When i first saw this assignment, Play it back jack, I thought it would be cool to microwave a marshmallow, watching it blow up, and then reversing it.  After thinking about it though, there wasn’t much of a story behind blowing up a marshmallow in a microwave.  I ended creating a video of me eating a candy bar and then reversing it.  My main thought when creating this video was regret over eating candy.  Halloween has just passed and I am sure that I am not the only person that regrets eating a bunch of candy.  The thought of reversing the motion so it was as if I never ate the candy seemed perfect.  I chose to not go further back to when the candy was purchased at the store and created in the factory because the candy i used was taken from my sister.  I feel like in most cases when it comes to Halloween candy and myself, either I take it from kids that went trick or treating or I take the left overs from what my sister got.  It might seem wrong to take it, but I am pulling the broke college kid card and take candy from my loved ones.  By taking or i guess what some people would call stealing candy form my loved one, i could have made a video of me sneaking it, but that would leave video evidence of me taking the candy and I would like to plead innocence until they can prove I took the candy, which means no video of me taking the candy!  The only trouble was….making the video reality, so I would be able to eat and enjoy the candy and then just hit a reverse button to make it as if it never happened.  Well sense that is not possible in real life, the magic of video editing makes it possible in a media setting.  To create this video I stole a piece of candy from my sister then made her video tape me opening and eating the candy bar.  I then uploaded the video onto my computer and opened it in iMovie.  There I then selected the clip and pressed the inspector button (to the right of the crop button, in the center of the iMovie screen) which brought up a box with clip, video, and audio selection.  I clicked the clip selection and selected the reverse box.  I then save the movie and exported it onto youtube.

Assignment details:
Play it Backward, Jack! (1 Star)
(http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/play-it-backward-jack/)
Things always look super weird when you play them in reverse, don’t they? So take a video of something in your life–someone running, the toilet flushing, the sink dripping, someone spitting, whatever–and reverse it! Check out an example here: http://youtu.be/sTef_w2ZZhk

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Example!
I went onto the assignment page and tried to look at others example but the pages wouldn’t load, so I am reviewing the main example.

I thought it was cleaver of how he used a thing some people do randomly just to have fun and reverse it. The reversal of him sliding turned out really cool and the person that created this assignment came up with a cleaver assignment.