Last week was Thanksgiving break and I’ll be honest, it wasn’t filled with me working on my final project. Rather I relaxed and took time to clear my head. Believe it or not, this helped me with the project. This week I buckled down and started finding photos of all of the amazing places around […]

I have decided to stick with my original plan of tying together a story from Caesar’s perspective in Xena: Warrior Princess.  To accomplish this, I’ve created a fake twitter account for Julius Caesar where he regularly posts his own opinions (think ancient Donald Trump…) and links to more formal updates (such as public service announcements, […]

Hey guys! I saw an option to make a Pokemon card for three stars, and I couldn’t pass up the opportunity!  I loved Pokemon cards growing up, so I took a picture of one of my favorite Pokemon cards, Wailord ex, and edited it in Adobe Photoshop and named the Pokemon after myself: Connor Henning … Continue reading "Connor the Pokemon!"

This week I finished about half of my project. I made my video which is the bigger part of the project, it ended up being over ten minutes which is longer than expected. I used Audacity and windows movie maker to do all the editing, which I forgot to put in my credits, but they … Continue reading Story Progress #2 →

This week was one of my most productive weeks of the semester.  I was able to manage my tasks in a way that allowed me to get everything done across the entirety of the week, rather than waiting until the last second to complete everything at once.  I finished all daily creates and video assignments … Continue reading "Week 10 Summary: Making Movies"

I ran into a few problems with my original idea. I wanted to talk about how much technology I use in a week, but since it was a holiday, it wasn’t being used as much. Instead, I decided that I am going to make my project about how much technology an average person uses. I … Continue reading Final Project Update #2

Hey all! I just finished a remixed music video for Marilyn Manson’s “Beautiful People.”  I love this song, but I always thought the music video was excessively creepy, so I decided to take it to a less creepy level, by combining some concepts from the original video and videos from other songs.  The original video featured … Continue reading "Music Video Remix"

Hey all! Today I did a combination of the song “Say Something, I’m Giving Up On You” by A Great Big World featuring Christina Aguilera, and the Kris James and Lauren Legato cover.  I downloaded both songs using 4k Video Downloader, and loaded them into audacity. After fiddling with the beginnings of the songs, I got … Continue reading "Say Something, I’m Giving Up On You"

Hey Guys! Working on catching up some of the work I missed out on in the early part of the semester. Today, I decided to do a sort of audio remix on the song “Rap God” by Eminem.  I have used Audacity to do some audio editing that consists of reducing the speed of the … Continue reading "Rap God Remix"

-Create a silly movie poster –VisualAssignments1987-3.5 stars Take an exisiting movie poster and make it look silly. My final project involved an Ewok who wanted to be in a movie with Arnold Schwarzengger. This is his idea of a poster.   -Family friendly billboard-VisualAssignments1973- 4 Stars-photo Reconstruct an image of a billboard by photo editing … Continue reading "Final Project Update 2 week 13"

I began taping for my final project video! I started on Saturday at a Virginia Tech football game, and I got footage of people walking, jumping during Enter Sandman, and other various shots. I am pretty excited about the video. I am planning on taking videos everyday until next Saturday and then I will compile … Continue reading Final Project Update #2

So I have been working on the story/ poem that I have wanted to use for this project. I have narrowed it down to a poems that I have written. There is some language that in the process of making it I will change but as of right now I’m leaving it there for the […]

I am just doing an update on what I’ve been working on for my final project. Unfortunately, my idea fell through for the movie spoof I wanted to d. I decided to follow through with my other idea, the life of a physics major. I wanted to do this as a documentary style, at least … Continue reading Week 13 Update →

This week was all about brainstorming some ideas for the final project. It’s a lot hard to come up with than you think it is! I have been thinking all week and still am not sure this is something that I want to do. But I guess that’s the beauty of this project – if […]

This week I just did some brainstorming on how I want to do my final project. Probably my favorite assignment I have done this semester was my “where my shoes take me” video: I wanted to create something along the lines of telling a story through various media using something such as my shoes…so maybe … Continue reading Final Project Update #1

This week was mainly composed of me brainstorming what I wanted to do with my final project. It’s harder than you’d think figuring out what you want to do because you have to find a way that you can incorporate 4 different media outlets into the project. I thought about telling a story, doing a […]

I’ve spent all week trying to figure out something good to do for the final project. I think I’ve finally figured out something I can do. As you might remember from way back in my intro post, I’m a conlanger and worldbuilder. I’m going to put that to use with...

This week marked the beginning of the end. The task was singular: To begin thinking about a final project for ds106 that would combine at…

This week has largely been spent brainstorming ideas.  Any open-ended project is intimidating in that the possibilities are essentially endless and selecting the right idea is entirely dependent upon you.  Selecting a topic that will be continue to engage me and motivate me over several weeks is critical.  If anyone has noticed a slight theme […]

Four Categories I’m using: Visual – editing pics Design – editing background Audio – recorded files (Writing or Video), not sure yet. My Ideas: Creating a presentation or slideshow that’s going to involve a story that tells from a visual view dealing with a slideshow or collage, a design view with pictures, an audio, view narrating … Continue reading “Final Project Ideas? Outline”

This week was all about brainstorming and creating an outline for what I want to do. It was tough coming...

I am still trying to brain storm some idea for the final. For my final project I know I would like to use visual, writing, audio, and video as my mediums. These are the mediums I feel most comfortable using so that should allow me to do something bigger with them. I would like to … Continue reading "Final Project Proposal"

For my final project I want to tell the story of How The Internet Consumed My Life. I got the idea from the list of questions from Week 8. I want to use almost all of the media we have gone over and transition through them in a way that shows the progress I have […]

For my final project I will be combining 4 mediums of video, writing, audio, and visual to go about completing this assignment. I will be telling a story about my 2 years of college so far through these mediums. I was thinking about adding videos of my college life together using iMovie, then writing a … Continue reading Final Project Progress

So for my final project I want to use the four categories of video, audio, visual and writing to complete this project.  I want to take a story or a poem of my own and tell it though different mediums. I thinking that I’m going to combined all theses into a video of sorts. I […]

So far, only a few people have blogged about their project ideas. It is possible that people are just putting it off, but it could also be that people are struggling for ideas. Nothing is more intimidating than a blank … Continue reading →

After reading about the final project, I started to come up with some idea. I have decided that I would like to use photography, audio, video and design element. After doing some research, I want to do my final project as a video of clips of my daily life, more specifically my use of different … Continue reading Final Project Update

Since I am not a super creative person, I am thinking that I may just do my life story. I have done several assignments in the past about things I have done and places I have gone but I have not gotten into any of my childhood or experiences. I could incorporate the following media … Continue reading "Final Project Brainstorm"

This is just a post to go over some of the ideas I have been going over for my final project. I have a good idea of what I want to do and I think I know what types of media I will use also. The story: I wanted to do a spoof of some … Continue reading Preliminary Brainstorming →

Sorry, the song’s been in my  head since I read the assignment post. Here’s some thoughts/brainstorming for the final project ( transcribed from my notebook with additional comments as I think of them): 4 categories: Writing Visual Design Audio ehhh, maybe some video as well? not as comfortable with it, but could be useful.   … Continue reading Final project brainstorm 1 →