For this assignment, we were to make a trailer for a TV show that’s run its course. I chose the tragically short lived sci fi/western Firefly. Apparently you can watch the entire series on YouTube, plus it’s on Netflix. For anyone who hasn’t watched it yet, you’ve …
Look, Listen, Analyze
Analyze the camera work: The camera in this scene switches to three different views. One, of the broadcasters which seems to be the main focus of the scene. Two, the workers who are working behind the scenes like the camera guy, the sound people, and the director. …
Favorite Actor/Actress Highlight Reel (3 Stars)
Description of Video Assignment: “Create a 30 to 60 second highlight reel of your most enjoyable movie scenes from your favorite Actor/Actress.”
The Story
Steve Carell has always been one of my favorite actors. He plays the boss of my favorite TV show The …
Description of Video Assignment: “Channel your inner ESPN and clip together highlights of your favorite athlete, set it to some music, and add an intro.”
The Story
Blake Griffin is one of my favorite NBA players. He plays for the Los Angeles Clippers but I first …
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 …
I really am using this scene way too much. First it was with my trading card, then it was with my marvel video which I just finished editing and post later, and now this. The biggest reason why I’m using this scene for my analysis is that I already add …
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 …
If you are confused about what my title is suppose to mean for this assignment I’ll explain it for you. For this assignment we had to pick a theme, create a compilation video about that theme, and then put it to some music. I think you can guess why I …
Like this assignment but it did prove difficult even though the idea seemed simple enough. For this assignment I had to create a video that showed the change in time throughout the day at a single location. Simple right, it was until I realized that I don’t stay at a …
Roger Ebert’s article, which can be found below, does make an interesting point. I normally only watch movies for their entertainment values, but if I were to watch one so that I can analyze it then I think the method he describe would be quite useful. He suggests that when …
This is the fourth week summary. I have to admit that this was another good week learning great stuff. During this week i learned many new aspects of video story telling. Everyday, I watched many videos; however, before taking this class, i never noticed the techniques that many of the …
For this daily create we were prompted to cast a shadow and take a picture of it, so here is my shadow!
“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 …
Today’s daily create was to make a hyperbolic tile! I thought mine was pretty cool. It is a mix of colors into a design and the design makes a wolf.
Bruce Almighty
No sound 6 or 7 different angles Lighting was fairly normal, being that it was not really a sad or scary scene I would guess The view during this scene did not switch often, I felt that I was pretty much always looking at it as a spectator…
I believe that John West’s idea of watching a film and stopping it at different points to observe it is a very smart approach to studying films. I know that if I was told to study a film that there would be no way I could study it just by …
Description of Assignment: Channel your inner ESPN and clip together highlights of your favorite athlete, set some music, and add an intro.
In order to create this assignment I used Quick Time and iMovie which already come previously downloaded to Macs. I got all of my videos …
Description of Assignment: Choose something that you love and make a video of it! You can take pictures or videos and combine them into one final video. Try to find music that has to do with the thing you love and add it to the video. …
Week 4 Daily Create 2 (7/16)
We are making hyperbolic tilings today: The Daily Create 1285 (7/16)
Hyperbolic Tiling
“How awesome is this? Make your own and show us!” Today we are asked to make a hyperbolic tiling photo! I looked up examples on google images and I found a lot of different and fascinating photos. I used Paint on my computer and created my very own hyperbolic tiling …
For this Daily Create we were prompted to create a hyperbolic tiling. Here is mine, I hope you enjoy!
I was a little confused by this one so I used paint to help me with my daily create! here it is!…
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…
For this daily create we had to take an image and using thing hyperbolic tiling generator create our own. I decide to that some abstract art and see what it would look like. I think my experiment came out quite well if I do say so myself.
A cluster of blue stars fell to the earth, and landed in a boiler room. The room burst into vaper making a high pitch note as if a dog whistle was being used. The star shot back into space from the explosion like a dart going towards a dart board. …
Today’s daily create was to create a story using as many new words that were just added to the Oxford Dictionary as you could. Here is my hilarious story!
One day, I was looking a HOT MESS in my JEGGINGS swinging a KETTLEBELL at the gym. I decided to take …
