Unfortunately the night that our radio show was on I had to meet with a group for another class. I…

This marked the second week of our DS106 radio show debuts.  For the second session I participated in the last shows of the week.  I had the chance to listen to half of my groups show Dinner Part at 6. Because I wasn’t at my computer I used my phone to tweet along and the … Continue reading Radio Show Tweet-Along: Week 2 →

For today’s daily create we had to do a video letter to ourselves in the future. I liked this assignment…

To start off video week I first finally ended radio show week. On Tuesday our Get A Clue radio show aired and I think it was a huge success. The ds106 world seemed to enjoy it and love/ hate the … Continue reading →

After reading Roger Ebert’s “How to Read a Movie” I learned a great deal about how to take a keener look into the cinematic techniques filmmakers use when making movies. Then I went on to watching each YouTube clips such as Examples of Editing Techniques and learning about the different editing techniques that filmmakers use. […]

For this week I watched Kiss Me Deadly, read “How to Read a Movie” by and Roger Ebert, and watched several other short videos about film making. This is my analysis of Kiss Me Deadly. I made the video using … Continue reading →

This week was really fun! I actually enjoyed doing the video work. Especially actually being about to watch movies and reading about the cinematic techniques. Anyways.. Let’s see how it went! Radio Listen along and Tweet along As always, it was a pleasure to be able to listen and tweet along to the radio shows this … Continue reading Time flies when you’re having fun – Week 9!

It was really fun getting to listen to my group’s radio show after everything was done. It was also cool to see people quoting things that I said in the show on twitter as they were listening to it. I don’t know if I would have necessarily done anything differently for the show. The only … Continue reading Inside Talking Final Reflection →

For this assignment I had to take a video and make it reverse http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/play-it-backward-jack/. I took a video of my friends kitten playing with a tennis ball and reversed it. Then I put it onto I movie and had to reverse it on there then uploaded it onto Youtube. In the video the first clip is … Continue reading Lets take it back now y’all

This video is for the Character Description assignment.  It said to make a video of any character, using pictures for…

4 stars For this video assignment, I decided to do a tutorial for opening a lock in 30 seconds (or less!). I was successful at completing this task. To record, I used my photobooth app on my laptop and moved them over into iMovie so I could do overlapp...

This is for “The Complete Package” video assignment.  The objective was to make a trailer for a tv show that…

For this assignment I had to take assignments I have done in class and make a video of them. http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/show-off/ I worked with Kendall Parker to combine our characters and make the video of both our characters. For this assignment we both took our favorite assignments that we did for our characters and then made a video. I … Continue reading I think its time to show off…

4 stars For this Video Assignment, I did the character description assignment where you’re supposed to use found video clips to compile a video that would describe the personality of a character. I put a little twist on this assignment and used Jessica Rabbit to portray the character of my Noir Character Sylvia Stone! Sylvia … Continue reading Jessica Rabbit as Sylvia Stone

Week 9 is coming to a wrap and the weather is changing… That has nothing to with DS106 but I thought I would include it as a nice reminder. This week I tweeted along with a radio show on ds106radio This is an awesome remix #ds106radio #noir106 #afternoondelight — Jack Eaton (@JackFEaton) March 17, 2015 […]

After I read Roger Ebert’s “How to Read a Movie” and watched a few short clips on how to analyze cinematic technics, I had to apply what I learned to any scene in a list of movies. I chose Notorious which was free on YouTube. I downloaded the 4K Video Download Software which was super useful. just plugged the youtube […]

This week was full of joy! I had to many good mementos in this class this week starting with daily creates, listening to my radio show live, and making the videos! It was interesting learning some cinematic tricks and techniques from famous hollywood films. This week I have done  2 Daily creates Wrote a final reflection … Continue reading Week 9 Summary- Getting Into Film Making →

This is a 4 star assignment to create a trailer for a Tv show of my choice. I picked How I Met Your Mother. It is by far the most amazing TV show I have watched. I enjoyed making this video and trying to remember funny scenes, look them up, download them and cut parts … Continue reading How I Met Your Mother Trailer- Video assignment →

This week I choose to do choice one in order to complete at least eight stars worth of video assignments. For my first video assignment I completed the “Mockumentary With Your Favorite Archtype” which was worth 4 stars. For this assignment I collaborated my noir character Nicolette Scott with Megan’s character Victoire Absinthe. I started […]

For my first daily create this week I did the assignment “A Dream Staircase”. I really enjoyed doing this daily create because I have many goals that I want to accomplish in life. My dream staircase has eight different steps. My first step is to graduate from college, which I will accomplish in May of […]

First off, I’m going to start this by apologizing for the amount of um’s and hair flips you’re about to witness. For this assignment, I decided to go ahead and pick a scene from the movie “A Postman Only Rings Twice”. My first thought was to go ahead and YouTube the clip of the movie … Continue reading Essay… in the form of Video

I have made a chretical analysis in this scene from the film “Kiss Me Deadly” I used what I have read from  “How to Read a Movie” article and also the different videos from Youtube. This is a 1 minute scene that I had to slow down so I can describe as much as possible of … Continue reading Video Essay Critical Analysis →

  I have made 10 comments in my fellow students blogs and noticed some pretty amazing work. I have also given feedback and some techniques to consider. Here are the links to the comments pages. http://sgrubbs2.com/character/scotts-visit-to-el-jota...

Design a DS106 T-shirt.  You can draw one, or even take a t-shirt you own and pin things on it.  Be creative.  Here is an example.

Audio had been the bane of my existence before I was introduced to video. Sooooooo much work goes into it that I feel like a piece of my life span goes into my final project. A five minute video would take in actuality five hours to complete and I’m just wadnwapodnae;ejaea.   Radio Show Listen Along: In all honesty I… Read more →

Week 9 was very hard for me.  Video assignments have been hard to do.  I decided to do the individual work because I have a lot going on right now and I don’t want to have to make someone else work on my schedule.    The first thing I did was my 2 daily creates … Continue reading 9 Weeks down →

This is a 4 Star assignment that I just loved doing.  It took me a long time because I’m not very good with video yet.   I started with Powerpoint and put in pictures of my dog Dixie.  Then I made a few video’s of her “fetching” and put them on Movie Maker so I … Continue reading Life as a dog →

The daily creates I did this week involved taking a blurry picture and making a poem about rain. I had taken this picture a long time ago at the bonfire during fall semester. My camera had been on a long shutter time that was more for fireworks than a static fire. That was when I had first gotten my camera… Read more →

Instead of doing the video assignments, Christine Loehr, Landon Epperly and I teamed up to continue and hopefully conclude the story behind Inside Talking. We had to organize our group as quickly as possible and decide on our approach to our video episode. In addition, each group member must produce a short (30-60 seconds)  “trailer” […]

I watched several of the videos on cinematic techniques.   I watched Kubricks one-point perspectives, this was interesting.  I have seen these movies but I didn’t realize that is was filmed that way to portray a feeling. I watched “The Shining” Zooms.  The zooms in this video made it very obvious that it is a very dramatic … Continue reading Reading assignments →