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6 = Earth Art Animation This was my least favorite assignment because I went into thinking that I had to build an earth sculpture masterpiece, when 1. I am no sculptor and 2. That was not the point of the assignment. It was also aggravating because I somehow lost a decent amount of footage which ruined our editing plans. 5 = Direct Film Manipulation This was a really fun and, for me at least, messy project. I enjoyed working with film for the first time and learning how to use the splicer. This assignment made me appreciate film way more, I could not imagine splicing an entire movie together. I'll probably never do something like this again, which is why it is rated 5! 4 = Bolex Long Take For my group, this project was a beautiful disaster. We had the worst luck, but we were able to make something unique out of it. The best part of the project was the live second sensory element. It was something that I had never experienced and that concept was really cool to work with. ...

Here's a crowdsourcing anecdote: I conveniently had a family event (my aunt's b-day) the weekend before our crowdsourcing segments were due. I had completed most of the notecards on my own, but I still had a few left and I was completely burnt out from it. So, I was thinking that it would be great to get my family to participate, knowing they were going to be drunk and goofy (they were serving margaritas and tacos, so things were assumed to get rowdy). When I felt the time was right, I pulled out my arts and crafts out of a Walmart plastic and all of the aggravating children were immediately on top of it. Me, being nice and figuring that this could be interesting, agreed to let them paint my notecards. Trying to explain this assignment to adults is hard. Explaining this assignment to children? Impossible. They don't know the difference between a warm and a cold color, they just wanted to paint. My mom participated, and even she got the color palette wrong. The youngest ki...