Video Essay
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For this assignment you need to select several scenes from your favorite film (or one of your favorites), and edit them together and comment on some of the filmic elements of the scenes? Why do you like these scenes? What strikes you about them? What makes them good cinema? Is there a subtext at work in this film? In short, construct an essayistic commentary on the scenes as a narrator explaining to your audience what you find important about the scene, and why. What’s more, what do the details you have pinpointed say about the film more generally. For an excellent example, see Rob Ager's analysis of space in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sUIxXCCFWw
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Video Essay: La La Land
For this assignment, I wanted to build on the video essay assignment that we all did last week, and you can find my video from last week here. I wasn’t super proud of what I made last week, so I wanted to refine and spend more time on creating …
Video Essay
For my video essay I decided to analyze a scene from the Wolf of Wall Street.
— Alec Biles (@ds106alecbiles) March 27, 2020
This scene actually goes 4 minutes longer, but the rest of it is just them talking how they are for the last 30 seconds of this …
Video Essay.
Below is where I created a video essay analysis on one of the scenes from the movie, “The Shining.” This is the link to the original assignment and it is worth 3 1/2 stars. I completed this assignment in iMovie and it was very time consuming. I went to the …
Video Essay
I chose my one of my favorite scenes from Doctor Who, the episode of Angels Take Manhattan, where Amy Pond and Rory Williams (the companions) die.
O Video Why Art Thou?
It’s been a long long time since I did a video essay, so I thought I’d give it a shot. Here I talk briefly about symbolism in O Brother Where Art Thou. Some of the clips I found on Youtube. For others, I used Quicktime to make screen recordings …
Video Essay
For my video essay I decided to take a scene from the movie 10 Cloverfield Lane, which I watched this week. I chose this movie for two reasons. 1) This movie has an extremely high rating on Rotten Tomatoes and I am a big fan of Rotten Tomato reviews 2) …
Behind the Scene… Just One
Of all the different digital modes, I’m probably least familiar with video. I was glad to peek behind the scenes of some of the techniques used in film and other video production.
Scene Analysis – 10 Cloverfield Lane
I chose this movie because it was most recent on the …
Analyzing With Ebert: 10 Cloverfield Lane
Hey, folks! This week I learned a lot about looking deeper into the visual aspects of films. I took a film studies class last semester and loved it so I was ready to roll with it. First off, I watched a video that drew me in with its scandalous title: …
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Went Crazy Analyzing a Movie
Hello everybody! This week I was tasked with a couple of readings and watchings. In this post, I will reflect on all of these. SO STRAP IN.
To begin this week I read Roger Ebert’s “How To Read A Movie” article. I found this article very interesting, especially Ebert’s …
Assignment Bank 14 #DS106 (4 Star)
*Let me tell you someone rated this 2 stars and unless you edit 6-10 minutes of video everyday of your life, “this is NOT a 2 star assignment.” So I took it upon myself to make it right up the alley of 4 stars. in which sounds a lot better.…
Video Essay: The Edge of Night
It is 1am on Monday morning, and I just realized I completely forgot to upload my video essay. Or do the Weekly Summary. So. Happy Halloween.
For my video essay, I did the scene from The Return of the King where Pippin sings for the Steward of Gondor. The Steward, …
Video Essay on Rue’s Death in the Hunger Games
For my video essay, I had to think about movie scenes which were especially powerful to me. Instead of doing multiple scenes, we were to pick just one. I came up with the scene from the Hunger Games where Rue dies. It is an incredibly powerful scene. I used …
Reflection Unchained
We were directed to review a video this week for the Video Essay assignment.
I chose to review the opening scene from Django Unchained. I chose to watch this movie as opposed to another movie simply due to its accessibility on Netflix.
