Final Project

The Past (Writing Assignment):

Brittni Walters grew up in a small eastern city of Kansas with both of her parents and her little brother. When she graduated from high school she knew that college was her next step. She applied to Kansas State University and shortly after she was accepted to the school she would soon call home. Her freshman year she moved into the dormitories where she would soon find one of her new closest friends, her roommate, Randi. After a whole year had past she had made many knew friends and learned about the struggles of college financially and academically.  So when it came time to her second year of college she knew that she had to get roommates who would respect her needs with studying. She picked her current roommate and two of her best friends in college. Madison, she had been friends with for 6 years even when she had moved away to colorado. Grace, she had gone to high school with but didn’t become close friends with her until K-State. As finals week rolled around all of Brittni’s roommates had finished early in the week while she was stuck still studying for her last final. Grace and Randi had went home for break while Madison decided to go out for the evening. When Madison comes home she isn’t normal…

Movie Logo:

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Movie Commercial:

Final Project Commercial from Miranda Elliott on Vimeo.

Movie Beginning Character to end Character:

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Assignments & DC Contributions

Created Assignments:

http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/can-you-see-what-i-see/

http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/event-advertisement/

Created TDC:

http://daily.ds106.us/tag/mmelliott3909/

I did create two daily creates, but they haven’t showed up yet, I’m not sure if they have to be approved first or something. But i sent two in. So ill give you the details about what they were in case they’re still not up.

1. Post a picture of something throughout your day that you think is beautiful and tell us why you think its beautiful.
2. What are you daydreaming about? Share us a photo of what is always on your mind.

 

Outline For Final Project

So this week we were suppose to be brainstorming on what we wanted our final project to be then give updates on what our progress was for this week. So for this week to get ready for my project I decided that I would make on outline. From this class so far I know what I am strongest at and what I am weakest at. So I decided to go ahead and pull out the 4 projects out of the assignment bank for what I would like to do. So for this week i have decided to pick out these four assignments to go towards my story:

Visual Assignments:

Normal to Extrordinary

Design Assignments:

Create Your Own Logo!

Video Assignments:

DIY product commercial

Writing Assignments:

Your Character’s Past

 

Week 12

Assignments:

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To do this assignment I decided to choose a sports movie so i could replace the ball with Wilson from Castaway. So I chose the movie Dodgeball and picked a picture where the ball was present. To add wilson to the image, i used photoshop to cut out the face of Wilson then dragged it on top of the ball in the Dodgeball image. I then used the blur effect to make the image distorted a little because the ball is in the background and the rest of the background was blurred.

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For this assignment I was told to take an image of my friend currently doing something and match it to a Emoji. I chose this photo of my roomate who was currently laughing and smiling. So i matched it to the emoji where the eyes were squinted and the teeth were showing.

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For this assignment we were suppose to combine two movie posters. I chose to combine Harry Potter with the famous Hunger Games quote. I chose the colors and font from the poster of the Hunger Games. The quote also works for Harry Potter because they are also going to war.

Remixes:

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For this remix assignment I was told to make the poster a infomercial poster. So i added more text to the image and put a 1800 number. I also made it seemed like the movie was coming out today which is why they should buy tickets.

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For this assignment I was told to add Waldo to the image. Since waldo is very small i had to put him in a place where he was spottable but not to easy to find. Since there isn’t too much going on in the photo i decided to make him very small and ass him to the symbol on the headband.

Daily Creates:

#ds106 #dailycreate #tdc1402 pic.twitter.com/q3Mu8iowcs

— Miranda Elliott (@mmelliott3909) November 11, 2015

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#ds106 #dailycreate #tdc1407 Apparently “I can burp on command” & “I can pick my nose” is extraordinary…. #roomies pic.twitter.com/nkUtmQhfNi

— Miranda Elliott (@mmelliott3909) November 16, 2015

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Comments:

http://digitalmediakiller.com/creative-work/review-11-15-15/#comment-72

Week 12 Summary

https://jmcmahan1.wordpress.com/2015/11/14/remix-2/comment-page-1/#comment-146

This Doesn’t Belong Here

https://jmcmahan1.wordpress.com/2015/11/11/mashing-friends-and-emojis/comment-page-1/#comment-147
http://digitalmediakiller.com/creative-work/to-bad-he-isnt-british/#comment-73
https://jmcmahan1.wordpress.com/2015/11/14/week-12-summary/comment-page-1/#comment-148
https://jmcmahan1.wordpress.com/2015/11/14/remixes-1/comment-page-1/#comment-149

