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One Archetype, Five Movies, Five Seconds worth 3 stars

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Create a five second video of one archetype from five different movies cutting together one second of each. Examples could include: Prisoners, Thieves, Beauty Queens, Kings, Robin Hoods, James Bonds, Bank Robbers, Assassins, Bad Boys, Kung Fu Masters, Femme Fatales, Sports Heroes, High School Bullies, Rogue Police Officers, Brainiacs, Pregnancies, Principals, Mean Teachers, InspirationalTeachers, Gunslingers, Gangsters, Monsters, Bartenders, Warrior Princesses, Swordsman, Knights, Mad Scientists, Nerd Girls, Obstructive Bureaucrats, Sidekicks, Wise Old Men, Hardboiled Detectives, Tough Coaches, Swooning Ladies

I chose Gangstas so the movies I used to create this was Dont be a mence to south central while drinking your juice in the hood, baby boy, friday, ATL and Training Day

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Video mash up Beauty Queen 3 stars

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This is my video mask up of beauty queens. This has been one of my favorite assignments.I took 5 clips from movies that showed beauty queens or girl who act like beauty queens from past movies and combined it into a video clip thatwas fun and exciting to watch it gave you special sceens from the diva in the movies

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Good Guys Gone Bad in 5 Seconds

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For this assignmenet, I picked five movies/tv-shows and one archetype that I took from each of them which was “Good Guys Gone Bad.” Basically 5 characters that started out to be the “Good Guys” but throuhgut the movie or tv show, became “Bad.” The first was Anakin from Star Wars, which you all know started out as Jedi and ended up a Sith as Dark Vader. The second one was Harvey Dent from The Dark Knight, who became Two-Face at the end. The third one was Shane from The Walking Dead, who started out as a good cop, however ended up as the antagonist. The fourth one was Obadiah Stane from Iron Man, who was along side Iron Man, however ended up turning on him. Finally, the fifth one was Walt from Breaking Bad, the name of the show tells you – he started out as an innocent chemistry teacher, however got into cooking meth and got his hands really dirty in the whole drug business. There’s nothing much to say about how the video was editing since it was a really short video which invlovled just taking short clips of the characters and putting it together. BTW, the video itself is not 5 seconds, however the footage is around that length.

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manic pixie dream eyes

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Man·ic pix·ie dream girl n.

A stock character in films; “that bubbly, shallow cinematic creature that exists solely in the fevered imaginations of sensitive writer-directors to teach broodingly soulful young men to embrace life and its infinite mysteries and adventures”

Zooey Deschanel is the epitome of manic pixie dream girl, and her big, blue eyes are the epitome of her mpdg-ness. I absolutely adore her. For this assignment, I chose five one-second clips of Zooey that draw attention to her eyes. The clips are from the following movies, listed in order: Failure to Launch, Yes Man, The Go-Getter, (500) Days of Summer, and Gigantic. I recommend watching all of these movies, which goes without saying.

The assignment itself was easy enough to do, catching one-second blinks from different movie clips. I edited the clips together using Windows Movie Maker 2.6, muted the clips, then added an audio clip from She & Him’s cover of I Put a Spell on You as sung by Zooey Deschanel.

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Five Gunslingin’ Cowboys

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For the One Archetype, Five Movies, Five Seconds project I chose to do the old fashioned cowboy. I love old Westerns and chose a couple of my favorites for this project. Okay, so it ended up being more than five seconds, but I couldn’t resist leaving a little more in there for effect…

I really feel like this project would be better if there wasn’t a one-second limit for each movie clip, that’s why I wasn’t too strict on my clip length. It shouldn’t be overly long, but a second really isn’t long enough to portray the feel of the archetype; it just gives the video a kind of frantic feel. I will admit that it is a challenge to limit your clips to one second, but hey, isn’t that what the One Second of Beauty project is for?? (I did that project as well; you can view it here).

That’s enough of my rant, time for you to see what you really came here for: five good old fashioned gunslingers! The movies are The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, Lonesome Dove, Rio Bravo, True Grit (the old one!), and my personal favorite, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. I used iMovie to put the whole project together and elected not to insert any music; I thought that the old-timey gunshot sound effects were awesome.

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5 kings around the world

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This work is for One Archetype, Five Movies, Five Seconds of VideoAssignment.

The hardest part of this assingnment was downloading footages. I used a download soft that is named “free video downloader.” I used Moviemaker for editing, but it could not recognize some file formats. People should be careful about file format because they have to do one extra process just to open the downloaded. files. MP4 was fine with Moviemaker.

Although I knew the assignment required 5 seconds, I made each cut a little longer because that made the work more attractive. Anyway, various kings exsit around the world.

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Video Assignment – 5 second Archetype.

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The assignment was to “Create a five second video of one archetype from five different movies cutting together one second of each.” I would like to start off by saying that capturing 5 different examples of an archetype in 5 seconds was almost impossible. In fact, at first it was impossible. The first video is an 18 second clip that shows the character engaging some sort of behavior that identifies them as a womanizer in the particular show/movie. I chose womanizers, as they appear frequently in movies and television shows, and because their characters tend to be very entertaining. AND YES, more Ryan Gosling.

The characters that I have chosen:

Alex Karev – played by Justin Chambers in Grey’s Anatomy

Jeremy Grey – played by Vince Vaughn in Wedding Crashers

Jacob Palmer – played by Ryan Gosling in Crazy, Stupid, Love

Barney Stinson – played by Neil Patrick Harris in How I Met Your Mother

Daniel Cleaver – played by Hugh Grant in The Diary of Bridget Jones

I used Lily Allen’s version of “Womanizer” in the background.

