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Wise words coming to life

by Tyler Crump

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March 18, 2012

As I mentioned before, I have been looking over the video assignments for a few weeks now and another project that caught my attention was the kinetic typography. These look like a lot of fun to make but so far while actually trying to do the project myself I’ve hit some snags. It just goes ...
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Kill Bill in 1932

by Rachel McGuirk

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March 18, 2012

Film editing is difficult. Anyone to tell you otherwise is just showing off. I have worked on this project for far too long and I am beginning to hate it. The goal of this assignment was to transform a modern … Continue reading →
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Silent anime

by Tyler Crump

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March 18, 2012

I’ve actually been looking into some of these video assignments since spring break, and one that peaked my interest most of all was the Return to the Silent Era assignment. Now of course there has been silent film cartoons before but as far as I know there hasn’t been any silent film anime. In anticipation ...
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My Sweet tweets for 2012-03-18

by Danielle Minter

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March 18, 2012

Making real progress on week 8 assignments! # @jimgroom okay just making sure. Thanks! in reply to jimgroom # @jimgroom for this weeks assignments, it says things like tell how you would change it or what u would need for … Continue reading →
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My Sweet tweets for 2012-03-18

by Danielle Minter

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March 18, 2012

Making real progress on week 8 assignments! # @jimgroom okay just making sure. Thanks! in reply to jimgroom # @jimgroom for this weeks assignments, it says things like tell how you would change it or what u would need for … Continue reading →
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My Sweet tweets for 2012-03-18

by Danielle Minter

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March 18, 2012

Making real progress on week 8 assignments! # @jimgroom okay just making sure. Thanks! in reply to jimgroom # @jimgroom for this weeks assignments, it says things like tell how you would change it or what u would need for … Continue reading →
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My Sweet tweets for 2012-03-18

by Danielle Minter

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March 18, 2012

Making real progress on week 8 assignments! # @jimgroom okay just making sure. Thanks! in reply to jimgroom # @jimgroom for this weeks assignments, it says things like tell how you would change it or what u would need for … Continue reading →
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Analyze a Movie

by James Cruz

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March 18, 2012

The movie I have chosen to analyze is the Dark Knight. I was looking through the list of AFI’s top 100 movies and I was going to use an older movie like Casablanca or something along those lines but I thought it would be more suitable to analyze a more … Continue reading →
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Week 8 of daily creates

by Feng

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March 18, 2012

TDC70 image: Windows, gates, & doors represent the lineal state between two realities. Photograph that idea. The gate of truth derived from the anime/manga Full Metal Alchemist It is an “endless white expanse and forcing the truth of alchemic...
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Retroactive Blogging

by Gray Kemmey
March 18, 2012

Through the Window: I thought this turned out cool. You can see details of the inside of the house through the window, as well as details of the [..]
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Educational Video

by Gray Kemmey

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March 18, 2012

I was thinking it could be fun to do something in terms of taking care of children, specifically changing a baby’s diaper. That’s totally strange, and I don’t [..]
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Plinkett Review

by Gray Kemmey

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March 17, 2012

I think for this assignment I would look at the movie I Spit on Your Grave. It’s apparently a cult classic from the 70s. Admittedly, I only ever [..]
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Week 8, Part B: Assignment 2 out of 2

by Annie Truslow

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March 17, 2012

Pre-Production Assignment: Find a YouTube clip of a video you can use for the Opening Credits assignment and describe how you would re-do it. Details. (Movie poster photo credit.) Below is the opening sequence to the newest production of Girl with the...
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Pre Production: “How to Train Your Dragon”

by Emily DelRoss

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March 17, 2012

I chose this assignment because I watched the example piece and was amazed. It was so good! I really liked the idea of making something that is modern seem like it could be old just by altering it a bit. Then I chose “How to Train Your Dragon” as the film I would silence (I’m ...
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Movie Analysis

by Gray Kemmey

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March 17, 2012

For this week’s video assignments, we were supposed to find a movie that pretty much stands out as an exemplary film in terms of what film making should be. I [..]
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Week 8, Part B: Assignment 1 out of 2