It begins in the middle of nowhere featuring …
My kind of essay
I really enjoyed completing this assignment. When I first saw essay, I dreaded the thought of having to write an actual essay but once I saw the actual assignment I was excited to complete it! I chose to analyze a scene in Django Unchained that had the shot-reverse shot effect, …
Meanings Behind the Camera Shots
I reviewed many articles about film analysis and the details on how films are created. As such, for this assignment we were to choose a scene in a film and analyze it and reflect on how certain aspects of the scene related to the new information we learned through our …
And Then There Were None
This 5 star video assignment was to do a video essay. I picked “And then there were none” because Agatha Christie is Isabelle’s favorite writer and someone she aspires to be. I went through several scenes and marked what I thought was important to the watcher. The movie was good, …
My Wife Left Me
…for the week to go to training at her new job. She left me here with our little one, who does not keep quiet or entertained for long periods of time. I resorted to dispensing Funyuns and drinks galore, as…
Read more
The post My Wife Left Me appeared first …
“Notorious” B.I.G. (Movie)
A major part of this week’s assignment was to create a video essay for a movie that was included on a list that the professors provided. Considering that I have always wanted to watch an Alfred Hitchcock film, I chose “Notorious”. Preceding the viewing, we were required to read Roger …
That Postman is Back at it Again
So yesterday I watched The Postman Always Rings Twice from 1946, because I was interested in seeing how the story we read the second week of classes would be depicted in a film. I decided to analyze the opening scene of the film when Frank first meets Cora, mostly because …
Notorious: Video Essay
For the video essay assignment, I decided to watch the movie Notorious by Alfred Hitchcock. For my video essay, I focused on the scene when Grant tells Bergman about the about his plan to have her seduce one of her past acquaintances. I read through Roger Ebert’s How to …
VideoAssignments, VideoAssignments439 Video Essay: Omar Little
VideoAssignments, VideoAssignments439 (5 stars) In this Video, Omar and I worked on putting together a video essay that could help everyone develop a love for him. He truly is an amazing character that I grew to love over the semester.
Omar and I worked on extracting videos from Youtube to …
Institutional Dysfunction in The Wire
For my Video Essay I decided to focus on a specific theme that has been shown throughout all of the seasons thus far. The theme institutional dysfunction is one that is shown through many of the characters. From McNulty to the Mayor and even in the Barksdale Organization this theme …
Video Essay – Discovering Omar
For the video essay assignment I chose Season 1 Episode 5 for analysis because it’s where we see Omar become established as a power player. He’s in everyone’s business, he knows what is going on, and he knows which drug dealers he can stick up and exactly when the stash …
It’s Good to Look Back a Little
A friend once told me, “It’s always good to look back once a while, there are some memories you would like to remember eventually.” After remembering my friend say that, I thought for the video essay assignment like why not look back at Season 1 of The Wire. I wanted …
The Classroom is a Dangerous Place Too
For the Video Essay assignment worth 5 stars, I chose 3 scenes from Season 4, Episode 3 of The Wire, “Home Rooms.” I downloaded the episode from the Wire 106 website and then imported it into iMovie. I only moved the scenes I was providing commentary for to the …
Wire Video Essay: Bunny and Carcetti
To do my video essay on the Wire, I utilized the scenes from episode 11 of season 3, where Carcetti questions Bunny’s motives behind Hamsterdam. While the most memorable moment of this episode would no doubt be Stringer’s death, I still thought there were plenty of meaningful and artistic moments …
Video Essay
I chose scenes from season 4 episode 2 for my video essay. On Wednesday, Jim, Paul, Travis, and I discussed this episode and I really enjoyed the discussions we had. I decided to tie them into my video essay. The first scene is of Carcetti and his daughter playing …
Call Me Morgan Freeman
My final video assignment (yay) of the week was the “Video Essay” that we were all required to do. If i could describe this assignment in one word it would be “underestimated” because that’s how i looked at it. I figured, hey, i just have to talk about the episode! …
Carcetti, who?
I decided to do my Video Essay on the first episode of Season 4 of The Wire. After watching this episode, I feel like the overall theme of the episode is learning. The street kids are learning who Marlo is and what the game is about. Prez is learning how …
Memorable First Scenes From The Wire
This video essay was based on some of my first most impressions and scenes on the Wire. I compiled these Windows Movie Maker and with the help of my audio in Sound Cloud.
