Tag: VideoAssignments

http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/lip-sync-along/

It’s dark out. The pilot hears nothing but the gentle hum of their plane’s engine and the wind blowing around them. The Captain’s sent them out on a night patrol of the seas near the island base. The pilot doesn’t understand why they’re out this late on such short notice, but they don’t question it. The Captain is always right.

The pilot has been out at sea for roughly four hours by now. Outside, a flock of albatross sail by, heading to rest at the nearest piece of land. The pilot does not follow. The Captain has yet to order them back, and they dare not to act against their orders. The Captain is always right.

The engine is starting to sputter, its fuel running low and its cooling fans becoming overheated. The pilot starts to get worried, and considers the possibility that The Captain didn’t wish for their return. But as soon as that thought enters their mind, they shake it off. The Captain loves them too much to do such a thing, and even if they did, it sure would be the pilot’s fault… right?

The plane starts to descend towards the waves, and the pilot does nothing.

After all, The Captain is always right.

God, rewatching this before uploading this is hurting me, I feel so cringe in that video. Oh well, it’s for the assignment and sometimes you gotta be a bit stupid to have some fun. Also, it was like, 3:20AM, of course I’m not gonna be at the top of my game.

https://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/create-a-lyric-video/

Joan of Arc. A French patron saint who helped place Charles VII on the throne. A military expert who helped protect her country during the Hundred’s Years War. A feminist icon of self-empowerment and defiance of the patriarchy. She is a name of many accomplishments, and yet who she was as both Joan of Arc and simply Joan is lost to the ages. As time goes by, stories are told differently. Details change or are lost in translation. Eventually, identities and histories change forever from their original forms.

This song, by the artist Madilyn Mei, discusses how her identity and how people remember her has changed over the centuries, and how history immortalizing her, the Joan of Arc we know and the true Joan will never be the same again. The song is part of her album “The Bard”, which talks a lot about self-identity and accomplishments throughout life in a folksy musical style. Madilyn Mei herself lives in Arizona and has become a popular artist among niche music communities. This lyric video is one I made using her lyrics, and attempts to embody the medieval vibes of the song and album by making the background a scrolling piece of worn parchment paper.

Lyrics:

Did God send you
Marching in?
Steadfast and true
To the end

Cut your long hair
Be a man
Kneel to the servant
Call him your King
Do what you must and then

Run, go back to your home
History is no one’s friend
Now you’ll never be known
As only Joan again
As only Joan again

Were you who they
Say you were
Lost to time
Stories blurred

Was your hair
Brown or blonde?
Were you ever there?
Either way, now you’re gone

Run, go back to your home
History is no one’s friend
Now you’ll never be known
As only Joan again

Run, go back to your home
History is no one’s friend
Now you’ll never be known
As only Joan again
As only Joan again

Oh Joan

I’ll twist and I’ll change
My name rearrange
Time makes us inhuman

I’ll live and I’ll die
But if immortalized
You’ll never be you again

Also, if I had a nickel for every folksy song from a niche internet music artist I discovered in the last 4 months that revolve around Joan of Arc, then I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice.

https://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/tell-your-characters-story/

Transcript:

(All dialogue is made with text, as I don’t have anyone to help with voiceovers right now)

(Video intro, with producer listed as “Polyp Studios”)

MC: Ugh… What happened?
(jungle sounds and background fades in)
MC: I’m still in that jungle. But how… and why am I tied up!?

???: Ah, you’ve woken. Good.

MC: Wh- who’s there?

???: Right, I should probably introduce myself. The name’s Cassandra. Sorry for knocking you out, by the way.

MC: Nice to meet you, I guess. Now if you don’t mind, let me go!

Cassandra: Sorry, no can do. Not until you Not until you can tell me how you got into this place. It’s been locked off from the outside world for decades, and if you could get in, surely that means that I can get out.

MC: Decades? How…
(Wait… those ears…)
MC: Cassandra, are you-

Cass.: An elf? Of course, how is that strange?

MC: Well, last time I checked, elves have always been a work of fiction, and-

Cass.: Fiction? How? From what I remember before coming here, our kind and humans have been eager and friendly partners for centuries.
Cass.: I can tell in your eyes that you aren’t lying. Something must be terribly wrong… Listen, human! I’ll cut you free, but in return, you’ll tell me everything you know, then escort me out of this overgrown prison.

MC: Prison…? Never mind. I’ll help you out. I want to find my way back anyway, and besides, I’m not really in a state to bargain right now.

Cass.: Good.
(In the blink of an eye, Cassandra takes out a blade and slashes at the ropes binding MC, freeing them)

MC: (!!!)

Cass.: Well? Are you just gonna keep sitting there, or are you coming?

MC: …Right. Let’s get going.

(The character and text portraits fade out, then the background and music)
(Fin)

And that should be the second part of the story started with last week’s assignment! It’s not quite as good in my opinion, I’m not a big conversationalist and thus don’t know how to script a fictional one. I’ll see about continuing this story next time, and may even do something with the characters on my own time, I think I’m starting to really get why people like this whole storytelling and writing thing.