Daily creates this week have been hard this week but I have been able to do them. My favorite one was the signature creates. Below is my signature. For me it represents a lot of different things about me. My signature is loopy. That usually means that you are kind of messy. At the same time it can shows that… Read more →

Let me start with there are so many video assignments. It was exciting and cool to see them all. Other students did a lot of the assignments and that was cool. Some of my favorite assignments were ones that students did with mixed mediums like adding sound to videos and incorporating social media. From my assignments I think that I… Read more →

There were so many different genres of YouTube videos that I would have never thought of. I am quite the YouTube watcher and I am a firm believer in celebrities becoming famous because of YouTube. There are a bunch of videos from my own repertoire that I could add to the list but I thought of some of my favorites… Read more →

After reading the background information on the article I am so glad that I chose “American Psycho” as my movie to analyze. This movie is just downright creepy but intriguing at the same time. Not only that but there were a lot of things that went into making this movie happen. Numerous male leads were cast and then turned down… Read more →

I analyzed the scene from “American Pyscho” for this assignment. I chose it because the movie is a more known classic in my opinion. This clip was an excellent tool to show many of the techniques that were discussed on video editing and manipulation. The camera work in this scene is great. It has a good establishing shot with the… Read more →

Fun Facts: 1. Dane Cook’s character Tank’s real name is Sherman which is the name of the main tank used by U.S. armed forces in WWII. 2. Before Alexis’ first date with Tank she is holding a margarita in her left hand. When her roommate walks in and the camera …

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This week was a bit of a breath of fresh air. The assignments were not as taxing as past weeks and they were a lot of fun. I enjoyed viewing video clips of The Shining and The Pursuit of Happiness, and Quentin Tarentino. I look forward to the video assignments we’ll be doing in the […]

This week was a mixture of new and old with the introduction of video content. I have used Windows Movie Maker in the past to upload a few videos to Youtube so this medium isn’t completely foreign but it has been a while and I certainly needed a few pointers. I like MPEG Streamclip which […]

I chose to watch the “300 This Is Sparta” scene. 1) Watching without sound. You can tell there is some sort of confrontation by the acting, but the positioning of the characters was well though-out as there are a line of… Continue Reading →

Daily Creates But why does this rain fall but why do those tears fall but why does nothing stay the same. These questions, why do they plague the souls of our people. But why are things not as simple as they seem. http://tdc.ds106.us/tdc1025/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter  https://twitter.com/rachelalyssaa/status/528024912108474370    My lovely food art! #foodporn #dailycreate#ds106 pic.twitter.com/OyxA4dbiZk — Rachel Jones […]

This week was very useful in learning about the movie/video process and what it takes in order to create your own. I feel these assignments we did really helped me learn about create videos since I have never made one before. I am really glad that this video process was split up into a couple […]

Our daily create for today (11/2) was Share Your Best Sleepy Shot. So here’s the photo I uploaded: This is my dog Lobo passed out in my family’s living room (I wish I was doing the same). Til next time everyone! Gotta... Continue Reading →

Picture of my sister and me in the back of the car while our family was heading to Georgia to visit my other sister. We got a little sleep and my mom took advantage of the moment.  

I would enjoy doing the challenge where we say positive things about ourselves. I am not a very boastful person, and at times I can have very low self-esteem. For me  this video would be a great challenge because it would allow to pick things that I may actually have done well at and give […]

  The movie Any Given Sunday was released in 1999 and was directed by Oliver Stone. Stone has directed many other movies including Savages, Wall Street, and Platoon. For those of you who have never seen Any Given Sunday, it stars Al Pacino, Dennis Quaid,... Continue Reading →

For the youtube genres, I thought they were really fascinating. They hit the nail on the head with some of them. Youtube is so vast and growing and has some of everything on it. It has lots of humor from crazy things children say, to singing animals. There are many documentaries and clips from all […]

This week I was insanely sick. I had a 103-104 fever all week. I didn’t get to listen to the radio shows. I was sleeping. I tried to stay awake but I fell asleep ten minutes before they started and woke up at 2 am in a pool of sweat. I have a note and […]

There are many interesting facts about The Pursuit of Happiness but the three that stuck out to me was one: the son of Will Smith in the movie was his son in real life, the movie is based on the life of the real Christopher Gardner, and speed cubing champions Tyson Mao and Toby Mao and […]

After analyzing the camera and sound work on the movie 300, I did a little bit of research into how the film was shot and developed. I found a few interesting tidbits from the trivia link on the Imdb page. One of the most notable was the amount of cuts in the film which totaled […]

Next week I plan on completing That Bleeping Censor. I think that it will take some skill will be difficult to time correctly but if done correctly will be hilarious if the right words are taken out. I also plan on doing Today its all about me. This one will be hard just because of […]

Here’s to week 10! I was unable to find the radio shows in the archives and I couldn’t watch them live, so I am not sure how to do a post on them since I can’t find them, but I am working on it! As far as video editing, I had no experience before this, […]

  I had to do add an example to this category! The other morning I didn’t have class and I was sitting at home with my mom and we were watching Rachael Ray, they had a science guy there and the science tricks he did for Halloween were AWESOME!! You guys have to watch this! […]

This week was really a good week. I enjoyed getting to explore iMovie. I honestly did not even know that I had it on my computer. Trying to figure out how to use iMovie was kind of a struggle, like any new program, it always takes a little getting used to. Evaluation of other radio […]

According to IMDb, there are some issues with the scenes, for example it says, “When Dustin crashes the wedding, he knocks over a box with “WN” on it. In the next scene, the box is upright.” A factual error in the movie according to IMDb is, “Tank and others smoke in restaurants and bars. The […]

WHAT DID I DO THIS WEEK?  Daily Creates Three Time Viewing  Ocean’s Twelve: Behind the Scenes Youtube Genres Potential Video Assignments Mary Hauntington Review: Putting together this show was one of the best experiences I’ve ever had with a group… Continue Reading →

First TDC was “Hung out to Dry” I used my computer to paint a picture Next I did a Halloween Walk and made the color orange my focus! Then I did 3D food anf took a picture of mu HUGE honey crisp apple and it was amazingly yummy! Last I did the sleepy picture with […]

I want to to the 5 star Create a Music Video Assignment. I know this will be a difficult one, but I am very big into music and I think it can say so much and I would love to try to make a music video of a song that I love called “Stomping Grounds” […]

Week 10 was all about video!  I spent the majority of my time focusing on the film The Dark Knight, with most of my assignments relating to the film in some way or another. Ds106 Radio Show Reviews I was tasked with reviewing my own radio show, as well as the video show  Mary Hauntington. My... Continue reading →

Camera: Close ups, Foreground/Background, Angle up and Down, Low light, Day light, Moving camera shots, a lot of view changes Sound: Sound effects, some people louder than others in the same scene, music, voices, loud music, soft music, announcer since it is a preview All together: cutting from scenes to make the preview By minimizing […]

Week 10 Daily Creates are here!  I was disappointed that there were no video creates this week, as I really wanted to get some practice with video editing!   Create 1: What is it? :    Create 2: Hung out to dry: My clothesline!   Create 3: Spooky Color Walk.   Create 4: Augustus Enjoying... Continue reading →