I had so much fun with the Hangover Assignment (4.5 stars). When I read it, I knew my night out in Clarendon with my best friend would be perfect! I started my day bright and early with a cold, rainy muddy rugby game at VCU. We won! (And I scored!) Then I rushed home to change and headed to Arlington where we went to the Clarendon Halloween Bar Crawl. After sorting through about 100 selfies, I put together this video montage of our night.

I used Windows Live Movie Maker to create the slideshow and added the song Fireball by Pitbull. It was really simple to create, the long part was spending a whole day taking pictures.

Enjoy our foolishness!

 

I couldn’t help but mashup a trailer for two shows filmed in Baltimore. Clips that I downloaded from YouTube of Homicide: Life on the Street and The Wire were combined with the theme song of The Wire and pictures with text that I made with an app on my phone to make this trailer. My new favorite digital love iMovie helped me to combine everything together. It’s been years since I’ve watched Homicide: Life on the Street but after doing this 5 star assignment, I might just have to re-watch it once the semester is over.

 

Since I tend to use my kids and my dogs for a lot of my projects for this class, I decided to exploit my dog yet again for 3 1/2 stars worth of video assignments. I used my iPhone to do slow motion recordings of my dog and then used iMovie to put them together to the tune of “Royals” by Lorde. It was my first experience with iMovie and was pleasantly surprised at how easy it was to use. I even figured out how to mute the background noise so that the song is the only thing you can hear in the video. Then I uploaded it to my youtube account created for this class. Crash won’t ever be a royal; hopefully, you can.

I followed this great tutorial for the Chipmunk Style assignment

(2.5 stars, but I think it should be 3 since it took me a while)

Process

I used MPEG stream clip to trim the scene that I wanted. I chose the one where Omar is talking about how he almost got an old woman killed in a shooting. I picked this scene because I thought it would be funny to make such a serious scene sound silly.

I downloaded Camtasia to record my screen.

I exported the audio from the recording into Audacity. I used the change pitch effect and increased it 40% to get the Chipmunk effect.

On Camtasia, I deleted the original audio and added in my new audio with the chipmunk effect.

I uploaded my finished project to youtube and here’s what I have!

I used an app on my iPhone to create this 5 star video assignment. It’s pictures of my son and his teammates over the last two seasons set to the tune of Kenny Chesney’s “Boys of Fall” song. Makes me so happy that my son can have the experience of being part of a team like the Yellow Jackets of The James Monroe High School.

 

 

 

I chose to do this assignment because I love the idea of Vine. I had an account until Instagram updated its system to have video creations like Vine. I wanted to capture a typical Monday for me when I don’t have any internships or homework. I go to work for ten hours, go home and try to relax if I can.

 

I created this six second video by downloading the Vine app into my iPhone 5s. I created an account. Then, I begin to create a video by clicking on the video camera icon on the top right in the third picture. Lastly, I begin recording segments by pressing on the screen.

As you record, the bar on the top will fill up with a green color. When your video is ready, it will allow you to proceed to the next page where you can choose to keep or discard the different segments you recorded. When you are satisfied with your video, it’s time to press the check mark with the green circle as shown in picture 3 below. You will be directed to the Share page. Pick a great title and connect to Twitter and Facebook. Wala! That’s how you create a vine.

It’s been a while now since I realized my lucky number is 4.  I see this number everywhere I go, no matter what format it’s in.  Not only that but I was born on 4/14, April 14.  Hmm.

I decided to do the Movies by Number assignment on the number 4 for these reasons.

 

I found all the pictures for this video by simply googling certain words and picking the pictures that represented four of something.  I didn’t want to do this so literal by having the number four repeatedly in different fonts, so I chose symbols instead.

The music is just a piano instrumental I found on Youtube, which I downloaded with http://en.savefrom.net/.  I then used an online converter to turn it into a WAV file to upload to Audacity.  I also found the heartbeat from freesound.

Once I collected all my pictures I placed them in Windows Live Movie Maker in a random order and looked out how long it was.  I then uploaded the piano music to Audacity and trimmed it down to fit the length of the movie and the heartbeat sound.

Back on movie maker, I placed the sounds where I wanted them to be, and made each picture one second long.  I chose this length because I didn’t want the pictures to drag on, I wanted them to be showed fairly quickly.  After I got everything done I uploaded it to youtube.