Week 11

Mini Documentary:

Okay so I’m suppose to go through an talk about my process for this video that I created. So first what happened is when we found a store that was nearby, at the time this was in Springfield MO. Me and my teammates at the time, Jake and Morgan, found Talula’s where we asked the woman who owned the store if we could interview her and make a film about her store. We used out camera to film her talking about her store and the history of Talula’s while i also jotted down notes on my notepad about the interview. I was lucky enough to be in a class that had taught me all about how to conduct an interview and how to take notes for later use. I also was provided with different types of editing software in order to make my videos. After we got the interview on film we took different types of B-roll, which is film to use in order to make the documentary more interesting. So we filmed things around the store to show what items Talula’s sells, and what goes on inside the store. We even got some outside footage to show where you can find the place and what to look for. When we got back to the computer i was able to write out a script off of what i had written down in my notes. I then had Morgan read the script while recording. I used that as a voice over for the film while i use the Adobe Premiere to put the video together. I had Morgan’s voice reading the script then used the Interview we got from the owner in order to put in her voice throughout the film. I use mainly the interview and B-roll to cover the whole film so it would be more pleasing to watch. Morgan’s voice covered in the spots where more information was needed and to make sure the film never had any awkward silence.

Daily Create:

#ds106 #dailycreate #tdc1399 pic.twitter.com/A3fWUapj23

— Miranda Elliott (@mmelliott3909) November 9, 2015

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#ds106 #dailycreate #tdc1400 …in the nearby creek while playing. pic.twitter.com/uZZFSkr1Mm

— Miranda Elliott (@mmelliott3909) November 9, 2015

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Week 10

Choice 1= Mini Documentary:

So I actually made this video awhile ago when I went with some friends up to Springfield Missouri. Me Jake and Morgan went to a random shop called Talula’s and asked her if we could do a film on her shop. The video was actually placed in a contest at Drury University. We have only a few hours to go out, find a shop, and record, come back and edit the video, and turn it in before the due time. My job was to be the producer. Morgan was the voice in the video, and Jake video taped the footage. Since i was the producer I helped film and come up with the script for what Morgan had to say. I also used Adobe premiere to edit the film to make the interview into a movie. I thought this video would be perfect for the video assignment. At the end of the contest I ended up getting 3rd place out of all the teams.

Daily Create:

#ds106 #dailycreate #tdc1393 Comic book version of myself pic.twitter.com/ey3yzLHFi4

— Miranda Elliott (@mmelliott3909) November 2, 2015

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Video Essay:

On a side note…. THE ROYALS WON THE WORLD SERIES, GO ROYALS!!!!

Week 9

Commenting:

http://kaitlinmarie.net/thoughtsideas/the-headless-ballerina/#comment-530

http://ds106.gabbychristie.com/assignments/the-death-whisperer/#comment-345

http://deathbyds106.com/storytelling/meet-esmerelda/#comment-301

http://thatspookyblog.com/assignments/responses/you-are-in-my-hands-now/#comment-375

http://msclarahope.com/uncategorized/hello-world-2/#comment-129

http://catscarnival.com/uncategorized/la-noir/#comment-428

http://anzirp.com/other/meet-blair/#comment-498

http://deathbyds106.com/assignments/video/30-second-documentary-2/#comment-302

http://ds106.gabbychristie.com/daily-create/the-daily-creates/#comment-346

http://theaaronadventure.com/week-summary/week-9-summary/#comment-616

Assignment Bank:

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After reading Kaitlin’s blog about her host character, i decided that i would make a t-shirt for her host character. The shirt is of a headless ballerina and her kitty named boo. Using photoshop i was able to cut off both of the characters head, then i was able to overlap the photos on the screen, where i then screen shotted the aftermath to make the photo whole.

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This is “Deadful Dani”s dream place to visit. It is called Wadi-us-Salaam. It is an Islamic Cemetery and it is also known at the world’s largest cemetery. Since “Deadful Dani” is obsessed with the dead and dresses like she one of them, she would have her dream vacation to visit the largest cemetery in this world.

