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Week 5 Summary
Behind the scenes of my final project. The story I created came from my strange obsession with urban planning and my heavy opinions on car dependency. The message is a little on the nose, but it’s something I thought needed to be said. I was least excited to do the visual and design assignments so […]
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Week 5 – Another Lane
Breezewood, PA. A small town in a rural island in an otherwise urban region. Famous for an ugly but iconic main street, the town has recently had traffic issues. With such a busy main street, it’s not hard to see why. Certain groups have emerged, lobbying for another lane on Main Street. Contractors are funding […]
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Make a Top 10 or Ranking Video
Like most people in this day and age, I love sharing my opinions on small random hobbies. For me, this sometimes means rollercoasters. I decided to make a Top 10 for the coasters I’ve ridden. However I realized that I needed a deeper message than just sharing my opinion so I made the argument that […]
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Point of View
I chose the assignment “Point of View” (3 stars). On the internet, a strange meme/concept has circulated for years called “The Backrooms”, a sort of liminal, otherworldly space that seems to never end and houses dark secrets. Whenever videos about the Backrooms are made, they are often short first person horror clips. I decided to […]
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The Thing about Tension
John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982) is one of my favorite movies of all time. Besides the practical effects that still hold up 40 years later, Carpenter demonstrates his knowledge of building up tension and catching viewers off guard. The scene that perfectly sums up this film is the Tainted Blood Scene. I first watched this […]
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Frame by Frame
Roger Ebert talked about analyzing individual frames of a film to reveal meanings behind a movie. This is something that I’ve heard of before, but I always assumed that all good filmmakers carefully crafted every individual frame in a video. Ebert makes the point that films are set up to emphasize certain shots, not individual […]
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Week 4 Summary
This week was more challenging but really fun! I might try to do more daily creates, but the ones I got were less fun than previous ones, but that might be because I prefer doing something visual or something with graphic design. I made some more comments. Hearing the voices behind other people’s work was […]
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Modifying An Original Song Without Outside Sounds
I’ve been a big vaporwave fan for a long time. Vaporwave is music often created by slowing down a song, adding lots of reverb, and compressing the audio file. Theoretically, you could vaporwave your song in 10 minutes with Audacity. When I saw an assignment to modify a song without outside sounds, my mind immediately […]
