For my final project, I’m working on a media mess of projects all about Spongebob’s Best Day Ever. I decided to create my own assignment for this to kick it off. I’m going for incredibly cheesy and over-the-top, so I settled on this idea as a perfect fit.
Picture this: Spongebob’s dancing along, whistling to the music playing in his head, enjoying his Best Day Ever, when all of a sudden, *dun dun DUUUNNNNN*
…he runs into the evil Queen Rubber Duckie! Instantly, he transforms into karate-master Spongebob and whacks the evil queen into oblivion. Joy and peace are restored to Bikini Bottom once more, and Spongebob does a bouncey dance in celebration as the scene spins off into the rest of the unknown happiness of Spongebob’s Best Day Ever.
It’s a beautiful sight. <3
This is my very own brand-spanking shiny new Video Assignment that I named Inanimate Motion, worth 3 stars.
REVISIT!
I had to come back. After viewing my own assignment on YouTube, I clicked on another link that populated after mine (in the usual manner in which we all get sucked down the rabbit hole of YouTube).
I shouldn’t have been surprised to find that I was completely shown up. I guess I’m not, really. And I don’t know that I’m necessarily ashamed, either. I’m proud of my little amateur crap, because I made it. So there.
Still, it seems necessary to go ahead and show you what the professionals look like when they do this assignment. So, here ya go:
‘Bring joy to the world, it’s the thing to do, cuz the world doesn’t revolve around you.
Don’t be a jerk!
It’s Christmas!’
Have you ever wanted to know what happen to your favorite TV show characters before the TV show? For this assignment, download your favorite TV show intro and reverse it.
2/5 stars
For this assignment, I downloaded my favorite TV show intro, Pretty Little Liars, using PWNYoutube. Then I opened iMovie and and imported the clip. From there, I dragged it to the area that says “drag media here”. Then I clicked clip adjustments and reversed it.
For the assignment “Return to the Silent Era“, the object was to take a movie trailer and edit all the words out to make it like a silent movie. I chose the movie Drive, because it did not have a whole lot of dialogue to begin with, but also because I liked the movie a lot. The first thing I did was to use keepvid.com to download the movie trailer from youtube. After it finished downloading, I used Mpeg Streamclip to take the sound out of the clip. All you have to do to take the sound out is import the clip to the program, then go to the edit tab and click delete audio track, then save the new file (with the deleted audio). Next I used iMovie. The first thing in iMovie that I did was create a new project and import the new, silent trailer clip from my files. The next thing I did was to break the clip down into shorter scenes so that I could add the text. I highlighted the part of the clip I wanted, then dragged it to the top left so I could edit it. Once I had the part of the clip I wanted, I clicked the little “T” in the middle right side, to bring up the text options. I then dragged the text I wanted to the piece of clip I had selected, and typed in the text I wanted to have shown. I then repeated these steps, highlighting each bit of clip, dragging to the editing box, selecting text, and adding the text I wanted to show up for the entire clip until I had given text for the whole trailer.
I created my very own visual assignment. One day I was looking through my friends pictures and came across a baby picture that was similar to one I had taken when I was little too. This made us laugh so much, so for the assignment I thought it would be cool to take these two pictures and put them side to side. This is where my idea came from to create an assignment. It’s fairly simple but can be fun so I gave it 2 stars.
This is an assignment that I created called Where are They Now? it is Video Assignment 797 and it is worth 3 stars. The assignment reads:
“Don’t you hate how some movies just leave you hanging!! Do you ever wonder what happens to the characters next? Well this is your chance to let the world know where they are today! Choose a movie and then create some type of video update on the characters current life. Use pictures, video clips, drawings; whatever you want and compile them into a video. “
I seriously hate when movies just end. I like to have some type of closure and I always find myself wondering what happened to the characters (yes, even though it is JUST a movie).
I chose to do the characters of Mean Girls for 2 main reasons: First, I wanted to use this video for my final project and second, I knew I could find PLENTY pictures of Lindsay Lohan (Cady) in jail.
I used powerpoint to create the first and last slide. I found funny photos of Cady, Gretchen, Karen, and Regina. Then I dragged them to Windows Movie Maker and added captions to each photo. And viola, a Mean Girls Update!