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This is suppose to represent my character “Deadful Dani”. Since she’s suppose to be ghost like (since she’s suppose to look dead), I did my own makeup in order to look ghostly. Then i used photo shop in oder to distort to photo. Which i then uploaded to flickr.

Daily Create:

https://twitter.com/mmelliott3909/status/658506548692422656

Week 8 (Part 2)

Commenting:

http://benjaminbrady.com/ds106/weeklysummaries/weeks-78-summary/#comment-314

http://pgrusski.net/audio/ti-govorish-po-russki/#comment-82

http://cmoton.com/uncategorized/radio-show-reflection/#comment-350

http://ct101.us/2015/10/19/finally-2/#comment-121869

http://benjaminbrady.com/ds106/assignments/audio-assignments/wacky-history-commercial/#comment-317

http://stephanieking.org/ds106/week-7-and-8-a-review/#comment-136

http://adamlostonpatrol.com/uncategorized/radio-show-reflection/#comment-206

http://cmoton.com/assignments/show-bumper/#comment-351

http://tlear45.com/uncategorized/daily-create/getting-your-daily-creates-all-in-a-basket/#comment-427

http://pgrusski.net/audio/radio-commercial/#comment-85

Daily Creates:

https://twitter.com/mmelliott3909/status/655907648513048576

https://twitter.com/mmelliott3909/status/653690759636324352

Week 2 Review:

Week 7

Radio Show Progress:

Radio Show Poster:

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To do this assignment i had to use Photoshop CC in order to cut out all the images. Once all the images were cut out, I layered all the photos on top of each other and applied a black background. With the add text tool i was able to insert the title and the sub title. I then from there saved the image and uploaded it to flickr.

Audio Assignments:

For all the assignments above, i either used just soundcloud or audacity. I uploaded the music i wanted to use in the background onto audacity then use the record tool in order to record my voice over the music. I then exported the file as a MP3 where i then uploaded it to soundcloud.

Week 6

Design Blitz:

Designblitz

Thoughts and Ideas:

Daily Creates:

#ds106 #dailycreate #tdc1362 pic.twitter.com/LC7LLwhH7p

— Miranda Elliott (@mmelliott3909) October 2, 2015

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#ds106 #dailycreat #tdc1365 pic.twitter.com/7qdWaK8d02

— Miranda Elliott (@mmelliott3909) October 4, 2015

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Assignments:

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Okay so my idea behind this post was to see how easily my movie could be guessed by four pictures. So i feel like the movie should be fairly easy to guess given that their aren’t any other movies out there that have all four pictures. But just in case you didn’t get it, it’s a disney movie. And its the only disney movie with a mermaid princess.

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So this assignment was called name that single. So I chose this song because my mother gave it to me as a theme song when I was just a toddler. The song is “Girls Just Want to Have Fun”. So i decided to put a bunch of females having a good time in oder to fit the title of the song.

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So i had to create a mascot. And when looking at the examples i thought it would be a good idea to use food just like the koolaid man. So I picked my favorite food which was an avocado and made it into a person. But instead of having the pit just be in the center of her stomach, i decided to make it her nose.

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So in the assignment we were suppose to find a photo and then add something to it that doesn’t belong. Given that the theme of our class is horror i decided to take Slender Man and ad him to the most devious group of people, the death eaters. I’m a huge Harry Potter fan so the death eaters are my favorite villains. The photo is kind of dark and blended but Slender Man is in the group on the front left corner of the photo.

Love at First Shot:

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One time a boy and a girl were both at a restaurant in Chicago. While having dinner with their friends the boys overheard that the girls were from KC, which was a a weird coincidence given that they were from KC also. So the boys decided to send over to the table full of girls mini sundaes. The girls were flattered and sent them back drinks. Eventually they got together and talked for awhile, and they split a taxi back where they were each staying. Later one of the boys asked one of the girls if he could take her on a date in KC. She said yes. At the end of their date in KC the boy stops his car outside a building where the sprinklers were going off. To show the girl how wild he actually was he got out of the car and ran through the sprinklers. The girl stayed in the car laughing at the sight of her date running through the sprinklers. Eventually the girl got out of the car and ran through the sprinklers in order to see him. As soon at they met up they kissed underneath the water, not caring about a thing in the world.