After looking at the scenes that I downloaded from youtube, I shortened it to the length of the assignment – a womping 5 seconds. I didn’t think it would have the same affect, because you can’t see what the guys are doing, but I think after making it, you can kind of tell by the way they hold themselves, if they speak, and even their facial expressions. I don’t know if someone could guess “womanizer” though, unless they had scene the original video I pulled it from, or were familiar with the character. Here is the 5 second clip:

Overall, I found that it was a bit challenging to find good small clips that depicted an archetype. I am glad that I have access to iMovie, as it made clipping everything very easy. It’s only getting easier (knock on wood).

Assignment worth 3 stars.

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It’s a bit complicated.

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The Assignment

I did the One Archetype, Five Movies, Five Seconds video assignment. This asks you to:

Create a five second video of one archetype from five different movies cutting together one second of each. Examples could include: Prisoners, Thieves, Beauty Queens, Kings, Robin Hoods, James Bonds, Bank Robbers, Assassins, Bad Boys, Kung Fu Masters, Femme Fatales, Sports Heroes, High School Bullies, Rogue Police Officers, Brainiacs, Pregnancies, Principals, Mean Teachers, InspirationalTeachers, Gunslingers, Gangsters, Monsters, Bartenders, Warrior Princesses, Swordsman, Knights, Mad Scientists, Nerd Girls, Obstructive Bureaucrats, Sidekicks, Wise Old Men, Hardboiled Detectives, Tough Coaches, Swooning Ladies.

For this section we were required to take the DS106 assignment and give it an SOS twist, such as a scenario from the future of technology. If for some reason the embedded video does not work, you can find the video here.

The Process

I decided that I wanted to do something related to AI. Particularly AI with personalities, be it humorous, evil, compassionate, or thoughtful.

First I needed to collect clips. I decided to go with the following scenes:

WALL-E – EVE Giggle – Wall-E and Eve from Wall-E.
Portal 2 gameplay 20.IV.2011 – PLOT TWIST! GLaDOS’ chamber - GlaDos from Portal 2.
Quantic Dream’s “Kara” PS3 Tech Demo TRUE-HD QUALITY – Kara from Kara. (I highly recommend watching this full video.)
Marvin Moments! – Marvin the Paranoid Android from A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
Star Trek – Data asks his creator a question - Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation.

In hindsight I wish I added in NEPTR from Adventure Time, as he had a lot of great lines such as “Creator, did you make me to watch me suffer?” and things along those lines.

I found the clips on YouTube and decided decided I needed to download the YouTube videos. I found a handy and simple YouTube Downloader for free on CNET.

After downloading the videos, I searched for a browser based video editing application. I decided to use the free version of WeVideo.

The in-app help page sometimes resizes funny based on your browser, so I referred to the video tutorials on the website when I had trouble. I wouldn’t say my experience was entirely smooth, but the video explanation makes it clear. I was able to add in some transitions to smooth out the gaps between clips, as well as an intro and credits.

WeVideo can also directly upload to YouTube, which was ultra convenient. The free version gives you 1GB of space and 15minutes of uploads per month, which was more than enough for me.

I did make a mistake at the end which cut off my favorite part of the video, Data’s question to his creator. I had to go back in and re-edit my video after the fact. Luckily you can do this while logged into YouTube itself. Below is a shot of how WeVideo looks when viewed through Youtube.

I did my best to keep all the clips between roughly 4-6 seconds in length in keeping with the assignment.

The Story

I hadn’t done any video assignments (or audio) because I found the idea of needing to download software extremely intrusive. Luckily between YouTube Downloader (useful) and WeVideo, the cost of doing so on this assignment was relatively light. I decided on doing the 5 second

Like I mentioned, I wanted to do something with AI personalities. I see androids, especially humanoid ones, as a UI development. The fact that each of the androids I have showcase distinct personalities is definitely a future advancement. As far as I know, we haven’t reached this level of emotional complexity in robotics quite yet.

Rather than painting a uniform picture of what I suppose the future of androids will be in society, I wanted to use conflicting scenes. Will robots love? Will they have humor? Will we manufactor them as slaves? Will they live? Why did we make them this way? I wanted a video that showcased a spectrum and complicated viewpoints a bit.

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One Archetype, Five Movies, Five Seconds “Beauty Queens” 3 Star Video Assignment

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For this assignment we were expected to choose 5 movies and connect short clips of each movie all in to one archetype. Therefore, I chose the archetype “Beauty Queens” which was one of our options, and chose the movies that I though resembled the definition of a beauty queen the best, those movies were “Mean Girls” , “Bring It On”, “Miss Congeniality” “The Cheetah Girls Movie”, and “Pretty Women”. The process of doing this assignment was kind of hard for me at first but then I got the hang of it once one of my classmates gave me clear directions. All I had to simply do was download all of the 5 movies using FireFox, and then I had to open the application called “imovie” and import all of the 5 movies on to it and trip certain clips that I wanted to use for the archetype. Although it was a bit over 5 seconds I think I truly defined the definition of a beauty queen with the clips that I chose. After, I exported the movie on to my desktop and then i uploaded it to YouTube. I enjoyed doing this and I hope you guys like:)!!