For the first 5 of my 15 stars I chose to do “Highlight Reels” – I couldn’t just choose one person though! I love my Steelers and it takes “teamwork” so I couldn’t leave anyone out. Still holding the record for the most Super-Bowl Wins!!

It took some research and a lot of patience and time to get all the clips. They make some good touchdown moves! Added a little theme music to set the mood and a couple of extra pictures to finish it off! I put it together in Movie Maker and am really proud of the end result:

My life has been changed over the years by several movies. All of them contain powerful women, just like me. I was not always this way, however. Growing up, my mom was treated like dirt by my dad. Unfortunately, she wasn’t strong enough to get out of the relationship at the beginning. I vowed that … Continue reading Movies That Made Me!

This is for the Mash-Up Trailer video assignment.  I made a trailer for Lost last week, so I thought I would try my hand at making one for a movie.  I just picked up Interstellar on DVD so I thought that would be a really fun film for which I can make a trailer.  Just so you know, it has a Massive number of spoilers, so you really shouldn’t watch it if you haven’t yet seen the movie.  Nor should you read any further.  I took shots from all over the movie, but focused the on scenes surrounding the planets they visit.  Each scene had a quick rising tension, so I set up shots from each of them in parallel as they progressed.  The music in the background is from the movie’s soundtrack, at the docking scene.  I tried to line up the shots’ progression and cuts with the song’s progression, and I think it came out really well.

I chose Interstellar in relation to my noir character, Sardic, because the spacial anomalies in the film reminded me of how Sardic’s universe works.  Enjoy!

Even if I had all the money in the world, my dream travel destination would not change. And, it is not a common vacation spot either, trust me! However, it has sentimental attachment for me, which is exactly why I would want to visit Cambridge, Massachusetts. During my senior year of high school, I was … Continue reading Oh, The Place I’d Go!

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Want to get to know me more? Find out my likes, hobbies, dreams… then watch my video. In just a little over a minute you can learn the basics, and hopes and dreams of Veronica Smith. From small farm town life to big city living.

I choose to do this assignment because I feel it was a easy way to expand on Veronica. Talk about her life, family, home, hobbies, goals, etc. I first wrote out the note cards you see to tell her story, highlighting special words. After filming I found a cover version of one of my favorite 1940s songs, I’ll Be Seeing You. I originally wanted to overlay the real Billy Holiday version of the song, but it just wasn’t working. So I got the cover that you see curiosity of YouTube. Finally I added a black and white filter to fit Veronica’s 1940s character. I chose to end with a question to hopefully get other characters to respond to this video… So I ask again, What is your dream?

Did you know that a combination of chocolate and almonds work well? John Brown knew that so he eats these two food together everyday. However, sometimes he gets upset when he see chocolate and almonds are getting smaller and smaller and he thought that he wants to rewind time to when he was about to eat these two.

The assignment called Play It Backward (2 points) reflects his idea. To complete this assignment, I used Vine application and take record every bite of chocolate and almonds. And then, I sent the video to my e-mail and uploaded it with iMovie and reversed it.

It is short video, but I think that it show John Brown’s earnest desire so deeply.

For this assignment called A Word… A Picture… A Story (3 points) I had to make a story using randomly chosen words. And then, look up a related pictures from Google and put those together into a video.
The words that I chose were:

1. Brown
2. love
3. teeth
4. sweet
5. candies
6. chocolates
7. gloom
8. sunny
9. has
10. make
11. to

To make a story, I had to choose some verbs and preposition, so choices of words exceed 10.

The story that I made with these words is ‘Brown has sweet teeth, love(s) chocolate, candies (and) chocolates make gloom to sunny’
As you know, sugar makes people hyper and happy. Since he is always by himself and has no one to talk about his worry and emotions, he started to eat sugary food. After he experienced that his feeling gets better and depression is gone whenever he eats sugar, he could not stop eating sweets. He rely on sweets too much. As result, whenever he is stressful, he eats tones of candies and chocolates. With this eating habits, I’m kind of worry about his health.

All of this week video assignments, they are have to related to my noir character, also I have to complete about 15 points from Assignment Bank. First assignment I chose was Where Do You Want To Go?  (3 points). For this assignment, I was asked to create a video of place where I really want to traveling or often think about where I would go if I had all the money in the world. Since the assignment was related to John Brown, I thought on his point of view and realized that he does not like where there are crowed people and noisy place. From some research of states of America, I found a state called Idaho.

Idaho located in the northwestern region and it is the 14th largest state of United States. This state sometimes called as “Potato States” owing to its popular and widely distributed crop.

As I looked up the photos from google, I found out that they have really pretty natural environment and quiet village so it would be really great to relax and escape from busy daily life. So if I were John Brown, I definitely would like to travel to Idaho and get some fresh air from the nature.

To create this video, I found all the photos from google, and put those together by using iMovie. As I looked through these photos, Idaho became one of the places where I want to visit. It is now on my traveling places list!

Here is a video depicting one of my internal struggles. It is a conversation with myself. I made this video by following this tutorial. It’s worth 5 stars. I hope you can understand why I have this struggle, and why I can’t stop what I’m doing.

This video is a verbalization of a internal conversation that Edie has with her self. It is her subconscious feeling badly about what she’s done but also her knowing why she had to do it.