The idea behind this began when watching a Teen Mom Update….( Yes I do still watch Teen Mom )
After our video week, I decided that it would be really cool if there was a video assignment that entailed making your own Public service announcement! I created one for my “Hitchcut” assignment about teen pregnancy and thought it would be fun for others to do as well! So I submitted it as a video assignment!
“Do you care about a current issue in our society and want others to be aware of it too?? Well here is your chance! Pick (or make up) some type of issue. Create a video public service announcement to promote the issue you would like to be resolved! You can be as serious as you want or as silly as you want! Just have fun with it!
First I downloaded the video clip I wanted to use from you tube. Then I used Windows movie maker and Powerpoint to edit it and add my own slides to the announcement.
I hope you enjoy this assignment and have fun with it!! Interpret it however you’d like!
Wow, you’ve come a long way if you’re now reaching your Video Assignment week of DS106. Pat yourself on the back, it’s a lot of work and a lot of thinking! Since you’re here, you must be wondering how to create a video that kicks ass or just for the Everyday Modern Marvels Assignment! Well lucky you, I broke the ice(and am currently 12/4/2012 still the only one who has!) and now it’s time for you to top my video! But, I’m not worried about that, this tutorial is for you to see how I made my video. After watching you can go produce your own masterpiece and 1-up me!
So where to start…hmmmm
Step 0.5 – PREPLAN YOUR VIDEO!!!! Know what you want to do, and how you want to do it. This will save a lot of time, effort, and frustration in the long run!
Step 1 – As with any video/movie, you need, well…VIDEO! So go out with your plan, record what you need, then upload to your computer!
Step 2 – Hopefully you have your video uploaded in .wmv files and can load them directly into Windows Movie Maker. If you have multiple clips, this will mash them together so that there is no skipping/waiting on YouTube. (Like the two videos above!)
Step 3 – Go ahead and watch your video! Do you like it? Is it worthy of editing? If so, begin the editing process now! If there are parts you don’t want in the video simply go to Video Tools, and click Split where you don’t want the video. The clip will split and you can then select and delete it.
Step 4 – Next, you probably don’t want the audio that was used(unless that’s how you recorded it to make it easier on yourself) and cut out other people talking/background noise. For this, stay in the Video Tools, select Video Volume and then drag the bar all the way to the left.
Step 5 – Great, now I have a video without audio. Now what? Well you can snag music from the Internet, create your own audio, or BOTH! Let’s do both! Remember Audacity from earlier in the semester? Open it up! Now hit the Record button in Audacity and time it with what you want to say in the movie. (Scripting before talking usually works pretty well!) You can tile the windows side by side so that you can start the audio and then start the movie.
Step 6 – Edit your audio! You may have long pauses where you aren’t talking, you can get rid of those by highlighting the selected piece and hitting delete.
Step 7 – Cool, now you have a narration of your video. But wait, there is a lot of quiet moments during my video…what should I do? Simple, you can download sound effects off the internet(see websites from Audio Week) or you can just use music. How do you get the music? Fastest YouTube Downloader. If you didn’t download that earlier in the semester, do it. It’s awesome. So go to YouTube, find a video with the audio you want, paste the URL in FYTD, and then upload the MP3 into Audacity!
Step 8 – You probably don’t want your narration to get overpowered, so let’s lower the levels by using the Gain Slider. Export your new audio as a MP3.
Step 9 – Back in Windows Movie Maker, go to the Home tab. Click Add Music, and find the clip you just created! Once it loads into Movie Maker, you can move the audio around to start on whichever clip you want.
Step 10 – Your movie should now be nearing completion. Final edits are in store, such as a Title and Credits screen. These can be found on the Home tab to the right of Add Music. Click Title and it will place a text holder and slide effect at the beginning of the movie. Click Credits and it will place a text holder and slide effect at the end of the movie.
Congrats on receiving your 3 stars! Now go blog about your creation and don’t forget to mention me! Get creative with your videos, and take what you learned from my tutorial and implement it to other assignments, Good Luck!
The following are my tutorials for the Movie Music Comparison assignment and the Movie Scenes That Changed Our Lives assignment, respectively. I’m trying out Vimeo because at this point YouTube can kiss my frustrated not-read-only downtime-hating tush, and you can quote me on that. I used the 30-day free trial of Camtasia to create both tutorials, which I would highly recommend for anyone creating screencast tutorials. That does come with a small caveat: it’s a hefty program, and it’ll run slowly if your computer isn’t especially powerful. I also couldn’t get the “Upload to YouTube” function to work, but I figure that’s a combination of my craptop’s age and my own incompetence. Anyway, on to the tutorials!’
