This week my group began working on our video show, which will be a sequel to our radio show. It will be called Noir NOT The Father: The Reunion. This show will have a similar format to our radio show, and will include flashbacks into all of our characters’ pasts, as well as new twists.… Read More

For one of my assignments this week I chose to do the assignment, Special Person Montage, that was submitted by Travis Peed. The assignment is to, ” to decide on who is special to you. It could be a relative, sibling, parent, friend, mentor, celebrity, or anyone. Then you are to make a video of images […]

We had a daily create this week that asked us to write a letter to the audience through a video format. I chose to create a story about how two people met. I included specific locations to make it feel […]

It was a busy week in ds106! This week we were asked to live tweet a radio show and blog about what we thought about it. I listened to the Noir Buzz. I enjoyed live tweeting because it gave me a opportunity to view the work of my classmates and give any feedback I had […]

The video presented here is a montage of various Stanley Kubrick film scenes in which he uses the technique of “one-point perspective”. First of all, what jumps out at me is how I did not know Stanley Kubrick’s influence on my film […]

Well since we have already said that cheer is my life I felt as though this was appropriate in the sense that I had just gotten back from practice and look terrible and rough. My life is super weird and I love cats, I have actually just a app and merged my face with a … Continue reading My Life Is Awkward →

A suggested video for this week was an interview with the infamous Alfred Hitchcock. It begins in the middle of the interview but he gets straight to the point of describing the magic of filmmaking. His description seems very simple […]

I didn’t get a chance to do daily create during the week, so I couldn’t do yesterday’s because it involved one from the day before, which made it hard because I didn’t have to do three, I had to do two. So I don’t like rain, rainy days and thunderstorms and that is because they … Continue reading Rain, Rain Go Away →

Learning how to read a movie proved to be more fun than I expected, but noir films are still not my preferred genre! After reading Roger Ebert’s article I feel as though I will be more inclined to watch the arrangement of scenes and how characters are placed! I also found myself watching more than […]

For my second daily create I chose to do the motion blur assignment. This assignment was pretty straight forward. I couldn’t seem to find a shutter speed option on my phone camera but I was able to get the effect by moving the camera while taking the picture

It was very cool to listen to my group’s radio show, Noir NOT The Father, live last week. I think we did a really good job and we got a lot of good feedback from people who liked different aspects of the show. I enjoyed working in a group setting for the first time in… Read More

In August of 2008, Roger Ebert, provided a wonderful article on how he came to know how to “read a movie”. He makes it sound so easy but by using the techniques he has been introduced to over the years. […]

So the radio show weeks are coming to a close but Noir Not the Father lives on! Listening to the show live was really awesome. We had a few technical difficulties but overall it went great! I think the show sounded good and all the editing really payed off. Tweeting along with everyone listening was … Continue reading Final thoughts on Noir Not the Father

This week, I was able to listen to my group radio show and Noir Buzz.  It was nerve racking listening to our show. The Noir Buzz, I had a hard time following. For the video assignments, four of us from the group decided to work together to make a video. For the daily creates, I … Continue reading Weekly Summary -Week 9 →

I made a staircase for the dream of graduating with my Bachelor’s degree. Each step to take is a semester at a time. After ever semester that I finish, I will be one step closer to that dream. I did this one in publisher. Using text boxes over top of cube shape designs pulled into … Continue reading A dream staircase →

This week we had two options of completing 8 starts worth of video assignments or creating a trailer for a 15-30 video with a group that related to our noir characters. I chose the second option. My radio show group House of Noir decided to get back together and work on this project with our […]

After reading the How to read a movie article, I watched the Tarantino clip, Examples of Editing Techniques, and Camera Angles and Techniques. Tarantino has the habit of using the camera angle from below. Watching the clip, it reminded me of the films that I had watched by him. The angle always seems to be looking at … Continue reading Learn How to Read a Movie →

This video assignment can be found here:                                              Create Your Own Music Video I decided to complete this video assignment to fulfill the requirement in creating a video that relates to our character in … Continue reading Uptown Funk Parody Cover →

This week we were asked to read and watch some clips that related to how to read a movie. Prior to this assignment I had no idea whatsoever about how you read a movie. The Roger Ebert article “How to read a movie” was very helpful for me. I was able to figure what the […]

As we near the end of our radio show projects, it is pretty easy to say that it was a small adventure for me, awkward at times yet really entertaining on the other end. I have to say that it was very rewarding to hear our own radio show (despite how weird it is to … Continue reading Final Radio Show Reflection →

We had to complete two daily creates this week! 1.) I took a picture of something and made it blurry. This is a family picture that was on my desk and I moved my camera rapidly along with the frame to make the photo blurry. 2.) I also read aloud a poem I wrote about […]

I listened to the Noir Buzz on thursday night. Bonds mentioned that this will be a unique show in that there are only two members in this group which I can only imagine had advantages and challenges of its own. I enjoyed the bumpers and commercials in the show. I also enjoyed the upbeat music […]

Four of us out of our group decided to work together to make a video. Thanks to Patrick, who started the  by setting up the google doc. We have all contributed to the ideas and script for the video, but Patrick had taking the leadership role for the video. I story line is about a … Continue reading Video Assignment →

This week we began working with video along with finishing up listening to the last few radio shows. I was really exited to begin working with video. I really enjoyed a daily create I did a few weeks ago where I made a trailer for a horror movie so I was excited to work with…

I listened to this radio show on Thursday, 3/19.  I really liked the music  to it, but couldn’t follow along to what was going on.  I did enjoy what I could get out of it.

Just listened to Noir at Night and Silk Road and both were really awesome! Noir at Night was a creative way of expressing the opinions of the noir characters on noir-esque movies. The audio was a bit choppy but the sound effects added were really great and added to the overall experience. The accents also really helped … Continue reading Noir at Night and the Silk Road

House of Noir is back! For my video assignments this week I chose to do option 2, making a 15-30 minute short video with a group using our noir characters. The House of Noir got back together this week to complete this assignment for the next two weeks. We came up with the idea to…

This radio show project has probably of the most unique group project projects I have worked on. It was different in that there were so many different elements that were coming together to make the radio show possible. Each one of my group members had a unique character and trying to find a base where […]

I must apologize for this but I could not get my computer to work for the video essay, it kept freezing and restarted it twice when I tried to download 4k video downloader. so I am going to have to rely on this post for my applying new knowledge video essay. I watched Kiss me … Continue reading Not A Video Essay →