Where do your shoes take you in a day? Tell a story using a video of only your shoes! For my last assignment (4 stars) I decided to make a movie of everywhere I travelled in a day. This assignment caught my eye because I like to watch vlogs, which is basically a day on video. …

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Weekly Summary #4 I wish I could say that my confidence boost from last week survived this week’s video assignments… but it didn’t. When this week’s agenda was sent out I was thinking to myself, hey, this can’t be that bad! Little did I know, it was going to be a pain. Although the assignment load Read More

Comment Feedback This week’s blog feedback was very successful! With each week it becomes easier and easier to comment on other people’s work. I commented on four different blogs and replied to some comments that were left on my blog, PLUR. Below you can find this week’s (6/11-6/18) interactions.

With our last unit ending this week, here are my final interactions with my ds106 classmates. Some are comments reflecting on last week’s work, but most are from video assignments.

Video Assignment Week 4 – # 1 What Do You Love?    http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/what-do-you-love/ Number of Stars:  This is called pure self-indulgence. I love my puppy, wow, it’s just that I love him enough to take hundred of photos of him. I know I’ll probably regret it later on, but I just love him so much. […]

Comments for Week Four. I made my first comment on this blog. The video was adorable and felt like a video one might see on a college website encouraging students to attend the school. The second comment I made on this blog post. It was a very amazing travel guide and I felt excited to […]

Daily Create Week 4 – # 4 Try Not To Scream When You Read Today’s Daily Create! #ds106dc #ds106 #tdc1986 I don’t know, therefore I don’t know. pic.twitter.com/Pgo90JgqZF — De. Norman (@de_normal1) June 17, 2017 http://daily.ds106.us/tdc1986/ I don’t even. Don’t click on things on the Internet. It’s just weird and strange. I just did a […]

Summary of Reading Movies. As I began reading the article written by Roger Ebert, I felt as if this would be a pretentious person talking about movies the way English teachers talk about symbolism or metaphors. They find meaning where there is none and attempt to make a bigger deal about the topic than anyone […]

Week 4 Fueled by peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, vast quantities of black coffee, and one or two adult libations (dirty martinis) I powered through this week. I refused to get frustrated by software and programs that were not senior citizen friendly. Years ago when […]

Mermaids of Brooklyn @ds106dc #tdc1985

Today’s daily create was… demanding… I saw it when it was first posted and had no idea what to do for it. I might have gone a little too outside the box (or outside the assignment), so I’m kinda feeling like my mermaid statue sitting on the dock right now, thinking “what have I done…?” … Continue reading Mer-woes.

This four-star assignment was great fun. It provided me with significant challenges and opportunities to excel. I took the video while out on my 0600 morning walk with my pup Nelly. I used my iPhone to record two separate video clips. It took me no […]

This 4 1/2 star assignment captures one of the fundamental aspects of my personality. I am a saluki hound aficionado. I have had saluki hounds for over 55 years of my life. I received my first saluki as a child, growing up in Saudi Arabia, […]

How to Read a Movie by Roger Ebert I think that Ebert’s basic visual strategy is very interesting. I do not watch a lot of movies or television so I am not grounded on the intricacies of videography the way he is. However, as someone […]

The Good The Bad and the Ugly (Cemetery Scene) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZHEu7HusG4&list=PLRxOxWTx2sTWXlPjwkcXN-tREmsQWd-Sc&index=12 It truly is amazing what your eyes see without sound and what you hear when you are not visually distracted. This was a unique experience. By turning off the sound and watching the visual effects […]

Look, Listen, and Analyze. I chose to look, listen, and analyze Ocean’s Twelve “Oh He’s Mean” Scene. First, I looked at the video with the volume off. The camera is weirdly aimed at the person in bed as if we the audience were keeping this man company. The transition is tough when he turns on the light […]

Daily Create Week 4 – # 3 Surrealistic Bridge Poster #tdc1985 #ds106dc #ds106 The world is filled with impossibilities but for a mermaid in love, she would create anything absurd. 🧜🏽‍♀️ pic.twitter.com/ZVXKnzCLFN — De. Norman (@de_normal1) June 16, 2017 http://daily.ds106.us/tdc1985/ I love and hate paradoxes. They make me angry but happy. They make me feel like a […]

