1. number1fio

    Can I Take your Order?

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    I selected this week’s assignment because it has to do with food and because it sounded funny. The assignment I selected was pretend i’m ordering food at McDonalds in an accent that is different than mine. I’m not great at accents so I slightly changed the assignment and did not select an accept per say but…
  2. number1fio

    Foley Proof – The Lion Sleeps Tonight

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    If you’d like to hear my foley click on the place button. I’ll provide the making of story below. I had fun doing this assignment. I’m a night owl and planned to work on it last night when my husband was sleeping but thought better or it and decided he wouldn’t appreciated me running around…
  3. ctwilker

    Did you see that? It changed! Rewind!

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    Write a blog post that includes your response to the methods suggested by Ebert- why might they work (or not)? Summarize what you learned from the two videos you watched about cinema techniques. I thought Roger Ebert’s “How to Read a Movie” was very interesting and insightful. For those that have never heard the basic […]
  4. acruz12

    Simba’s Dream

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    For this assignment, we went brought back the Foley assignment for a 2nd round, taking the clips that the class created and pulling it into the Chaplin video as an exercise of our video editing skills.  Additionally, we took time to create introduction, layer on a new soundtrack, and modify the middle of the story. […]
  5. acruz12

    That Rug Really Tied the Room Together…

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    For this week’s exercise, “Look, Listen, Analyze” I looked at the the “Good Will Hunting (Bar Scene). Camera Work Analysis (no sound) The beginning of the scene has the Ben Afleck, Matt Damon and crew entering the bar in the background, with the bar and other people in the foreground.  Ebert’s acknowledgement that the background […]
  6. LRo

    Satisfy the Senses

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    I selected the last scene from the Gangs of New York for my look, listen and analyze assignment. This is a movie that I remember watching when it first came out….although I couldn’t believe that it had been filmed 12 years ago! How time flies! In watching the scene, I noticed different things when I isolated my […]
  7. acruz12

    Back, Back, Forth, and Forth…

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    For this week’s activity, Reading Movies, I looked at the Ebert’s perspecitve on on “How to Read a Movie.“. Ebert’s methods aligned with several concepts that I was aware of consciously and unconsciously. A few of them actually contradicted ideas that were presented in the other videos, not to mention insights recently shared with me […]
  8. cew5x

    The good, the bad, the weeks 6 and 7 summary…

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    This week was about finally getting (just a little) bit more used to Audacity, appreciating Movie Maker’s simplicity and then wishing it had more editing power when it came to audio (or that I knew more about audio editing in Movie Maker) and making peace with “good enough”.  First though, the fun stuff (at least […]
  9. cew5x

    One Man’s Trash…

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    Rather than dig for one last idea for a story, I decided to look at other classmates stories this week.  I love seeing what my classmates come up with the little window it opens into our lives.  I think there are some good things here–even if the original poster wasn’t so sure. The first idea […]
  10. number1fio

    The Champ

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    I developed The Champ, a story of a boxing match as told by sounds and no narration for several reasons.Click the play button to listen to The Champ. I thought the story would be easy to follow. Boxing does not require much narration to understand and has a very simple story line. I thought the story…
  11. number1fio

    The Big Cheese

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    I created a short new story about the Wisconsin Dairy Council’s response to the California happy cows ad campaign called the The Big Cheese. Press the play button to listen to the big cheese. I wrote it because I thought it was funny and because I remember thinking about the commercial and Wisconsin’s reputation as…
  12. number1fio

    Week 3: Try Hard with a Vengeance

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    The title of this week’s summary is a play on the classic Die Hard with a Vengeance. I debated if I could refer to it as a classic then realized that its in 20 years old. They classify music that that 20 years old as classic rock so I guess the same would be true…
  13. number1fio

    You Should Have Seen it in Color

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    There is a country song I really like called, should have seen it in color that was the inspiration for this photo. The song features a grandfather telling his grandson son about what it was like in the “good old days,” the chorus is something along the lines of, “A picture’s worth a thousand words,…
  14. number1fio

    When life gives you lemons, grow an apple lemon bush.

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    This is the second of the visual assignments I’ve completed for week three. I was looking at red images for my last assignment including roses, barns, and apples because I think red is a powerful color. That made me think about apples and agriculture, specifically bushes. Then I thought, would it be funny if something…
  15. cew5x

    Chaplin Foley Re-Boot (or just boot?)

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    I saw the movie the Life of Pi not too long ago, and this Chaplin clip reminded me of the movie in that both characters are stuck in a confined space with a dangerous predator.  I only made it 1/3 of the way through the book when it came out several years ago.  The movie […]
  16. number1fio

    The Story Behind the Picture Perfect Gallery

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    I really enjoyed this activity, in fact so much so that I spent 25 minutes on it instead of 15 – whoops. I selected taking photos in and around my condo because it is convenient and has a mix of different areas of explore. I considered going to the park being me but feared that…
  17. number1fio

    Stop or my Mom Will Shoot a Bad Photo

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    I chose to take pictures in silly positions recommended in 10 Unconventional Tips to Become a Better Photographer and follow the rule of thirds described in Don’t Just Shoot. I think I have inadvertently taken pictures following the rule of thirds before. The most classic being sky, water, and beach you get a nice combination…
  18. cbedross1

    Weekly Summary Week 6 and 7

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    Definitely the most interactive assignments thus far has been the past two weeks revolving around video reviewing and editing. This was a very informative week for me since previously I’ve had absolutely no video editing experience. In fact, when watching a YouTube video, for example, it never occurred to me how titles or credits were […]
  19. cbedross1

    Looking Back at Storifying Ideas

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    This week I have taken some time to review my classmates blog posts relating to their ideas of things that can be storified. There were a lot of good ideas that spanned across a variety of creative topics, from grammar instructions to amplified guitar pedal boards. One thing I observed however, was that there were […]

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