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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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” …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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!), …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
