Original DS 106 Assignment: Today It’s All About Me (2 1/2 stars)

With the craziness of this world, work and everything in between, there are times where we need to step back and appreciate ourselves. At the beginning of every day and end of every night, the only person who is sure to be there is yourselves. Sometimes being early 20’s, I get caught up on doing the next big thing, making the next move or making more money. For this assignment, I just wanted a moment to look back and appreciate everything I’ve done so far. It was easier than expected, thankfully! I want to actually do this every year or every so often to look back and see how much I have accomplished, changed or not done! I journal a lot, but video gives a face to the different versions of me and would be nice to see. I set up to record with Vimeo record to have my video saved there and exported it into Canva to add beginning and end credits.

I would definitely recommend anyone to do this assignment! It is nice to round out your points as well as being able to do something raw and genuine.

Original DS 106 Assignment: TikTok Of Your Pet (3 stars)

What’s more modern than TikTok? Probably the “Tap to Pay” feature, but I’m not sure how to make that so we will stick to TikTok. Upon extensive research, one of the most popular sounds is a mix of the Mission Impossible theme song, it goes dun dun dunnnnnn, dun dun duuun, DUN and repeats. To showcase a skill and include a trending sound, I scouted far and wide to find a potential lead. After several interviews and mixes with sounds the below was produced.

Lead Actor: Muffin
Producer: Evelyn
Editor: Evelyn
Creative Executive: Evelyn

Steps We Took To Create This Masterpiece

Step 1: Open the TikTok app and select to record at the bottom middle of the app.

Step 2: Set the scene. For this scene, we start with the lead coming in at a left strong axis and immediately staying on the right side to show their position is positive. *This took a bit of practice so budget time for that*

Tip: Lighting! For this scene the lighting is darker to focus on the red laser and increase the intensity.

Step 3: Add Audio. TikTok has a great feature that can have popular audios or music to add to videos. Shuffling through them before recording can give you inspiration or finding one after can be the perfect fit.

Step 4: Save to Vimeo. This way we can upload it to Canva to add intro/outro.

Step 5: Upload to Canva and add intro and outro slides to meet assignment requirements!

Step 6: Download and save to Vimeo! This can be shared and embedded into other social medias and even blog posts!

Original DS 106 Assignment: What I Eat In A Day? (5 stars)

Disclaimer: This is a Friday, end of work week, did not get paid until next week, I am eating whatever I have and enjoying a little bit of a night out! On a budget though because UMW is already sending emails about tuition payments *sad* BUT, please enjoy what I ate without tracking calories, macros, sugar and grams because I don’t know how to do that. I don’t eat to live, I live to eat.

Step 1: Open Canva and select video to start with a blank canvas to edit your video.

Step 2: Upload all photos that you want to include in your video. Adjust the length of the clips to suit how you want the video to be. For this video I wanted it to be a quick video since the average attention span has probably gone down due to spike of social media use.

Step 3: Add audio! This can be music or a voiceover. I wanted to channel early 2010’s YouTube videos with an update audio to match the pink intro/outro.

Step 4: Export and save! I uploaded my saved version from Canva to Vimeo to have it stored in the same area as my other videos and not needing to keep it on my desktop. This will also make it easier to share.

For my second assignment this week, I choose to do a four star assignment for recording a play-by-play, however, I have lost a lot of interest in sports generally over time, so I decided to do a play by play of the overtime round from one of the games of Gambit I played. As far as an overarching narrative, Gambit is a race against the other team – to bank first, get your Primeval up first, and bring down your Primeval before the other team is able to.

I used an old game I played in – sudden death/overtime games to me are always some of the best matches, and I decided that for the assignment I would give a radio play-by-play of the overtime match I found myself in.

Most of this assignment was recording my voice in FL Studio. I had tried to undo that radio effect on my voice, but was not able to get the effect removed from the mixer. I think it might have been applied to the master track, but I wasn’t sure – I had assigned the recording to a specific mixer track. Oh well. I then combined the narration and video footage in iMovie, and uploaded it to YouTube.