This is a tutorial that will show you how to do the “Why So Serious?” assignment, where you have to take a video of a serious movie and add the audio from a funny movie. To follow along with my tutorial, you will need iMovie, iTunes, and QuickTime Player, all of which should be available […]

Daily Create 13 I chose this quote because it speaks to my heart and I think it is one of the greatest blessing to not only know those words but live them out. And that is what I wanted to with the Professor and all of us

Daily Create 14   This picture of the sky and mountains represents immortality in my understanding. Both of these things are eternal and they do not have the beginning and the end as a regular mortal human being does.  

Roger Ebert establishes guidelines on how to dissect a movie in his article “How to Read a Movie.” These are helpful tips a non-savvy moviegoer can utilize to better their overall experience. Ebert  introduces the following concepts in his article: Visual compositions have intrinsic weighting: certain areas of the available visual space have the tendencies to stir emotional […]

I took this picture last week Tuesday evening after we had some rain showers. I was on my way home from my ASL (American Sign Language) class and I thought the sky looked so pretty and thought maybe I will be able to use this for one of my DailyCreates. :) The Sun will live […]

FROM ATOP THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA This picture embodies the idea of immortality from my perspective. Few things will beat what it felt like to get to one of the highest checkpoints on the Great Wall. Today’s Daily Create assignment is: Create a photo that represents the idea of immortality. This is my mental […]

I know I am probably alone on this but this is my favorite scene from Despicable Me. My brother and I watched this together and we replayed this scene so

It was an interesting assignment to do! Sounds speak so laud, sometimes even words are not necessary. Since I was born in April I had to do the part from 1:30-2:00. That’s when a woman (I called her Judy) came up to the cage. I translated the phrase that appeared on the screen (Open the […]

I thought last week was one of the most challenging weeks for me, But I think this week was a nightmare and over the top for challenging. I had so many obstacles that I came across this week. I was so frustrated and was thinking I was not going to make it through my assignments. […]

I read the instructions wrong and had to do my audio over, I thought I was suppose to do 2:00 to 2:30. :) Silly me, but it was fun.  I just felt a little strange making crazy sounds. :)  I find it amazing how much technology has improved from barely any audio to all of […]

My Foley was for Chaplin-lion-05 When I recorded my sounds, it definitely stopped at 30 seconds, but for some reason it is saying 31 seconds, I was not able to delete it.      

So this week I really enjoyed the challenge of learning to use audio to tell stories.  I mainly learned how to get people to visualize scenes with their own imaginations…

I decided to create a sound effect story about the delivery because I have to go through it very soon I’m dreaming it will go just as fast as this story – maybe a few minutes longer A husband and a super calm wife are talking about the delivery (I think in German). They decide […]

I have been having connectivity and computer issues the entire weekend. I created a mashup using the following audio clips utilizing GarageBand and my cell phone to access YouTube. I found the sound clips via YouTube and I played back the sound through my cell phone and recorded it in GarageBand. I then arranged the […]

After all of the obstacles I been through this weekend, I am in brain overload.     I also included the steps  for this dailycreate   I used Microsoft office picture, I use the shape styles to pick the font size and color of the letters and the background , then I picked some shapes. […]

Wow, I can’t believe it has already been Week 3. I can’t get over how these summer classes just pass by so quickly and effortlessly. I like the shortness of the courses but the course load is definitely demanding. The assignments this week were adventurous to me. I’m not familiar with SoundCloud and how to use it so it was a…

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Or at least, it will soon. I spent an hour setting up software on Monday, was out of town Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday, came back exhausted from travelling Friday, and then simply ran out of time on Saturday-Sunday. No excuse besides that. Got the daily create finished through mobile upload on Thursday after editing on my laptop with […]

I chose May I Take Your Order, since I recognized that I could get that done in less than 10 minutes, and I did. I did it poorly, but it is infinitely better than getting a zero after the last two harrying days. Did a quick smash-and-grab recording with a short script and threw it […]

After waking up from a deep nap, I am very groggy and my mind is in deep space. I think my mind is still trying to determine whether I am awake in a dream or actually awake in real life. To wake myself up from this trance, I walked to the fridge to grab a coke. The first sip was very refreshing…

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Daily Create 9: This was an assignment that involved uploading a picture to flickr.com that would sum up my life in one sentence. This took a lot of time to sum up, but I felt comfortable completing the task. http://www.frederickhowell.com/uncategorized/my-life-in-a-picture-and-a-single-sentence/ Daily Create 10: I was going to pass this activity up, because I usually shut […]

This week was super duper challenging for me. It was really hard to catch up with all the assignment. For some reason I didn’t see some of the assignment in the beginning of the week – Charlie Chaplin and the foley sounds. I’m still a bit confused what I had to do. I feel like […]

I am always dreaming of this day to come. It’s my final year! I am almost there. I can see my diploma being handed to me on stage. As a first year generation, it is a dream come true. This road has definitely been a journey to remember, a memory to pass on to future generations, and a new standard…

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Week 3 has definitely been the most stressful, and from reading my classmates’ blogs I think that I am not the only one who feels that way. At the beginning of the week I was NOT looking forward to having to record my own voice or fool around with audio equipment; as a result I […]

Here is the Test Recording on my Soundcloud account. We were told to create an account on SoundCloud and to write a blog about it with an embedded audio directly from there. I created my account a while back (I think it was a week 2) where I recorded a Happy Birthday Wish for Dr. […]

This week was a very rough week for me. I have been driving between Richmond and Fredericksburg all week so completing my classwork was a struggle. So I had to work on a little bit at a time this week and complete finishing touches tonight. This week I completed four daily creates Photo representation of my life Modification of a… Read more →

I thought that this assignment was going to be SO hard, but it was actually a lot of fun! I was born in October, so I had 1:01-1:30. Here is my final product, as well as the video! I hope you all like it!   I used a Chipotle to-go top: My friend’s adorable puppy: […]

The “Beat” scene I directly associate with music anytime someone mentions Beatniks or be-bop jazz. I think of the jazz legends like Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Max Roach, and that famous hi-hat riff infamously portrayed in when anyone imitating a Beatnik. I associate the generation with the big band or the be-bop genre of jazz. […]

We all know that moment when our computer crashes and we have to go fix it somehow. This file tells one such story. First, the computer crashes in the middle of typing. Then, the user unplugs the computer, followed by checking the inside of the case chassis – this involves removing the outer case, unscrewing […]

This Foley assignment was the funnest by far. I loved this project. Although it was only a 30 second clip, there were a lot of actions in that time period. I had the 1:31 to 2:00 slot. For that 30 second slot, I counted seven actions. Tapping Leg Girl faints on ground Water splashing out of pan Lion Yawning Pan… Read more →