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Archive for January 2015

Noir storytelling

I chose for my movies, China town and Killers Kiss. In Killers Kiss, the most reoccurring Noir element was the lighting

 

A lot of the scenes had lighting as seen above. Drastic shadows (on the right), and limited light (on left).This type of lighting leaves a ton to the …

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How to Make your Bed

Step 1: Get out of bed

Step 2: Grab the sheet underneath and pull it towards the top of the bed

Step 3: Grab the sheet on top and pull it towards the top of the bed

Step 4: Smooth out any wrinkles

Step 5: grab all the pillows and …

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Tom’s Files: A Wish

Admin Note: This assignment is a visual assignment for the week of 1-26 to 2-1, and is worth 1 point of 5 required points involving the character Tom Blair. 

Hey, Tom here.

I’m not sure what a ‘post-it’ note is, so I wrote this up on a piece of paper …

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Tom’s Files: Tom’s Things

Admin note: This assignment is a ‘Visual Assignment’ for ds106 and is worth 3 out of the required 10 points for the week of 1/26 to 2-1.

Lately I’ve been thinking about how one day I will be dead, but this doctor-ordered journal will live on after me. Suppose some …

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Photographilia

 

Storytelling through Photography

This week I had the pleasure of learning more about photography. Though my experience with photography in an artistic sense has been quite limited, I do take a lot of pictures (mostly of myself) on my phone. Additionally, I took a film class last semester in …

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Moving pictures

This was definitely one of the most difficult assignments, but I knew I wanted to accomplish it. I was so intrigued by the prompt, and I really wanted to do this as one of my visual assignments this week. It took me a while to figure out how to …

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Photo Reflection

I have not done much photography in the past.  I’m not much of a photographer, but my sister is very into the art, so I’ve learned quite a bit about the techniques from her.  I still don’t know much about the technical process in which you can control an image …

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Tom’s Files: Tom’s Car

Admin Note: This assignment is a visual assignment for the week of 1-26 to 2-1, and is worth 1.5 points of 5 required points involving the character Tom Blair. 

 

The search for the car of my dreams was as easy as looking out of the window.

Yes sir, that …

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