Recently while feeding my Pinterest addiction, I discovered some images of designs people made out of barcodes. For this assignment, turn something simple into something great by using an image of a barcode and forming a different object or design. For examples, look here. I was actually inspired by the talk we watched a couple of weeks ago […]

This exercise involved watching this scene first without sound, then again with sound but not watching the scene, and then finally watching with the sound.  I was to analyze the camera work, analyze the audio track without picture, and then analyze them both together. Watching The Shawshank Redemption (1994) prison break clip with no sound […]

Revealed in the Roger Ebert’s guide “How to read a Movie” was the shot by shot technique. I knew of shot by shot used in sports, but I had never heard of it being used to dissect movies in any post editing process. This is where Ebert is talking about stopping a movie randomly during a […]

For this assignment, choose a photo of anything that you want to make a stencil out of using Photoshop or some other editing software. Using your software, remove the color and make the image appear to be a stencil instead of an actual photo. Take notice of how this changes the focus of the image. […]

The friendly cow all red and white, when you’re a little girl it’s quite a sight to see a cow do a twirl. She wanders lowing here and there,running so

Can you blame me? Look how cute he is! I’ve done numerous assignments during this class with my dog as the subject, so it’s only fitting that I did “What do pets think about?” using Cooper once again! I chose my video assignments at the beginning of the week and I knew for sure that […]

Poem of Stevenson— add some words to finish it July 18, 2014 The friendly cow all red and white, Grand in stand, deserving of sight. Intentions are clear, but dreams are fright, Notices the baneful stares off in the night.   She wanders lowing here and there, Giving others warning of human stare. You’re calm […]

Today’s Daily Create assignment is: Poem of Stevenson— add some words to finish it [ via http://tdc.ds106.us/ ] The friendly cow all red and white, Color value at it’s finest. Grazed in green, bathed in blue And felt the warmth, all in yellow. She wanders lowing here and there, but here was too close and […]

The friendly cow all red and white I never seen a cow so jolly and bright I can’t believe you are having calves of your own How loving and happy they will be   She wanders lowing here and there As her calves keep her running She will fill them with happiness and fun Makes […]

For my very own Digital Storytelling Assignment, I decided to create one that would tell me about my classmates. I feel as though I am learning out their personalities, but only so much can be expressed through assignments. I think it’s the psychology major speaking, but I love hearing about a person’s life story. Here […]

So I know we are just coming off the World Cup and everyone has the soccer bug right now, but I am obsessed with this team. I’ve been Jurgen and the boys since before they were a team, back three years ago when Klinsmann was hired. This is a collage I just made of me and my […]

This week has been long and unforgiving. I am usually upbeat, but I lately just have been tired. I am pushing through though. This is a picture of a flower that I saw earlier today. It is not as pretty as it was in real life, but still serves the same purpose. It was interesting […]

What Makes you Laugh: Whenever I am having a bad day, this is the first clip I turn to. Napoleon Dynamite was a movie about two high school outcast who preserved throughout high school their friendship and loyalty. Even though at times the popular kids were mean and insensitive, Pedro and Napoleon made it the happily […]

Growing Corn on the Cob DailyCreate. I have been trying to cook my corn on the cob all week.  So since it was on my mind, I figured it would be nice to draw it. :)      

For my first video assignment, I chose to do “Why So Serious?”  I had to take the audio from a funny movie and add it to the video of a serious movie. I chose The Little Rascals for my funny movie and Miracle for my serious movie.  Both of these movies are on my list […]

The following video is a compilation of the videos I feel best have changed my life. Please enjoy! Rocky Balboa I grew up watching all of Rocky’s movies. He has served as both a role model and a source of inspiration throughout all of my childhood.  The message of the clip is beautiful. We all have […]

Look, Listen, & Analyze –  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QehZjjwb7-I Camera Work The following clip is only 3 minutes and 3 seconds long.  The clip starts of with of the shot of the Joker casually walking in. Then quickly, the camera pans over all the mobsters of Gotham. In that 20 second exchanged, we are introduced to the dark […]

After that very horrible storm I mentioned yesterday, we thought everything would be gone however… our tomato plants survived the storm. Dailycreate: Draw Nature. Go outside, find a comfortable place to sit, and spend a few moments drawing something green and growing!   just a quick sketch.

Daily Create 15 I decided to draw a picture of my backyard for todays daily create. I love to look at nature and todays assignment was a pleasure for me

Today’s assignment in my digital story class was to  sit in and draw nature admiring what is green. I chose to sit in my driveway and draw a couple of mature trees I really love. I used the paint program to draw the driveway , grass, and trees going out of my driveway. I saved […]

  I chose this clip on Pearl Harbor! I went to Baltimore yesterday where they have the USS Taney, so I figured this clip would be appropriate. Analyze the camera work: This clip starts off with a lot of panning. This slow movement of the camera around a scene captures the entire scene. It shows the […]

Never before have I stopped to consider the concepts that Ebert goes over. Whenever I watch a movie I just watch it, feel it, and think about it. I don’t stop to think “hmm, I wonder what this scene would feel like if the characters switched positions or the camera angle were different”. And I don’t […]

  I found Ebert’s article very interesting because in a sense we tend to analyze when we are watching a moving by assuming what will happened next. As Ebert mentions that it is something anyone can do and you do not have to be an expert.   I like how he points out how he […]

Believable Lie for DailyCreate #14    

Last night we had the worst storm of the summer here in Tappahannock, Virginia.  The lightening awoke the sky with what seemed like enough light to rival the sun.  The thunder shook the very ground we hid on.  And you want to know the worst part of it all? THE CABLE WAS KNOCKED OUT FOR […]

Sometimes it takes more than watching a scene to understand. You have to watch the way it is played out separately from the sounds, then listen to the sounds with just your ears.  Only then will you be able to see the bigger picture. (I don’t know how to get the video to embed as […]

I’ll be the first to admit that when I watch movies, I never concentrate on the technical points.  I don’t pay attention to the small things like where a person is standing in response to the POV, I like to focus on the whole. Ebert explained how where a person stands in a scene relates […]

Today in my Digital Storytelling class daily create assignment we were to make a video of a believable lie. After the video was recorded we were to upload it to our YouTube account and publish it. So I made up a story about today being my birthday and while I was at it I gave […]

I chose My Name is Maximus, because I recognized the movie.   Analyze the camera work. The shots always have Commodus on the left.  Maximus is always on the right.  The…

These are not “laws.” To “violate” them can be as meaningful as to “follow” them.  I really liked the ideas behind Elbert’s article.  His opinions of scenes and camera placement…