In this video assignment, the main objective was to choose 5-10 words and create a video putting images and words together! The rating for this assignment is 4 stars. 

The words I chose were: 

coffee, love, Chanel, glamorous, fashion, pearls

I am truly a girly-girl. Most of the things I think of in my spare time have to do with fashion and glam! It is no wonder why the words above came to my mind when starting this assignment!  My main inspiration for this assignment came from the film Breakfast At Tiffany’s with Audrey Hepburn, one of my fashion icons. In the movie, she plays the character Holly, a New York socialite who falls for a man that moves into her apartment complex. 

Hepburn represents many of my words that I chose in her actual life and in the movie. Hepburn’s breakfast in the morning is usually coffee and a croissant. She is no doubt a glamorous individual, always dressed up in the finest attires. One of her main style icons was Chanel, which she drew a lot of inspiration from in her fashion choices. Pearls were always a necessity for her and she always displayed elegance and class as she wore many pearl necklaces. Love is a huge part of the movie and her character Holly, falls hopelessly in love with the character Paul. Her hard-to-get personality clearly is displayed throughout the movie, but love is ultimately what she wanted.

The process for creating this movie was fairly easy. First, I picked out the images I wanted to use for the video on Google. Next, I picked out the song I wanted to use from Youtube and used this Youtube video converter to change a video into an mp3 so I could import it into my video:

Next, I opened IMovie, and dragged the photos I saved from Google into the IMovie and then started putting the words over the pictures for the video: 

I then added transitions between the photos by selecting the transitions tab:

Next, I imported my audio file to play during the video by going to File-Import media- then selecting the file:

Position the music by using your cursor over the parts you want audio to play:

Finally, add your beginning and ending credits by selecting the titles tab and inserting them where you need to:

Export to Youtube with the Tab in the upper right corner:

Change your title and you are done!

This project was fairly simple yet time consuming to complete. I really liked that I had the option to decided which direction I wanted to take the theme and really make it my own. I liked that I added music from the actual movie into my video, it was an added touch.

This post really connected me to my love of fashion and beauty as well as my style icon, Audrey Hepburn! I hope you enjoy.

Assignment Stars: Above 4

Please click here for the assignment webpage

Music by:  BenSound

Video editing software used: Windows Movie Maker

Screen recording software used: IceCream Screen Recorder

All of us use internet to find help with all most everything. And luckily there is a lot of online help available free of any cost, thanks to different internet enthusiasts who share their experiences online. There are tutorial for everything we do. It could be simply eating a banana or fixing a car engine. I have always found video tutorials to be fascinating and helpful.

Once I lost the video on my car DVD player. I tried my best to fix this problem. I took my car battery off to hard reset it. I soft reset it with the reset button several times but in vain. I even took it to a mechanic. He also didn’t know to do fix it. I could only see a “+” sign in the middle of the screen. I turned to Google and tried different keywords. I was able to find a video tutorial after a few minutes of search and it has the simplest working solution possible. I just had to click on the four corners of my DVD screen and BOOM, it was fixed. The point I want to make with the above story is that it’s time to return the favor to the online community. What better way could be out there than making a video tutorial and putting it online?

In the following tutorial I chose to share with my audience a simple tool to fast forward any video. I have used Windows Movie Maker as it is a simple and free video editing tool from Microsoft available for Windows users. To record the video from the screen and my voice with it, I used IceCream Screen Recorder which is available here for a free download.

Original Video Clip in 1X

Video tutorial to fast forward with Windows Movie Maker (includes the fast forwarded clip)

I would also like to write down the steps that I took to make the video tutorial.

Step 1

Open Windows Movie Maker

Step 2

Open the video that you want to fast forward by clicking the “Add video and photos” button on the home tab.

Step 3

Select the video by clicking it and from the “Video Tools” tab, increase the speed from 1x to 4x or whatever you like.

Step 4

The video play time has decreased from around 130 seconds to around 23 second with the same video frames played faster.

Step 5

Click on the “File” menu and save the video output in the format of your choice. I saved it for YouTube.

Step 6

Once you have recorded the whole process with IceCream Screen Recorder, you can again open the video in the Windows Movie Maker and add title slide, credits or music to it. I downloaded some royalty free nice music from BenSound and added it to my video tutorial.

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For this video assignment, the objective was to make a moving object using Vine. This being my first project using the app, I started off by making a few sample vines to understand the recording options and settings. I was able to take still images of the fish and make it look like they were moving or swimming across the screen.

This assignment was worth 4 stars.

