DAILY CREATE!! ALL LOVE LOST

CC: Flickr User la_salebeteOnce upon a time, in middle school, I was a video-making fiend.My friends and I would make music video excerpts, funny stories, and random videos of anything we could think of. Luckily, all (or most) trace of these videos hav...

First YouTube video feat. Alyssa NatociTongue Twister + Video with a friend!

My overarching goal for the semester is to learn how to make videos I could describe as “of decent quality” reasonably quickly. This isn’t just about learning software. It’s a personal goal for me too. You see, I’m semi-not-so-secretly a perfectionist, and it’s a problem. I sometimes get behind on a bunch of projects because ...

It was a cold morning and even though I was angry I had class at 8:30 AM, somehow the snow made me smile! (which you can’t see because of my scarf)

My goals for this upcoming video section don't really have to do with anything technical; as a film major, I'm familiar with audio/video equipment as well as editing software such as Final Cut. I also work at the Instructional Support Services (ISS) on...

Trampoline Floors

Chocolate that never melts

"Say A Tongue Twister Until You Mess It Up"Toy Boat: I remember learning this tongue twister in 2nd grade

I would like to try making a stop motion. I fell like it could be really tedious but sort of interesting. I would like to know how to cut out the background of a picture. Essentially is it possible to do a green screen type thing without having a green...

"Draw a picture of a new invention."Inspired by the recent allegations of Deer Antler Spray use in the NFL, I introduce Deer Antler Energy Drink

Making a well created  and quality video has been a goal of mine for years. I want to master the camera. I strive to be able to  Find the right frame and angle  Apply the correcting lighting to convey a … Continue reading →

CC Marcus LinderGoals for the upcoming Video Section:I have never worked with video editing software so I wish to become completely fluent with iMovie. I want to be able to edit images into videos.I would like to create a video that gets over 1,00...

Another week has passed. Sadly, I could not do this summary on a sunday, because I was stuck on Union Station in Chicago, but that deserves its own blog post. This week consisted of two daily creates, the first one was something I must do every day, and of course, I had to upload a ...

In his article in the Harvard Business Review, Soumitra Dutta successfully argues that it is absolutely vital for businesses to be creating comprehensive strategies in the area of social media. He mentions the very funny, but absolutely sensible example of Tom Dickson, the man behind the blender and his sensational Youtube show “Will It Blend?”. ...

michiganradio.org is a site that provides news. It mostly focuses on news that influence or are interesting for people living in the state of Michigan, but it definitely includes some important world news. On the homepage, they feature news about politics and law. Of course, there are more categories. The site also advertises (don’t know ...

For all Video Create assignments, upload your video to Youtube, tag it, broadcast it on Twitter, blog it. Today’s Menu: Say a tongue twister until you mess up. (tag umdst, … Continue reading →

DS Video Project: Goals

In 2009 I took a brief (and some may say ill-fated) foray into the world of video creation, iMovie, and YouTube. This is one of the results (and my biggest YouTube hit to date, with nearly 300 views. Don’t be too impressed). This whole phase came shortly after my acquisition of a new MacBook and updated iMovie, which I used to poorly splice together clips of a local news story about a meth lab and some terrible Jennifer Aniston movie that I’ve never seen for the amusement of my cousin.

Three and a half years later I’ve been asked to revisit this stage in my life and once again venture into iMovie for class. I’m not entirely sure what I’m going to make my three videos about, but I do have a few goals I’d like to meet while completing this assignment:

• Try out new iMovie features! I haven’t done much with iMovie since “Meth Happens” (where I clearly did the bare minimum) so I’d like to explore more of what the application has to offer.
• Attempt to make at least one documentary-style film. I’m not sure what the content will be - maybe life in a co-op? - but I think that will challenge my (nonexistent) video-editing capabilities.
• Make another video splicing existing ones together, and make it less terrible than “Meth Happens.” I’d like to see if I can make a video manipulation with some of the existing YouTube videos I’m a fan of.
• Emulate some of my favorite vloggers? I’m a huge fan of the Vlogbrothers, charlieissocoolike, and communitychannel (like the rest of YouTube, basically), but if I ultimately decide to make some sort of more personal video I’d like to see what I can draw from their work.

