What should you know coming into this course? Honestly nothing. The less you know the better and you will get the most out of this course not knowing anything coming in. If you have spent a lot of time doing image editing, audio editing/mixing, and video you will be bored and it will just be a …

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The end is here and I can’t believe I made it through. I tried to have fun with this project by making a short film with my character Agent Roberts. Project Inspiration It is not often that I have the opportunity to make a video, so I decided to really geek out and take what …

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This is an outline of what my final project will be and a direction that I will take it. For this assignment I will be using item 1 and item 2.  The overall format of this project will be a video, and throughout a video the agent (me) finds different pieces and clues from media to …

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On monday I was tasked with creating twitter poll a secret agent. The agents I could choose from were Ben Aggos, Charles Finch (Rubiks Tilbit), Mac Plaia (Cobra), Kate “The Marksman” Jones, and Lynn Harris (Agent Reveal). I chose to make a poll about Ben Aggos. His agent profile shows that he is a lawyer that goes …

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Starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel. Didn’t realize that so far I have made over 70 posts on this blog. Here are the posts from this week that contributed to that number. Daily Creates @ds106dc #tdc1923 pic.twitter.com/65C6zBzm5E — Daniel Z (@UMWdan) April 14, 2017 @ds106dc #tdc1921 Here's a rainbow trout I …

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This is tutorial on how to make a product review. Here is my original product review. This assignment may seem a little difficult if you think you need to do everything with one take and talk in front of the camera. Good news! You don’t have to. This assignment can be broken down into two …

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In this remixed assignment I took an older post of mine where I made a minimalist poster and then hid waldo somewhere. The remix details can be found here, while the original poster assignment can be found here. Because this assignment was minimalist, it is very hard to hide something, let alone a man dressed …

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This remixed assignment can be found here. I had done the assignment on poor font choices previously and that can be found here.  This was to take it up a notch and create a presentation that breaks all the rules. It was heartbreaking. This is the presentation The presentation was made on google slides so …

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For this assignment, worth 4 stars, I had to choose 6 movie clips and stitch them together into a single video. Now it’s your turn to watch this and guess which movies/ tv shows the clips come from.   —-Spoiler Alert—- The answers in order are: Hot Fuzz Top Gun 2001 A Space Odyssey Bullitt …

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This assignment, found here, is worth four stars and required me to use a dramatic close up of someone’s face, and then place it over a scene or landscape. Here is what I came up with. Some people may recognize this face, but if you don’t it’s ok. This is the face of the ultra …

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This assignment, that I found here, was to choose a movie scene and then sneakily edit in another scene, prop, or person. This assignment was worth 4 stars. I chose a scene here, from the movie Patriot Games, based on the the book written by Tom Clancy. This scene is where Jack Ryan begins to …

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I’m not sure where to go with this one. A new mission? I don’t want to sound rude but I’m not sure what the previous mission was.  One idea I have is based on the fact that spies are constantly trying to one up the other one, and beat others to the truth first. What …

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Week eleven is done and over quicker than I realized. Nearing the end of the semester and I can almost taste it. Here are my Daily Creates. @ds106dc #ds106 #tdc1916 Never got to play on the moon pic.twitter.com/J19Ax37t8Q — Daniel Z (@UMWdan) April 7, 2017 @ds106dc #ds106 #tdc1914 pic.twitter.com/AaSFpzOa0J — Daniel Z (@UMWdan) April 6, …

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This assignment can be found here and it was to create a “How To” video. This video describes how to make an ever so famous grilled cheese sandwich. I modeled my video style after one of my favorite food channels on YouTube, Binging with Babish. I don’t really have the same soothing deep voice he …

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This is a post for this assignment here. This assignment ironically was like herding cats, but instead with dogs. My dogs listen pretty well, but are so hard to sit still together. Anyways, here’s the ad. This was the best of a couple takes and the most they were able to sit still. The video …

