“For this assignment you need to pick any chacter and follow thier progression that they have had (TV characters from a long standing TV show will probably be best).  Use video clips to show how the character has changed and grown up over time.  Try to make their progression seem as dramatic as you possibly can.”

– 4.5 stars

As soon as I saw this assignment, I knew I had to do it. I had the perfect character in mind, one who I grew up with and still to this day love: Ash Ketchum from Pokemon. I was OBSESSED with Pokemon as a child. I had every card, every game, every stuffed animal, and saw every movie in theater. While my cards are now boxed away and my stuffed animals have all been sold off or donated, I still have my all of my video games. I also still watch the original series on Netflix when I’m feeling particularly nostalgic. Basically, I love it. I love the Pokemon, I love the trainers, and I love the story line.

Because I grew up watching the series, in a round-about way I grew up with Ash. As I got older and matured in real life, so did he in his own right. As the show continued (despite the fact that he never actually ages) his behaviors and attitudes matured too. For this reason, I felt like he was really the perfect character for this assignment. I focused mainly on the way in which he acted at the beginning towards others and his Pokemon compared to how he handled wins and losses in the most recent seasons.

To complete it, I used Windows Movie Maker. IT was relatively easy considering we’ve spent the last three weeks working on video and I enjoyed getting to do another video assignment. I started out by scouring Youtube for clips of Ash, mostly making sure to include stuff from the original show as well as the newest stuff. There are A LOT of seasons (18 in total), so I thought showing the oldest compared to the most recent would have the most dramatic effect.

I then used “The Fastest Video Downloader” to move the videos from Youtube to my desktop. From there, they were uploaded to Movie maker and I got to work. I cut down the full episodes into short clips that showed times when Ash was being mature, and times when he wasn’t doing such a good job at it. Once I had all the clips I wanted, I ran through it to make sure it flowed well. I then saved it, exported it, and uploaded it to my youtube channel. That’s it!

Season One video clips

Season One Episode Three

Season 16 Episode 1

Season 18 Episode 1

Going from just a boy with a monkey tail who wants to win the martial arts tournament to being one of the strongest fighters in the universe due to his bloodline is a rather drastic change. As you watch the video, follow Goku’s growth in maturity and strength as he meets the love of his life and fights to protect the Earth from all of the evil aliens. Be warned, this is Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z so there will be a lot of grunting and screaming as he is charging up.

For this four and a half star assignment, I decided to use Son Goku from the series Dragon Ball to show how a character grows over time. The series is something that I watched constantly as a kid and Goku is the first character that came to my mind since he grows tremendously. He learns martial arts from different people, he stops an army from taking over the world with their robots, he defeated the Demon King Piccolo, and even ended the reign of an alien tyrant. Goku’s strength kept rising as he completed each of these goals and even showed that if you work hard enough, you can do anything.

To create this assignment, I first had to download all of the clips of Goku that I wanted form YouTube using the website, ClipConverter.I then opened up the clips in Sony Vegas and ordered them in a way that a story of Goku’s evolution would be told.

The assignment itself wasn’t difficult, but it was a bit time consuming getting all of the clips and deciding on which ones to use. There are just some many episodes of both Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z!

A Changing Character: For this assignment you need to pick any chacter and follow thier progression that they have had (TV characters from a long standing TV show will probably be best). Use video clips to show how the character has changed and grown up over time. Try to make their progression seem as dramatic as you possibly can. (4.5 stars).

For this assignment, we needed to create a mash-up video of a character. I chose the show, Gossip Girl, which is my absolute favorite show. I chose my favorite character as well, Serena Van der Woodsen, (played by Blake Lively) to show this character progression over the show’s period.

I used iMovie, which is so great! I found many show clips on YouTube and used Fltvo.com to easily convert my video and add it to iMovie. I inserted a title page which is on the left hand side under “Content Library”. I also used Transitions which is located here as well.

Here are my clips I found on YouTube:

Blair and Serena Taking Pictures, Blair and Serena Fighting, Dan and Serena Wedding, Pilot,  Blair and Serena Fight,  Dan and Serena, Last Chance.

This was simple to create, and I really enjoyed going back and seeing different clips of her character, who really does change throughout the show. Her fashion sense, her personality, and her love life changes many times and it’s so cool to see. I loved her character and always thought it would be cool to make something like this mash-up to view how she changes.

This mash-up assignment showed me how this could be an awesome progression of anyone, not just a TV show or movie character. These mash-ups are great evidence of anyone’s progression that can be documented for special events like graduation, birthdays, and holidays. This really is a great memory capturing piece of work.

Here is my video of Gossip Girl’s Character: Serena

—SALTY SKINN

I decided to incorporate Blair (my host character) with this assignment.  Blair grew up watching Full House on Nick at night.  Blair used to watch this show in her late years of elementary school / middle school but still watches re-runs to this day.  Michelle is Blair’s favorite character on the show because she portrays such a fun and positive attitude.  Blair chose to focus on Michelle from Full House to show how she grows and develops over the seasons.  For this assignment Blair took different scenes from various seasons to show how much Michelle grew!  She started out with Michelle on Seasons 1 and went all the way to Season 8.