I am a big fan of tennis, have played for almost all my life and find that it is one of the few sports I can enjoy watching. This is a video compilation of some of the more famous players celebrations after some crucial or long point. This assignment took me quite a long time, because this is my first time working with video editing it took a little bit to figure out. However the hardest part or the most time consuming was getting the audio to sync up, I didn’t use the full song. So I tried to make the song seem shorter but not jumpy. I used Video Pad to edit the movie, and it was fairly simple. I got the videos off of YouTube after searching for some fun and cool tennis points. I then opened the files using Video pad and cropped them to have the right clip during the song. When cropping the video I had to unlink the visual from the audio so that the song was the only thing you hear. I really enjoyed the assignment, it was a lot of perfecting and re perfecting what you had worked on.
For this assignment, we were to make a trailer for a TV show that’s run its course. I chose the tragically short lived sci fi/western Firefly. Apparently you can watch the entire series on YouTube, plus it’s on Netflix. For anyone who hasn’t watched it yet, you’ve got some binge watching to do.
What’s the deal with this trailer then? Well, it’s a product of the evil wizard Nameijustmadeup. You see, Nameijustmadeup mind controlled all of the executives at Fox into cancelling the show early. However, Firefly is so awesome even someone as vile as Nameijustmadeup couldn’t help but be moved by. Thus, he made this trailer, hoping that at least more people would watch the current episodes.
First, I found the music I wanted to use. Then I took clips from the first episode and edited them into the order I wanted.
It was actually a fairly involved process. I spent a lot of time cutting out the right clips and playing with the volume settings. It definitely took a lot longer than I though it would.
“Never snort heroin”, that was a really hard lesson Mia Wallace learned in Pulp Fiction. Heroin is not cocaine it does not go up your nose, it should not go near your nose, it shouldn’t have anything to do with anyone anyway, but that’s besides the point.
On that fateful night Vincent Vega:
Had orders from his boss, Marsellus Wallace:
To take his wife, Mia Wallace:
Out on the town for a good time. Instead this is what happened:
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I thought the assignment of trying to fit music that fit a scene from a movie to be very fun, and challenging. At first I thought I would take the final scene from Blackadder, but I couldn’t think of any good music, next I thought about taking an over the top scene from Crank II, but much of that movie was set to the tune of music anyway, so it made it hard to pick some other music. Eventually I decided on the above seen from Pulp Fiction.
Once I thought about that scene I instantly new that Marilyn Manson’s song Dope Show, would be a perfect match, however I didn’t know it would be this perfect. I played around with lining up the audio in iMovie so when she went down to snort the drugs, the song says drugs! So that was an awesome start, then I noticed just around the time of the cut the music change drastically, so I really wanted to get it to match when the cut ends, so I elongated the cut by a few seconds to make it better match the music! And I think it turned out awesome!
Four years ago now I was sixteen! Crazy! During that time my biggest hobby was programming, I used to do that all the time. Those were the good old days… not really. Looking back I wish I knew a lot of things, that I know now, but there is really one thing in particular!
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I thought this assignment. I thought it would be even cooler to do this one since I am back home, in my own room. I was cleaning my room so you can see an old Winnie the Pooh in the background, it is normally not sitting on my bed.
Anyway as for the creation of the video, I tried to find an interesting background behind me, and I thought the rockets were kind of cool looking so I left that there. I also like how the light comes in from the window on my right, and illuminates half of my face. The main thing that I was trying to do with this video though was to make sure it sounded personally. It wasn’t scripted at all, I really was just trying to sit down and give my younger self some advice.
I found it more difficult than I thought it would be to do this. It had been a really long time since I had recorded myself. In high school I used to make a lot of videos, that reminds me one time in high school health class we were to create an informative project on a topic. The one my friends and I got was on AIDS, I directed a comedic music video about AIDS, in which I rapped. Not one of my better ideas, it was pretty awesome though, and informative…
Anyway though, it really was difficult to create this video. I kept hitting roadblocks, like for example I couldn’t get IMovie to put the title in like I wanted, eventually I uploaded it then watched it on youtube, and saw it had two titles, so I had to redo it. ughhh.
