For my first video assignment this week I did Movies by Numbers which was worth three stars. In this assignment you had to pick any number and then use pictures to show how it is used in the world around … Continue reading →

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5kJt00icdo&feature=youtu.be This video was based off an assignment we did a few weeks before these past 2 weeks. I put my own music to the silent film that Charlie Chaplin did.  Using foley from my classmates and movie maker I was able to piece it all together.  The spin I …

Finally it all gets put together! A few weeks ago (it seriously seems like an eternity ago) we had to create our own sound effects for a Charlie Chaplin video, but we had to do it Foley style. Watching the video now, I was very glad that I was born in July and had to (continue reading...)

This is my Story 2 Stars! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7tZ-cEIqJg&feature=youtu.be This was my favorite assignment to do these past two weeks. It took me a while to come up with what I wanted to write on the index cards.  I was thinking a lot and bouncing ideas around.  Then I remembered all the …

A word, A Picture, A Story 3 stars! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Brplw8ycqIQ&feature=youtu.be Before creating the story for this video I chose 5 random words. Monkey Dance Tree Coconut Beach Ball Google gave me a lot of options of pictures for each word.  I chose which ones I liked and then put them all …

Return to the Silent Era 5 stars! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buLbrfdYvvk&feature=youtu.be This is a video I did prep work on in a previous week.  I chose the clip and stated so things I planned to do in order to make it in the silent genre and time. To do this I removed the …

This is Narrative Ambiance, 4 stars! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyvN0wJKcmI For this assignment I chose to read one of my favorite poems by Shel Silverstein.  It is called Love.  I was excited to make it my own. One of the things I have always loved to do is swing on the swing set …

As I posted in a previous blog post about Pre-Production, I decided to do the Music Video assignment from the assignment bank. I was a little overly ambitious on this one. I wanted to complete the entire song, “Seven Devils” by Florence + the Machine, but I found that I didn’t have the clips I ...

Completed Assignments Get Ya New York Sports Here! *** Gassy, Gassy Hippo ** Movie Scenes That Changed My Life ***** Number Three Is Everywhere *** Rage Against The Russian Mafia *** Total Stars – 16 Pissed Off Lion (Chaplin foley assignment) Reflection The past 2 weeks of ds106 has been quite the trip. I think ...

To cap off the two weeks of video work for ds106, I completed the Chaplin Foley Artists assignment by retelling the original Chaplin film, “The Lion’s Cage”. The assignment required that I add audio and other media elements to change the original story. I chose to tell the story from the perspective of the lion ...

It’s MOVIE TIME! These last 2 weeks have been very busy, but in the end all 7 of the videos I made gave me something to show for the hard work! Everyone line up at the box office, grab your … Continue reading →

The final video task I chose from the video assignment bank is the watching movies with the stereo on assignment, which requires you to take a clip from a movie, remove the audio, and add audio from a song that fits. My initial reaction when reading the assignment was to choose a high intensity shooting scene ...

For the 3.5 star One Archetype, Five Movies, Five Seconds this week, I chose to focus on the archetype of females who kick ass. I’d worked on this assignment when I was doing the preplanning last week. My video features snippets from New The Hunger Games Trailer Official 2012 [HD] – Jennifer Lawrence by clevvertv ...

Wow only a few weeks left in the semester! Spring semester always flies by, if you ask me. For the past two weeks we’ve been working on video. Well in all honesty, I started last Friday, so I’ve a week. … Continue reading →

Almost a month ago we had an assignment to make some Foley sounds for a section of the Charlie Chaplin video “A Lion’s Cage“. I was responsible for the section between 2:31-2:55. I made my sounds and (at the time) … Continue reading →

The next assignment I chose to tackle was the movies by numbers assignment, which required that you create a video that, “represents a single number in an artful way.” I scanned through some of the previous works done and did not see any on the number three, so I went with that. My goal for ...

You should be confused. Today was a ds106 daily create monstrosity I can take responsibility for, and is one that busts my usual mantra of “things that you can create in 20 minutes”. Today’s assignment: Lipdub a video of yourself in another language talking seriously about crickets. Write the script and record the video. Then use Google Translate (example) to generate an audio track, and edit that into your video. This is likely one that came in originally as “do a lipdub video” and I felt needed a bit more of a …. twist. And to help people see that Google Translate as a small feature at the bottom right that does text to voice of what ever gets translated. I started out by scrummaging YouTube for cricket videos. I found an interesting mini documentary by National Geographic, but it was too much humans talking. So I liked the simplicity ...

For 5 stars, this movies scenes that changed our lives assignment took some time to complete. The assignment calls for you to choose 3 defining movie scenes, and speak over them about their importance.  I immediately knew that I wanted to use this scene from The Lion King, because my mom loves to tell the ...

For my last video assignment, I completed “I am Me” This 4 star assignment is just a video that represents you. There was only one example listed and it was a girl making some silly faces, so I thought this … Continue reading →

So far I’ve completed 7 stars of Video Assignments. My next assignment is a BIG one, with 5 stars. I was a little nervous taking on a 5 star assignment, and while it was time consuming it wasn’t to terribly … Continue reading →

Another assignment I chose to do is the play-by-play assignment which requires you to do a play-by-play commentary of any video. One video I watched recently that had me laughing was this To do a voiceover of this video I first downloaded the video using clipconverter. Next, I used Audacity to record my audio. Here ...

For three stars, I chose to do the Sports Mashup Assignment. This assignment called for creating a compilation of great sports within a theme. As an “avid New York sports fan”, I chose to do a New York theme for the montage, and layered Jay-Z’s Empire State of Mind over it. The process was fairly ...

Ok, so I thought the first 2 video assignments I did were pretty fun..But this one was absolutely hilarious and I loved filming it.  The assignment, Public Service Announcement, called to make a PSA on a something we really wanted ...

I liked this assignment because it was pretty similar to one we did a few weeks ago showing the change over time of websites (I think the example someone used was McDonalds, and I think I did Yahoo!), but it’s always pretty cool to check out how a product has changed.  At first I thought ...

I’m not going to lie. I’m not the biggest fan of film or videos. I’m not a movie person. Sure, I watch films on occasion but I strongly prefer live theatre over filmed media and television programs over movies. That being said, I knew that this week may be a bit of a struggle, and ...

For this “educational” video I wasn’t sure where to start, so I just started typing on YouTube “how to” and “how to make a ninja star” was like the 4th thing that popped up.  Pretty random but why not choose something a bit different.  So my work on this one is among my least favorite ...

As soon as I read this title, I knew I wanted to do this assignment.  Inanimate Motion calls to create a movie story of an inanimate object.  Being at college, I didn’t have too many toys to choose from, BUT, I ...

So, here I tried to make an attempt at a presidential campaign for the man, the myth, the legend Kevin Bacon.  I’m not sure where I got the idea but I remembered people always complaining about how the president never understands “the people” and can’t relate to everyday citizens.  Well, I chose Kevin Bacon for ...

I had a lot of fun with this assignment.  We had to make a short 5 second video that told a story.  I decided to make a little gag joke out of my 5 second video. It took a long ...

These two weeks of video have been a-maz-ing. I am obsessed with creating videos!!! This is definitely something that I will do even when I am not in DS106. Although, I don’t even want to think of that right now....