Special Persons Montage: For this assignment you are to decide on who is special to you. It could be a relative, sibling, parent, friend, mentor, celebrity, or anyone. Then you are to make a video of images or video clips of them showing all the different things that they do that makes them special to … Continue reading I miss her!

Bring Your Pet To School: Do you miss your pet while you are in school? Do you ever wish that you could bring your pet to school with you? This tutorial assignment will allow your dream to come true. You can use GIMP or other photo edit software to place your pet anywhere on your campus. … Continue reading We Found Her!

Edna, a black puppy, enjoys long walks and snuggling on beds. She’s just like any dog!! She also loves to be pet by her owner Miranda. Miranda is her best friend. However, recently, Miranda has been super busy studying for her finals, leaving Edna sad! This morning, Edna Rose woke up and did her everyday, … Continue reading Edna’s Not Missing

Design a License Plate: Design your own license plate! You can use an online site, alter a preexisting photo, or make your own from scratch. Make the license plate describe either your or a character. Your license plate design should have two part to it: designing the background for the plate and designing the font. … Continue reading Sunshine State

Missing Person: Create a missing posters flyer for a fictional movie/show character, made-up person, animal, or a real person. Be sure to include a picture, the name, characteristics, and last seen date and place. Let your imagination do the talking for this poster! (4 stars). I made this design assignment for my final narrative! I wanted … Continue reading If Found, Please Call..

Please Someone Call the Police! : You know how in crime movies and criminal investigation shows they usually include an audio of a victom talking to the police over the phone? Well in this assignment make an audio of you talking to the police over the phone. Your story of why you are calling the police is … Continue reading Puppy Police

Wedding Invitation: We are currently in the middle of the wedding season. With this being said so many people out there are tying the knot! For this assignment, I would like you to create/design your own wedding invitation as if you were going to be getting married soon! What would it look like? You could … Continue reading Here Comes the Bride

Character Resume: Using either Microsoft Word, creating your own webpage, or using a website like LinkedIn, create a “fake” resume for a fictional person or character of your choice. Add detailed descriptions and make the resume relevant to the character. Resume must include a profile, work history, education, and skills. Locations, job positions, and companies can … Continue reading Please Hire Me?

This week, we learned all about Remixing and Mash-ups. I had no idea this was an aspect that we would dive into for this class!! I was happy, because remixes of songs and videos are so innovative and funky cool to see and hear. I enjoy remixes that people create, and mash-ups of songs from … Continue reading Weekly Summary 13 & 14

The first video was a documentary by Brett Gaylor of a remixer called Girl Talk. This band, like many artists and bands, plays music in crowds for many to hear and enjoy. The only difference is that his music is a compilation of many different artists. I learned in the video what exactly copyright is! It … Continue reading What is a Remix?

A-Z Photo Collage [Remixed]: DS 106-Ersizing:  Make an alphabetically themed collage. Compile images to represent each letter of the alphabet within a chosen subject area or theme. Create a collage. (4 stars). ReMiX cArD: “DS106-ersizing” Use this assignment to create an advertisment or a recruiting tool for ds106. For this remix, I used an old Visual Assignment example … Continue reading TRAVEL with US

#tdc1412: Monochromatic Still Life @ds106dc #tdc1412 face pic.twitter.com/DZ7oHAXrdA — miranda ds106 (@mirandabloggin) November 20, 2015 —SALTY SKINN

#tdc1411: Red Find something Red!! #tdc1411 @ds106dc my red book of yoga pic.twitter.com/DaO4QF2Bqm — miranda ds106 (@mirandabloggin) November 19, 2015 —SALTY SKINN

Movie Mash-up:   Take a movie that you really like. Now think of a movie that has been compared to it, and make a new movie poster that incorporates the two! (4.5 stars). For this assignment, I had to use two movies that are similar in themes, or really, just been compared before, and make a … Continue reading She’s the Twelfth Night

A Changing Character: For this assignment you need to pick any chacter and follow thier progression that they have had (TV characters from a long standing TV show will probably be best). Use video clips to show how the character has changed and grown up over time. Try to make their progression seem as dramatic as … Continue reading Serena Changing

#tdc1410: The Best Time of the Day ..when I am not doing anything. #tdc1410 @ds106dc best part = not doing anything at all pic.twitter.com/WCQWTZNjvB — miranda ds106 (@mirandabloggin) November 18, 2015 —SALTY SKINN