Prez Video Essay
For this assignment we had to do a video essay, commentary. I picked the scene before the incident that happened in the classroom. Here is the original video without any commentary. I decided to focus on the camera angles, this was actually a little more difficult assignment.
I mentioned how …
Seniority in The Wire
This week we had to do the assignment “Video Essay” for The Wire (5 stars). Boy was it worth five stars. This assignment was a lot of work. Rather than doing a discussion of Seniority in one episode, I made mine pretty much a discussion on a theme …
Video Essay
Hiya! The Video Essay (5 stars) was an interesting assignment. Instead of using what ever film or TV show we wanted, we were tasked with using the Wire. I decided to use season 4 episode 1 for this. And at first I was really excited to do this assignment and …
Video Essay on The Wire Season 3, Episode 12
For the Video Essay assignment, I decided to discuss scenes from The Wire season 3, episode 12 and how they show the characters dealing with Stringer’s death and comprehending how they understood him and where they go from here.
I downloaded the episode and rewatched the scenes I wanted to …
The Wire Video Essay
For my video essay, I decided to look at The Wire as a primary source. I am Dr. McClurken’s U.S. History in Film class, and one of the things we do is look at the movies we watch as primary sources. We discuss what a movie can tell us …
Video Essay: Season 3, episode 11-Stringer’s demise
http://www.athoet.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Discussion.m4v
For the video essay assignment I really wanted to do my commentary on episode 11 of season 3 because it is my favorite episode thus far. Stringer is one of the most interesting characters and his attempt to rise above the gangster world and enter the business world …
Do The Right Thing… Video Essay
Click here to view the video on YouTube.
This video assignment expands on my video analysis on THE GREATEST MOVIE EVERRRRRR!!!!!
SPIKE LEE’S DO THE RIGHT THING…
In this video assignment I break down the movie… I show the major scenes that define the movie… what the scenes mean, and…
Video Essay on Pulp Fiction
assignments.ds106.us/assignments/video-essay/
watch?v=sfyh2jjxG7M
I did my voice overs with audacity and then put them over the video in Movie Maker.…
Week 9-10 Assignment – Video Essay – Jesus Christ Superstar
To create this video essay, I used the program Jacksta to download my favorite clips from jesus christ superstar, next I imported it to iMovies, where I edited and voice over my commentary. When I completed this project the file was really large, so I had difficulties uploading it to…
“Video Essay” 5 Star Video assignment (“The Notebook”)
I must say that attempting this video essay assignment really put me at ease. The main reason is because I love to write! The second reason is because i didn’t have to worry about nor have the hassle of editing certain clips and trimming the movie since i searched on…
The Dark Knight Essay
this is my video essay on the dark knight. I think this may be the only movie I’ve seen in theaters more then once. The editing for this project was pretty challenging because I wrote out the script in advance so timing the clips to the audio of the essay…
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
Video Assignment: Video Essay
One of the obvious reasons why I chose to do the video essay on this movie was because it stars Michael Cera. I also really enjoy the style of the movie and it’s something that is different from other movies. There were a lot of special…
Trying to analyze a movie.. fail
For my video essay, https://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/video-essay/ I decided to do P.S. I love you because I love the movie and thought it would be easy to talk about. I apologize for the last scene having subtitles in another language. I wanted it though because it was the turning point in the…
Taxi Driver: Film Essay
Taxi Driver is a Scorsese masterpiece with one of film’s most powerful protagonists, Travis. It’s Travis’s many contradictions that makes him one of the great characters in film history. In my film essay, we will be watching the final shootout scene in the brothel. During this scene we will be…
If only you could see what I’ve seen with your eyes
For my video essay assignment I finally completed my long overdue video discussion of the motif of eyes in Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (1982). I love how visually lush Blade Runner is when it comes to themes, motifs, and larger ethical questions about the human condition. Where Stanley Kubrik’s 2001:…
Video Essay – One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
I chose One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest for my video analysis. iMovie was a great tool for taking clips that I had taken from youtube. The assignment: you need to select several scenes from your favorite film (or one of your favorites), and edit them together and comment on…
5 Minute Movie Summary
This assignment took a little more time than I thought it was going to. The hardest part was figuring out how I was going to summarize a 4 hour long movie in 5 minutes as well as finding the appropriate clips. However, after some elbow greace and sprained finger tips,…
Dark Knight Commentary
This is for the assignment Video essay
hey guys this is my commentary on my favorite scene in my favorite movie the Dark Knight i hope you enjoy it…
Fellowship of the Ring: Video Essay
I’ve been working on this all week, and have just put together the audio today. Ta-da! My short analysis of the Fellowship of the Ring. I mostly talked about acting and music; while those seem like really basic aspects of a movie, in my opinion, if a movie doesn’t have…
Video Essay
I analyzed the move J.Edgar, directed by Clint Eastwood. There weren’t too many clips on YouTube of the movie, so I chose what I could find. I think I got some important scenes. I wanted to focus on Eastwood’s decision to focus on an aspect of Hoover’s life that most…
Film Essay – Curly Sue
For this Video Essay Assignment you had to select several scenes from your favorite film (or one of your favorites), and edit them together and comment on some of the filmic elements of the scenes? Why do you like these scenes? What strikes you about them? What makes them good…
Video Essay
Titus (1999)
Video Week is hell.
