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 is 86 years old and has been suffering from …

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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 tell the story through a series of media. Its a …

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 showed what I was doing and how certain things looked. …

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 meets edward cullen video?, I just don’t enjoy creating …

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 Maker. I wanted to give the movie more of a …

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 I wanted. I then used audacity to speed on up …

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 do for Snow White, my favorite Disney princess. …

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 in my performance. I chose this song because it has some …

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– 2 stars

These couple weeks were …

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 lot of life changing effects from movies, so I’d say …

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, but they were there so I used them. As …

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 bloody scene of the movie. Also, I was able to …

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 does that tell you about these shows? I chose about …

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 converting videos to different formats as well as downloading them …

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 very convenient to find media from several social media sites …

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 myself telling the joke using audacity.  I chose a …

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 I do not like the sound of my own …

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 chipmunk’d.

3 stars…

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 Boots are Made for Walking (music videos have come …