Return to the Silent Era Keeping with my theme this week, for my addition to the video assignment Return to the Silent Era I plan to use a clip from the film The Dark Knight.  The clip I plan to use is the final scene that features the Joker, where the Batman and the Joker battle it out... Continue reading →

Watching the Pursuit of Happiness clip the first time was different. My main focus went to the beginning of the clip. It was a scene of a city that went from the day to night, light to dark, and it showed the city at hyper speed. The camera immediately cut to a man who was […]

While browsing through the Examples of Youtube Genres Google Document, I came across the “Funny/Entertaining Politics” Genre, and immediately knew which video I wanted to add.  Back in high school, one of my teachers showed the class a video of U.S. Representative Hank Johnson of Georgia.  In the video, Johnson is trying to explain to a... Continue reading →

Throughout this week, I had to learn a good amount about videos and reading movies. Thanks to Roger Ebert, I was able to obtain good knowledge on reading movies, such as left and right dominance. Other factors such as zoom also gave me insight on the significance of such actions in certain movies. I was […]

  This week, we were tasked with analyzing a movie of our choice.  The movie that I chose to analyze was the 2008 film The Dark Knight. Fun Facts About The Dark Knight A lot of speculation arose about Heath Ledger’s preparation for his role as the Joker after his untimely death before the film’s release.... Continue reading →

Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight is one of the greatest movies of the last decade, and is my favorite superhero movie of all time.  The most captivating character in the film is The Joker, portrayed by the late Heath Ledger.  The particular Joker scene that I decided to do the “3 time” review on is the... Continue reading →

I like the idea of choosing a few assignments ahead of time and laying out the groundwork, especially when jumping into a new medium. Although I’ve had a little bit of experience with video making before, it has been a while and to plan ahead should be a great benefit. The first assignment to catch […]

After countless delays, the DS106 radio shows were finally broadcast on October 30th, the night before Halloween!  Fitting in with the theme, the show that I was tasked with listening to and reviewing was Mary Hauntington.     Mary Hauntington Let me start off first by saying that I really liked the theme for this particular... Continue reading →

Video Editing Tools For next weeks video assignments, I am well equipped with what I need to complete each one. For editing purposed, iMovie is my go-to software, and I am very comfortable using it. To grab and download my … Continue reading →

Starts out with a single tiny square and loud knocking. You really have to focus on what is going on the tiny square. Then each one that follows you keep paying attention to the next one, and they all are showing tiny segments of what is and will happen. While this is going on the […]

Daily Create 1: I didn’t feel like exposing to the world how horrible of a drawer I am, so I decided to draw the various coffee mugs around my room that currently need to be taken out and “washed.” No,… Continue Reading →

What is behind the blinds?  

In preparation for next week, I was tasked in finding two potential, interesting assignments I would do and plan on what steps I would take to complete these assignments, as well as look at examples of both of these assignments. Hopefully this will benefit me because I always have a difficult time in selecting what […]

Halloween Calour walk around my room focusing on the color Orange.

Ds106 Hung out to dry on a Cloths line between two trees.  

This week I learned how to read movies which was interesting. Roger Ebert gave some interesting perspectives about right and left dominance that made me really think about how I watch movies. I also learned about some filming examples such as the zoom which you can see on display in the shining, the use of […]

Public Service Announcement: Do you care about a current issue in our society and want others to be aware of it too?? Well here is your chance! Pick (or make up) some type of issue. Create a video public service announcement to promote the issue you would like to be resolved! You can be as […]

No surprises here this week when it came to daily creates. I did four as usual throughout the week. The first daily create I did for this week was a writing assignment that discusses my unfortunate signature. Down below is that submission. “A signature can say a lot about someone. If you look at mine […]

For my four daily creates I did this week, I wrote a post about the significance of my signature or anyone’s signature for that matter, and three picture themed daily creates, which were a washing line, food art, and trying to identify an object with the blinds shut. My Signature For this daily create, I basically […]

It’s always nice to get ahead so for this week I was responsible to get ahead a little bit and look at some video assignments for next week and plan out how I will do them, plus look over some examples of people who did them already. This will be helpful for me because I […]

After browsing through the google document of the various genres of YouTube videos, I had a tough time of deciding which video to submit for a specific genre. However, I ended up choosing the parody genre, because I usually just go on YouTube to watch hilarious and comical videos. Therefore, I ended up posting an example […]

1. Eyes Can See, But Can Ears Hear? For this Daily Create, I wonder if anyone can guess this crazy contraption? It was difficult at first finding a place with properly lighting behind the closed blinds. However, I think I got it just right where it’s visible but not too visible. 2. The Curse of […]

I was blown away by how many genres students had listed in the Youtube Genres doc, but as I read through, I realized that there were way more genres that could be added. I thought of a bunch of examples… Continue Reading →

I looked through the document with all the YouTube genres. I saw so many different types of genres and felt that I could have added many videos to each one but personally I go to YouTube to watch funny videos for the most part. So I decided to add an example of a parody. There […]

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The film Cloverfield was released in 2008, starring Michael Stahl-David, T.J. Miller, Odette Yustman, Lizzy Caplan, and Jessica Lucas. At the time, these actors and actresses were primarily television stars and I think this movie was the one that set them off as somewhat household names. The only award this movie won was a Saturn Award […]

My boat sank along with my dreams I washed up on shore and my body I then fished for cod and for ideas My only hop was to start a fire On the beach and in my heart.

Having been a long time Youtube fan, I have come to notice that there are indeed many genres in this medium. It can be quite interesting because they are not immediately identifiable such as movie genres. One genre in particular that I have come to appreciate is how-to videos. These have been a lifesaver in […]

Listening to Mary Hauntington: I was very impressed with the radio show submission Mary Hauntington by the digieagles and thought they did a great job with their theme and content. The show as a whole had the feel of a legitimate radio show with seemless transition from story to story with clever bumpers. Perhaps most […]

So I’ve narrowed it down and picked two video assignments that I will begin working on next week. The first one is called The Complete Package, where I will be picking a TV series that has already ended, and make … Continue reading →