Final Mission/Weekly Summary

Final Mission/Weekly Summary

by @mattmilesds106

| Syndicated, Weekly Summary, WeeklySummary
April 26, 2019

We have finally completed our final mission using everything we have learned from the semester. For this project we made a twine game that made you choose what character you would be and what path you would go on to defeat the enemy. We also created a trailer that involved audio and video. We finally ... Read moreFinal Mission/Weekly Summary
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Weekly Summary/Progress Report

by @mattmilesds106

| Syndicated, Weekly Summary, WeeklySummary
April 19, 2019

We are winding down with our work in ds106 but we have one final mission to complete. We have been given the tools we needed to succeed and are prepared for this one final battle. We were asked to combine all of our audio, video, mashup skills and make one big project. The purpose of ... Read moreWeekly Summary/Progress Report
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Weekly Summary 12

by @mattmilesds106

| Syndicated, Weekly Summary, WeeklySummary
April 12, 2019

This week was all about mashups and remixes and I was very excited to do this as well as come up with our final mission idea. I loved being able to change original content and create something brand new with it. All of the assignments are explained so I won’t do to much writing, I’ll ... Read moreWeekly Summary 12
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Mission Collab

by @mattmilesds106

| missionremix, Syndicated
April 12, 2019

I have been thinking about our final mission work a lot and i have decided to do something very interesting as an idea. I would love to combine the girls radio show about secret agents with my own hip hop hour and talk about the correlations between secret agents and rappers. However the new element ... Read moreMission Collab
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Come join DS106!

by @mattmilesds106

| Assignment Bank, Syndicated, visualassignments, VisualAssignments1731
April 12, 2019

For this remixed assignment the whole purpose was for us to come up with an advertisement for DS106. I wanted to add the storytelling element of the assignment while also incorporating our theme. This was a fairly simple remix assignment as it was only worth 1 star. Here is the advertisement that I came up ... Read moreCome join DS106!
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Cancer Sucks

by @mattmilesds106

| #VisualAssignments1884, Assignment Bank, Syndicated, visualassignments
April 12, 2019

In honor of this remix assignment I decided to dedicate to my grandfather who died a few years from pancreatic cancer. He was very into tennis and was one of our greatest memories. He was also a big fan of sailing so I decided to put together a photo that highlighted all of his favorites ... Read moreCancer Sucks
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Snakes on a Bus

by @mattmilesds106

| #MashupAssignments, mashupassignment2037, Syndicated
April 12, 2019

For this assignment I decided to create a fake movie with different actors. I decided to use a poster for snakes on a bus that I found on the internet. It is a fake movie with the same principles of Snakes on a Plane with Samuel L Jackson. I decided to put Keanu Reaves on ... Read moreSnakes on a Bus
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Going Bad with Body

by @mattmilesds106

| #MashupAssignments, Assignment Bank, MashupAssignments2040, Syndicated
April 12, 2019

For this assignment I decided to use the Going Bad music video with the Body by Loud Luxury song. I thought this was a cool idea because in the video there’s a lot of cars being used and in the song they talk about keys so I thought it matched up well. However my biggest ... Read moreGoing Bad with Body
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Mashup Mania

by @mattmilesds106

| #MashupAssignments, Assignment Bank, MashupAssignments2379, Syndicated
April 12, 2019

This assignment was fairly simple to do and it required us to mash together logos. I tried to make something that would make sense and I figured anytime I went shopping I would get hungry so why not combine two of my favorite things. McDonalds and H and M. I really liked how H+M was ... Read moreMashup Mania
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Sounds of Your City Tutorial

by @mattmilesds106

| #AudioAssignments, AudioAssignments2120, Syndicated
April 12, 2019

For this assignment I am going to help you with a tutorial that I have created. First what you’re going to want to do is to hang out and record anything that sounds cool. If you’re in a city that is beneficial because the more sounds the better. Record using quicktime that way you can ... Read moreSounds of Your City Tutorial
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Weekly Summary 11

by @mattmilesds106

| Syndicated, Weekly Summary, WeeklySummary
April 4, 2019

This week was fairly challenging. We really had to dive into the world of editing as the assignments weren’t too stressful. I loved being able to create and edit in a proper manner. It was an important piece of knowledge. I also liked being able to come up with our mission since I never have ... Read moreWeekly Summary 11
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Best Day of my Life

by @mattmilesds106

| Assignment Bank, Syndicated, VideoAssignments, videoassignments1504
April 4, 2019

So I attempted to create a vine but I think I was unsuccessful. I wanted to make into a short little 10 second video with quick edits but was heavily unsuccessful. I think this assignment posed more of a challenge than I origianlly thought. On top of all that I couldn’t get youtube to upload ... Read moreBest Day of my Life
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Spoil a Movie

by @mattmilesds106

| Assignment Bank, Syndicated, VideoAssignments, VideoAssignments1917
April 4, 2019

For this assignment I decided to spoil a movie. I decided to do the Pink Panther 2 because it related to our secret agent theme in a way. Inspector Cluseasu is the main character here as you can see in this trailer and the plot goes just as you expect with love and romance and ... Read moreSpoil a Movie
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Talking to my 16 Year Old Self

by @mattmilesds106

| Assignment Bank, Syndicated, VideoAssignments, VideoAssignments2407
April 4, 2019