I don’t know how else to describe it. So far, video week is hell. This video assignment has taken me a minimum of 40 hours of work, 5 of which were spent on researching and trying to figure out which…
Video Essay
Five Stars
Process
This was a bit confusing at first. I was not sure if I wanted to keep the audio or not but I decided it would be more effective to take the audio out of the video. I thought by removing the audio from the actual video would…
Shawshank Redemption Video Analysis
A video analysis of The Shawshank Redemption, which includes a montoge of footage from the movie and examples from specific parts within the movie. All the clips are from YouTube. Some of the stuff I point out is the meaningfulness of the story and the camera techniques as well as…
Video Essay: La La Land
For this assignment, I wanted to build on the video essay assignment that we all did last week, and you can find my video from last week here. I wasn’t super proud of what I made last week, so I wanted to refine and spend more time on creating …
Video Essay
For my video essay I decided to analyze a scene from the Wolf of Wall Street.
— Alec Biles (@ds106alecbiles) March 27, 2020
This scene actually goes 4 minutes longer, but the rest of it is just them talking how they are for the last 30 seconds of this …
Video Essay.
Below is where I created a video essay analysis on one of the scenes from the movie, “The Shining.” This is the link to the original assignment and it is worth 3 1/2 stars. I completed this assignment in iMovie and it was very time consuming. I went to the …
Video Essay
I chose my one of my favorite scenes from Doctor Who, the episode of Angels Take Manhattan, where Amy Pond and Rory Williams (the companions) die.
O Video Why Art Thou?
It’s been a long long time since I did a video essay, so I thought I’d give it a shot. Here I talk briefly about symbolism in O Brother Where Art Thou. Some of the clips I found on Youtube. For others, I used Quicktime to make screen recordings …
Video Essay
For my video essay I decided to take a scene from the movie 10 Cloverfield Lane, which I watched this week. I chose this movie for two reasons. 1) This movie has an extremely high rating on Rotten Tomatoes and I am a big fan of Rotten Tomato reviews 2) …
Behind the Scene… Just One
Of all the different digital modes, I’m probably least familiar with video. I was glad to peek behind the scenes of some of the techniques used in film and other video production.
Scene Analysis – 10 Cloverfield Lane
I chose this movie because it was most recent on the …
Analyzing With Ebert: 10 Cloverfield Lane
Hey, folks! This week I learned a lot about looking deeper into the visual aspects of films. I took a film studies class last semester and loved it so I was ready to roll with it. First off, I watched a video that drew me in with its scandalous title: …
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Went Crazy Analyzing a Movie
Hello everybody! This week I was tasked with a couple of readings and watchings. In this post, I will reflect on all of these. SO STRAP IN.