One fish. It was only one fish that started a movement. One fish that wanted to make this great venture. The venture may have only been across the tank but in their defense, this was one big tank. The fish had planned to travel from one side all the way to the other and dodge everything that got in their way. When this idea was first mentioned, every other fish disapproved. They were all either too scared and too comfortable on their side of the tank. As the idea built and the plan became more real, the other fish realized a decision had to be made. Leave their side of the tank or make their friend go on this scary journey alone. Once put into perspective, it was no question to them. They had to go with their friend. So they all traveled through every obstacle and landmark that blocked them from the other side of the tank. But no matter what, they all stuck together. They all made it across together and decided that they liked their side of the tank better. This meant another venture back across the tank.

To make this assignment, I had to create a Vine account after downloading the app to my phone.

To start off the process, I was walked through how to create a video on Vine. You tap the screen and hold as long as you want to record and then release. You can change the subject or setting and tap again.

I recorded my video and added a caption.

When clicking the music symbol in the bottom left corner and scroll through music options to choose from. I selected the sound clip I wanted and added it to my recording.

The video was posted to my account as a final product!

For this assignment, 5-10 words were chosen at random. These words were then google searched and an image for this word was chosen. The words and images were then used to create a video and story to mesh all these random words together! The 7 random words I came up with for this assignment are as follows:

Summer, Love, Sunshine, Friends, Water, Green, Puppy

All images came from google and the list was developed at random using my surroundings and whatever popped into my head. Music in the video is from iTunes. iMovie was used to create the video and then uploaded to Vimeo. This assignment was worth 4 stars.

Summer. It has always been her favorite season. She sits on the porch and admires the world around her. The birds chirp in the trees and the neighbors say hello as they walk by. She loves everything about days like this. There is nothing more relaxing to her. On this specific day, along with every other day this summer, the sunshine is blazing down and roasting everything in its path. This overpowering heat seems to bother everyone else but she doesn’t mind. She won’t get off the porch for a few more hours. Finally, her friends come over and they immediately head to the beach because what else would they do on a beautiful day like this? They all craved being by the water. Any beach, any river, any body of water. They didn’t care, they loved it. Their favorite spot was this little area of the river that not many people knew about. The grass was more green and the sky more blue, or at least thats how it seemed to them. They treasured this spot they had found last spring and go every chance they get. The last of them show up to their spot and she has a surprise. She got a puppy! They stay there for hours and think about how great their lives are on days like today.

Making this video, I used many different applications. I started by opening google. I sat on my porch for inspiration for my random word choices. After creating a list of words, each were googled and an image for each was selected. Images were saved on to my desktop and then uploaded into iMovie.

All images were dragged and dropped in the media section in the top left of iMovie. Once added into iMovie, I dragged them down into the story board in the order that I had chosen.

Videos were given an effect for how they would appear in the video by clicking “Transitions” in the top menu bar. Further adjustments can be made by clicking on the image in the top right corner and changing any of the settings from the menu bar above the photo.

Image length in the video was adjusted by dragging the edge of the clip in the story board to desired time.

Zoom pattern could also be changed when this transition was selected. Placement of the zoom for start and stop positions could be edited in the menu bar or clicking directly on image.

Title and end page were added by clicking “Title” in the top left menu bar and dragged into story board. Music was added by clicking “Audio” in the same par and choosing from a song from iTunes. Credit for the song I chose is Jubel by Klingande. 

Once the final product was created, I went to “File”, “Share”, and then selected Vimeo. I linked it right to my Vimeo account and uploaded my video!

Another great  Video Assignment this comes from the assignment  What Do You Do? this is worth (4 starts). My thinking is that it should be rated about 3 stars but that is just my personal opinion. I guess this is where I tell the story about what I do everyday, I actually think this is what every hopefully dose everyday, they take a shower !!

How did I make the video? well, I used my iphone to video record because it is portable .  I went into my bathroom and the first thing I did was see what 8 sec felt like. So I went into video mode on my phone then the I pressed the record button. I then restaged what I wanted in the video so it would actually look the way I wanted it to. Since I used my phone I was able to access the video through icloud. So I downloaded the video to my computer and I was able to uploaded it to youtube. To uploaded to youtube I had to open youtube in Google. Then I pressed the “upload”  button which is located in the right hand corner. Then I selected the video and dragged it to the open space that read ” Upload video”. I did reset some of the settings as I was saving it like for instance the category in which it was place into  or “What Kind” of video it is.

This is really my most favorite part of the day it either signifies the beginning of the day or a fresh start to a new one. I am so glad that I painted my nails before this one it makes the look like I have really nice feet.

