So for my video essay, I chose to to Django Unchained. I tried my best I really enjoyed reading Ebert’s

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This week was a big preparation week for what’s to come next week. I learned a lot about the directing of a movie through reading the articles and watching video, and I got to apply it when I watched Django Unchained. We also started to plan our Video Show. We are going to continue with the same […]

Week 1o Daily Creates #ds106 #tdc1534 Too busy to do a daily create because I was laying in a king size hotel bed!! — Christina Gaul (@chrissy_gaul) March 22, 2016 https://t.co/NgCkBmV78U via @giphy its not always the best idea to get creative with bikes #ds106 #dailycreate #tdc1537 — Christina Gaul (@chrissy_gaul) March 24, 2016 Both […]

Here’s my trailer for my group’s video project titled “College is a Rodeo”. Since we are kind of limited to our place, we’re taking our characters to college. They will be exploring their experiences in this video series, so here the student Danny is introducing himself and showing off what he does just a little. … Continue reading College is a Rodeo (Trailer) →

This is a short video of me just playing one of my favorite games, OFF, in accordance with this assignment which asks us to show what our favorite thing to do is. Incidentally, I’m not really that big on gaming, but I spend a whole lot of time watching YouTube and gaming channels. I figured … Continue reading OFF to Play: My Favorite Thing to Do →

Here is my video essay on a scene from Django Unchained. I really enjoyed watching the movie, and I struggled a little with picking a scene, but I didn’t want to go in too many directions for the sake of time, so I chose something that covered several of our topics while being interrelated. I used … Continue reading Video Essay: Talkin’ Bout Django →

So my radio show group and I decided that since we had to much fun producing our radio show, why not continue and do a little puppet show. We are basing the show off of en episode of Parks and Recreation where Leslie Knope has a Galentines day ( in lieu of Valentine’s Day) with … Continue reading "The Return of the Traveling Girls"

Wow can’t believe how time is flying! Week 10 is complete! This week we focused on videos. I reviewed many, many resources that taught me about the detail that goes into the creation of movies and how to analyze them. As such, I took this new information from these resources and applied them to a … Continue reading Week 10 Summary

One of this week’s tasks was to complete ten stars worth of video assignments, four of which had to involve my western character. As such, for this assignment I acted as my character, Talie. You can read more about Talie here. This assignment required me to create a commercial for something I created myself. As … Continue reading Talie’s DIY Commercial

I found this assignment actually quite fun to complete. For this assignment I had to act as a meteorologist and inform my listeners on the upcoming weather conditions. For this week we had to complete ten stars worth of video assignments and at least four of those stars had to revolve around my created western … Continue reading The Weather in Tombstone, Arizona

My lame excuse 2. Bike to work day was on the 20th!

For my last dailycreate of the week we had to make some form of bike art. I really had no idea what to do for this. The first thing that came to mind was little kid coloring books. So I googled “bike coloring page,” saved the image I liked and uploaded it into paint. Once in paint […]

For my last video assignment of the week I completed Play it Backward, Jack. It is worth 3 stars to finish me out at 10 1/2 stars this week. This assignment tells you to take a normal activity, but play the video backwards. For this I decided to use my cat, Snowball. I recorded him coming […]

Continuing on with my video assignments for the week, I selected to do It’s Vacation Time. It is worth 3 1/2 stars to bring my total up to 7 1/2 stars thus far. This assignment tells you to make a video of your favorite vacation. Last month I studied abroad with UMW in the Galapagos Islands, […]

This week we had to do 10 stars of video assignments with at least 4 being of our character. This assignment called what do you do? instructs you to make a video clip (no longer than 8 seconds) of a specific thing you do on a daily basis. It is worth 4 stars. After like an hour […]

#tdc1534 for this daily create, we had to make a “lame excuse” as to why we were too busy to

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….. IS TO PLAY FIELD HOCKEY!!!!! To complete this assignment, I used a YouTube video of myself that I (helped)

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This week we had to work on two daily creates. They were both fairly easy, and I’m pretty happy with the results. Here are the daily creates I completed this week! @ds106dc #ds106 #dailycreate #tdc1535 I attempted to create my dog! pic.twitter.com/l8H6I6MlYJ — Tiffany Tueros (@tifamonster) March 22, 2016 @ds106dc Bike art! #tdc1537 #ds106 #dailycreate […]

This week was all about video and man was it a learning process. But, before we get into that – here are the daily creates I completed! 3/19: Created a snippet of life around me. @ds106dc #tdc1532 a little bit of nature(life) and a little bit of the Weeknd pic.twitter.com/pdljJ1ETIf — Tierra (@wildwebds106) March 19, … Continue reading Weekly Summary 3/18 – 3/25

For this week we had to select from several video assignment bank options. I decided to go with My Favorite thing. This assignment bank post tells you to take a short video of yourself doing your favorite hobby then explain the hobby in a blog post. One of my favorite hobbies is snowboarding. This is a […]

This week, our group decided to continue on with the Rodeo, but as a video. We are using the same group as before to set up the show.  We are also going to incorporate the same characters as before, and make an extended version of the Rodeo.  We are going to include the robbery that […]

Even though we have looked at video before,  this week involved more analyzing of camera placement, and why directors chose certain shots over other. I learned how important the rhythm of a scene is, and how it can make a scene feel awkward when done wrong and it can make it almost humorous when its […]

As told in my last post, I said I was going to bless you all with a little trailer of what our vlogs next week will consist of – well here it is! I simply filmed myself with my camera, went to audacity and made a voice over. I thought it would be funny and … Continue reading The wait is over… sort of…

I have decided to plan a video show with the same radio show group. I think i’m a little more excited because we have decided to do a puppet show! We don’t know exactly what characters or theme it will be. Each one of us will create our own character and story and then we will … Continue reading "Video Plan"

I can't do a daily create today bc i don't have time!! (Even tho it takes like 2 mins :)) #tdc1534 — Maria Rivas (@marsbars610) March 21, 2016 Rip Van Winkle woke up and had no idea what century he was in, and was SO confused #tdc1533 #dailycreate — Maria Rivas (@marsbars610) March 20, 2016 … Continue reading "Daily Creates"

This week a few of the girls from the radio show group and I decided to work on this video assignment we were provided. It was a little rocky at first just because everyone’s schedules’ were so hectic but in the end everyone is now on board and on the same page. What we’re aiming … Continue reading Anotha one! (plan)

This week, some of my radio group and I got together and decided to organize a video show! We had a bit of trouble connecting with everyone over the weekend due to people having not-school things to do, so for a minute we thought we wouldn’t be able to make a show at all, but … Continue reading Here’s the Plan: Video Show →

For this video assignment, “What do you do?” I was to record myself doing something I do every day. As such, I decided to record a video of myself skating. I chose to video myself skating because I really like to skate (well most of the time…) and I spend a lot of my time … Continue reading What do you do? Video Assignment

This week we were to complete one of the provided video assignments so, I chose to complete the video assignment titled “My Favorite Thing To Do”. For this assignment I was to video myself doing my favorite hobby and describe what I am doing in the video and why this hobby is my favorite thing … Continue reading My Favorite Thing to do

For today’s daily create we had to use an online version of etch-a-sketch called itch-a-sketch and create DS106 in it. This took me like 4 times to even become legible. I thought I was a lot better at using this thing, but I guess not anymore. I think it turned out pretty ugly, but this was my […]