Lists are fun.  I’m not good at keeping to them. It’s official: I’m not going back to Hawai’i for the summer.  I need to find a place to live. I need to find a place to work. Read the Bible praying, “Father, hold my mind’s attention. Wake my heart’s affection. Speak for your glory and ...

What’s next? I had mentioned earlier that I wanted to keep this website up (thanks, Domain of One’s Own! [and on Wired]) but I am not sure on what direction I am going to take. As entertaining as daily ramblings and musings can be, I fear that this is all it will ever be.  No ...

A gift outside, inside, on a plate 4.  Yesterday I was joyous because of the sound of rain, and today I am joyful for the sights of wind.  Every time I see the breeze sway the trees I am reminded of God’s love.  It’s like that quote:  “Love is like the wind, you can’t see ...

This year I am going to turn the frown in my heart upside-down.  I am going to partake in the Joy Dare which uses a prompt a day to share with you three things.  I think that too often I get bogged down by the cares and burdens of our current world and by my ...

My final project was a nightmare.  I had a difficult time getting sources for my media and for my ideas to weave together for a similar aesthetic for a story, and it’s incomplete (actually it hasn’t even been published.  There goes my grade and my sanity!).  I think the most difficult part of this final ...

final by melindakumi My follow up letter: It is my pleasure to welcome you into the ds106 family.  Let me give you a little more advice.  Approach your assignments eagerly and with great fervor.  This is an exciting time in your life and there are no classes like this anywhere else so take full advantage ...

A Two-Star Assignment in which you Write a blog in which you tell us something, anything, about either your given names or your blog name(s). Although it’s pretty self-explanatory in the assignment, I don’t want it to be a simple, “Hi, my name is Melinda and my name means this, and only this.  The end.”  Here are ...

http://melindakumi.com/2012/11/25/rrremix-thoughts/ http://melindakumi.com/2012/12/02/recycle-remash/ http://melindakumi.com/2012/12/02/i-look-my-best-in-pink/ http://melindakumi.com/2012/12/03/phantom-of-egypt/ My ideas of remixes and mashups haven’t changed much since starting these past two weeks off, I just have more respect for those that do create these kinds of videos.  The most difficult part of remixing and mashing is that I wanted to work with my hands to move things and ...

From the Movie Music Comparison – Can You Score? 4-star assignment: Blend two songs from any two different movie scores, creating a mix of the two songs into one. You will need to use Audacity or iMovie/Garageband to edit the clips together. This may sound a bit daunting, but it’s fun to do! A great ...

I’ve been doing a lot of self-analyzing and looking at when I was growing up I often found myself serving others. Though this was almost always directly related to food (preparation, presentation, dishing them out, cleaning and storing) it was a way in which I helped my grandparents who were always hosting people over for ...

I was dreading the remixes before we even got to them.  I can be creative but having to use existing material to create something with an alternative narrative is really daunting.  This set of assignments is probably going to manifest my terrible experiences with collages I have made in the past.  I think that, to ...

I broke the cardinal rule of ds106: I waited until Saturday/Sunday.  I had some segments of my work completed, but I hadn’t put anything together and made sense of everything.  I forgot that the biggest aspect of doing video was the time it took for them to be uploaded to its final destination and/or having ...

A 2-star assignment: Create your own Kuleshev effect demonstration by putting together 4 clips a la what AH describes here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNVf1N34-io&feature=youtu.be 4 clips should be: 1) a medium or close-up shot of a person looking at the camera with no or subtle emotion x2 2) object of emotional response 1 (woman and baby in AH clip) 3) ...

A 2-star assignment: Tell a short story using flashcard and record yourself. It can be something funny, sad, or just even express how your day was. Thanksgiving is right around the corner and I wanted to do a short tribute of thankfulness in video form.  What better way to tell my story?  I do believe that ...

A 5-star Return to the Silent Era assignment: The dawn of cinema had no audio; silent movies created an atmosphere with music and the use of cue cards. Take a 3-5 minute trailer of a modern movie and render it in the form os the silent era- convert to black and white, add effects to make ...

I have very little video-editing knowledge.  Aside from helping a “friend” with MPEG Streamclip video editing for an earlier version of this class two years ago and my final video assignment for Digital Approaches to Fine Arts, I have no knowledge.  Any knowledge that I pretend to have is faux-ledge. This has been a pretty ...

(You can see my original notes here: http://melindakumi.com/2012/11/01/opening-scene/) I believe that this would fall in the Action / Crime genres according to my understanding of Film Genres. Because I have never actually seen the movie I am still assuming that this is relatively fast-paced.  The movie is based on the lives of criminals and are even ...

Thoughts? Return to the Silent Era:  I am fascinated by the Silent Era, especially after watching Metropolis the other year. I also saw The Artist which was amaaaaazing and beautiful. In my attempt to mimic a silent era movie I am planning on using multiple scenes from October Sky. Railroad Scare  http://youtu.be/CGivL32FazM Test Launches  http://youtu.be/cP_OM5VVcSo ...

A first in the way I approach Daily Creates! 31 October 2012, Wednesday  |  tdc297 Trick or Treat!  Make a video of the most awesome Halloween costume you see or imagine tonight. Thankfully it was a dodgeball night (Sundays and Wednesdays at 10pm!) so there was an abundance of costumes.  Some man was dressed in ...

The Way of the Gun directed by Christopher McQuarrie Eyes Wide Open – (Viewing Only) panning in – rule of thirds diagonals created with line of people girl screaming on the right of it all people screaming on the right of “focus person” left move down ramp reversing diagonals using people movement central crowd mob ...