There was genres for everything or at least all the good things in life: books, movies, music, so on and so forth! They exist all around. One of the most popular places? Our very own Youtube! This week had an assignment in which we had to review some other Youtube genre’s created by fellow DS106ers, ...

As the Fandom Princess possessed a plethora of magical artifacts, as mentioned, she loved to spend time in her chambers, watching moving pictures flash across her enchanted television. On this enchanted item, she would watch a majority of videos that her various fandoms made for her (some even running as … Continue reading →

This was possibly the best part of this week’s assignment just because I’m a total Wikipedia junkie. I know some people are hesitant because any regular joe could go and mess around with a page but if I was reading Lincoln’s wiki page and in the middle of it, it talks about him listening to ...

Only doing two daily creates this week? Best week ever!! Well, looking back I just was unmotivated by this week’s daily creates. Picking my favorite gift that I have given or received was pretty hard since I am really bad at picking favorites. The Easter Bunny got me a beach badge for this summer which (continue reading...)

Look, Listen, Analyze Exploring The Movie Even More Genres of YouTube Pre-Production Daily Creates The vibe I gathered from this week’s assignment was that it was more of a preparatory week, getting acquainted with the basics of video storytelling.  It focused on really looking at a movie, while also delving deeper into specific genres.  None ...

This is my old Jeep Grand Cherokee, but it wasn’t technically a present I was given, but more of a hand me down.

Analyze the camera work :  The first part of this assignment was to listen to it with the volume all the way down, paying special attention to camera angles, the film “tone”, and the various camera switchings throughout the clip. Prior to watching this clip, I watched this clip on camera techniques so that I wasn’t completely clueless and ...

While looking at the google doc of all of the different YouTube genre‘s thought of by past students I couldn’t help but laugh at the “Unintentional Hilarity” genre because that is so true. It’s pretty much the modern day America’s Funniest Home Videos always at your access. I find myself constantly getting sent to different (continue reading...)

The two assignments that I chose were Return to the Silent Era and Vintage Educational Video. For the Silent Era one, I’m thinking about using the scene from The Hobbit where the dwarves are all arriving.  The example I watched was Remix #4 Frank Vs. The Tranq, which gave me a pretty good sense of how ...

The genre I picked out was “animals doing human things” cause I came across this about a year ago and it’s too good not to post. So, this is obviously a very “human thing” watching TV.  But the part of this assignment that I found to be useful was recognizing the broad spectrum of genres ...

I checked out the Any Given Sunday Wikipedia page for any extra info on the production, and it didn’t really have much to offer except that part of it was loosely based on a book, also the NFL wouldn’t allow them to use real team names so they had to make them up.  The one interesting ...

If anyone knows me they know that I cannot stand reading. I have never been able to be truly captivated by a book, there are times when I wish I could, but it just never seems to happen. I get bored way too easily and I fall asleep and then it’s just all lost from (continue reading...)

I did a bit more research on The Dark Knight (2008), the source of the clip in the previous post. Here are some interesting facts about the production of The Dark Knight from IMDb: The rough voice Christian Bale is known for now was not actually the voice that he had originally used in filming. ...

This week, I had to find an example video of YouTube genres located on Google Doc that previous students have created. I didn’t really understand a few of the genres listed on the Google Doc, especially “Inappropriate for Church, but only Church.” The video which was posted for it is inappropriate in general–not just “for church.” ...

3-2-1 ACTION! It’s time to start thinking visually, but not with photos this time, but with the magic of video!  This week we analyzed different camera techniques used in movies and how they have the power to turn an ordinary … Continue reading →

This week, I picked a movie scene and analyzed it’s video editing techniques. I picked Batman interrogating the Joker from The Dark Knight (2008). Without Sound Without sound, the first scene where the lights turn on and Batman appears becomes very slow and not as startling as I remember. I chose this scene because I ...

To extend on the ideas I talked about in my three time review of this clip of Pursuit of Happiness I looked up more information about this movie on Internet Movie Database. I was supposed to find three interesting facts about the … Continue reading →

Editing Tools- I have a PC so for my editing tools I have Widows Movie Maker.  I have a bit of experience using Movie Maker in the past but not much.  I know the basic ins and outs but I … Continue reading →

Next week we are actually started to do video assignments.  Like a lot of other people in our class I am a bit nervous about doing this.  So to help calm our nerves, we had a pre-production step added into this weeks assignments   For … Continue reading →

This week we had to do two daily creates.  Here’s what I did this week: 1. Draw a picture of the best present you ever gave or received. This picture represents the Taylor Swift concert that me and my sister went … Continue reading →

Another assignment we had this week was to look at the idea of genres of YouTube videos.  We used our class google doc to come up with ideas of genres or examples of each genre. For mine, I choose to do an example … Continue reading →

One of our assignments for this week was to pick a video clip and watch it three different times in three different ways. For my clip I picked this scene from Pursuit of Happiness: The first time that I watched this clip … Continue reading →

There is a lot of set up work involved with creating a good video.  Much has to be edited, added, and put together.  Before you can even think about doing that you need the pieces to make the whole. Play by Play: I chose to use a clip from a …

After reviewing the Youtube Genres document, I felt there was a crucial piece of the Youtube puzzle missing. A lot of the genres added were very specific, only pertaining to a small portion of the Youtube video population. Music videos, something I think is one of the core foundations of Youtube, was left off the list. ...

This is one of my Daily Creates.  A drawing of a favorite gift I have received.  I wear this necklace everyday.  I love it because not only is it a locket, but it is an envelope and I love sending “snail mail” to my friends and family.  It is so …

Rounders - 3 bits of interesting information 1) Worm was originally supposed to smoke but avid nonsmoker Edward Norton refused. 2) Matt Damon and Edward Norton played the $10,000 buy-in Texas Hold ‘Em championship event at the 1998 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. During the first of four days, Matt Damon had pocket Kings and was knocked out by former ...

There are many different genres.  For movies these tend to range from the well know, action, comedy to thriller and drama.  Books have fiction, nonfiction, teen, biography and more.  Youtube also has genres.  I did not think about this until I read through the examples on this page.  I love …

cc licensed ( BY NC SA ) flickr photo shared by volperic Late night fiddling, don’t ask why– I was doing my photo editing and saw nothing on #ds106 radio, so set out to play somethimg from iTunes. For some reason, Nicecast no longer allows me to select an application as a source (Maybe because I installed Audio Hijack), so I switched by rig to Ladiocast, especially since the ds106 radio status page was not updating at all. Previously, I found I could manually push updates to the metadata via Ladiocast, but this seems manual and tedious. I mused before searching Not quite sure anymore what generates metadata on #ds106radio, NIcecast fails — Alan Levine (@cogdog) March 31, 2013 Searching on “itunes metadata script ladiocast” I then easily found a nifty Applescript for Ladiocast Automation. It’s pretty easy to see what it does; polls itunes for a new song, and ...

Look at this, listen to it, and enjoy it! Just Watch: Camera This clip from the movie I am Legend started in mainly darkness except for the door to the building that was open and allowed light to come in.  The viewer focuses on this light.  It is dominant just …

Let’s just start at the beginning.  What tools do I even have for video? iPhone.  I think that will basically be what I use to shoot anything. Sound recorder.  I can use this for any foley (HA!) sounds I might make on my own. Windows Movie Maker.  Seems useless unless it’s just a slide show. ...