Creating the Story of Ella Maguire

Creating the Story of Ella Maguire

by @MaddieM02790291

| ds106, Syndicated, WeeklySummary
December 5, 2018

At first, I was kind of nervous about this final project, but it ended up being really fun!! I decided that one of the best ways to depict Ella’s story was to look at her friends and the people she surrounds herself with. I thought an all-inclusive video could be the big, cumulative piece. I …
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The Story of Ella Maguire

by @MaddieM02790291

| ds106, FINAL, finalproject, Syndicated
December 5, 2018

Many myths describe why something is true today. They give context from the past to explain the present. To explain Ella Maguire’s current situation, we are going to look at her recent past. Ella is at a transitional point in her life, so it makes sense to look at what has made her who she …
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Looking Back to Look Forward

by @MaddieM02790291

| ds106, Syndicated, WeeklySummary
November 28, 2018

Many times myths are meant to explain why and how something is today by telling a story from the past. The past is a crucial element of both myths and legends. They are stories from the past that have importance to the present day. To build the Legend of Ella Maguire, I have to pay …
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Dear Future Roommate

by @MaddieM02790291

| ds106, Syndicated
November 26, 2018

Dear Future Roommate, I hope we get along. I hope you like me, and I like you. I hope that we can not only live together peacefully and comfortably but also become friends. I hope that we can stay up some nights and talk for hours. I hope you are someone I am happy to …
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Best of Mashups and Remixes

by @MaddieM02790291

| ds106, Syndicated, thisweekinds106
November 19, 2018

There was a lot of good work this week! People have obviously learned a lot about all of the different forms of media we have been exposed to this semester! It was a tough choice to choose our five favorites! The first one is Thats so Proud. It was a very creative idea and was …
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Mashing Things Up

by @MaddieM02790291

| ds106, Syndicated, WeeklySummary
November 15, 2018

This was a fun week! Some of the assignments were really fun, and I felt like I was able to really tap into my creativity in a different way with many of the assignments! Some of them helped me to think about things in a different way. First, my Daily Creates! For my first Daily …
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Quote it! (Backwards)

by @MaddieM02790291

| designassignments, DesignAssignments1974, ds106, Syndicated
November 15, 2018

For my second remix assignment, I decided to remix the Favorite Movie Quote Assignment. The remix task I received was to reverse the assignment, so I decided to reverse the quote and write it backwards. It sounds kind of cool, but does not makes sense, backwards. I decided to keep with the Eat, Pray, Love …
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Oh, the Places I (Hope) to Go

by @MaddieM02790291

| ds106, Syndicated, visualassignments, visualassignments2109
November 15, 2018

For my first Remix Assignment, I decided to take it back to Visual Assignments, and remix the Places of Peace Assignment. My task was to include a Dr. Seuss character in my creation. I first thought about my places of peace, and they involved travel (except doing yoga with my dog nearby!), so I thought …
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My Brother is an Emoji!

by @MaddieM02790291

| #MashupAssignments, ds106, MashupAssignments1506, Syndicated
November 15, 2018

I thought the Mashing Friends and Emojis Assignment (4 stars) would be a fun final assignment for this section! I looked through my camera roll to find a good picture to mashup with an emoji, and I found this picture of my brother! I thought he looked like the “cool” sunglasses emoji that my dad …
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Tutorial for My Favorite Assignment

by @MaddieM02790291

| #MashupAssignments, ds106, MashupTutorials2295, Syndicated
November 15, 2018

I decided to create my first tutorial for my favorite assignment, the Your Life IS A Movie! assignment. It was a fun but complicated assignment! First, I decided on which trailer I wanted to use to create the video. I ultimately decided to use Eat, Pray, Love’s trailer because I wanted to use clips I …
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Eat, Pray, Travel

by @MaddieM02790291

| #MashupAssignments, ds106, MashupAssignments2295, Syndicated
November 15, 2018

The Your Life IS A Movie (3 stars) is my favorite assignment so far!!! I thoroughly enjoyed it; it also, unsurprisingly, took me a long time… I will always be grateful for the amount of footage I got abroad and in NYC; it has made so many of these assignments much easier. I was initially …
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I’m Scared….

by @MaddieM02790291

| ds106, Mashup Assignments, MashupAssignments1871, Syndicated
November 12, 2018

For my second assignment, I decided to do the Two Movies, One Line Assignment (3.5 stars). This was a fun and easy assignment! I really enjoyed creating it! As soon as I saw the assignment, I knew that I wanted to use horror movies! I decided to use the clip from The Shining where Danny …
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Looking Back

by @MaddieM02790291

| #MashupAssignments, ds106, MashupAssignments1864, Syndicated
November 12, 2018

For the Mash Thyself, Before Ye Trash Thyself Assignment (3.5 stars), I decided to create a video that included many of my Daily Creates and design pieces! I decided that I had to use Pitbull’s Greenlight for the background because I have used the song for several of my other assignments. It was fun looking …
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Video Part 2!

