Thursday, March 28, 2013: Take a photo of an unexpected object found in the earth (think secret treasures!)   Saturday, March 30, 2013: Draw a picture of the best present you ever gave or received.

This assignment, called Where Are They Now??, called to create a video of movie character’s updated lives.  I chose Harry Potter, because there were so many character’s to update and it was a favourite movie of mine when I was ...

For my last video assignment, I wanted to really challenge myself. I decided to do the Return to the Silent Era {*****} assignment. Since we first heard about our final projects, I wanted to make my last video assignment so it...

Yet another video that shows how Caesar is a jerk sometimes. You try to say something to him and he walks off! How rude! Dialogue: Caesar: “What’s up Amber! I gotta ask you something!” Me: “Hi puppy!” Caesar:”…oh wait…I forgot. … Continue reading →

Remember when I posted about creating foley sounds for the Charlie Chapman video? Well, one of our assignments for this two weeks of video was to do something with those sound clips. This is the Charlie Chapman Foley Artist assignment, and...

A special edition of the ds106 show (the weekly live broadcast all about Digital Storytelling and ds106) takes place Tuesday, April 16 as a keynote session for the 2013 TCC Online Conference. The folks down in the basement have been working feverishly to produce the new promo spot for this sessions: This is pretty much the same format as our other show intros, except this one has a nice section of videos of UMW students over the last year talking about their ds106 experience. It ranges from Cat Breading to “I love my blog!” The ad copy for the show reads: Dim the lights, cue the music, roll the open credits… but the ds106 show is not one where the audience just sits quietly in their seats. You will not only learn how this open online course in digital storytelling works, but have a chance to try a few of ...

I swear, if I were to read my dog’s thoughts, they would always say something about being the roughest toughest dog in the neighborhood! Well now I finally get to see what this dog is thinking! Introducing Caesar the Tough … Continue reading →

One Archetype, Five Movies, Five Seconds To prep for the One Archetype, Five Movies, Five Seconds assignment I first had to pick an archetype, which is easier said than done. Many of my ideas were too specific but I eventually settled on the “Badass Female” archetype, which is something I’ve studied a little bit being ...

This is me ripping a piece of paper in reverse for the “Play It Backward, Jack” video assignment. Um…nothing analytically in depth about this, but I do admit it looks sort of cool. I’m sorry that this reversal isn’t extremely … Continue reading →

In your entire life, you will never see anything as EPIC as this! In the beginning, there was Epic Sax Guy, but now the genders have flipped to reveal something equally, if not MORE epic! I give you, Epic Instrument … Continue reading →

So for this assignment, we had to show how changing a simple cut of a video could change the view of a character’s values, beliefs, etc.  The idea came from this Albert Hitchcock video where he changed the middle clip ...

After examining movie generas this week, we were asked to look at this list of YouTube Generas and either add an example to a previously listed one or to add one of our own. I am not a huge fan of YouTube but when I watch videos on the site, they tend to be clips ...

I think we’ve all heard of YOLO before, right? If not, it means Live Your Own Life. It’s also the name of the next video assignment I made. Y.O.L.O Is the Motto is a 2 star assignment where you take videos, … Continue reading →

After my analysis of a clip from The Social Network, I was asked to look more indepth at the film. On IMDB I discovered the following facts: The Winklevoss twins were played by Armie Hammer and Josh Pence, Hammer played Cameron and Pence played Tyler. Hammer was shot speaking all of Tyler’s lines and during post ...

This was a nice startup assignment to get me going for the week.  I got to experiment with iMovie a bit more and figure out things like transitions and credits and such.  I did lots of different things for this.  ...

The second assignment I planned out last week was the A Word…A Picture…A Story… You can read about my pre production plans here. I was at the beach while I wrote up the assignment so I went with a beach themed … Continue reading →

Don’t cry! ds106 can help you clean up that hard drive littered with discard media files! cc licensed ( BY NC ) flickr photo shared by confidence, comely. We want your media leftovers from your ds106 projects, stuff you did not use, things that you may have downloaded and left side, stuff maybe you made and did not finish. There is a use for it. My students already contributed their stuff for last week’s assignment. Do not let those mp3s, pngs, gifs, mp4s just sit there and rot, bring them to the ds106 Media Recycle Yard. We sort them, clean them up, and will make them available starting April 14 for one of our Remix assignments. That’s right, we challenge you to sift through the pile (currently at 118 items) and create a new story out of them. Here’s how. Just upload them to the drop box at http://dropitto.me/ds106phonar (the ...

