30 Second Documentary
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Make a short, 30-second documentary, the topic is up to you. Some good ideas include:
*How to make something
*What someone's job is like
*What it's like trying something new
*Show yourself doing something you are terrible at
*Show yourself doing something you are AMAZING at
No narration necessary. Show, don't tell.
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I’m a very busy person so I figured a quick and informative documentary would benefit many people. I commonly see this mistake being made in the lab. I hope this will help fix the problem. I used materials from previously made YouTube videos and then did some editing to catch …
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For this assignment I had to make a 30 second documentary. I chose to show the tricks that my wife Jane taught our dog Dakota. She taught Dakota to come on cue, sit, lay down, roll over, speak, and shake. We consider Dakota a …
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Read more
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http://hospitaltothefuneral.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/cards.mp4
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I
Love
This
the end.
———————-
———————–
Okay, a bit more. I did this based on the assignment 30 Second Documentary
Now, to get all official the original assignment had 4 and a half stars. What is that? The way I see it, if i do a sub par …
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For my last video assignment, I created a 30 Second Documentary on something that I’m bad at doing. I’m not sure why this assignment was rated 4.91 stars, because it literally took me 5 minutes to do, but it was a nice way to finish off video week.
I’m …
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*Please be sure to have hard hats on!
For this assignment, my mom was actually the one to suggest ideas. The idea was to basically pick a topic, any topic, and make a 30 second documentary from it. My mom suggests that I pick something I am terrible at, …
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The one thing I look forward to every Sunday morning has to be Sunday brunch. I’m not sure what makes it so appealing to me: the food? the mimosas? or the fact that it’s socially acceptable to wake up around 11AM and have my first meal be around noon? Maybe …
Oh the fish face.
BEWARE! IF YOU KEEP READING AND SEE THE VIDEO, PLEASE DON’T EVER MENTION IT TO ME BECAUSE IT’S BEYOND EMBARRASSING. PLEASE AND THANK YOU
Okay, now that that’s out-of-the-way, we shall continue. So the assignment I chose to do was called 30 Second Documentary, and it’s basically for us to…
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For this assignment I chose to do a quick silent tutorial showing someone how to make a paper boat. The story behind paper boats and I is that I’ve been making these silly things for a very long time, In times of stress, anxiety, sadness, happiness, birthdays, sometimes funerals (judge…
Speed Cooking show
For this mission I had to create a 30 second documentary that showed, rather than told.
I decided to document something I’m amazing it… making sandwiches. I’m good in the kitchen (but no baking, can’t bake to save my life), the only thing I’m probably better at is eating and…
I’m Winning
The video cannot be shown at the moment. Please try again later.
The 30 Second Documentary, you had to show but don’t tell. Topics were how to make something, something you’re horrible at, or something you’re amazing at.
The 30 Second Documentary, my topic was show something I was AMAZING…
30 second documentry 3 stars
This is a video of me doing something that I do well and that is video recording. This is a fottage i took of my grandfather, performing a scene from the bible .I love recording videos and photographer. and the was i got this video is by recroding it from…
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This is my Extra credit assignment which is doing three ds106 assignments.
It is second ds106assignment as extra for me.
I chose 30 second Documentary of Video Assignment.
Instruction
Make a short, 30-second documentary, the topic is up to you.
Process
I took a video of my dog for 30…
true life: i am a cs major
For this assignment, I chose to do a 30-second documentary on the life of a computer science major since I am a computer science major and therefore pretty authoritative on the subject. Going by the assignment’s description of “show, don’t tell,” I showed what it’s like to code all. the.…
Week 8 Video Production: (My 30-second Documentary Video 3 STAR ASSIGNMENT) & (My Product-Review Video 1 STAR ASSIGNMENT)
Okay, first off I kind of had a hard time editing both videos, because i couldn’t find imovie on my computer, so instead i just used my IPhone 4S to record the 2 videos, and then I uploaded both of them to my youtube account and then edited it on…
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there really aren’t that many cool things I could think of that are just 30 seconds and when reading the posts for this assignments i saw just about everyone said the same thing. This…
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Three Star Assignment
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