I loved this assignment. This assignment allowed myself as my present day to me to give words of advice to my 16 year old self. I was able to get into every little detail about life and explain to him what he should’ve done and what he doesn’t need to stress about. Overall this was ... Read moreTalking to my 16 Year Old Self
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Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery

by @mattmilesds106

| # weeklyassignments, Assignment Bank, Syndicated
April 4, 2019

For this assignment I decided to do a voiceover on a movie scene/clip. I chose Austin Powers the orginal because I felt it most matched up with our theme and gave me an insight to as to be a secret agent. Overall I couldn’t get the video to match up with my speaking so I ... Read moreAustin Powers: International Man of Mystery
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Mission

by @mattmilesds106

| mission, Syndicated
April 4, 2019

I think a mission needs to serve a purpose. As I began thinking about what our future mission should be, I referenced all of the movies that I have seen in the past and most of them involve going for the girl. After seeing Girl Power on ds106 I realized that wouldn’t be fair to ... Read moreMission
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Weekly Summary #10!!!

by @mattmilesds106

| Syndicated, Weekly Summary, WeeklySummary
March 29, 2019

This week was all about video and didn’t really require a lot of words. I really enjoyed this week because I feel that video is an integral part of our lives and it’s important for all of us to watch videos because of the educational opportunity. For this week I’ll let my assignments and blog ... Read moreWeekly Summary #10!!!
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VoiceOver

by @mattmilesds106

| Syndicated, videoessay
March 29, 2019

For this assignment we really had to use all of our abilities and try and talk about the cinematic elements we learned while editing a scene so that we could voiceover what was happening. I found this assignment to be incredibly difficult because I had never done such a thing like this. It was a ... Read moreVoiceOver
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Lip Sync Battle!

by @mattmilesds106

| Assignment Bank, Syndicated, VideoAssignments, videoasssignments1706
March 29, 2019

For this assignment we had to lip sync which if yall have seen from my previous assignments I’m not a good singer at all. I gave it my best shot though. This was a fairly simple assignment for the most part. The song I decided to lip sync was 100 Bad Days by AJR which ... Read moreLip Sync Battle!
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The Interview

by @mattmilesds106

| characterinterview, Syndicated
March 29, 2019

For this assignment we had to answer questions based off of interview questions that were asked to us. They had to be based off of what our character would say so I was basically answering for Austin Scarn which was definitely kind of strange. The whole process was interesting because I usually don’t do anything ... Read moreThe Interview
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Fortnite Highlights!

by @mattmilesds106

| Assignment Bank, Syndicated, VideoAssignments, VideoAssignments2249
March 29, 2019

For this assignment I decided to choose and make a compilation of all my fortnite highlights. I love this game and has been a big part of my collegiate career. I felt as if this assignment was fairly easy because through xbox you can clip the shots you make and what is cool. I put ... Read moreFortnite Highlights!
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UMW Tennis Highlights

by @mattmilesds106

| Assignment Bank, Syndicated, VideoAssignments, VideoAssignments2408
March 29, 2019

For this assignment I was asked to create a highlight tape of a sport I play. This was a really cool assignment because not only did it allow myself to showcase me playing the sport but it also let me show how my teammates play to. I loved being able to play around in imovie ... Read moreUMW Tennis Highlights
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Weekly Summary

by @mattmilesds106

| Syndicated, Weekly Summary, WeeklySummary
March 22, 2019

Wow what a week. Looking at the web was extremely interesting to me and it just shows to me all of the possibilities that one can do within the world wide web. I think all of the assignments for the week really showed how the web can be changed and how anything is possible. The ... Read moreWeekly Summary
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Take 2

by @mattmilesds106

| Assignment Bank, Syndicated
March 21, 2019

I’m sure all of you remember me humming the National Anthem. We’ll I loved this assignment and wanted another crack at humming a little bit more of a challenging song and seeing if you guys could guess which track it is. Also after learning a little more about audio editing I wanted to make this ... Read moreTake 2
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My Life Story

by @mattmilesds106

| Syndicated
March 21, 2019

As I saw this assignment for the week and saw the daily creates that were posted i realized I had a good foundation to talk about my childhood and how I got here using these creates. I really like this idea of tying them all together and I think it will flow nicely. The first ... Read moreMy Life Story
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Super Secret Opinions!

by @mattmilesds106

| radiolisten, Syndicated
March 20, 2019

This radio show was the first one that I listened to and I found this radio show to be really cool and had a lot of great perspectives. It came across well that the group was well researched. Diving into the actual radio show I was very intrigued with the start and I could tell ... Read moreSuper Secret Opinions!
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Finsta

by @mattmilesds106

| #WebAssignments, Assignment Bank, Syndicated, WebAssignments2071
March 20, 2019

For this assignment it was required for us to create a fake instagram, otherwise known as a finsta. I decided to make it relate to our radio show in one way or another. Instead of taking the usual route to making a finsta which is an alter ego I loved the idea of making it ... Read moreFinsta
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Austin Scarn-Amazon

by @mattmilesds106

| Syndicated, webstorytelling
March 20, 2019

The assignment this week was to create a fake page of any kind and put our character on it. Basically it was an advertisement for our secret agent and what would we do if we saw them. I decided to put my secret agent on amazon because amazon is on top of the game now ... Read moreAustin Scarn-Amazon
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Way Back Time Machine

by @mattmilesds106

| #WebAssignments, #WebAssignments115, Assignment Bank, Syndicated
March 18, 2019

Everybody remembers the popular website of miniclip. But how much do you remember it changing since you last visited? I used to be on miniclip a lot when I was younger and remember the exact layout of the site being like the second photo. I was astounded to see the site drastically change. The bottom ... Read moreWay Back Time Machine
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Guess This Story

by @mattmilesds106

| #WebAssignments, Assignment Bank, Syndicated, WebAssignments2300
March 18, 2019

This assignment focused on us coming up with a series of gifs to help tell a story. I really enjoyed this assignment because it allowed us to be creative and try and tell a story without words. That seems to be the common theme for the week and I think it adds a great component ... Read moreGuess This Story
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