by @MaddieM02790291

| ds106, Syndicated, WeeklySummary
November 9, 2018

This week was pretty good. The hardest part was finding a way to get enough stars using my character! The further we go along, the harder it is to find new and exciting ways to use my character. It is hard to commit to the same storyline, and also keep it interesting and follow the …
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Ella’s Favorite Things

by @MaddieM02790291

| ds106, Syndicated, VideoAssignments, VideoAssignments2304
November 9, 2018

For my final assignment, I decided to do the Of Most Importance! Assignment (3 stars) for my character, Ella. I thought it would be fun to come up with some of her favorite things! At first, I thought of her magic/ witchcraft- of course! Then, I thought about her mother, who is the most important …
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My First (and Probably Last) Lyric Video

by @MaddieM02790291

| ds106, Syndicated, VideoAssignments, videoassignments1498
November 5, 2018

I am finally done!!! This lyric video for the Create a Lyric Video Assignment (4.5 stars) took forever….. I will never again say how easy it looks to make a lyric video!! It is a lot of tedious work…. I decided to do this assignment because it looked easy and fun (that’s what I thought …
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Meet Susan Cooper

by @MaddieM02790291

| ds106, Syndicated, VideoAssignments, VideoAssignments1542
November 5, 2018

When I saw the Character Description Assignment (3 stars), I knew I wanted to do it because I wanted to work with my favorite character from my favorite movie, Susan Cooper from Spy!! Last week, I did my Video Essay for a scene from Spy, but this week, I got to create a video dedicated to …
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Ella Maguire’s Health Elixir

by @MaddieM02790291

| #VideoAssignments2032, ds106, Syndicated, VideoAssignments
November 5, 2018

I was inspired by my own sickness to do the 2 Minute Silent Documentary Assignment (4 stars) first. Ella Maguire has come down with a cold, like many of us this time of year! Lucky for Ella, she can create a simple elixir to heal her symptoms and cold. Not just anyone could follow the …
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Mountain Dew- Eat Fresh??

by @MaddieM02790291

| #MashupAssignments, ds106, MashupAssignments2379, Syndicated
October 31, 2018

This picture looks kind of mixed up- probably because it was created (early!) for Mashup week as an example for the assignment I created. I created this mixed up ad for the Logo Switch Up Assignment (2 stars). To create this ad, I took a Subway ad and thought about logos that look similar. Then, …
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Roll the Tape!

by @MaddieM02790291

| ds106, Syndicated, WeeklySummary
October 31, 2018

This was a fun week! I was not quite sure about the video essay, but even that was fun! Cinema and videography have always been art forms that I have admired, so it was cool getting some actual technical knowledge about how they are created. For my first assignment, I got to look back on …
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Spy!!!

by @MaddieM02790291

| ds106, Syndicated, videoessay
October 31, 2018

Once again, I was pretty nervous about the video essay when I first saw it… I was nervous about finding footage on YouTube, let alone downloading it somehow! As I started to read Roger Ebert’s How the Read a Movie and watch the clips, I started to at least understand what I was supposed to do. It was …
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Worth It

by @MaddieM02790291

| ds106, Syndicated, VideoAssignments, VideoAssignments1925
October 31, 2018

For my final assignment this week, I decided to make another stop motion video for the #SixSecondArt Assignment (2 stars). Six seconds of a stop motion video is a lot more than six pictures! I decided for my second stop motion video and for this assignment to use a quote. A quote was mentioned in …
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Wanderlust

by @MaddieM02790291

| ds106, Syndicated, VideoAssignments, VideoAssignments2030
October 29, 2018

I had an incredible Sunday spent exploring Belle Isle and Richmond in general. My friend offered to take my other friend and I on a surprise adventure on Sunday- we did not even know we were going to Richmond! I decided this would be a great opportunity to film my feet for the Where Do …
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Guess the Word!

by @MaddieM02790291

| ds106, Syndicated, VideoAssignments, VideoAssignments1737
October 27, 2018

For my fourth assignment, I did the Signing Words Assignment (1 star). I took Sign Language in high school and was in ASL Club. I actually signed the National Anthem at my high school graduation, so I love ASL. I thought this was a fun and easy assignment. I just recorded myself signing the word …
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STOP! Motion

by @MaddieM02790291

| ds106, Syndicated, VideoAssignments, VideoAssignments2238
October 27, 2018

For my third assignment, I decided to try something I had been wanting to try for a while- Stop Motion!- with the Stop Motion Assignment (3 stars). At first I had to decide what I wanted to make the video about. I thought about the M&Ms I had just bought and thought that I could …
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Roomerang!

by @MaddieM02790291

| ds106, Syndicated, VideoAssignments, VideoAssignments2301
October 27, 2018

I made a Boomerang of my room for my second assignment for the Your Room Assignment (1 star)!! It was super easy! I have never made one before, but it was not hard to do. I downloaded the app, captured my room in a Boomerang (or should I say Roomerang!), and uploaded it to Instagram. …
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College Flies By!!

by @MaddieM02790291

| ds106, Syndicated, VideoAssignments, videoassignments2031
October 27, 2018

How am I already a senior?!?! I feel like I was just touring UMW as a senior in high school… Time has definitely flown by while I have been here, but I have made some amazing friends along the way and learned a lot! I was excited to do the College Snapshot Assignment (2 stars) first. …
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Becoming a Part of the Web

by @MaddieM02790291

| ds106, Syndicated, WeeklySummary
October 25, 2018

This week was an interesting one. It involved listening to and reflecting on the projects we had done previously as well as creating new content. It also made me think about storytelling on or as part of the web in a different way. All of the other mediums we have used so far were a …
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Mark the Monster and Ed Sheeran return!!

by @MaddieM02790291

| #WebAssignments, ds106, Syndicated, WebAssignments1702
October 25, 2018

I had trouble figuring out what I wanted to do for my final 4 stars of Website Assignments. I initially wanted to create Buzzfeed quiz for the Buzzfeed Assignment, but I could not for the life of me figure out how to create an account or use an account I had created… I stumbled upon …
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Molly the Monster Flies in

by @MaddieM02790291

| ds106, Syndicated
October 23, 2018

Molly the Monster was flying in from Monsterville in Northern Scotland. She was coming to join her buddy Ed Sheeran in his Castle on the Hill for her favorite holiday, Halloween!! Ed Sheeran had already had the castle decorated to celebrate Molly’s arrival, including his huge Halloween poster. Ed Sheeran and Molly the Monster go …
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