip out the sections that … Continue reading →

So, on the project introduction the example used was Cinderella. I am choosing Snow White. I am choosing Snow White because after seeing the different examples used for Cinderella all these great ideas popped in to my head for what I would … Continue reading →

Lip Sync to your Favorite Song This one was painful for me to do. I recorded myself lip syncing to P!ink’s “Who Knew”.    I was super uncomfortable in front of the camera but I tried to put some pep … Continue reading →

16 Stars worth of Video Assignments: The Teenage Dream- 3 Stars Die Young in the Hunger Games- 3 Stars If you tie a lemon to a rainbow- 3 stars Scenes with an Impact- 5 stars Lip Syncing Your Favorite Song- … Continue reading →

Scenes with an Impact For this assignment I used scenes from 10 Things I Hate About You, Pretty in Pink, and My Girl. All three of these scenes/movies had a different effect/impact on my life. I really don’t have a … Continue reading →

A Word. . . A Picture. . .A Story For this assignment I I picked the first seven words that came in to my head; lemon, rainbow, tie, nose, window, if, loser. I have no idea where those words came from, … Continue reading →

Watching film with the stereo on For this assignment I chose Ke$ha’s “Die Young” to go over top the cornucopia blood bath scene of the Hunger Games. I like the juxtaposition of the up beat music with the brutal and … Continue reading →

character/genre mashup My original intent when making this video was to poke fun at the overtly sexual theme of the teen dramas on TV. I think it ended up more on the porn side than the cynical side, but what … Continue reading →

This week’s daily creates. This week’s to-do list was enjoyable to accomplish because it focused on one of my favorite things, movies. The video editing software that I have is MPEG stream clip, YTD video downloader that is capable of … Continue reading →

For the Storify It assignment I chose to retell Snow White in my own way. Skin as white as snow, hair as dark as night, and lips as red as rose and so forth and so on. Storify made it … Continue reading →

So in my attempt to make you laugh I told a joke in Spanish. I have an awful Spanish accent, so to anyone who listens to it and is a native Spanish speaker I apologize and please forgive me. I recorded … Continue reading →

For the Suess it assignment I recorded myself reading One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss. Like most Dr. Seuss books I loved the rhyming and flow of One Fish Two Fish the best. Like most people … Continue reading →

Not anymore. Using Audacity I changed the pitch on Nicki Minaj’s Super Bass to get the chipmunk sound. I chose Super Bass because I think Nicki Minaj is ridiculous  and thought it was funny how even more ridiculous she sounds … Continue reading →

Or so my Theme Verse might make you think. I love the old school girl power songs that aren’t quite as in your face as the Spice Girls but still kick ass in their own way. I used Nancy Sinatra’s These … Continue reading →