Week’s Over. It’s late so I’m going to keep this summary a little bit shorter than usual. It was also a fairly short week in terms of how much total work there was, although each individual assignment took longer than usual. First we looked at Rodger Ebert’s piece on “reading movies”. Everything is explained in … Continue reading Weekly Summary 10

Reading Movies: http://applications.emmasaxophone.com/video-storytelling/reading-movies/ I found this article to be interesting and weird at the same time. The article had some good points on how to analyze and criticize a movie. I thought it was weird though how he went on and on and on about what he analyzed more then how to analyze. Look.Listen.Analyze: http://applications.emmasaxophone.com/video-storytelling/look-listen-analyze/ I never really tried analyzing a movie

This weekly focused on Video, which I actually enjoyed because I got to showcase myself a little more which is ALWAYS a fun thing to do. I learned a lot about film making and what goes into it, things like zooms and camera angles that I never even thought about were brought to my attention. […]

The Original Assignment I chose this assignment because I will take any excuse to listen to more music! I love the band “Haken” and I listen to all of their songs all of the time. They make concept albums which are one long story themselves so I thought they would be perfect for this assignment. … Continue reading Lip Sync Assignment

Here are my daily creates for this week: http://ds106.boscoe.net/daily-create/cartoonize-a-selfie/ http://ds106.boscoe.net/daily-create/akira-in-one-take/ http://ds106.boscoe.net/daily-create/feeling-groovy/ http://ds106.boscoe.net/daily-create/my-missing-pet/ Here are my video assignments for a total...

Roger Ebert’s “How to Read a Movie”: Ebert’s view of reading a movie was unlike anything I have ever even thought about. His analysis goes does all the way into how to view a character. He says that the characters on the right side of the image are positive, and characters on the left are negative. […]

The original Assignment I chose this assignment because I really really like movies and I think there a lot of inspirational movies out there that I want to share with people. Movies should be watched not just for entertainment, but they should be inspirational resources or they should make you expand your thoughts. I chose … Continue reading Movie Clips and Reflections

@ds106dc #tdc1390 #ds106 #dailycreate pic.twitter.com/5SzLfAOkeO — James Baylor (@JamesBaylorUMW) October 30, 2015

@ds106dc #tdc1392 #dailycreate #ds106 X-ray vision and super speed! pic.twitter.com/WbzKxuS6xF — James Baylor (@JamesBaylorUMW) November 1, 2015

@ds106dc #tdc1393 #ds106 #dailycreate pic.twitter.com/Z1wWtUYuwt — James Baylor (@JamesBaylorUMW) November 2, 2015

What’s Your Skills??? Was the name of this assignment. You were supposed to record something that you considered to be a skill. So I told my friends on the UMW Basketball team that I needed to record a skill of mine. They said lets show them how high you jump! I thought it was a […]

  This week I learned about the different techniques involved in film making and I learned how to do basic editing on videos through Movie Maker. It was fun doing video assignments this week because it was something new that we hadn’t done in the previous weeks. The feedback I got on my blog this … Continue reading Weekly Summary 10 →

This assignment was called “Highlight Reels”, you were supposed to take an athlete and create a highlight tape for them! So the athlete I chose to you was the one and only James Baylor, MYSELF! I used the highlights from my last season and mashed them all up together using windows movie maker, I got […]

It’s the first day of November, which also happens to be the last day of Week 10. Time for the summary! The first assignment I completed this week was reading Roger Ebert’s article “How to Read a Movie” and watching two short videos about cinema techniques. I wrote up a blog post about my thoughts … Read More →

This week was honestly one of my worst. I couldn’t get any of the video software to work on my computer so I wasn’t able to complete any of the video assignments on time. But I did learn that everything from the camera angles and how the cameraman zooms in, to things like lighting and … Continue reading →

@ds106dc #tdc1390 My response for Today's #ds106 Daily Create is horrorgami pic.twitter.com/G1zkBDg1LK — Adam Hoff (@swimmerdude79) October 30, 2015 For today’s daily create, I had to find some horrorgami, so I decided to go with an origami bat. #tdc1393 My response for Today's #ds106 Daily Create is pic.twitter.com/Wo0Bh5pZtJ — Adam Hoff (@swimmerdude79) November 2, 2015 … Continue reading →

This scene from “Good Will Hunting” extensively uses single shots while the two characters are talking.  One character tends to always be on the right, the other the left.  It starts and ends with the camera in front of the… Continue Reading →

For my second video assignment of the week, I chose to do the Signing Words assignment. It’s a four-star assignment, bringing my total for the week to eight stars. Here are the directions: This assignment requires you to take a video of yourself or someone else and finger spell a word or a phrase in Sign Language … Read More →

I watched the ending scene of the 3:10 to Yuma three separate times. The first time with no volume, the second time with the screen turned off, and the final time with nothing turned off. I have already watched this movie about 10 times before so it was nice to study something that I was … Continue reading Sensory Shootout

Video Assignments: This week I had to complete two video assignments totaling 8 stars in terms of the difficulty ratings. For both assignments I used YouTube to upload my videos and then embedded the specific link into my blog post(s). Compilation Video: My title for this assignment is “2015 Lacrosse Goals“. My blog post includes the embedded … Continue reading Weekly Summary

I chose this scene of when Maximum kills Commodus to analyze because “Gladiator” is one of my favorite movies. I love the storyline, acting, and cinematography. Camera: In the beginning of the scene, the camera gives us a close up shot of each significant character involved in the scene, starting with Maximus grabbing a handful … Continue reading Maximus Kills Commodus Anaylsis

For this assignment I went with the joker pencil trick&mob scene and with it I analyzed the camera work, analyzed the audio track and then put it all together. Analyze the camera work. Before watching the first time, turn the volume on the clip (or on your computer) all the way down. Take notes on the visual aspects … Continue reading →

After Reading How To Read A Movie by Roger Ebert, I came away with a couple of immediate thoughts. My first being that Ebert’s ideas on analyzing and “reading” movies is a very interesting concept, and I love interesting concepts. His idea that you can better understand and “read” a movie by slowing it down, stopping it … Continue reading Breaking Down Movies

Roger Ebert’s points of how the angle of a shot affects the tone of a scene in a movie is illuminating.  Most people watching films make no notice to the way a scene is shot, but it can have a… Continue Reading →

Links: Emma’s Reading Movies, Miranda Reflection on Reading Movies, Rachel Horrogami, Emma TDC board game, Tori look listen analyze Everyone did a great job as usual this past week! I enjoyed reading people’s reflections and seeing their awesome daily creates! I commented on five people’s blog posts this week.  

The image on the right is a cartoon version of the original image on the left! This was taken of me hiking this past summer! Here it is on my flickr. @ds106dc #tdc1393 #ds106 My cartoon image of me hiking! pic.twitter.com/tjxCllRGXX — Miles Davis (@miles_mdavis) November 1, 2015