Have you seen the latest viral video of Taylor Swift? She’s dancing to some Classical music and it fits surprisingly...

Santa needs a sidekick.  12 Reindeer after all… Cheese?  I don’t know, but certainly not in good taste.

So what do you get when Pope Ramzes refuses to talk? Ever get the feeling something isn’t quite how you remember? Well, sit back, relax, and laugh it off. HA!  Suck it YouTube!

Who’s birthday is it?

For one of my final video assignments of the week, I decided to complete 5 Second Film! This assignment is simple, asking you to make a short, 5-second film capturing a joke, special moment, etc. I do not believe it should be rated for 4.5 stars given that there isn’t much video editing involved, so […]

This assignment worth 4 stars was to create a video of animals dancing to music. My first idea was Shake It Off by Taylor Swift and the “birds of paradise”. So I got to work! First I looked up a YouTube video of Shake It Off and then I converted it to a sound file […]

The Work Itself This assignment is titled “What Do You Love?”. The instructions are to “choose something that you love and make a video of it! My assignment is titled “I love Food“, it can be found on my YouTube channel. You can take pictures or videos and combine them into one final video. Try … Continue reading I love…Food!

The Work Itself  This video assignment is titled “Favorite Actor/Actress Highlight Reel“. Its instructions are to “create a 30 to 60 second highlight reel of your most enjoyable movie scenes from your favorite Actor/Actress”. It is rated by the public 4/5 stars for difficulty. I created a YouTube video of my favorite scenes and clips … Continue reading Will Ferrell Highlights

Owl City did an amazing cover of this wonderful song, and he only did the chorus. Perfect for the Lip-Sync Along (3.5 Stars).     To do this, I played […]

It’s 20XX. During the third World War, a nuclear bomb was dropped on Tokyo. The city was eventually rebuilt, but...

The Work Itself This assignment is titled “Highlight Reels”, its instructions ask to “channel your inner ESPN and clip together highlights of your favorite athlete, set it to some music, and add an intro.” It is rated 5/5 stars for difficulty. I created a YouTube video using individual clips from other YouTube videos. I created … Continue reading Lights Out (Highlight Reel)

I commented on five blog posts from my classmates. I commented on daily creates and video assignments. I looked at far more assignments than the ones I posted a comment on. Everyone did a great job as usual. It is fun too see the video assignment topics, and what other people did. Once again, it … Continue reading Participation/Comments

“Show DS106 what you did today!” Vine It (3 Stars)   Well, DS106, as I do every day, I drank coffee. Literally no further explanation is needed.   To make […]

If you are going out today, watch out for that for the guy who is throwing pies in peoples faces!...

Theme song of my Boyfriend and I.

@ds106dc #tdc1394 #ds106 pic.twitter.com/yfmwhHJ5EL — Andrew Boswell (@Boscoe1213) November 2, 2015 For Monday’s daily create, we had to transform some...

Lately it seems there’s no way for me to have any free-time to do something that I want to do. Of course, I do want to learn things in school, as well as write this novel, but I also want to play video games! I bought Undertale at the beginning of this week, and I […]

Matt Smith and Doctor Who in general is important. The whole mix of serious and comedy is wonderful. And, it’s even funnier when sped up, as I did for Chipmunk […]

For one of my last video assignments over these two weeks, I decided to complete Name that Book! I was very excited about this one, being an English major and lover of books. Now I finally had the chance to title my very own book, that maybe I could possibly write someday..do you sense my […]

Do you have a theme song? If so, what is that song? Is it just one, or do you have multiple songs for different purposes? Create an inspirational poster with favourite lyrics from your theme song or sing the song and record an audio file. The songs I used for this poster are “Free Fallin'” […]

The forth video assignment I did was called selfie story for 4.5 stars. The directions instructed you to Narrate a story using selfies. It can be any story you’d like (crazy night out, movie night with friends, just the average day, etc). You can use a combination of selfie clips or pictures, it is all up […]

I love Ben and Leslie from Parks and Rec. Naturally, I would low down this scene to emphasize it’s importance; an Instant Replay (3.5 Stars) To start, I had to […]

I chose this assignment because I have never once made a vine. The app has been popular for about 2 years now and I always just used it to watch different vines. So I think it was a bit weird to actually be making one now. It was pretty simple really. All I had to […]

This week, we extended our knowledge on video to create many more captivating and interesting stories. I enjoyed adding on to this video knowledge, I learned more techniques to make audio enhance the video I am creating, more tools within my applications and edits, and just a new view on stories themselves. I have said … Continue reading Weekly Summary #11 & #12

Signing Language: This assignment requires you to take a video of yourself or someone else and finger spell a word or a phrase in Sign Language alphabet and let others guess what you have spelled. Make sure you do a word that is bigger then 5 letters so you can learn some of the letters. (4.5 … Continue reading Signing Language: Spring and Rain

“Talking to Yourself!” This was the “required” assignment for this week, and for this video, we had to record a video of us talking to ourselves or singing all the parts of a song. I do not sing, so that left me with the option of having a conversation with myself. I tried for a … Continue reading True Life: Every College Senior

“I know you probably have a smart phone so take advantage of your apps! There’s a new(ish) app out there called Vine, it’s super cool and I love watching super cool Vines (not super crappy ones!) Show DS106 what you did today! Show us what you ate for lunch, show us what you did when … Continue reading What Did You Do Today?

“Pick a theme and download multiple videos from YouTube that fit the theme. Cut them up and create a compilation video by putting the clips to music.” – 4 stars I’m  not sure I really followed what the original intent of this assignment was going for, but hey, they weren’t super specific so all is … Continue reading The Evolution of Gordon Ramsay

“Create a day in the life as an animal. Pick from beginning to end pictures or videos of a perfect day in the life of an animal and create a video out of them. Be creative! Include music to go with the feel of the pictures or videos used.” – 4.5 stars By now I’ve … Continue reading A Day in the Life of Jade

“Choose a video or clip of an action, and then pick a part of the original clip and slow it down to create an instant replay.  Show both the original action as well as the slow-mo instant replay! Video editing software, like iMovie can come in really handy for an assignment like this!” – 3.5 … Continue reading Instant Replay: Escalator Edition