This is a video about my day. It just includes a short trip I made. Can you guess where? I really liked making this video overall, but the actual process itself was odd. Recording a video in public is not really something I’m comfortable with and I don’t think many other people around me would … Continue reading "A Day In The Life: Costanza Quality"

Archives For this assignment, we had to create a Vine of an object moving. Since Vine no longer exists, I took the creative liberty of using SnapChat instead. I thought a video of an inanimate object moving is pretty dull so I decided to take a short clip of Agent A on the way to her next mission. She even has her super special secret agent gear on! You can’t tell from the video but the flaps on her hat can actually act as propellers to get her out of any sticky situations she might come across!

So this video is paying homage to something that I love…ANIMALS!! If you can’t tell by the photos in this iMovie presentation, I am obsessed with almost every animals, especially puppies. I made this video using iMovie. I made a small collection on my laptop desktop, of some of my favorite animal photos. A lot …

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Archives For this assignment, I had to video myself (or Agent A in this case) doing something they like to do in my downtime. In this case, Agent A is enjoying her favorite treat, a bully stick. I made a short clip with an introduction and of myself handing her the bully stick and then recorded her chewing it, even with a few close ups! Agent A doesn’t get a lot of downtime from her job as a secret agent but when she does, the bully stick is her go to treat of choice! Its her way of relaxing, similar […]

This is a post for this assignment here. This assignment ironically was like herding cats, but instead with dogs. My dogs listen pretty well, but are so hard to sit still together. Anyways, here’s the ad. This was the best of a couple takes and the most they were able to sit still. The video …

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For this assignment I decided to do the College Collage project. This assignment was worth 4.5 stars. I started by collecting a bunch of my favorite college photos from my phone and old Facebook photos. I tried to get a variety of pictures with the most important people in my life. I also tried to …

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I’m proud to say that I completed my mission this week =) 3 TDCs were done here, and the rest of the video editing were also complete. It did take a while to finish everything but I had a lot of fun in the process; when one didn’t work, I moved onto the next assignment, and extended my scope of …

This was my first video without actually filming in person and I am so proud of myself =) I used iMovie for the movie editing software; all of the pictures were from Google Images and the background music was from SoundCloud (Yiruma’s Hope). With the experience I’ve gained from audio editing, compiling both music and clips (in this case, pictures) …

Another week of Video Assignments. I did 9 stars worth of character videos and 4 stars of another video assignment. I love making videos with iMovie and this gave me a good chance to use it again. I will miss making videos for this class. I also did 3 daily creates this week which were … Continue reading Week 11 Summary

@ds106dc #tdc1915 @ds106dc pic.twitter.com/c59WpGBb3s — Heather Slota (@slotaheather) April 8, 2017 @ds106dc @ds106dc #tdc1916 Teach a dance class! pic.twitter.com/3NQJd4p3El — Heather Slota (@slotaheather) April 8, 2017 @ds106dc Can't wait for summer 🙂 @ds106 #tdc1912 pic.twitter.com/pIW8QPle3a — Heather Slota (@slotaheather) April 6, 2017

Stars: 4.5 I am me. I am Agent Reveal. I decided to use pictures to describe who Agent Reveal is. This is similar to the “Who is Agent Reveal” assignment, but this time, I am talking about who she really is, more personal things with some awesome guitar riffs in the background!    

Stars: 4.5 Instead of doing a character description on a character from a movie, I decided to do my character, Agent Reveal. I used clips from movies to describe what I do through video. I thought this was a cool assignment and really allowed me to show who my character was through other movies.   … Continue reading Who is Agent Reveal?