The first tutorial isn’t perfect, but my intention there wasn’t really to showcase how to complete the assignment, and rather to familiarize viewers with a program I’ve found incredibly useful all semester. While YTD Video Downloader is quite user-friendly, it can be helpful to have a tutorial showing exactly how the program works to get new users comfortable enough to try it out. One thing I probably should have realized earlier (and did change for the second video) was that my wallpaper, while clever, isn’t exactly safe for work. Oops! At least it’s clever. : )
The second tutorial is more traditional and perhaps more detailed, but that is in part because I’m only doing a walkthrough involving one program. Because of that it was a little easier to include more details about how to complete the project as a whole, rather than just talking about the “Add Narration” function, which was my initial goal.
I’m pretty pleased with how both of these tutorials came out, little errors and all, mostly because of the way Camtasia allows you to zoom in on different parts of your screen during post-production. That one tiny detail is extremely important to me when viewing screencasts, because when watching screencast tutorials I most often get lost when I can’t find the specific menu or tool that I’m supposed to be using. By zooming in to the exact spot on the screen where the icons are located, it’s much easier to direct your viewer’s attention to what they’re supposed to be doing, and I hope that at the very least I achieved that with my tutorials.
Step 3: Download the video to your desktop. (I used keepvid in internet explorer because you have to have the specific java plug-in)
Step 4: Download your audio (I used youtube and then found a youtube-mp3 converter)
Step 5: This is where I had to do some specific things for Windows Movie Maker. For some reason it won’t upload the mp4 files. They need to be converted to a .wmv file. You can download Real Player here. It’s free and hasn’t harmed my computer in any way.
Step 6: You can now open your video into Real Player (left click on the mp4 file on your desktop and click “open with” and scroll across to Real Player)
Step 7: (You can cut your video here if you would like, but I recommend waiting to do this later in the assignment so you can get a better match with your audio.) Once your video starts playing in Real Player you can scroll across the movie and in the bottom right there should be a button that says “convert”. Click this
Step 8: It will come up with a screen that looks like the below picture. And you just hit start. Real Player does the rest…
Step 8: You can then add your video into Windows Movie Maker using the import media button at the top of the tool bar. At this time you should also add your audio using this same button.
Step 9: You can then drag your audio and video to the timeline at the bottom of the screen.
Step 10: This is where you are kind of on your own. You need to try and make your video and audio mush together. They should flow with one another. You can easily trim the audio by the arrow at the end of the music bar on the timeline. You can do the same for the video in the video section of the time line.
Extras:
1. Adding effects make the video unique. Playing around with these can greatly enhance your video. You can find these on the toolbar on the left of the screen.
2. The tool bar on the left is also where you can find captions and titles. You can add words to the video using these.
3. If you need to change the tone, pitch, speed, etc. of your audio you will need to use audacity and then re-import this. This may be a vital step in making the two medias come together.
4. Below is a picture of the whole windows movie maker. I have numbered some important tools for you.
Red= Toolbar
1= effects, 2= Titles, 3= Publish (do this when you are done with the full movie)
Green= Timeline
1= Drag your video here, 2= Drag your audio here
Blue= Where you can watch your video. This is also where you can watch effects you want to sample
My example for this assignment is here. Enjoy and be creative!
This assignment is to create a dance video by combining dance styles of three different countries or cultures. Select those parts of the dance videos, that you download, that would go well together. Afterward, combine those three dance clips; and mute its music. After muting the videos original music, add new dance music to it-remember the music you add should go well with all those three dance styles.
Write a blog post describing those dance style; also mention in which country those dance styles are common.
The dance video I created is a combination of Afghani Qataghani dance style, Indian Kathak dance style and belly dancing. The background music is called Qataghani saaz, which is an Afghani dance music.
After downloading those dance videos from YouTube; I used MPEG_Streamclip for selecting my desired dance sense. Afterward, I used Windows Live movie maker for editing my video.
I really like dancing therefore I got the idea of creating a dance video. I really enjoyed creating it ; and I found it very interesting as well.
So there.
Then I clicked clip adjustments and reversed it.