by Annie Truslow

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March 17, 2012

Pre-Production Assignment: Select a trailer or movie segment you can use for Return to the Silent Era, outline the things you can add to make it more like silent movie style, or write the bits you will use on the screens that display dialogue as text. ...
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Week 8, Part A: Reading Movies

by Annie Truslow

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March 17, 2012

For Part A of this week’s assignments, I chose a documentary film called Rivers and Tides, which was released in 2002, produced by Trevor Davies, Leslie Hills, and Annedore von Donop, and was directed by Thomas Riedelsheimer. This documentary fea...
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Plinkett Review

by Feng

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March 17, 2012

So the movie I chose to critique is Fireproof. It was first suggested to me by my brother who thought and still thinks it is a great film. I took his suggestion and watched it with James via skype and we thought it was a horrible movie. Take a look. Th...
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Analyze a Movie: Titanic

by Feng

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March 17, 2012

One of my all time favorite movies and also one of AFI’s list of the Best 100 Movies of all time is the Titanic. Although I’m not all that ecstatic about the 3-D version, it is still one of the most emotional and aesthetically provocati...
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If You Can’t Take the Heat…

by Maura Monahan

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March 17, 2012

…get out of the kitchen! No wait, come back – I’m doing a cooking show! For the Cooking Show video assignment there would be quite a bit of prep work – for film and food. Choosing an appropriate recipe would … Continue reading →
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Gee Golly Gosh, Twitter is so Nifty!

by Maura Monahan

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March 17, 2012

I think a fun Vintage Educational Video assignment would be one that teaches a young whippersnapper how to properly use Twitter. Until creating a Twitter account for this class, I’d avoided adding even more social media into my life. When … Continue reading →
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Film, It’s so Prestigious!

by Maura Monahan

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March 17, 2012

The film I decided to analyze is “The Prestige.” It was released in 2006, directed by Christopher Nolan, and starred Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale. It falls into the genres of drama and mystery as its plot follows the lives … Continue reading →
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The DS106 Brain

by Linda McKenna

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March 17, 2012

After the initial brain-storming session for our final project, we agreed that a circuit board inside a brain would be a good image to represent DS106. Then I ...
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KONY2012…I mean HORNY2012

by Annie Truslow

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March 16, 2012

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Acrid Desires

by Brian Brown

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March 16, 2012

Anything is horror. That tingling of sickening disgust that festers in your gut and spreads throughout your body doesn’t always come because an innocent victim was pushed through a wood chipper. No, horror can come in the whole gushing of ecstasy in idiotic situational romantic films. I cringe at the thought of You’ve Got Mail, ...
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Analyze This!: “The King’s Speech”

by Emily DelRoss

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March 16, 2012

This past week (over spring break) I watched “The King’s Speech” with my friend Caitlin and her parents. Although the movie has been out for some time now, and it has gotten quite a lot of attention because of the many awards it’s received, I had still not seen it. (If you know me, this ...
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A Random Urge to Design

by Linda McKenna

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March 15, 2012

While my thoughts were going a mile a minute on our final project idea, I had the sudden urge to design something with this concept. ...
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Thoughts on the Final Project

by Linda McKenna

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March 15, 2012

I met with Rachel today to talk about some ideas for our final project. Her idea was to do a hyperlink project where we can link the many ...
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Mealy-mouthed minion

by Brian Brown

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March 15, 2012

Sycophant! Get away from here before you fawn all over the carpet. Why do you keep coming back? This is my space. I own it. I paid for it. You oughtta be flogged. Humiliated! The nerve! Why I never… Hung, drawn, and quartered. There is no other punishment. It is final, I must needs have ...
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Bird Facts

by Michael Walter
March 15, 2012

Taken from a Grantland article: But everyone loves bird facts! i. During World War II, “Project Pigeon” was American behaviorist B.F. Skinner’s attempt to develop a pigeon-guided missile. ii. Also during World War II, an American dental surgeon named Lytle … Continue reading →
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