Video Essay

Video Essay

by @morgan_ds106

| ds106, Syndicated, videoessay
March 27, 2019

The Work Itself: This week I had some material to read and watch. The first was Roger Ebert’s How to Read a Movie. It was a very interesting read. What I didn’t realize was we see things moving from left to right as positive and things moving from right to left as negative. After I …
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Video Essay

by @madeleine_ds106

| Syndicated, videoessay
March 26, 2019

I decided to do my video essay on the scene “The Politics of Dancing” from the movie Atomic Blonde. I got a clip off of Youtube, but I was unable to download the clip because my computer has been refusing to download new attachments ...
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An Incredible Essay

by @christinac106

| Digital Storytelling Assignments, Syndicated, videoessay
March 26, 2019

This week is all about video, specifically analyzing cinematic camerawork and how it brings everything together. Since we have been looking at numerous aspects such as color, design, photos, audio, etc. throughout this course I was particularly excited to explore a different aspect of storytelling such as video. Prior to participating in this first initial […]
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Video Analysis of Mr. & Mrs. Smith

by @CatyWarner

| ds106, Syndicated, videoessay
March 26, 2019

This week we are doing video! While I only know video in the realm of iMovie, its not too difficult...
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Video Essay

by @Riley80256802

| Syndicated, videoessay, weekly assignments
March 26, 2019

The Work Itself: This week I had some material to read and watch. The first was Roger Ebert’s How to Read a Movie. I really enjoyed reading is the reasoning behind why subconsciously, we see things moving from left to right as positive and things...
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Video Essay – Rushmore

by @bfrullads106

| Syndicated, videoessay
March 25, 2019

Hey there everyone, here’s my video essay for #Ds106. The scene I chose to look at was the revenge scene from ‘Rushmore’ by Wes Anderson. I chose this scene specifically because it was from a movie that I really enjoy aesthetically. Plus, when I think of original directors, it is hard for me to think […]
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Reading Batman

by @CommTweetWithMe

| home, Syndicated, videoessay
March 24, 2019

This week is all about moving away from audio and towards video, specifically towards how everything we have explored over the last couple of weeks comes together to make a scene. With that being said, the first assignment we were to complete this week was meant to really get me thinking about all of the […]
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Seeing through new eyes

by paul bond

| ds106, Syndicated, videoessay
November 4, 2018

The video essay projects are another one of my favorite parts of ds106. While we do various analyses throughout the semester – story shapes, design blitz, etc. – people seem to put more into video. That’s probably because it’s a … Continue reading →
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the grinch and how i made the video essay

by @mbm87776980

| Posts, Syndicated, videoessay
November 3, 2018

bellow you will find my video essay of on a scene from the iconic moive, How The Grinch Stole Christmas i chose to do my video essay on the grinch because i find the movie to be very endearing in it message, and i thought it fitting for this project because of the ways in … Continue reading the grinch and how i made the video essay
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Video Essay

by @Tyra13748487

| Syndicated, videoessay, weekly assignments, Weekly Creations
November 3, 2018

https://youtu.be/RNTptuiWlWU For my video essay, I used a clip from the movie CoCo. I chose this scene because I felt as though it focused on a wide array of skills that we learned about through the readings and videos that we watched. This scene was a...
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Scene Breakdown: The Walking Dead

by @FaulconerKyle

| Syndicated, videoessay
November 2, 2018

This weeks focus was all about reading film and scenes. When I first looked at the title of this weeks focus I was unsure of how I would go about breaking down a scene. I initially thought I was suppose to describe a scenes plot or characters however after I watched a few helpful videos …
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Week 10 Video Essay

by @DigitalStoryTeller

| Syndicated, videoessay
November 2, 2018

Video editing is a challenge for me but I did it and it works. I do need to learn to use this software better. The sound echos in the beginning but gets better as it goes along. Unfortunately, this was a free trial and you will see the company logo appear on the …
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Pride and Prejudice

by @richelleholnick

| Assignment Bank, ds106, Syndicated, videoessay
November 2, 2018

For the video assignment, I had to learn some more about cinematography and the making of a good scene and then analyze one myself! I wanted something dramatic, which is what led me to this scene! I downloaded it off of Youtube with the help of a conve...
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Video Essay: The Cinematography of Hannibal

by @JessicaDS106

| ds106, Syndicated, videoessay
November 2, 2018

Note: if you cannot view this video, check out the Vimeo link here. This week, one of the assignments I was tasked to do, not for stars, was to create a video essay analyzing a scene of a movie (which I turned into a video essay about a scene from a TV show). I knew … Continue reading Video Essay: The Cinematography of Hannibal
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Avengers Analysis

by @EmilyHutchins8

| Assignments, Syndicated, videoessay
November 2, 2018

For my film analysis, I decided to use the movie Avengers 2. I have always liked the Marvel movies and figured they have so many characters and action scenes that it would be a good movie to look for the features. After I watched the videos on features...
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Video Essay

