This post is for an assignment creation for the ds106 Assignment bank, under writing assignments ……..
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Quite often we see pictures on different social media outlets. They are funny, awkward, or beautifully portrayed moments but we don’t know what led up …
It’s the end of week four and I feel that I am getting more media savvy as the weeks progress onward. Week one and two were a blur and I felt extremely frustrated trying to get everything going and trying to figure out what was expected of us in this …
For this assignment I picked a movie clip from Gladiator, the Execution scene.
When viewing the film clip first without sound, I noticed there were many film transitions with majority in the form of cuts. The cut is the most basic type of shot transition and most common way …
Try this project yourself, following the project link: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/favorite-actoractress-highlight-reel/
STEP 1: Go to YouTube and view, then download (using YouTube converter) some of your favorite movies/clips of your chosen actor/actress. You can find stuff to view by simply typing the name of your actor/actress …
This project is as well from the ds106 video assignments bank, it’s worth three stars. The assignment instructs us to create a 30 to 60 second highlight reel of your most enjoyable movie scenes from your favorite Actor/Actress.
Try this project yourself, following the project link: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/favorite-actoractress-highlight-reel/
-Will Ferrell-I …
Step 1. Choose an athlete
(This is Barry Sanders)
Step 2. Go to YouTube, viewed some sports highlights and then downloaded your favorites (using YouTube video converter).
Step 3. Imported the videos to iMovie.
Step 4. Then cut and trimmed the parts …
For this week part of our class assignment was to complete two ds106 video assignments from the assignment bank. For my first assignment, worth five stars, I chose to create a highlight real.
Project link: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/highlight-reels/
The instructions for this project requests that the creator, “Channel your inner ESPN and …
“cast us a shadow?”
Today’s Daily Create was a photography assignment. We were instructed to cast a shadow, take a picture of it and upload it to flickr.
My shadow casting is of a wine glass I was drinking from the other night while doing …
Make Your Own Hyperbolic Tiling
These are pretty awesome! Make your own and share, tag it tdc1285. I used the provided link and uploaded my own photo of the flower below. I played with the settings until I created a tiling I liked. Then I…
Ebert made some interesting points and observations on how to read films. I watched a couple video clips on YouTube and noticed a couple of tendencies within the compositions. Such as, in a two-shot the person on the right appears dominant over the person on the left. After reading the …
This post is for Today’s Daily Create, which is a writing assignment….
New words are created everyday, we were instructed to write a story using as many new words as we dare that were added to the Oxford English Dictionary this year. Check out this full list, look up …
Events, fundraisers, festivals, and other fun things to do happen around us all the time. Have you ever had two or even three events you wanted to participate in happen on the same day, but you could only choose one? For this design assignment you are tasked to create an …
For today’s Daily Create assignment we were instructed to take a photo that shows “magical light”.
Link to assignment: http://tdc.ds106.us/
I believe there is a vast difference in interpretation of what is “magical”. What is majestic to one person can be viewed differently by another. The photo below I took …
This is the “Remix a Song with some Speech” assignment from the ds106 Audio Assignment Bank.
http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/remix-a-song-with-some-speech/
For this assignment we were required to take a song and some speech and remix them. It is supposed to be meaningful and convey a message. I picked the song “When I Was …
“This American Life”, is a web radio show. It features stories of people doing noble things and stepping up to help, only to find out that others think what they’re doing isn’t helping at all.
Follow the link to hear it yourself: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/503/i-was-just-trying-to-help
While listening closely to this radio show …
For this audio assignment out of the DS106 Assignment Bank we were supposed to record glimpses of the different sounds that you hear throughout the day.
http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/do-you-hear-what-i-hear/
Using the program Audacity, which I downloaded for this class, I created about a two minute recording of sounds you would hear around …
Week Three’s Checklist/Summaries:
Summarize the key points you learned about audio storytelling from the Ira Glass and Jad Abumrad videos. From listen to Ira Glass describe effective storytelling, I picked up on some key points. I learned that story telling consists of building blocks. Such as, a story should consists…
From listen to Ira Glass describe effective storytelling, I picked up on some key points. I learned that story telling consists of building blocks. Such as, a story should consists of a sequence of events, providing momentum within itself. Another building block he mentioned is bait, or to raise a …
Daily Create – July 11, 2015
The assignment for today’s daily create is to create your own trashy cover from a favorite book….. I always got a kick out of this children’s book titled, “Cooking with Pooh”. Of course they mean the beloved Winnie the Pooh. However, when you just …
Today’s Daily Create was to write a serious poem from the point of view of someone who is going to die and knows it, preferably in the form of a Haiku. A Haiku is a three line poem with alternating lines of five syllables, seven syllables, and five syllables.
Link …
Daily Create 7-8-2015
For today’s daily create project we asked to draw a picture and incorporate our hand or in this case part of your hand into the drawing…..
I decided to draw finger people, a man and a woman, on my fingers. They are standing outside of their house, …
Boundaries exist everywhere we look. For this assignment we are supposed to find two spaces that share a boundary. In this case, I picked the United Stated and Canada. They share a boarder, or international boundary as seen in the pictures below.
For the second part of the assignment we …
So, below are my thoughts for project ideas for ds106, as we each need to complete/create two projects for the Assignment Bank.
I actually thought of the first idea last night as we all eating cereal for dinner, since I had so much homework to do there was no time …
Wow, did this assignment take a lot of though and work. It actually turned out better then I thought it would. I ended up cutting pictures out of magazines to use as the images for this project. After I finished the web I snapped a picture of it, uploaded it …
What better signature symbol then a juicy red print of your lips! Have always liked lips and anything with kiss prints. I even have this as a tattoo. This was created with lipstick, paper and a camera.…
Doodle an ink drawing of odds and ends…… did this and uploaded it to my flickr, then shared it here with the world.
Week 1 – Summary – ds106
Thoughts:
Well week one definitely felt like a boot camp. In starting this course I experienced many frustrations and difficulties. I quickly came to realize I am social media challenged and at this point probably trying to bridge some generational gap, as I don’t …
Picture from the photo scavenger hunt……
I did not care too much for this assignment. I did it in my living room, as that is where I was doing my homework that evening. I tried to get creative with the assignment. My favorite picture is the shadow of a …