In summary: anything would be better than my first YouTube creation, but let’s hope I can take it a step further this time.

Welcome to DS video. Over the course of these three weeks you will be responsible for producing three videos on your own, and, additionally you will be doing some very … Continue reading →

For Wednesday: Post to your blog, explaining what specific goals you are hoping to meet by the end of this video section of the course. Both personal and technical goals … Continue reading →

Woo week 2 is done, and here is another list! 1. With only one class this week we didn’t get to start our new projects, but our conversation about education was really in depth, and it was compelling to hear … Continue reading →

(This guy is awesome and this campaign was great) Social Media has broken down the wall between consumer and the products that they buy. Any company would be failing by not allocating funds towards the usability of a website, social … Continue reading →

I just registered for this class so I had a lot of catching up to do, but I’m enjoying the daily creates as well as the opportunity to use tumblr outside of reblogging pictures of Naya Rivera and Cher Horowitz. Apologies to my (very few) followers whose dashboards have been bombarded with huge text posts. 

My reading response for tomorrow is here.

My review of the Michigan Public Radio website is here.

Past video/reading responses are here (“The Machine..”); here (RiP!); and here (Web 2.0).

All daily creates can be found here.

Daily Create Picture in light

Daily Create 5 star breakfast

Branding reading response

Michigan Radio

I registered for DS106 (I think.) So for my response I tried to use photos to represent the branding argument. I thought it would be a fun way to help respond to the writing. I rather like the way the response looks and might try to do more in the future. 

The Blue House Special- A dish appeasing to all corners of the food pyramid. Contains two farm fresh eggs scrambled, a blend of mozzarella and Colby jack cheese, a dash of in house hot sauce with a side of 2 … Continue reading →

The Michigan Radio is very representative of what the radio station is about. Its too flashy, and just serious enough to attract its NPR listening audience.  I thought their way of color coding the :most Active Stories” was interesting and reminds me of … Continue reading →

I really like how Michigan Radio is organized. Its stories make for very interactive reading. Most of its stories link back to any information that is claimed or may be relevant. I also like that it has a listening function to most of its stories because it’s from a radio show. I also like how the areas of interest are clearly labeled on the homepage as well as in tabs so that way people can sort by interest easily. The website creates a sort of short version of their entire show but segments it up into specific areas of interest.

I found David C. Edelman’s “Branding in the Digital Age: You’re Spending Your Money in All the Wrong Places” a really thought-provoking piece. The analysis of how consumers go about making purchases on the internet is never something I had really considered, but reading his findings made a lot of sense to me, especially as someone who makes a lot of purchases on the internet. For me, customer reviews are really important when I make a purchase, and it’s also rare that I actually go to the website of the manufacturer, where I’m less likely to find reviews of their product that aren’t from websites that get paid to endorse their products. It was funny to me to read how developer teams were so surprised by the uselessness of some of their “tried-and-true” marketing techniques, like ads on websites. For me, the more I see an ad from a company invade my computer screen, the less likely I am to buy something from them just out of pure annoyance. What I think we can take from this article is just how important online retailers have become, especially in terms of their space for user dialogue and feedback, and their ability to advertise a multitude of products in one place. This definitely means rethinking the business strategies of a lot of companies who are used to traditional advertising models.

I found Soumitra Dutta’s piece “What’s Your Social Media Strategy?” to be a lot less enlightening. It didn’t offer any new information, and I feel like it was a guide that would be more useful to fiftysomething corporate executives that have never used anything but AOL Mail. What I found most interesting is that Dutta felt the need to even write this piece - I suppose that, given it’s from the Harvard Business Review, the audience is what I suggested it would be - but I think that today in 2012, social media’s explosion offers a more critical analysis of its usefulness, not just a cut-and-dry pamphlet on if you should use LinkedIn or not.