This week was all about video! We learned how to effectively use video as a method of storytelling. The first assignment involved learning how to read a video. I’ve watched a lot of movies in my life, but I don’t think I had ever really thought about certain aspects of the making of the...
A Day in The Life – Icelandic Student Edition
As a college student in the United States, I often wonder what a typical day would be like for college students in other countries. I made a video to share my day as a student and then did some research to learn more about an Icelandic college student’s typical day. A day in the...
Video Assignment Summary
learn how to read a movie Look, Listen, Analyze where do you want to go? observe something grow Summary: I learned a lot about films and editing during this unit. I was especially interested in the Movie Mistakes from learning how to read a movie. I also enjoyed learning about transitions and editing to...
Observe Something Grow
Assignment: Make a collage of something growing up, or growing bigger. Now this takes some time-you must have some video footage of the object, person, pet, etc. growing older. It can be a stop motion of a plant, or if you have puppy pictures and now a full sized dog, put them all together...
Look, Listen, Analyze
Assignment Description: Pick one scene from a classic movie you will analyze Analyze the camera work. Before watching the first time, turn the volume on the clip (or on your computer) down. Take notes on the visual aspects of the clip. Look for camera angles, cuts, how many times the camera switches view, the quality...
Becoming an Auditory Storyteller
This week I learned how to tell stories through audio which is something that I was kind of scared of, but it ended up being more fun than I expected! First I watched and listened to different sources to learn about audio storytelling. Then, I listened to an episode of the podcast Modern Love...
Modern Love
To learn more about audio storytelling, I listened to an episode of the NY Times podcast: Modern Love. The story was very well-told, and I recognized a few techniques that they used to enhance the story. The first technique I noticed was the use of music. Before the guest even started telling her story,...
Maddie Kimmitz Visual Media Summary
Part I Photography Tips and Tricks Part II Photo-Blitzing Part III Story Map Visual Assignment ★★★ Summarize a Movie in Gifs Visual Assignment ★★★★★ Playlist Poetry Visual Assignment ★★★ Part IV This assignment helped me reinforce what I already knew about photography, but it also helped me learn a lot of new things. I...
Kaylie’s Design Assignments Summary
This week we spent some time learning about different design aspects. I really enjoyed this unit as it was all new to me. I had never tried to make different designs before or learned anything about the various principles of design. I felt like this unit really expanded on the visual concepts we learned...
We Are All Artists?
This week was focused on learning about design. For this unit we had to watch videos about what design is and we listened to a talk by Tim Owens called “We Are All Artists.” I thought that both of these were super interesting, and they both changed the way I think about design. Before...