The following are my tutorials for the Movie Music Comparison assignment and the Movie Scenes That Changed Our Lives assignment, respectively. I’m trying out Vimeo because at this point YouTube can kiss my frustrated not-read-only downtime-hating tush, and you can quote me on that. I used the 30-day free trial of Camtasia to create both ...

reused http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/recycle-the-media Recycle the media is an assignment in which we had to select at least 7 pieces of media from http://minus.com/mvKXzhhcO .  This site contained the work that UMW students recycled this semester.  Now I have to say that when I was browsing the media the pieces that I contributed caught my eye and I wanted to use ...

    http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/growing-up-with-drew-barrymore/  For this assignment I had to create a clip of an actor or actress that grew up in-front of the camera.  This sounds simple enough right?!?!? But not so easy finding an actor or actress that was a child star and is still relevant to this day.  I came across a lot of them which ...

http://melindakumi.com/2012/11/25/rrremix-thoughts/ http://melindakumi.com/2012/12/02/recycle-remash/ http://melindakumi.com/2012/12/02/i-look-my-best-in-pink/ http://melindakumi.com/2012/12/03/phantom-of-egypt/ My ideas of remixes and mashups haven’t changed much since starting these past two weeks off, I just have more respect for those that do create these kinds of videos.  The most difficult part of remixing and mashing is that I wanted to work with my hands to move things and ...

RemixThis: This week we focused a great deal on Remixes and this is my post about the concept of Remixing media. Mashup/Remix Assignments: For this week I did the movie trailer assignment along with the album cover remix assignment. My assignments … Continue reading →

To start off my weekly summary I’d like to share the blog post I wrote up for my preview of my final project on Bing! READ my RemixThis blog post! I also enjoyed learning more insight on copyright this week, so you should check out my Blog Post on Copyrightttt Recycle The Media is worth [3/7] of my stars for Mashup Assignments this week! I used 7 photographs of “recycled” content to create an all about girls video! I really enjoyed this week! I saw my Sweet Home Alabama GIF being cited this week… which was super exciting because I was like oh heyyy I am being referred to!! haha … Continue reading →

I suggested 2 daily creates: Photography- Take a picture incorporating as many of your favorite things as possible. (people, places, colors, foods, ect..) Drawing- Recreate a childhood photo I have tutorials in my Immaturity at its Finest post, and my Sleepy Kitty post and submitted the visual assignment Today’s a GIFt, in which you make a GIF using pictures from a day in your life, and the design assignment Ink, in which you design a tattoo using design elements we learned in design week. I am the only one that has done my assignments, and I don’t think I would change anything as of yet, besides the size of the GIF ...

I was tasked with reviewing at least two of the references on the concepts and analyzing at least 3 examples. The following is my understanding of a remix. Remix References First I watched Everything is a Remix (Part 1). WOW!! I really loved this video… I’ll admit to watching it three times.. I just got more information out of it every time I re-watched it… HIPHOP! I probably should’ve done this assignment with it… haha. I didn’t realize the common remixes I come into contact with in every day life! SO AWESOME(: This video showed a lot of entertainment remixes. The video was entertaining as well as informative. In Part1, the video focused on the music industry… … Continue reading →

What is remixing? Well it’s literally taking something and making it something else re… mixing it. In the video, Everything is a Remix, the speaker brings up a good point with his first example of early remixes. The same beat has been used in numerous songs, raps, and albums. My own personal example is the artist Cascada. She uses the same beat for every single one of her songs, she just changes around the lyrics and calls it a new song. Part One: The song remains the same 1961: Coining of the term “heavy metal” and the early remix of taking parts of other books and putting them together to … Continue reading →