To begin this week I read Roger Ebert’s “How To Read A Movie” article. I found this article very interesting, especially Ebert’s …
Assignment Bank 14 #DS106 (4 Star)
*Let me tell you someone rated this 2 stars and unless you edit 6-10 minutes of video everyday of your life, “this is NOT a 2 star assignment.” So I took it upon myself to make it right up the alley of 4 stars. in which sounds a lot better.…
Video Essay: The Edge of Night
It is 1am on Monday morning, and I just realized I completely forgot to upload my video essay. Or do the Weekly Summary. So. Happy Halloween.
For my video essay, I did the scene from The Return of the King where Pippin sings for the Steward of Gondor. The Steward, …
Video Essay on Rue’s Death in the Hunger Games
For my video essay, I had to think about movie scenes which were especially powerful to me. Instead of doing multiple scenes, we were to pick just one. I came up with the scene from the Hunger Games where Rue dies. It is an incredibly powerful scene. I used …
Reflection Unchained
We were directed to review a video this week for the Video Essay assignment.
I chose to review the opening scene from Django Unchained. I chose to watch this movie as opposed to another movie simply due to its accessibility on Netflix.
It begins in the middle of nowhere featuring …
My kind of essay
I really enjoyed completing this assignment. When I first saw essay, I dreaded the thought of having to write an actual essay but once I saw the actual assignment I was excited to complete it! I chose to analyze a scene in Django Unchained that had the shot-reverse shot effect, …
Meanings Behind the Camera Shots
I reviewed many articles about film analysis and the details on how films are created. As such, for this assignment we were to choose a scene in a film and analyze it and reflect on how certain aspects of the scene related to the new information we learned through our …
And Then There Were None
This 5 star video assignment was to do a video essay. I picked “And then there were none” because Agatha Christie is Isabelle’s favorite writer and someone she aspires to be. I went through several scenes and marked what I thought was important to the watcher. The movie was good, …
My Wife Left Me
…for the week to go to training at her new job. She left me here with our little one, who does not keep quiet or entertained for long periods of time. I resorted to dispensing Funyuns and drinks galore, as…
Read more
The post My Wife Left Me appeared first …
“Notorious” B.I.G. (Movie)
A major part of this week’s assignment was to create a video essay for a movie that was included on a list that the professors provided. Considering that I have always wanted to watch an Alfred Hitchcock film, I chose “Notorious”. Preceding the viewing, we were required to read Roger …
That Postman is Back at it Again
So yesterday I watched The Postman Always Rings Twice from 1946, because I was interested in seeing how the story we read the second week of classes would be depicted in a film. I decided to analyze the opening scene of the film when Frank first meets Cora, mostly because …
Notorious: Video Essay
For the video essay assignment, I decided to watch the movie Notorious by Alfred Hitchcock. For my video essay, I focused on the scene when Grant tells Bergman about the about his plan to have her seduce one of her past acquaintances. I read through Roger Ebert’s How to …
VideoAssignments, VideoAssignments439 Video Essay: Omar Little
VideoAssignments, VideoAssignments439 (5 stars) In this Video, Omar and I worked on putting together a video essay that could help everyone develop a love for him. He truly is an amazing character that I grew to love over the semester.
Omar and I worked on extracting videos from Youtube to …
Institutional Dysfunction in The Wire
For my Video Essay I decided to focus on a specific theme that has been shown throughout all of the seasons thus far. The theme institutional dysfunction is one that is shown through many of the characters. From McNulty to the Mayor and even in the Barksdale Organization this theme …
Video Essay – Discovering Omar
For the video essay assignment I chose Season 1 Episode 5 for analysis because it’s where we see Omar become established as a power player. He’s in everyone’s business, he knows what is going on, and he knows which drug dealers he can stick up and exactly when the stash …
It’s Good to Look Back a Little
A friend once told me, “It’s always good to look back once a while, there are some memories you would like to remember eventually.” After remembering my friend say that, I thought for the video essay assignment like why not look back at Season 1 of The Wire. I wanted …
The Classroom is a Dangerous Place Too
For the Video Essay assignment worth 5 stars, I chose 3 scenes from Season 4, Episode 3 of The Wire, “Home Rooms.” I downloaded the episode from the Wire 106 website and then imported it into iMovie. I only moved the scenes I was providing commentary for to the …
Wire Video Essay: Bunny and Carcetti
To do my video essay on the Wire, I utilized the scenes from episode 11 of season 3, where Carcetti questions Bunny’s motives behind Hamsterdam. While the most memorable moment of this episode would no doubt be Stringer’s death, I still thought there were plenty of meaningful and artistic moments …
Video Essay
I chose scenes from season 4 episode 2 for my video essay. On Wednesday, Jim, Paul, Travis, and I discussed this episode and I really enjoyed the discussions we had. I decided to tie them into my video essay. The first scene is of Carcetti and his daughter playing …
Call Me Morgan Freeman
My final video assignment (yay) of the week was the “Video Essay” that we were all required to do. If i could describe this assignment in one word it would be “underestimated” because that’s how i looked at it. I figured, hey, i just have to talk about the episode! …
Carcetti, who?
