Vintage Educational Video
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Video was the new frontier for teaching in the 1950s and you can find rich (and funny) examples of educational videos of that era. In this assignment make a 5 minute or less video of a modern topic in the vintage style of these films. Include elements like cheesy music, titles, cut out graphics, booming voice to make something educational.
As an example see How to Be Cool: an educational film
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Submissions So Far
Vintage Educational Hand Washing Video
This week I am continuing with the video assignments with a five star assignment entitled Vintage Educational Video. The overall process took longer than I was expecting it to, but I also did a lot of exploring and experimenting for this video. Looking back I could probably have completed …
Vintage Educational Video
So again, I hate the video assignments. I feel like I’m cheating and not doing any of the work because I’m using video guides to help me. But then again, I’m still struggling a lot to put things together so that has to count for something? This one, for example, …
Best Dad Ever
Since today is Father’s Day, it is only fitting that we present to you this old-timey educational video from the Assignment Bank (5 stars).
This video was a lot of fun to make, and the whole family chipped in. After some brainstorming, I had the idea and wrote the script …
If Only It Were That Easy
Share the Knowledge
For my second assignment this week, I completed the Vintage Educational Video for five stars. I have seen many workplace instructional videos, which are very similar to the old educational videos, so the styling for this video was familiar.
Why this Knowledge is Important
It took me …
Robot Leg Commercial
The Robot Leg image was edited by me in Photoshop, with a prosthetic/robotic addition using layers, masks, and filters. Next I used the Timeline in Photoshop to animate the leg and other elements on top of an old Mr. Clean commercial I found on YouTube . . .
How To Be Sexy
I was inspired by this awful tutorial from some year that doesn’t even exist yet to make my own makeup tutorial for 5 bananas. (No black eyeliner? Come on.)
I took a video of myself getting into hair and makeup, as if I were going onstage. I then had to …
Know what’s delicious?! A brownie in a mug!
Vintage Educational Video
Video was the new frontier for teaching in the 1950s and you can find rich (and funny) examples of educational videos of that era. In this assignment make a 5 minute or less video of a modern topic in the vintage style of these films. Include …
I Wish I Talked Like a Man
Yeah, you heard me. I wish that I had a great man voice. It would have really come in handy when it was time for making the five star vintage educational video assignment that I decided to take on this week. It was the planning that really helped to put …
mm green tea :)
Vintage Education Videos is one of the assignments I chose to do. This assignment consisted of creating an educational, or how to video the way they did it in the 50′s. I decided to do a video on how to make tea! I did this because I love drinking eat. …
Vintage Educational Video Project
I laid out my idea for a vintage educational video along with a script in this post, and only had to change a few little mistakes I made before recording the real thing. My son John played the roll of “Johnny” and did a great job! At 6 he is…
How to use a microwave
So again, in doing this project I think I benefited from hearing my classmates discuss their projects last week. This time I attempted the Vintage Educational Video project, and I chose to make the topic…using a microwave. This time around, though, I desaturated the footage first (turned it into black…
using an elevator
Learn how to use an elevator with this instructional video!
Creating this video began with an idea. This idea came to me while sitting in the Trinkle basement at a table right next to the elevator.
After idea conception came idea execution. This stage of the process required my iPhone…
Video Assignment – Vintage Educational Video
The skills I’ve learned in DS106 came in handy yet again in another class. This time, Applied Counseling. I’ve added the vintage feel for DS106 (Video Assignment 397)
WARNING: Boring video with terrible acting by me. haha
Interviewing Skills – Self-Disclosure to a Counseling Client
…
Vintage Educational Tutorial
Video Assignment: Vintage Educational Video
For this video, I made a vintage educational video that teaches you how to print something off of your computer. The clips were shot from my retro 6 megapixel digital camera and Microsoft Encoder Screen Capture. I put everything together in Windows Movie Maker 2.6…
Vintage Educational Hand Washing Video
This week I am continuing with the video assignments with a five star assignment entitled Vintage Educational Video. The overall process took longer than I was expecting it to, but I also did a lot of exploring and experimenting for this video. Looking back I could probably have completed …
Vintage Educational Video
So again, I hate the video assignments. I feel like I’m cheating and not doing any of the work because I’m using video guides to help me. But then again, I’m still struggling a lot to put things together so that has to count for something? This one, for example, …
Best Dad Ever
Since today is Father’s Day, it is only fitting that we present to you this old-timey educational video from the Assignment Bank (5 stars).
This video was a lot of fun to make, and the whole family chipped in. After some brainstorming, I had the idea and wrote the script …
If Only It Were That Easy
Share the Knowledge
For my second assignment this week, I completed the Vintage Educational Video for five stars. I have seen many workplace instructional videos, which are very similar to the old educational videos, so the styling for this video was familiar.
Why this Knowledge is Important
It took me …
Robot Leg Commercial
The Robot Leg image was edited by me in Photoshop, with a prosthetic/robotic addition using layers, masks, and filters. Next I used the Timeline in Photoshop to animate the leg and other elements on top of an old Mr. Clean commercial I found on YouTube . . .
How To Be Sexy
I was inspired by this awful tutorial from some year that doesn’t even exist yet to make my own makeup tutorial for 5 bananas. (No black eyeliner? Come on.)
I took a video of myself getting into hair and makeup, as if I were going onstage. I then had to …
Know what’s delicious?! A brownie in a mug!
Vintage Educational Video
Video was the new frontier for teaching in the 1950s and you can find rich (and funny) examples of educational videos of that era. In this assignment make a 5 minute or less video of a modern topic in the vintage style of these films. Include …
I Wish I Talked Like a Man
Yeah, you heard me. I wish that I had a great man voice. It would have really come in handy when it was time for making the five star vintage educational video assignment that I decided to take on this week. It was the planning that really helped to put …
mm green tea :)
Vintage Education Videos is one of the assignments I chose to do. This assignment consisted of creating an educational, or how to video the way they did it in the 50′s. I decided to do a video on how to make tea! I did this because I love drinking eat. …
Vintage Educational Video Project
I laid out my idea for a vintage educational video along with a script in this post, and only had to change a few little mistakes I made before recording the real thing. My son John played the roll of “Johnny” and did a great job! At 6 he is…
How to use a microwave
So again, in doing this project I think I benefited from hearing my classmates discuss their projects last week. This time I attempted the Vintage Educational Video project, and I chose to make the topic…using a microwave. This time around, though, I desaturated the footage first (turned it into black…
using an elevator
Learn how to use an elevator with this instructional video!
Creating this video began with an idea. This idea came to me while sitting in the Trinkle basement at a table right next to the elevator.
After idea conception came idea execution. This stage of the process required my iPhone…
Video Assignment – Vintage Educational Video
The skills I’ve learned in DS106 came in handy yet again in another class. This time, Applied Counseling. I’ve added the vintage feel for DS106 (Video Assignment 397)
WARNING: Boring video with terrible acting by me. haha
Interviewing Skills – Self-Disclosure to a Counseling Client
…
Vintage Educational Tutorial
Video Assignment: Vintage Educational Video
For this video, I made a vintage educational video that teaches you how to print something off of your computer. The clips were shot from my retro 6 megapixel digital camera and Microsoft Encoder Screen Capture. I put everything together in Windows Movie Maker 2.6…
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Tutorials So Far
For my second video assignment, I decided to take a spin on the cheesy educational film assignment, but I took an already made how to video from Howcast and I used Robert Farnon’s Manhattan Boy as my cheesy educational movie because it reminded me of the music that was used …