You may remember this post from last week, where I shared my plans for two video assignments. Well here is the first one: Where are they now?? For this 2-star video assignment I chose the cast of the 1987 movie … Continue reading →

Just last week, my ds106 students applied Roger Ebert’s How to Read Movies for their weekly assignment. One of my students was first in my network to share the sad news that Ebert passed away today @cogdog on a completely random note, just saw this article about robert ebert! movies.yahoo.com/blogs/movie-ta…#ds106 #moviecritic — micaela (@mmbutlerr) April 3, 2013 What a better way to honor his contributions that a ds106 assignment (well there are likely much better ways), but here you go, Thumbs Up For Ebert: Just a week after the Spring 2013 ds106 class applied Roger Ebert’s How to Read a Movie to analyze scenes of movies, he went on to that big movie theater in the sky. For this assignment, create a tribute to Ebert’s love of movies; but do more than just make a montage of clips of him. Put him in context with film characters, musicians, or place ...

Disney proudly presents the deleted scene from the classic movie Pooh’s Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin. It’s depressing and entertaining! It’s depressitaining! In this secret scene, Pooh has sadly given up hope after losing his beloved Christopher Robin … Continue reading →

For our Look, Analyze, Listen assignment this week, I chose to watch a clip from The Social Network, which I saw shortly after its release in 2010. The first time I saw it, I hated it. I just did not get why it was getting rave reviews. I chose to revisit it for this assignment ...

Two reminders from past UMW ds106 students. The ethos of ds106 carries on. First, a short email from Eric, who was in my Fall 2012 class: I was checking up on my final project videos and was amazed at how many views it has. I just thought you might think it was cool haha. Definitely cool, haha. Step back, this video, that was part of Eric’s final storytelling project, has over 112,00 views. You might add up the views on all my YouTube videos, and its still less than that. Crazy, right? Now views are not everything but 100,000 has to at least mean something. And this was really just a montage of clips from the Pawn Stars show, Eric even discounts the video a bit in his writeup: As somewhat of a conclusion, I chose to use the video assignment ds106 fave moments. I made a video montage of ...

I was browsing through the video assignments in the DS assignment bank and came across Watching Movies with the Stereo On {***}. I always feel like certain songs go with certain clips in movies – this assignment was perfect for me! I...

Welcome to the world of video, it certainly is an interesting one at that. While looking at all of the video assignments, the first one that really stood out to me was the three star Once Archetype, Five Seconds.  The reason I was so captivated by this was because I wasn’t sure how I could tell (continue reading...)

For my next video assignment, I chose to create a Music Video {****}. For this assignment, I had to pick a couple of scenes from a movie and add a song that complements the scenes. I chose the movie 127 Hours for...

The other assignment that I planned during week 9 was YOLO is the Motto {**}. Oh man. This was fun. First watch my video, then I will explain everything to you. ENJOY :) YOLO. You Only Live Once. This is something we...

For the first video assignment, I chose Where Are They Now? {**}. During week 9, I planned this assignment out so all I had to do was create it! I based this assignment from the movie The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. Here...

Everyone watch in amazement as Charlie Chaplin the Great makes his daring escape from the hungry jaws of a ferocious lion! And to narrate this exhilarating escapade, we have our marvelous orchestra playing “The Barber of Seville” as Charlie’s diligence … Continue reading →

What is going on here at CogDOGBlog, taking the side of the cat? But you see, the way I saw this video, the poor cat was just trying o sleep at that Lil Tramp kept messing him up: This is an example for my ds106 students of this week’s video assignment. Here’s the deal- in weeks 7-8 while we were working in audio my students were charged with generating 30 seconds of foley sound for the action in a segment of a clip of Charlie Chaplin’s The Circus. They tagged their clips in SoundCLoud to match the section of audio (well except for the last section, cause the teacher had a typo in the original lesson). The assignment for this week is to use those FOley segments and the original clip to make a new story. In my story, What’s a Cat Gotta Do to Sleep Around Here? it’s is ...

I would call this an “Anime Music Video” if the Spongebob clips weren’t in it. But hey! Spongebob DESERVES to be at this party! Check out his dance moves! Plus I loooove Spongebob so I couldn’t not put him in … Continue reading →