But in the end I do think the video turned out well, and I do think the advice was much needed for the younger version of myself.
Description of Video Assignment: “Create a 30 to 60 second highlight reel of your most enjoyable movie scenes from your favorite Actor/Actress.”
The Story
Steve Carell has always been one of my favorite actors. He plays the boss of my favorite TV show The Office. He plays the perfect role of how not to run an office or company. He plays the weatherman in Anchorman 1 and 2, which is also my favorite movie. He plays a role of a very dumb weatherman but the stuff he does is really funny. Like in Anchorman 2 they were having a funeral for him because they thought he got last at sea but he shows up to it and speaks at his own funeral crying how much he’s going to miss himself.
The Process, Narrated
To create this assignment I had to first download Clipgrab which allowed me to save videos off Youtube onto my computer. Once I saved all the videos I wanted to use I starting to trim the videos using Quicktime on my mac. I would trim the video and save it on my desktop. When I had all my trim clips I then used iMovie on my mac to put all the clips together into one video. I used powerpoint to create the beginning intro and uploaded it to the video in the intro section. iMovie made it easy to insert the video and introduction because it had a preset slot for everything.
Then I uploaded the video to Youtube and embedded it into my blog post.
Description of Video Assignment: “Channel your inner ESPN and clip together highlights of your favorite athlete, set it to some music, and add an intro.”
The Story
Blake Griffin is one of my favorite NBA players. He plays for the Los Angeles Clippers but I first became a fan of his when he was in college at Oklahoma University. He was such a great college player. His dunking ability was as good back then as it is now. I remember one game in college he jump so high while dunking it he hit his head against the backboard and got a black eye. But, all the highlights I chose to do of him are NBA highlights because I feel he’s dunking the same way as he always has now he’s doing it against better players.
The Process, Narrated
To create this assignment I had to first download Clipgrab which allowed me to save videos off Youtube onto my computer. Once I saved all the videos I wanted to use I starting to trim the videos using Quicktime on my mac. I would trim the video and save it on my desktop. When I had all my trim clips I then used iMovie on my mac to put all the clips together into one video. I used powerpoint to create the beginning intro and uploaded it to the video in the intro section. The last thing I added to the video was the background music from my iTunes. iMovie made it easy to insert the video, introduction, and the music because it had a preset slot for everything.
Then I uploaded the video to Youtube and embedded it into my blog post.
STEP 1: Go to YouTube and view, then download (using YouTube converter) some of your favorite movies/clips of your chosen actor/actress. You can find stuff to view by simply typing the name of your actor/actress into the search box and clicking the magnifying glass icon.
STEP 2: For this project I used a Mac, So you would need to open the iMovie program.
STEP 3: Import your selected movies/clips to iMovie.
STEP 4: Cut and trim the videos you like to smaller clips to make it a 60 second video. You can do this by highlighting the parts you like and dragging them to the project area.
STEP 5: Add your opening and credits to the video. This feature is included with iMovie.
STEP 6: One finalized export your creation to your iTunes.
STEP 7: Log on to your YouTube account and uploaded your video project to your YouTube channel.
STEP 8: You should have final product that is something like the video below. Yours will most likely have a different actor/actress.
STEP 9: For the final step, if you need to share this project in your blog, you can embed the video you created into you posting by highlighting the web link from YouTube and paste it into the “add media” tab located on your “new” post screen.
This project is as well from the ds106 video assignments bank, it’s worth three stars. The assignment instructs us to create a 30 to 60 second highlight reel of your most enjoyable movie scenes from your favorite Actor/Actress.