by @KaraDS106

| Syndicated, videoessay
November 2, 2018

What a hot mess. This took me about 4 hours and it’s terrible. I struggled to download from youtube, then struggled to work iMovie, then struggled to record audio in iMovie and ended up using audacity & importing my audio. WHAT A MESS. I’m still not sure that I even did this right. But it …
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Video Essay: Donnie Darko Fear and Love

by @ArthurDrag1

| Syndicated, videoessay
November 2, 2018

I decided to analyze the fear and love scene from Donnie Darko for the video analysis assignment. I tried to focus on the readings and videos with my response, focussing on the way the scenes were shot, what the symbolism that was trying to be conveyed was, and how effectively the director made these things … Continue reading Video Essay: Donnie Darko Fear and Love
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Hillmonger scene in Black Panther

by @OraMyAura

| Syndicated, videoessay
November 1, 2018

For my video essay post, I’m glad to say that after a few hours, I finally figured out how to upload at LEAST a minute and a half voice over for the scene I chose! Shew that was a process! After many, many, many tries of downloading the software recommended in the lesson, I was …
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Video Essay

by @tifamonster

| Syndicated, videoessay
November 1, 2018

For this assignment, I went to YouTube and looked up short clips of movies. I found a clip from the movie Hunger Games and decided to analyze it. I was a big fan of the book series when it came out, as well as the movies. I downloaded the clip from YouTube using a website … Continue reading Video Essay
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Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban

by @suzzcat

| ds106, Syndicated, videoessay
November 1, 2018

This was kind of hard, I used final cut pro to make the whole collage of the video and me talking. For the video, I downloaded it from youtube using y2mate.com and that was probably the easiest part. I then watched the video a few times and went over the things I remembered in the …
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Video Essay

by @Alexis54552906

| Syndicated, videoessay
November 1, 2018

This video essay wasn’t too bad for me. I was able to figure things out quickly and I didn’t mind doing it. First, I found a clip on Youtube that I wanted to use from a movie I wanted to analyze. Then I downloaded it using 4k video downloader I opened Imovie on my MacBook, … Continue reading "Video Essay"
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Spy!!!

by @MaddieM02790291

| ds106, Syndicated, videoessay
October 31, 2018

Once again, I was pretty nervous about the video essay when I first saw it… I was nervous about finding footage on YouTube, let alone downloading it somehow! As I started to read Roger Ebert’s How the Read a Movie and watch the clips, I started to at least understand what I was supposed to do. It was …
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A Hell-firey Video Essay

by @FCMaisano

| ds106, Syndicated, videoessay
October 31, 2018

So, for my video essay, I chose to look use the Lost Tapes episode “Hellhound. It is one of the four episodes that scared me as a child (along with chupacabra, skinwalker, and strigoi) that I made my character Maria interested in. I have already done posts with the “Chupacabra” and “Skinwalker” episodes, so now […]
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Boy…that was interesting

by @justzaying7

| Syndicated, videoessay
October 30, 2018

Well, this assignment was not easy. To say the least. It took me 6 hours…to do just the video. This is beside the time it took to understand the actual content. When it comes to my grasping of the topic itself I felt that there was definitely some room for improvement, but I also understand … Continue reading Boy…that was interesting
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O Video Why Art Thou?

by paul bond

| ds106, Syndicated, VideoAssignments, VideoAssignments439, videoessay
October 29, 2018

It’s been a long long time since I did a video essay, so I thought I’d give it a shot. Here I talk briefly about symbolism in O Brother Where Art Thou. Some of the clips I found on Youtube. … Continue reading →
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Video Essay project

by @TristenStevens3

| Syndicated, videoessay
November 6, 2017

This was my video essay I did. I used windows movie maker to put it together. The voice over might not be completely matched up because Movie Maker was being a bit difficult when I was trying to make it work. This is a scene from one punch man. It can be found on netflix.
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Supergirl Commentary

by @KaseyMayer

| Syndicated, videoessay
November 3, 2017

After reading on video analysis, I decided to take a look at show I wasn’t familiar with and watch the first episode so that I could look at it with a clean slate. I ended up choosing Supergirl because I’ve been looking to start the […]
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Your move, chief

by @Ms_AmandaP

| Syndicated, videoessay
November 3, 2017

The first task this week was to do a video essay of a scene of my choice. One of my favorite movies is “Good Will Hunting,” so I decided to roll with this option. In the movie Robin Williams plays a psychologist who is trying to help a brilliant young man (Matt Damon) who is […]
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Video Essay- The Flash

by @PamlanyeJordan

| Syndicated, videoessay
November 3, 2017

This was a challenging assignment for me. I personally have never consciously broken down a movie or tv show into such small components before. At first it was really difficult for me to grasp some of these concepts. Then the more and moreI learned about them the easier they were for me to pick out. … Continue reading Video Essay- The Flash
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Video Essay

by @lshaikh26

| Syndicated, videoessay
November 3, 2017

I started this assignment of video analysis by first completing all the readings and watching all the videos assigned. Then I logged into Netflix and watched two episodes of ‘The Flash’. I have never watched this show so, I liked it from its two episodes. I liked one of the scenes of 1st episode, but the …
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