I decided to do my Video Essay on the first episode of Season 4 of The Wire. After watching this episode, I feel like the overall theme of the episode is learning. The street kids are learning who Marlo is and what the game is about. Prez is learning how …
Memorable First Scenes From The Wire
This video essay was based on some of my first most impressions and scenes on the Wire. I compiled these Windows Movie Maker and with the help of my audio in Sound Cloud.
Prez Video Essay
For this assignment we had to do a video essay, commentary. I picked the scene before the incident that happened in the classroom. Here is the original video without any commentary. I decided to focus on the camera angles, this was actually a little more difficult assignment.
I mentioned how …
Seniority in The Wire
This week we had to do the assignment “Video Essay” for The Wire (5 stars). Boy was it worth five stars. This assignment was a lot of work. Rather than doing a discussion of Seniority in one episode, I made mine pretty much a discussion on a theme …
Video Essay
Hiya! The Video Essay (5 stars) was an interesting assignment. Instead of using what ever film or TV show we wanted, we were tasked with using the Wire. I decided to use season 4 episode 1 for this. And at first I was really excited to do this assignment and …
Video Essay on The Wire Season 3, Episode 12
For the Video Essay assignment, I decided to discuss scenes from The Wire season 3, episode 12 and how they show the characters dealing with Stringer’s death and comprehending how they understood him and where they go from here.
I downloaded the episode and rewatched the scenes I wanted to …
The Wire Video Essay
For my video essay, I decided to look at The Wire as a primary source. I am Dr. McClurken’s U.S. History in Film class, and one of the things we do is look at the movies we watch as primary sources. We discuss what a movie can tell us …
Video Essay: Season 3, episode 11-Stringer’s demise
http://www.athoet.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Discussion.m4v
For the video essay assignment I really wanted to do my commentary on episode 11 of season 3 because it is my favorite episode thus far. Stringer is one of the most interesting characters and his attempt to rise above the gangster world and enter the business world …
Do The Right Thing… Video Essay
Click here to view the video on YouTube.
This video assignment expands on my video analysis on THE GREATEST MOVIE EVERRRRRR!!!!!
