Inanimate Motion- 4 Stars The prompt to this assignment is: Take successive photos of inanimate objects and put them together in a way that it makes at least one inanimate object move. Make it tell a story!! Bonus points for an epic sound track attached. The idea here is bringing something inanimate to life through […]

Have a Conversation with Yourself-5 Stars This assignment‘s prompt  is: 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 […]

That Bleeping Censor- 5 Stars The prompt for this assignment is: You get to be the censor of a movie scene or clip.  Choose a sound effect or dialogue you want to substitute for a recurring phrase or expletive, or over-used character speech and use it at the appropriate moments in your movie. This is […]

Morse Code Challenge- 5 Stars Here is the prompt for this assignment: This challenge can either be completed as an Audio Assignment, or a Visual Assignment. Inspired by a similar challenge, involving the use of American Sign Language, this challenge has you try to spell out words using Morse Code, and seeing who can guess […]

Do you have a theme song? If so, what is that song? Is it just one, or do you have multiple songs for different purposes? Create an inspirational poster with favourite lyrics from your theme song or sing the song and record an audio file. The songs I used for this poster are “Free Fallin'” […]

Today‘s daily create is: Write a grook. The grooks are characterized by irony, paradox, brevity, precise use of language, sophisticated rhythms and rhymes, and an often satiric nature.  Dying Laughing Laughter  is fun And sometimes funny But you may die hereafter

Today daily create prompt: About one century ago this [Bridge Over Troubled Water] was the tittle of a famous song. It needs a picture. This was a tree bridge I decided to climb across one day while hiking. It was 15 feet above the water so I think I was more troubled than the water […]

Today’s prompt comes from James Popsys. Who? “After shooting photos of places and things, James uses photo-manipulation to create imaginative scenes that show strange sights that you never see in the real world.” Can you remix a very boring photo in a creative ways? Take one of your personal photos and make an imaginative scene […]

“The story of that remarkable green bottle that was found a month ago by a little boy and his dog in the nearby…” Write a story with this prompt somewhere on the interwebz (your blog or a google doc) and then tweet a link to the story as a response. The story of that remarkable […]

Slumber filter with warm filter pic.twitter.com/Rl6HYiGSIw — Rachel Stanford (@rach_stanford23) November 3, 2015

How well do you feel you completed the requirements of the week’s assignments? I feel that I have fulfilled each assignment to the best of my abilities. The sign language one was a little difficult because I wasn’t sure how to go about it but I eventually figured a way that worked for me. Windows […]

Special Person Montage- 5 Stars This assignment‘s prompt is: 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 […]

Roger Ebert has many interesting opinions about how filmography can transform a film. He sees different positions as setting off different emotions. But his methods to analyzing movies makes sense. Breaking down the film and stopping at different parts is a great way to better understand the movie and possibly better understand the makers of […]

For this reflection I chose to analyze the movie scene of the bar from Good Will Hunting. It’s number 17 in the playlist. Analyze the Camera Work After reading the article by Robert Ebert, the first thing I noticed is that as the characters enter the bar, they are in the center background of shot, while […]

Missing Pet Rock http://theprosperousdaisy.com/daily-create/missing-pet-rock/ For this daily create we were asked to make a missing poster. The example they used was Big Foot. You always see missing pet photos and I thought it would be funny to make one with a missing pet rock. I used Photoshop Elements 11 to make the poster and used […]

Today’s daily create prompt is: Paper Dandy’s book Horrorgami contains all you need to just make these scary figures, but we want you to make your own horrorgami, as Halloween approaches, and use the examples as inspiration only. What is horrorgami? Well, it is spooky kirigami, of course! Okay, there is a You Tube tutorial and […]

Signing Words- 4 Stars Assignment Prompt: 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 […]

So today’s daily create’s prompt was: “Take a small piece of paper (A5 maybe or note pad size), make a one player game with simple rules that fit on this piece of paper. Use only simple shapes and colors to design, Optionally use a dice and/or pen. Note you can tear out pieces you have […]

Today we want you to show us ‘where you get your groove back’. Adapted from Krista over at The Daily Post where you can see lots of lovely examples. This is my happy place. Up in the mountains with a beautiful view. You can’t ask for anything better.

Today’s daily create asked us to make a missing poster. I’ve been missing my pet rock, Sally for awhile now.

How well do you feel you completed the requirements of the week’s assignments? This week’s assignments were not too bad. I actually had a lot of trouble with the changing the website one. There were just several things working against me on it. My computer, my sucky internet provider, you name it. But overall I […]

Storytelling Within the Web From the Spring 2011 ds106 class came the idea of changing up an existing web page to tell a new story ” you will be intervening in the code and design of a website of your choice to tell a story. You are not to photoshop the design of the site, […]

How it all Began- 4 Stars Create a page on your website that goes into detail how a group came together. Talk about the motives behind joining forces, real or fictional. This can be serious or comedic, have fun! This looked like a fun assignment to make up a story of a group people that […]

Buzzfeed Personality Quiz- 4 Stars Have you taken one of those fun personality quizzes on Buzzfeed? Now make your own! Sign in with Buzzfeed to create a community account (you can use gmail). Then start making a quiz for people to find out which character they are. Use any characters you like. There must be […]

Connecting the Dots So the lovely Nature Stick Man was lying at the beach reciting his favorite Shakesmorean poem when all of a sudden two crazy preteen girls jump out of the water and starting dancing to a Pit Bull song. Nature Stick Man was at a lost of what to do. He really didn’t want to be […]

In general, I had a lot of fun making our Wacky History radio show. It was great figuring out all of the history on dentures and wedding rings because both are still quite relevant today despite the fact they have been around for centuries. Overall, I believe it turned out to be a great show […]

Overall the Digital Story Fellers radio show was great. It had current even stories that were very interesting and many were quite compelling. The show had very serious tone due to the stories that they told but they had fun music in between each segment which made it fun to listen to. The following are […]

Today’s daily create prompt is: ‘Like an evil twin or a twisted pair, happy places can have an ugly underside’. Is your happy place always happy? What is its underside. An example of Disneyland as a happy place with an underside might offer inspiration. Write your story in a blog post. My happy place is […]

Today’s daily create prompt is: ‘We are all branches of the same tree’ says Educating the Heart with Nature Art. Make at least 1 Nature Stick Person outdoors (but you could make as many as you wish), take a photo that tells a story. This is a story of a nature stick person that is […]

Today’s daily create prompt is: From the lawnmower to the grocery cart, name a unique dance and post a video of you showing us your moves. Dancing comes in so many forms. Check out this video for inspiration and then put your moves to a name with a video showing us how it’s done. I was […]