• I did the Movies by Numbers. Here we had to take various pictures to describe a number and add a song that relates to that number as well. I watched both a video on number one which was interesting because it was just pictures of the number one in different forms. I also watched a video on the number two which for me was a better example as it showed different thing that represented the number two.
• I chose this assignment because I wanted to see how many things I could find that represent a number. I got inspired with the number 3. I thought of the song Three is company and so I found various images to fit that. For me this relates because I do find 3 is good company unless u are the third wheel.
• I went onto Google and searched images of “3“. This is where I got all my pictures from. I then remember my grandma always raving about three’s company and John Ritter. So obviously this song fit for my video.
• I got all my images from google then put them into WMM. After which I recorded this youtube insturmental version of three is company.
• This assignment was one of the easier ones for me. I showed it to my roommate and she said it filled the assignment correctly.

• I did the Cooking Show assignment. Here we had to create a meal/food on video and describe what we were making just like on the Food network channel. I also watched a video on how to make popcorn which i thought could have been done a little better, though I know its hard to cook as well as be on camera to describe it.

• As soon as I saw this assignment I wanted to do it because I am a huge fan of cooking and the cooking channels. I’ve always wanted to try and when i see competition shows that is something they have to be able to do. My mom and I have always joked saying we should try to compete one day, but after this assignment I realized its a lot harder than you would think. I really like to cook so it was cool to experience having to describe each step and so forth, because usually when I do cook its just automatic actions, and not too much thought. Though I just did Ramen for this assignment, I must say I do cook a variety of things
• For this video I again used my Iflip, so the same process was used as the video made for describing my apartment. I was abel to add a Title, credits, and music throughout the video. This is a story of putting together a meal. Being creative and inventive on camera, and at the same time having to describe your thoughts, and engage the audience. As well as making your food look appealing.
• So again I used the iflip program and its very easy and automatic. The only hard thing in tihs program is you can only cut out the beginning or end of a video. So I just made sure I wouldn’t mess up and that’s why I chose to do something easy like Ramen. In the program I added a Title, and Credits. Then they had an option of their own music which I chose and added it softer than the voices in the video.
• I asked my suitemates and they actually liked the video and enjoyed the ramen that was made. They said i could have interacted a little more to get the audience engaged.

• I completed the Character Genre Song Mashup. This was similar to the anime assignment so I found it easier to complete. We chose a theme from various movies and put it together and related a song of today to it. I looked at the example given, as there were no other examples put up. It gave me an idea of what to do, and I understood the concept of witches.
• I chose this assignment because it was similar to the anime assignment. Then I thought of Monsters, and the first thing that came to mind was Monsters Inc. Then i decided to think of animated movies with monsters in it. This really hit my childhood, and favorite movies of mine. Though, it was hard to think of animated movies with monsters, because though you may think there are a lot, we can not get them confused. Such as Shrek, there aren’t any true monsters in there.
• So I came up with Monsters Inc, Scooby Doos: Monsters unleashed, and Monsters vs. Aliens. This video shows how animated movies have scary characters, however in the end they always get beat, unless the Monsters are the good guys For me I made this video have a twist with cute animation I chose to use the song Monster by Kanye West and Nikki Minaj.
• So I chose trailer clips of the three movies from Youtube, and trimmed what I wanted from each trailer from MPEG streamclip. I then took the clips I wanted and opened them into Window’s Movie Maker. Where I put the Clips in the order I felt fit the audio  I made. I recorded Monster from my itunes into Audacity. Then I chose parts I wanted from the song and put it together. I used fade ins/and outs. I also amplified and and pumped up the bass in the song.
• I actually showed this video to my friend who introduced me to this song, because Nikki Minaj says Sri Lanka in her song, which is where I’m from. So he thought it was cool that I connected it to my video and likes that some of the lyrics fitted perfectly with the video.

• I chose the Animated Music Video for my next assignment. For this we had to look at anime and pick a theme and relate a song back to it that describes the theme. Include the title of the assignment, its description, and a link to it in your writeup. I watched the example given and saw that they chose emotional faces from a variety of different clips.
• I chose this assignment because I really have never worked with anime and I wanted to see what I could find. Anime has a lot to offer tho I think you have to be into it to be a true anime fan. I decided to work with Animes light action scenes. They have lots of explosives, and fights that let off light. This fit into my life because I just automatically thought of how now a days in fighting scenes its more dark and dreary, but for anime is light and bright.
• I feel this this video expresses lights and I chose to use the song Light by Ellie Golding to animate even more that anime is filled with lights and brightness.
• So for this video I used Pwnyoutube to download my youtube videos. I searched for fight scenes in anime and trimmed them down in MPEG Streamclip. Afterwhich, I put it together in Window’s Movie Maker. I then recorded lights from my itunes onto Audacity. And added it to WMM. I then cut out the audio of the anime videos.
• My Suitemate is Asian so I actually showed her this anime video. She enjoyed it and liked that it had pop music to relate to it.

Video Assignment Count: 15

AAAGH so close. However the 5 second film assignment was just the kind of viedo assignment I could get behind. Enjoy:

Okay so I know this and the Big Lebowski are always my go to movies to riff on but its because I love them so. Like a partent who’s not afraid to make fun of their kids to strangers. So why this movie? Because it lends itself to good to condensing. Its got long periods of silence mixed in with intense violence and action, something I tried to encapsulate in my video.

So to make this thing I first watched a couple of the 5 second film re-mixes that are on youtube (there are TONS!). As for other ds106ers most of them were genuinely crative and made their own original 5 second films–exhibit A and B. Clearly these people are not sweaty unshowered loners making fun of the the same four movies every weekend, but the  people on youtube were just like me!

To make this jams I raided Youtbue and pulled a bunch of clips from the movie itself–opening titles, death scene, and any of the thousand scens of the leading actors staring at each other. Then I nabbed the song “Real Hero” by College and Electric Youth as well as a the classic “crickets” sound effect which was surprisingly hard to find on the internet. What followed was just extracting what smaller portions of the original clips that I needed and slamming it all together, something made easy by Final Cut Pro. The title slides were created using the Text Frames that come with Final Cut.

In retrospect the actual editing process was quite easy. The only trouble I really had was just find the appropriate materials from all over dem interwebs. Also the fear. While researching the 5 second remakes of movies on Youtube, I dared to read some of the comments. Those kids are vicious!!!