How to read a movie was really a quite interesting thing. I feel like most people, me included, take movies for granted. We watch them and say what we think at the end, but really miss a lot of the work that directors put into them. “How to read a movie” really gave me these …

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Reflections- 1. Reflecting on Roger Ebert’s “How to Read a Movie” and several videos on movie-making. Perspective, Perspectives 2. Reflecting on a scene from “American Psycho.” A Triple Take on American Psycho Daily Creates 1. @ds106dc #tdc2016 https://t.co/BJ64rgWJUN — Sarah Roche (@saradigitellsit) July 18, 2017 2. Where's Talky Tina? @ds106dc #tdc2019 pic.twitter.com/VlxvQedBPS — Sarah Roche …

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@ds106dc Parents were cooler before they had kids, they haven't ~truly~ rocked the shades ever since #tdc2022 pic.twitter.com/1aVYEj78Oz — Sarah Roche (@saradigitellsit) July 23, 2017

This is my week 4 summary for DS106. This week didn’t seem like it had as much work as some…

This was by far the most fun i’ve had in this class yet, I really enjoyed messing around with different video software and getting to create my own videos. I thought that the assignments were interesting and allowed me to use my creativity. Part 1: Video Assignments Video Assignment 1: Highlight Reel  – 5 stars … Continue reading "Week 4 summary"

Activity Time Lapse-Make a time lapse video of yourself doing a task. The Story Behind the Story- When I was in elementary school, we were often given an assignment in which we had to come up with an idea for an invention, something not necessarily practical but definitely useful. I always invented some variation on …

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The Dark Knight is one of my all time favorite movies, and I loved Heath Ledger as the Joker, he made the character seem so creepy and sinister. So when I saw that the pencil scene from The Dark Knight was an option for the look, listen, analyze assignment I had to pick it. I first watched … Continue reading "Why so serious?"

Self Documentary-Make a mini documentary about something in your life. The Story Behind the Story- When I first got my job as a summer camp counselor, I was worried about a few things. First of all, I don’t like kids. Even as a kid I didn’t really like kids. I could be found on the …

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I feel that this assignment really helped us see some of the video storytelling techniques actually preformed in real movies.…

For this daily create, we made to create a picture that had something to do with the symmetry of the number 2017. The process to fulfill this assignment was very time consuming. I had to dig deep and think outside of the box to complete this task. For my picture, I used a picture of …

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For this daily create we had to create an animation with a robot that was dancing. For this animation, we could personally customize how our robot was dancing. During the creation process, I made sure that my robot was dancing a certain way as his dance moves were a representation of how I was feeling …

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For this post we had to create something that sounded like it was spooky. I decided to make my sound with three beats that I recorded off garageband. The first sound is a hard edm sound which I thought was a good way to start the song because I needed an introduction to get my …

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My first Daily Create, #tdc2016, I completed this week was to make a dancing robot on the website https://roboboogie.codeclub.org.uk/#dance/new. I did my best to have my robot do a popular dance called the Milly Rock, which is basically just moving your hands in a scooping motion while moving your hips and feet. I liked messing around … Continue reading "Daily Creates Week 4"

For my second video assignment I made a compilation of some of my favorite Adam Sandler scenes. The assignment was to make highlight reel of scenes from my favorite actor, and I decided to do Adam Sandler. I chose Adam Sandler because I love his movies, but only his movies from 1995-2003, I don’t really like … Continue reading "Are you too good for your home ball?"

For my first video assignment I completed this week, I made a sports highlight reel of my favorite player in the NBA, Kelly Oubre Jr. of the Washington Wizards. I am a huge Wizards basketball fan and I even have a Kelly Oubre Jr. Wizards jersey. I have used the team as inspiration for a … Continue reading "Kelly Oubre Jr. is the G.O.A.T."

For this assignment I chose to take a clip of something and make an instant replay for it. I am a huge baseball fan and have always been a Yankees fan. That is why I chose to take Aaron Judge’s swing and make it a slow motion video. Aaron has hit so many home runs …

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This week we focused on Video Editing / “Reading” Movies. I learned a lot from Roger Ebert’s “How to Read a Movie”. The main points that I got out of it is his technique in pausing and analyzing movies and some of the themes we see in movies. Such as …

As always, I started on Monday by reading over our summary for the week and planning out what assignments I would be doing and on what days. I also did my first daily create on Monday. The assignment was to … Continue reading →

Process: I downloaded the song “My Heart Will Go On” by Celine Dion and took a movie clip form Youtube with the Deathstar / Planet Destroyer 2.0 (or 3.0? I’m not sure how many they’ve made) destroying one of the planets from the newest Star Wars movie. I put them …

For this assignment I chose to do something a little different than the description. Instead of taking 1-2 second time lapses throughout the day I took one big one to show some period of time. This really gave a different effect as you can see movement in things you wouldn’t normally see. You can see …

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As soon as I saw this assignment I knew exactly what clip I wanted to do. The Pursuit of Happyness has been one of my favorite movies for as long as I can think. The movie tells such a powerful story and there are so many amazing quotes from that movie. So that is why …

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Process: I used Movie Maker to make this video of my Orientation. I got the photos from my IPhone, I moved them into an album and sent them from my Yahoo email to my School Email. I then uploaded all of the photos and took media from a Chillstep Remix …

This is my fourth and final daily create of the week.This assignment was quick and straight forward. In todays daily create…

This is my reflection on Roger Ebert’s “How to Read a Movie” and the two other videos we were required to…

This is my second and final video assignment of the week. In this assignment, we had to take memories that…

There’s something really simple and beautiful about the way Benjamin Alire Sáenz writes. I’ve read this particular book, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, a few times now. I’m always amazed by how much he says in so … Continue reading →

I chose to do “The Joker Pencil Trick & Mob Scene” for my Look, Listen, Analyze assignment.   Analyze the Camera Work: Everyone started around at once, to the right, as Joker walks in slowly. The camera shows the entire table staring up at the joker. The camera switches between …

I read through Roger Ebert’s article on “How to Read a Movie”, his techniques on how to do it do seem practical and basic. His methods are a bit slow and seems to require an audience, to get a strong grasp of all the details in the movie you are …

In this post, I created an image with lil b the based god. Lil B is one of my favorite artists. He has inspired a generation with his music as well as his positivity. While he gets mocked for a lot of the stuff he puts out, his best work is not usually talked about. …

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This is my first of two video assignment this week. In this assignment we had to create a video of…