A new mission I think we should embark on is researching the life of a true spy.  Basically research the life of one spy and blog about their life. Investigate the type of life they lived and how they keep their identity a secret. You can blog about different missions that they went on or …

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This week was hectic. It seems that every time there is a group project, I have multiple exams that week. Thank goodness that I manage my time wisely so I could study, comment on the ds106 site and meet up with my group to record. We recorded and created the video called “Your Guide to […]

Tuesday was such as beautiful day that it was the ideal day to film Agent Nice Guy’s feet. I thought that she deserved a break from her Thursday (in reference to Agent Nice Guy’s Thursday, an audio clip that I made previously about how she was running in the rain until the sun finally came out at the end) and …

Stars: 4 The movie that I decided to spoil was Passengers. I recently just watched it and after watching it I was disappointed. But, now that I reflect it was actually a really good movie. It was fun to guess why they woke up in the beginning and then become very shocked on why they … Continue reading Passangers Spoiler

In this blog I am talking about the Canva tutorial video I created. My inspiration for this tutorial was mainly learning how to record your computer screen. I have always seen people record tutorials on their computer screen but I never tried it myself. So I decided to give it a shot, and I think …

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April 3: On Monday, Katey, Callie and I meet up and filmed most of our video and audio part. We used the media production studio to record ourselves. We thought it would be cool to film ourselves in darker lighting to give the effect of keeping the secret agent’s identity a secret. I never used […]

This is a review of my 1988 Nissan Pathfinder for this assignment. I really had to try and give a condensed version of this car’s story because I could probably ramble on for over 20 minutes. One of my favorite YouTube channels to watch is Regular Car Reviews. I tried to replicate that style with …

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This week, I was supposed to come up with ideas about a mission that involves the whole class. For a more productive mission, I believe the class should split into groups. One idea for a mission would be a guess the killer game. However, relating to the hack, we need to guess the traitor among […]

After enduring many, many arduous tasks (and I mean arduous!), it’s safe to say that we all became connoisseurs in this field (well, maybe junior connoisseur for me). Regardless, some of us, especially me, have learned new skills that will last a lifetime. Honestly, I have never thought that I would be able to utilize a movie maker software. I …

I had a tough time making this video mostly because I have never filmed on my own. It was quite interesting because  I got to experience the actual film process and I wouldn’t have gotten the chance to do so if it weren’t for this assignment. First, I had to think of ideas for making my very own “how to” …

Things are coming to a close in my last semester ever as an undergraduate! Sadly that means I have become increasingly busy but I dont mind because it keeps me on my toes. This weeks video assignments seemed to go a lot better than last weeks especially since I got my laptop up and running …

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Archives So this week, we were tasked with thinking of a mission for the class. My idea is similar to a scavenger hunt. A mutual super villain is created and the class has a goal of figuring out who it is. We break up into groups to “investigate” and find clues that are strategically placed. Usually I would suggest these be placed on campus or through downtown Fredericksburg but not everyone lives here. An alternate would be to place the clues on the class website and in our blogs. Each clue would have a riddle or something that would lead you to the next […]

Another week, another summery. This week I did 13 stars of video assingments. I started out with 4 1/2 stars by making the Kingsman Silent. I related this assignment back to our theme by using a spy film (my agent’s personal favorite film) The next assignment was another 4 1/2 stars about my daily routine. … Continue reading "Week 11 Summery"

For my last assignment, I decided to do Spoil a Movie! This assignment was rated 4 stars, and the task was to create a compilation of the most important scenes from a movie and try to do it in 30 seconds or less. If this was a mission, I would have failed. I could not get … Continue reading "Spoil a Movie"

This video is what my spy, Margaret de la Tour wish she knew when she was 16! To make this video, I pieced together clips using iMovie. I used time lapse mostly for the whole thing. I incorporated various angles and such to make it more interesting than if I just had it one angle ... Read more

Daily Creates: “Huntsman spiders have evolved to travel through sewer lines and into homes” @ds106dc #tdc1914 nope nope nope nope nope pic.twitter.com/S1Gzu6vBAw — Chris Markham (@Markham_McFly) April 6, 2017 Fear, uncertainty and doubt are all culminated in grades, especially  this time of year. @ds106dc #tdc1915 the "what if score" function on Canvas drives more fear, …

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For this assignment bank activity, my roommate helped me reenact the famous bathroom scene from Psycho, however in our kitchen. We had a lot of fun with it, up until the knife accidentally grazed  his head and I ended the video. No injury was caused, but I was very much scared. Don’t play with knives, …

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