I chose Will Ferrell as my favorite actor. I have been watching him for years and think he is absolutely hilarious! I like every single one of his movies. I even named one of my dogs after a scene from, “A Night at the Roxbury”. My dog, Emillio, is named after the scene where Steve (Will Ferrell) is waiting outside of a club telling his story about how he met Emilio Estevez. I’m always outside yelling for the dog, E-M-I-L-L-I-O.
If you haven’t seen it, you need to check out his newest movie, “Get Hard”.
How this assignment was completed:
1. Went to YouTube to download some of my favorite Will Ferrell movies/clips using YouTube video converter.
2. Then I opened up iMovie.
3. Imported the movies/clips of will Ferrell to iMovie.
Step 4. I cut and trimmed the videos I liked to smaller clips to make it a 60 second video. I just highlighted what I liked and dragged it to the project.
5. Then added my opening and credits to the video.
6. I then exported it to my iTunes.
7. Went to my YouTube account and uploaded my video creation to my YouTube channel.
8. For the final step I embedded the video I just created into this blog by highlighting the web link from YouTube and pasted it into the add media tab.
Step 2. Go to YouTube, viewed some sports highlights and then downloaded your favorites (using YouTube video converter).
Step 3. Imported the videos to iMovie.
Step 4. Then cut and trimmed the parts of the videos you enjoy the most to small clips by highlighting them and dragging them to the project area. Feel free to play around with some other editing techniques by changing some of the filters or colorings of this clips to make black and white, or look old school.
Step 5. I wanted to add a little extra to my video, so I looked up stats specific to my athlete of choice and added them to my video.
Step 6. After you are finished with cutting and trimming you can add the opening and credits to the video (this feature is included with iMovie).
Step 7. To make the video complete, add audio (a good song to accompany the clips). I went to my iTunes clicked, dragged it to the project area, and dropped it to add the music.
Step 8. Then export the video to my iTunes .
Step 9. You will need to finalize the video and upload it to your YouTube channel (if you want to share it).
Step 10:For the final step, embedding the video you just created into your blog. You can do this by highlighting the URL from YouTube and past it into the “add media” tab when you are creating your new post.
For this week part of our class assignment was to complete two ds106 video assignments from the assignment bank. For my first assignment, worth five stars, I chose to create a highlight real.
The instructions for this project requests that the creator, “Channel your inner ESPN and clip together highlights of your favorite athlete, set it to some music, and add an intro”. I’m not sure that I have a favorite athlete, so I just picked a well known one.
I chose to do my highlight real of Barry Sanders, well because who doesn’t know who Barry Sanders is….. If you don’t you are either to young to remember, or have lived under a rock your entire life.
Barry Sanders
Sanders is a former NFL running back who spent his entire professional career with the Detroit Lions. He is a member of both the college and professional football halls of fame, he was ranked by NFL Top 10 as the most elusive runner in NFL history, and also topped their list of greatest players never to reach the Super Bowl. Throughout his professional career Sanders gained 15,269 rushing yards, 2,921 receiving yards, and 109 touchdowns. He retired within striking distance of Walter Payton’s career rushing mark of 16,726 yards. Only Payton and Emmitt Smith have rushed for more yards than Sanders.
How I created this project:
Step 1. Choose an athlete
Step 2. Went to YouTube, viewed some sports highlights and then downloaded my favorites.
Step 3. I imported the videos to iMovie.
Step 4. Then I cut and trimmed the video to small clips that I enjoyed watching. By highlighting them and dragging them to the project area. At this point I played around with some other editing techniques by changing some of the filters and colorings of this clips to make black and white, or look old school.
Step 5. I then looked up stats and added them to my video.
Step 6. After I was done cutting and trimming I added the opening and credits to the video.
Step 7. The video needed audio to make it complete so I went to my iTunes and click and dragged it to the project area and dropped it to add the music.
Step 8. I then exported the video to my iTunes .
Step 9. After I finalized the video I uploaded it my it to my YouTube channel.
Step 10:For the final step I embedded the video I just created into this blog by highlighting the web link from YouTube and pasted it into the add media tab.