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This is a review of my 1988 Nissan Pathfinder for this assignment. I really had to try and give a condensed version of this car’s story because I could probably ramble on for over 20 minutes. One of my favorite YouTube channels to watch is Regular Car Reviews. I tried to replicate that style with …

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This concludes week 10, full of videos and video editing. My two Daily creates are right here below. @ds106dc #ds106 #tdc1909 On the inside I'm a teenage girl and I crave attention pic.twitter.com/twXcH8fToZ — Daniel Z (@UMWdan) April 1, 2017 @ds106dc #tdc1908 pic.twitter.com/izRPBakdB9 — Daniel Z (@UMWdan) March 30, 2017 Assignments This week I chose …

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Here is the scene review form Bourne Ultimatum. Most of my thoughts are actually in the video, so I will just outline the process here. I downloaded the clip from youtube and used iMovie to actually edit the video. For the Voice over I found it easier to watch the video separately with headphones on, …

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Ever wanted to know what Agent Roberts was up to? Now is your chance. The questions answered are (in order) When someone yawns do you also yawn? What do you think of garden gnomes? If you were being chased by a gorilla and had to choose going down a manhole or into a 7-11, which …

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One second is not a lot of time. What can be accomplished in a second or less? You could blink or double click a mouse. Your heart could beat once too. In one second, a top fuel dragster can use 11.2 gallons of nitro methane fuel. Usain Bolt could sprint 11 meters. Needless to say …

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This assignment was to create a video which shows where my shoes take me. Where do they take me? Watch this and find out! This video tries its best to follow me throughout my day. Of course it is not 100% accurate, otherwise it would have been 24 hours long. The video starts with me …

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The assignment that I chose was to do was a college snapshot. For this assignment I was to chose some photos that highlighted my college career so far, and are sort of interesting. I obviously took more photos than the amount that are there in video, but I had to narrow them down somehow. The …

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This week was pretty good and straight forward. The web assignments are pretty fun and include some new tools and techniques I haven’t used before. This is the first time I’ve used the X-ray Goggles tool to mess with HTML and webpages. Other than that this week was pretty simple and wasn’t too challenging, just a …

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The top 3 posts are: This logged Google Maps Trip: I really wanted to do this assignment but I don’t think I would have had enough time to do it, or battery. Where I grew up there were a lot of places that I would like to revisit and it’s really cool that they were …

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Once upon a time there was a small internet that didn’t have a lot of connections and was limited to the number of people on it. One day however, the US government issued a policy called open door, and released the floodgates of the internet to the public. Everyone was on it and had a …

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This assignment was pretty fun. I had done something similar before but this one is now connected to the spy theme. This one predicts what sort of spy you are, either a badass or a weird one. The badass being more like Jason Bourne and the weird one is equal to Johnny English.  The quiz …

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This assignment was pretty cool. As a CS major, I end up downloading a lot of neat things for classes, or someone in a class mentions something that is open source that I should get. How many open source programs do I currently have? Currently on my computer I have Firefox, R, Paintbrush, GIMP, Audacity, VLC, …

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This assignment was to edit the web contents to create a story. We were to use Mozilla’s X-Ray Goggles tool to edit and manipulate the page’s code to make a story. This tool edits the HTML code in the web page and lets you mess around and edit the text. A direct link to the …

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I listened to the first radio show that was on air and that was the Miami Spy Convention. There is always some pressure to be the first group presenting your project, even when it’s through the internet and you’re not actually there. The Miami Spy Convention follows several radio show hosts that are in Miami …

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The radio show is finally over! My daily creates were posted below. @ds106dc #tdc1895 pic.twitter.com/RRay6pQyjs — Daniel Z (@UMWdan) March 17, 2017 @ds106dc #tdc1894 pic.twitter.com/EEdvKCyR0r — Daniel Z (@UMWdan) March 16, 2017 The link to the radio show and it’s process can be found here <—- Doing group projects is always going to have its …

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