#ds106 #tdc1985 The mermaid had forgotten about one thing…winter. pic.twitter.com/0CPz5gfzBb — Jenna Wood (@jwoodds106) June 16, 2017 After months of building and the help of unicorns, elves, and tools from Pandora’s box, the mermaid had successfully completed the bridge. She had gotten a potion from a fairy that allowed her to float up out of …

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For the Look, Listen, Analyze assignment I chose Kids in the Hall’s The Monkeys. The video in the playlist was disabled, so here’s a version from the Nerdist. I love Kids in the Hall and wish it was still on Netflix, so I’m really excited to look at/listen to/analyze a skit. Looking The scene opens to … Continue reading I’m letting the monkeys loose!!!

A few years ago I took an international film class at UMW. We talked about film techniques, movements, themes, all that stuff.  It was just a summer class, but I thought I was so smart because I got to watch and analyze a buttload of classic movies. What I didn’t realize was that I didn’t actually have … Continue reading The ONE time it’s okay to keep pausing the movie.

When I’m nervous my horse talks to me… @ds106dc #tdc1984

Daily Create #14 Star Wars the Clone Wars? More like DS106 Clone Wars! Today’s daily create involved cloning yourself! After roadtripping all the way to Rhode Island I made my friends take the panorama, but we had some difficulties. We would either move the camera too fast to where the picture would only get a Read More

Daily Create #15 What makes you nervous? Today’s daily create involved tweeting an image of something that makes you nervous. Something that gives me the jitters is lack of privacy. Currently, while vacationing with my friends I asked them what makes them nervous. Half of them said lack of privacy, which got me thinking. It’s Read More

It’s a joke. Cause the gif is from the show Community. Get it? Troy can’t handle it. #ds106 #tdc1984 pic.twitter.com/v07U0vaMHO — Andrew (@Andrew21663620) June 16, 2017 Okay.. I’ll just see myself out.

Today’s daily create: “I am nervous.” Me: a shivering chihuahua. A decorative sunken ship at the bottom of a fish tank with “nervous wreck” painted on the hull. Both things I thought of AFTER replying to the Daily Create. Facepalming myself into oblivion right now. #tdc1984 #ds106 what is this strange, new tunnel vision inducing … Continue reading The daily anxiety

#ds106 #tdc1984 He is very nervous pic.twitter.com/77xZP4iQuL — Jenna Wood (@jwoodds106) June 15, 2017 Today’s daily create was very open ended, and I actually thought I was missing part of the directions. My first thought of being nervous was a drip of sweat running down someone’s head. I searched Youtube for a little to find …

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Daily Create Week 4 – # 2 I Am Nervous #ds106 #ds106dc #tdc1984 Ha, ha, don’t you mean my state of existence every day of my life. 🥔🤪 pic.twitter.com/JJvh25TRuz — De. Norman (@de_normal1) June 15, 2017 http://daily.ds106.us/tdc1984/ All I could think of was a potato. Because it is true, I am a nervous potato at […]

Video Assignment Week 4 – # 2 Lyric Video Snippet   http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/lyric-video-snippet/ You can find the lyric cards that I used here: https://www.canva.com/de_norm. I decided to take Hasley’s Castle (Huntsman Version) and turn it into a music video. Firstly, I needed to acquire the song and converted the lyrical video available online into a mp3 using […]

For looking, listening, and analyzing I chose a scene from Batman The Dark Knight. These are notes from my three different perspectives. Camera work: Camera pans around to show all the faces Allows the audience to see reactions from the group as the Joker enters Angle is behind the Joker’s shoulder, showing group’s reactions Leaves …

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#ds106 #tdc1983 three me's?! pic.twitter.com/LGYapaFqmc — Jenna Wood (@jwoodds106) June 15, 2017 When I first saw the daily create this morning I wanted to do it but I was by myself, so I couldn’t. Now, at the (almost) end of the day, I found someone to help me finish cloning myself. I just showed the …

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