This video assignment asked you to make a movie about a dream you had as a kid but I decided to make a movie about a recurrent dream I’ve had. It was one of the most strange dreams I ever had and I remember re-telling it to my mom the next morning. It started with me on a couch in my living room watching tv. There was rain and thunder outside and one lightning bulb came through the window and struck my television. It went black and started smoking, but then it flashed back on to a news report for the next day. They were reporting on a woman’s body found murdered, and when they put up a license plate photo of the victim, it was me. I was freaked out but before I could say anything another flash filled the room and my television was back to how it had been before. In reality, the rest of my dream I spent trying to figure out who was going to kill me but for the sake of this video, I made an abbreviated version. So from this dream, I was inspired to made this little video.

I made this video using clips I got from YouTube. I used so many clips that it would take me an hour to list them all but some of them were the Psycho shower scene, a video of rain outside of a window, and a news report about a body found by ghost hunters. Yes, that is a true story. I downloaded all the videos using KeepVid and imported them to iMovie.

I cut all the clips and put them in order. Then, I used GarageBand on my Mac to record my voiceover. I didn’t do any voice adjustments to my audio or any effects. I simply exported my audio and inserted it into my movie. The music I used in the background was a generic synth. song I found on the GarageBand program.

Lastly, I went to the visual effects feature on iMovie and chose the “Dream” effect that cast a hazy glow on all of my film clips. Then I uploaded it to YouTube.

I’ve always thought this dream I kept having was really interesting. I don’t think I’ve seen a movie that had the same kind of plot so I made my own. I also had a good laugh at the cat clip I put at the beginning because it was the only thing I could find that represented me laying on the couch. I wasn’t intending for the movie to come out so eerie like a scary movie at first, so the cat at the beginning seems a little out of place. Though, I hope it gives you a laugh too.

Assignment Rating:

Moving Object – “Make a moving object using Vine.”

So this project was actually so easy it should not have been four stars. That saying, I guess my tutorial will be a little different this time since it is so short.

1. So first you have to actually make a Vine account.
2. Then on the top right where there is a smiley face in a bubble, a camera, and three dots, hit the camera.

3. This will take you to where you can record your vine.

4. Once here it is time to record! Just hold down on the screen to record. If you lift your finger it stops recording.

5. When you are done recording you can edit the vine or create text under it.

6. Done! Save and upload.

So for this assignment I tried to use the shaking camera I saw and reflected on in one of my earlier posts. When the camera was on the Joker it seemed to shake which added a really cool (or I guess, creepy) effect. It almost symbolized how crazy the Joker is but at the same time it could be the shaking (symbol for fear) of the audience/mobsters. I mean let’s face it: the Joker is a scary guy. I would be shaking too if he was sitting a foot away from me!

I wanted to do this assignment because I have always had a Vine account but have never actually made my own vine. I figured this could be a great opportunity to try making something on a new website, and the experience ended up being pretty simple! I also had to think of what prop to use that I could make a story with, which was actually pretty hard at first. I had an idea of what I wanted but I have long out grown dolls/toys/stuffed animals. Luckily my sister let me borrow one of her creepier stuffed animals (I love owls but look at those eyes!)

“It was a warm summer day and I was home alone. My parents were at work and my sister was at her friends house. I was making myself a sandwich when I heard the first noise from behind me. A fluttering sound. Almost like a bird was in the house. I searched around and finally found my dog, who was cowering in a corner staring at something. I turned my gaze to where her eyes were looking and saw… nothing. I was confused but figured she maybe just had a bad dream. I return to my lunch and this time heard scampering. I whipped around to catch whatever it was to see a whole lot of nothing. I shook my head, figured I was losing it or something. I walked over to the kitchen table and sat down. This time I felt something soft bump into my ankle. I peered under the table to see two wide golden owl eyes staring back at me. I jumped up with a start and knocked my chair back, startling my already terrified dog. She had enough adrenaline to run and hide but all I could do was stare at this toy. How in the hell did it get there? If my dog had seen it, the toy would have been torn to shreds in a heartbeat. Heartbeat. My own was fluttering just as that noise I heard earlier had. The fluttering! It had to have been this toy! I shook the thought out of my head because it was just too impossible. Within seconds I watched this toy bump into my leg. This gave me enough of an adrenaline rush to run to my stairs. Being extremely clumsy, I hit my toe on the wall next to the banister. I took a shaky look down to see blood bubbling on my foot.
Ouch.

I dramatically and in slow motion had to crawl up the stairs, because that is what I have seen in the horror movies. I glance behind me and see this:

I passed out from fear at the top of the stairs and when I woke up the toy was gone. I called 911 and told them my house was being haunted by a stuffed owl and they immediately sent over an ambulance. Now I am in the psych ward and all the toys around me keep staring at me. Please make them stop.

The End. “