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Get Ready With Me: With a Shot!

… Shot as in shot of espresso, make that a double shot actually 🙂

If you’ve ever seen me in person, I’ll have an iced latte in my hand ALWAYS. I guess you can say I’m a little addicted …

For this Video Assignment from the Assignment Bank, I chose the get ready with me! I decided to do my own twist on this since I start getting ready for my day by making my latte!

I filmed my entire process of making lattes, from beginning to end. I used iMovie to edit the clips together and sped up some parts on it as well. I know some people only enjoy drinking lattes, but I enjoy making them even more. In fact, being able to make my own lattes in my morning routine, is what motivates me to get out of bed. The parts I sped through where when I was utilizing my WDT tool, when spinning my distributor tool, and in between refilling my ice scoops. I also sped up the video all together to get it from 48 seconds down to 26. Parts of the process have also been clipped. For example, the extraction of the espresso shot was clipped from 28 seconds to about 2 seconds. I had so much fun putting this together and I hope you enjoy my version of getting ready with me!

P.S. it’s an iced oat milk latte with macadamia with caramel drizzle.

Week 5 Video Storytelling Summary

This week was a quick, simple, and easy one.

However, we did have plenty of content to read and watch to learn enough information on Video Storytelling. I reviewed A.I. 187 for this assignment.

Then we updated our goals for this class and made sure we were right on track! Can’t really make this post eye catching or entertaining, so I played around with the title! If you’re familiar with the Kardashians, you’ll understand the title.

If you are not, they have show called Keeping up with The Kardashians, ha ha ha I hope you got it know…

Lastly, to make you hungry, I have some cookies for you. Just kidding, sorry I meant internet cookies served with a compliment and then my version of poetry!

Overall, solid week, I hope you guys did great too, can’t wait to see next week’s posts!

Video Storytelling

For this assignment I chose to watch the movie A.I. 187 which is available for free on Youtube. The clip I chose from this movie was the most climatic from the whole movie. Most of the movie was simple and not many complex editing besides that actual technology.

Director Billy Dickson utilized white and black when showing older memories. The constant flickering effect was also applied to get the viewer more pumped for the actual scene that is occurring. The old memories are considered build ups in this case. You can also see the slow motioned running of the football players.

Keeping up with The Goals

Now that I am caught up with the course, I’m finally able to enjoy the content and do much more as well. I changed the theme of my blog and have started to better organize it as well.

I even mentioned before that I was excited to experiment with various storytelling techniques and this week we did video storytelling! Right on track for me 🙂 I have also been able to utilize various tools as well for assignments like Soundcloud for our previous week.

You can never be perfect, but you can always keep trying to do better and better and I can’t wait to make more updates on my blog as I learn more.

Poetry & Compliments

The first daily create I did this week was to compliment back the Compliment Bot on Mastodon. To do this, I created a poster on Canva.

Since it is a bot, and we had to leave a kind message, I called it a smart cookie 🙂 I hope everyone understood the incorporation of internet cookies…

The next daily create was about our favorite poem.

Some context: I was born in Pakistan and my primary language is Urdu. For those how know it, Urdu is known to be a very romantic and poetic language. Growing up and even know I only read Shayari, which is Urdu poetry.

I have lots of favorite shayari but I picked one of the shorter ones for this.

Aas milan ki jaag rahi hai

translation: there’s hope to meet

One issue I have with translating shayari, is that often times the meaning gets lost in translation and it does not have the same effect when reading the English translation 🙁

I hope you guys enjoyed my cookies, compliments, and poetry!

Week 4 Summary

This week was a big one!!!!

Experimenting with the world of audio was new to me as I’m more into the visual side of things. I like social media a lot, and the most I do with audio is adding songs. So it was nice to do something completely new for once!

I first started off with the moon graffiti assignment. The main thing I remember from this one is being able to visualize and create my own scenes based off of what I was hearing.

I also have my daily creates of the week.

Moving on to the radio bumper assignment, which was my favorite of the week since I got to include an F1 car audio in it.

Now I have some breaking news to share!!!! Wait never mind got too excited, it’s just my assignment bank 🙂

I was truly hungry doing this assignment, that I even made it about food. Except those chewing sounds are thankfully not me!

The last assignment bank was music to my ears (literally). Please listen to my little musical masterpiece

Lastly, I have my brainstorming for radio show ideas.

Hope you all enjoyed reading my posts and had as much fun as I did!

Radio Show Ideas

Let’s not forget Chuckles is an architect! Not only is he into building fascinating sights, but also building connections with others.

Perhaps the radio show could emphasize his career as an architect. Or even be turned into a comedy show type talk to showcase his jokes. Or even a combination of both, where everyone discusses their best work jokes!

Chuckles is easy going and communicate with everyone!

3’s A Band

Assignment Bank: Audio Assignment

Honestly I am proud of my short but mighty musical masterpiece!

Hope you guys like it:

I used Pixabay for all three instrument audios. My musical masterpiece starts off with the saxophone. Then about six seconds in, the tambourine is introduced elevating the music much more. Lastly, we have the addition of the drum.

I will produce the rest once Hollywood signs me 😉

Sound Effect Story on Food

Assignment Bank: Audio Assignment – Sound Effects Story

As I am always hungry 24/7, I decided to base this story on food. From prep all the way to the end, this story consists of five audios and zero verbal communication.

Here’s my sound effect story before I get to the explanation of it:

It firsts starts off with the sound of washing hands in a kitchen sink. Then we move to the sound of cutting vegetables. Next we have the sound of stir frying the vegetables. Now the next one, if you don’t like the sound of chewing I am so sorry you had to hear that…. Finally to wrap it up, the sound of washing dishes!

All my audios were from Pixabay.

Breaking News!

Assignment Bank: Audio Assignment

Did you guys know? The sun was just now discovered to emit spaghetti through its powerful rays!

As I was doing the assignment it was finally sunny out and I started to feel the heat a bit. On top of that I was reallllyyyyy hungry for some spaghetti. Therefore, I had some fun and combined the two together to create a totally not fake breaking news 🙂 The voice I chose reminded me of the infamous David Attenborough. I thought maybe using his voice would provide some realness to my story.

I used the Eleven labs AI voice generator for my text to speech for this assignment.