SPIKE LEE’S DO THE RIGHT THING…
In this video assignment I break down the movie… I show the major scenes that define the movie… what the scenes mean, and…
Video Essay on Pulp Fiction
assignments.ds106.us/assignments/video-essay/
watch?v=sfyh2jjxG7M
I did my voice overs with audacity and then put them over the video in Movie Maker.…
Week 9-10 Assignment – Video Essay – Jesus Christ Superstar
To create this video essay, I used the program Jacksta to download my favorite clips from jesus christ superstar, next I imported it to iMovies, where I edited and voice over my commentary. When I completed this project the file was really large, so I had difficulties uploading it to…
“Video Essay” 5 Star Video assignment (“The Notebook”)
I must say that attempting this video essay assignment really put me at ease. The main reason is because I love to write! The second reason is because i didn’t have to worry about nor have the hassle of editing certain clips and trimming the movie since i searched on…
The Dark Knight Essay
this is my video essay on the dark knight. I think this may be the only movie I’ve seen in theaters more then once. The editing for this project was pretty challenging because I wrote out the script in advance so timing the clips to the audio of the essay…
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
Video Assignment: Video Essay
One of the obvious reasons why I chose to do the video essay on this movie was because it stars Michael Cera. I also really enjoy the style of the movie and it’s something that is different from other movies. There were a lot of special…
Trying to analyze a movie.. fail
For my video essay, https://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/video-essay/ I decided to do P.S. I love you because I love the movie and thought it would be easy to talk about. I apologize for the last scene having subtitles in another language. I wanted it though because it was the turning point in the…
Taxi Driver: Film Essay
Taxi Driver is a Scorsese masterpiece with one of film’s most powerful protagonists, Travis. It’s Travis’s many contradictions that makes him one of the great characters in film history. In my film essay, we will be watching the final shootout scene in the brothel. During this scene we will be…
If only you could see what I’ve seen with your eyes
For my video essay assignment I finally completed my long overdue video discussion of the motif of eyes in Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (1982). I love how visually lush Blade Runner is when it comes to themes, motifs, and larger ethical questions about the human condition. Where Stanley Kubrik’s 2001:…
Video Essay – One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
I chose One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest for my video analysis. iMovie was a great tool for taking clips that I had taken from youtube. The assignment: you need to select several scenes from your favorite film (or one of your favorites), and edit them together and comment on…
5 Minute Movie Summary
This assignment took a little more time than I thought it was going to. The hardest part was figuring out how I was going to summarize a 4 hour long movie in 5 minutes as well as finding the appropriate clips. However, after some elbow greace and sprained finger tips,…
Dark Knight Commentary
This is for the assignment Video essay
hey guys this is my commentary on my favorite scene in my favorite movie the Dark Knight i hope you enjoy it…
Fellowship of the Ring: Video Essay
I’ve been working on this all week, and have just put together the audio today. Ta-da! My short analysis of the Fellowship of the Ring. I mostly talked about acting and music; while those seem like really basic aspects of a movie, in my opinion, if a movie doesn’t have…
Video Essay
I analyzed the move J.Edgar, directed by Clint Eastwood. There weren’t too many clips on YouTube of the movie, so I chose what I could find. I think I got some important scenes. I wanted to focus on Eastwood’s decision to focus on an aspect of Hoover’s life that most…
Film Essay – Curly Sue
For this Video Essay Assignment you had to select several scenes from your favorite film (or one of your favorites), and edit them together and comment on some of the filmic elements of the scenes? Why do you like these scenes? What strikes you about them? What makes them good…
Video Essay
Titus (1999)
Video Week is hell.
I don’t know how else to describe it. So far, video week is hell. This video assignment has taken me a minimum of 40 hours of work, 5 of which were spent on researching and trying to figure out which…
Video Essay
Five Stars
Process
This was a bit confusing at first. I was not sure if I wanted to keep the audio or not but I decided it would be more effective to take the audio out of the video. I thought by removing the audio from the actual video would…
Shawshank Redemption Video Analysis
A video analysis of The Shawshank Redemption, which includes a montoge of footage from the movie and examples from specific parts within the movie. All the clips are from YouTube. Some of the stuff I point out is the meaningfulness of the story and the camera techniques as well as…
Help Someone Else Do this Assignment
If you create a tutorial for this assignment, share it! To have your tutorials appear below, make sure your posts are showing up on the main DS106 site and that you use the following tags (or labels on Blogger) when writing the post on your own blog (You must use BOTH !):
Tutorials So Far
I must say that attempting this video essay assignment really put me at ease. The main reason is because I love to write! The second reason is because i didn’t have to worry about nor have the hassle of editing certain clips and trimming the movie since i searched on…
In this tutorial, I explain how I extracted the audio from the interview of Anthony Hopkins and put it together with appropriate video clips as a part of my video essay on Titus. This part took the longest time to edit, and it turned out to be much…
For this video essay assignment these are the steps i took to complete the assignemt:
I went to YouTube and in the search box i typed curly sue.. after doing so a bunch of different videos popped up. After carefully selecting the three videos that i wanted i selected them…