I did 23 stars worth of video assignments or really 19 stars!

Side Note: However, for 4 stars I did not do a post because I had some major issues embedding (Vernacular Video). I have linked it below if you are interested in watching, but it was an extra assignment anyway.

Redub a Movie *** : Students were asked to redub a scene from a movie. I chose to do an Old Spice Commerical.

Return to the the Silent Era ***** Students were asked take a modern day movie/trailer and make it like an old silent movie.

Movies by Number ***: Students were asked to create a video foucsing on a number.

Characte/Genre Mash-up ***: Students were asked to find clips of video that match the theme of a song and make it a video.

Song Visulaization ** : Students were asked to sync pictures to a song in order to tell a story.

A Word…A Picture…A Story ***: Students were asked to pick 5 random words, find a picture of the word, and create a story around them.

Vernacular Video ****: Students were asked to make a video explaining the history of a word. I used a website, but I didn’t buy the upgraded package and, therefore, I have embedding issues. I realize this might not count toward my write-up and it doesn’t need too. However, I wanted to give you all the opportunity to see this… my word “Canoodling”. I hope you enjoy!

 Thoughts about this week

I was consumed with passion in making videos. I figured out how easy it was to make video using Windows Movie Makers and I become obsessed. It was a lot of fun. I believe the quality of my word has improved as I worked on them. *Noticeably from Redub to Song Visualization.  Video are a great way to tell stories because they offer a visual representation of your words.  They also tend to be more entertaining. I think it is interesting the relationship between music and video that creates a story. Sometimes it is the music that creates the story, sometimes its the video, and then the other element backs it up. In “Song Visualization” it was the lyrics that created the story , but the picture help the plot so you focus on the lyrics and not the beat. Whereas, in “A Word, A Picture, A  Story”, the pictures were the story and the music help set the mood. The uses of both audio and visual create a amazing dimension to a story which is irresistable. This explains the creation of television and music videos. It just wonderful.

I used to think people who created YouTube videos (as much as I love YouTube videos) must not have a life. I never realized how easy it is to make the videos. Windows Movie Maker has an upload button on its main toolbar. All you have to do is enter your username and passward, fill- in the YouTube data, and upload. It totally change my perspective on youtube videos.

The hardest part about this week is a tie between finding the pictures for all my videos and the write-ups. The pictures were the most consuming portion of every video. I had a hard time making decisions because in video the image and  timing of the image are crucial to the mood and story. Then, write-up were very lengthy this week which was fine except I had gotten so caught-up in doing video assignments.. I had forgot there was a write-up portion. That bite me in the butt so to speak when I realized I had 4 days to do all my write-ups!

#DS106 look at all my hard work! Don’t be shy, comment! kasmoore.com/blog/2012/11/1…

— Kasey Moore (@KaseyMoore6) November 18, 2012