Final Project

Final Project

by nstringer
December 13, 2012

For the final project I decided to do it on the Disney/Pixar movie, “Ratatouille” I wanted to put a spin on it and create the final digital piece based on the creation of Ratatouille 2. We will be accepting application … Continue reading →
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Prospective Students for DS106

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December 8, 2012

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Final Summary

by nstringer
December 8, 2012

Wow! All finished with DS106. What a fun-filled semester it has been. This is a perfect segway to attach a video for prospective students taking DS106 in the Spring. HERE is the Final Assignment! I started the week by making … Continue reading →
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What is Digital Storytelling.. now?

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December 7, 2012

Back in week 3, I though digital storytelling was: Now my thoughts about digital story telling has changed… I see Digital Story telling as the use of programs/applications (ie: Imovie, SoundCloud, etc) as a way to create something, recreate something … Continue reading →
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Summary – Weeks 13/14

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December 2, 2012

The last two weeks of DS106, were fairly laid back. Last week I submitted my final project idea, which I am getting anxious to start. This week I enjoyed the mashups. I felt that it was very similar to the … Continue reading →
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Recycled Media + What Color is your World?

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December 2, 2012

For the rest of my 7 stars I completed ‘What Color is your World?” with the recycled media assignment. I went through the list of recycled media and realized that I saw a lot of green in the photos. I … Continue reading →
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Assignment Idea

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December 2, 2012

During Audio week, I suggested a daily create assignment that was to take your favorite song and add sound effects to it. If I do recall correctly, I did end up seeing this as an option for out daily creates. I … Continue reading →
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Actor Transformation

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December 2, 2012

For 4 of my 7 stars of MashupAssignments, I chose ‘Actor Transformation‘. I thought that this would be a challenging project but fun at the same time. It is always intriguing to see how stars develop and grow/shrink their career … Continue reading →
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RemixThis Summary

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November 30, 2012

My understanding of remix and mashups, after watching the video was simply taking an existing audio/video and adding your own twist to it. After watching Disney Describing Copyright, you can see remixing at its best! The creator of this video did an … Continue reading →
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Idea for Final

by nstringer
November 26, 2012

My final project is going to be based off of a place, my job. The Crossings at Falls Run. I am extremely passionate about the work that I do and who I do it for. I am an advocate for … Continue reading →
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Summary 11 & 12

by nstringer

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November 18, 2012

Wow. I can not believe that we are approaching the end of the semester; it has flown by!! The past 2 weeks have been combined into one entry and we have focused on video. I found this to be one … Continue reading →
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“Framed”

by nstringer

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November 18, 2012

For my last two stars assignment, I chose “framed” I was to take a 2 minute video and find a frame within, that summarized the entire video. When I saw this as an assignment, I wanted to take a movie … Continue reading →
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5 Second Film

by nstringer

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November 17, 2012

This Assignment is “5 Second Film” I chose to take a movie and make a summary in 5 seconds for 3 stars. I thought to myself, what movie that doesn’t have a lot going on in it, can I take … Continue reading →
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Animated Music Video

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November 17, 2012

I chose “Animated Music Video” for 4 stars. The task was to create a video of clips from a cartoon/anime show and put your own music to it. My choice of cartoon was the infamous, Tom and Jerry. Who didn’t … Continue reading →
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Supercut It

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November 13, 2012

I choose “Supercut it” for 5 of the 16 stars. After reading over the “supercut it” assignment examples all I could think about was the exclusive jersey shore after-show clips. The one thing I saw repetitively was Deena and Snooki … Continue reading →
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Week 10 Summary

by nstringer

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November 4, 2012

I am excited for the coming weeks of video editing, etc. I have never used these tools that were mentioned on ds106.us, however I have always wanted to try to put a video together using imovie, on my mac. It’s … Continue reading →
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Daily Creates 10

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November 4, 2012

What photo makes me feel old? This was taken on Friday night, November 2, 2012. This is me and my (former) neighbor on senior night, the last high school football game. We were neighbors for as long as I have … Continue reading →
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Look, Listen, Analyze

by nstringer
November 2, 2012

The video that I analyzed was from the 3rd hyperlink, video #52. When I solemnly looked at the video, without sound, I cam up with the following observations. Dark lighting Camera views are constantly changing Camera focuses away from pencil … Continue reading →
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Week 9

by nstringer
October 28, 2012

Our radio shows were overall really good. I enjoyed listening to others’ shows and ours. I was kind of upset that some of our recording had this awful echoing… but overall, our show was awesome. I tried to get people … Continue reading →
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Daily Creates

by nstringer
October 28, 2012

This story is about my weekend… This weekend I decided to sell my most valuable possesion, (Daily Create- Valuable Possession) It all came about after I decided I wanted something that was brand new and… my job promotion definitely helped… … Continue reading →
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Bumper

by nstringer
October 21, 2012

I took the radio bumper from weeks ago and edited the music around the bumper, making the song out of sequence to how it was produced. I enjoyed working around the different clips and making it flow together.
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Daily Create 2-Week Combo

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October 21, 2012

One thing that means a lot to me is, My Dog! Kahlua is a 7-year old Chocolate Lab. She probably means more to me now that ever because she moved with my parents to SC. So I basically havent seen … Continue reading →
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2-fer Week

by nstringer

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October 20, 2012

Wow! What a huge accomplishment! It doesn’t even feel like we are half-way through the semester. The past 2-weeks have been solely focused on our radio projects. My group chose Road trip Radio. I thought that we did a phenomenal job … Continue reading →
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Recycled Media

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October 20, 2012

For the recycled media portion, I wasn’t quite sure what kind of media was being requested from us. I included my GIF of the Joker, I included one of the audio projects where I took lyrics from a jason mraz … Continue reading →
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Chip-Munkd’

by nstringer

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October 20, 2012

For one of the audio assignment I chose to take a song and make it sound like a chip-munk. I chose “Birthday Song” by 2 Chainz. I cleanly edited the lyrics so nothing vulgar was recorded. To make the voice … Continue reading →
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Radio Show Reflection

by nstringer

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October 20, 2012

Our group, Roadtrip Radio, thoroughly had fun meeting up and getting our show put together. For about 2-weeks we have just been putting all of our thoughts on a google document so that when we met we would know what … Continue reading →
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Week 6 Analysis

by nstringer
October 6, 2012

This week in DS106 was the start of the radio show with our groups. We created a google doc to discuss the different things we wanted to do. I found that working on google doc was much more convenient than … Continue reading →
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Safari

by nstringer
October 6, 2012

Here is an example of: Color: This photo was taken in at my grandparents house in Tennessee. This was a wall mural that was hand painted my a local artist whom my grandparents employed in their business for a short … Continue reading →
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15-Stars Assignment

by nstringer
October 6, 2012

Use your own font to express lyrics: I chose this set of lyrics from Jason Mrazs’ song, I won’t give up. This is an extremely nice song and has a lot of meaning it to it. If you have never … Continue reading →
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Daily Creates

by nstringer
October 6, 2012

My titles: I am not an avid reader, The only titles that I enjoy reading are about business, money, entrepreneurs and business mans autobiography. In particular, Robert Kiyosaki, a hawaiian business man, is the writer of this series, Rich Dad … Continue reading →
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