This week, we extended our knowledge on video to create many more captivating and interesting stories. I enjoyed adding on to this video knowledge, I learned more techniques to make audio enhance the video I am creating, more tools within my applications and edits, and just a new view on stories themselves. I have said … Continue reading Weekly Summary #11 & #12

Signing Language: This assignment requires you to take a video of yourself or someone else and finger spell a word or a phrase in Sign Language alphabet and let others guess what you have spelled. Make sure you do a word that is bigger then 5 letters so you can learn some of the letters. (4.5 … Continue reading Signing Language: Spring and Rain

#tdc1402: Bridge over troubled water For this daily create, we were to find a picture that went with the lyrics of “Bridge Over Troubled Water”. @ds106dc #tdc1402 bridges are cool pic.twitter.com/jCmcjjhb8z — miranda ds106 (@mirandabloggin) November 11, 2015 —SALTY SKINN

A Word…A Picture…A Story: Chose up to 5-10 words..just randomly pick them don’t over think it just chose these words out of the blue. Then do a Google image search on these images and chose one of the first visible photos for the word..after you have chosen your words and your images put them together in … Continue reading What are THESE words??

Have a Conversation with Yourself: Have a conversation with yourself! Film yourself talking, then change clothes, hair styles, etc and then film the other half of the convo. Edit this in any movie editor program (I used Pinnacle movie maker) To overlap the two scenes so that you are talking to yourself! Play around, to figure … Continue reading Have a Convo: Gossip Mirandas

#tdc1401: Remix your world This daily created required a normal picture with a out of the world insertion to the picture. I used really interesting clouds in a picture I took on a mountain while snowboarding. #ds106 #daily @ds106dc #tdc1401 The sky pic.twitter.com/uWRkAc86Rk — miranda ds106 (@mirandabloggin) November 9, 2015 —SALTY SKINN

Chipmunk Style: Helium may be in short supply, but a little digital tweaking can still leave your favorite actors sounding like the Chipmunks. Take a clip from a film and either speed up the action or raise the pitch on the audio track for some high-pitched laughs. (3.5 stars). For this assignment, I found a YouTube … Continue reading Chipmunk Style: Mia’s Fast Makeover

Animal Dance Off: Find any song and mash up a video of some animals dancing. Try to get the animals moving to the beat. (4 stars). For this assignment, I was to find an animal dancing and add music to it. I used Justin Bieber’s Sorry song, and a video of a cute Chihuahau puppy dancing. … Continue reading Animal Dance Off: Sorry Dancing Puppy

#tdc1398: You created it, now sketch! #tdc1398 @ds106dc pic.twitter.com/F1HrH4ZfgX — miranda ds106 (@mirandabloggin) November 6, 2015 —SALTY SKINN

#tdc1397: Anny Cow the Researcher For this daily, we were to create a 6-line poem about life purpose. Interesting, huh? @ds106dc #tdc1397 This life Is here for us to learn about ourselves and others and to find joy in these things around us — miranda ds106 (@mirandabloggin) November 5, 2015 –SALTY SKINN

Classical-Modern Mashup: Ingredients: 1 piece of classical music, 1 modern music video. How to make: First, strip or mute the music out of the modern music video. Then layer the classic music on top. Voila! Some hopefully hilarious, weirdly sexual classical-modern mashup. (4 stars). I immediately watched the example for this assignment and thought it was so creative and thought mine … Continue reading Classical-Modern Mashup: Hotline Bling

#tdc1395: Filtered selfie. For this daily, we were to use an edit on a selfie that we have never used before!! Mine was called sentosa. @ds106dc #tdc1395 sentosa edit. pic.twitter.com/uwmj7Rg6BZ — miranda ds106 (@mirandabloggin) November 3, 2015 —SALTY SKINN

#tdc1394: Sidewalk crack art #tdc1394 sidewalk cracks are awful @ds106dc pic.twitter.com/jnl0PvOqL0 — miranda ds106 (@mirandabloggin) November 2, 2015 –SALTY SKINN

#tdc1393: Your cartoon self. @ds106dc #tdc1393 cartoon me pic.twitter.com/6x7OvFDfyl — miranda ds106 (@mirandabloggin) November 2, 2015 —SALTY SKINN