This is a 4 star assignment to create a trailer for a Tv show of my choice. I picked How I Met Your Mother. It is by far the most amazing TV show I have watched. I enjoyed making this video and trying to remember funny scenes, look them up, download them and cut parts and past it to create the trailer you will watch. I used I movie to edit, cut and add transitions. It took a long time but it was defiantly worth it. It is amazing how I still find these scenes funny and laugh over and over as I was doing this. Here you go and enjoy!

I took a different approach to the interactive character assignment this week. Rather than assuming the role of Julia James, I decided it was time to show off some of the work I have created, with her in mind. This provided a perfect opportunity to work with Brianne Comden, as we collaborated to make a … Continue reading “Don’t Be Such A Show-Off”….Too Late!

What’s your skill? (4.5 stars)

I have played soccer since before I can remember, it is my passion, my life. I created this montage of clips and pictures from my trip to Memphis for Club Nationals this passed November. I have also included some fun pictures from Nationals in Arizona from the year prior as well.

This video is a shout out to Victoire… I thought it might be fun to dress up as her to do this quick video. The original assignment was about bragging about yourself, and I figured Victoire would probably be really good at that so I gave it a whirl.

I used my webcam to make the video, threw it into iMovie, and here we are!

For this assignment, I took pictures of my dog from earlier this winter and put them in black and white, and tried to do a noir version…. kinda like Henri the Existentialist Cat. Pretty sure I’m not on that level yet, but hey. I’m trying.

I used imovie to string the photos together then used voice over to voice in a quick story.

http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/recording-a-memory/ (Two Stars)

For this assignment I had to take a video of someone recounting a memory. I chose to video Lena Meyers talking about her memory of going to see Scott and meet his family in Scott’s hometown. She met with Scott to follow up with him after the radio show and see his business and what his life was like. She also attended his family barbecue and got to meet the people in his life. This was a good memory for both of them.

So yesterday I watched The Postman Always Rings Twice from 1946, because I was interested in seeing how the story we read the second week of classes would be depicted in a film. I decided to analyze the opening scene of the film when Frank first meets Cora, mostly because I couldn’t decide on a scene that I liked best and this one was already on Youtube. So I downloaded the scene and put it into Movie Maker. Because the scene itself is only about a minute and half, I ended up recording about another 2 minutes of film of myself on my webcam in order to be able to say everything I felt was pertinent to the scene. So I used both the webcam and the narration features of movie maker, neither of which I had ever used before, but they were pretty self explanatory. While I knew exactly what I wanted to say in my video essay, I felt that some times it was difficult to articulate in the prescribed amount of time, so some things took a lot longer to record than I expected. I think I would rather stick to traditional essays rather than video ones in the future. There’s just too much pressure!