Make Your Own Mixtape

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  • Submitted by: Cole Hodges

Mixtapes can come in different forms–sometimes a mixtape is just a collection of one’s favorite tracks, sometimes it is a collection of tracks put out by a sinlge artist. Sometimes they have small edits made to them, like a DJ saying their catchphrase.

Try creating a mixtape of your own. Mixtape is broadly defined in this case. It can just be a collection of songs with some theme (genre, etc.), or you can mess with the tracks. You can add a small touch here and there or edit the tracks to your heart’s content, adding outside sounds using tools from your favorite audio editing software.

I’ve been playing around with Audacity, which is free, so that cold be a good place to start.

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Shadow of a Doubt

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  • Submitted by: Megan C.

Take a photograph incorporating shadows as the subject. You don’t have to be a professional photographer, just observe how light and shadow appear in unique and interesting ways. Look at the shadows cast by window blinds on skin or by leaves on a sidewalk or by people. Shadows change in length and darkness depending on the time of day. Shadows can tell you a lot about the actual object being photographed or nothing at all. Tell a story with your picture.

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Create Finsta instagram

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  • Submitted by: Kyle Bynum

 Create an alternate instagram page that depicts you as another character unlike yourself! Post an intro post that describes the character you have describe to be.

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Changing Fortunes

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  • Submitted by: Daniel Hawkins

There are a few online “fortune cookie generators” (like this one: http://www.myfortunecookie.co.uk) that can actually act as good writing prompts/jumping-off points. Like horoscopes, fortune cookie messages are normally purposefully vague so they can be open for interpretation, whether the fortune is more like a prediction or just a proverb. Use a random fortune cookie generator to write a short narrative. This narrative can be related to the spy theme or not. For example, “Financial prosperity is coming your way!” or “The time is right to make new friends” can be used together or separately to make for an interesting narrative. E.g., as a spy, you might need to cozy up to a rich new friend and come into some money yourself as a way to break into a secret society. Be creative!

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Cipher Typography Photo Images

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  • Submitted by: William Schd

Using the concepts of typography and silhouetted images, create a set of two visuals using only letters of the alphabet in different letter sizes and colors. In cryptology, ciphers like “asdfghjk” can be decoded as messages like “password”. Therefore, create two dual visuals of the same image – one with the cipher gibberish, and one with a decoded message! This can be done either as a digital image collage or using newspapers/other resources to form the visual photos. Additional improvisation is welcomed – underlay a photo under your cipher typographic images, etcetera!

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Who Said What

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  • Submitted by: Krystal Heflin

Find a picture of any secret agent you would like, preferrably a fairly well-known one. Next, pick a quote from a similar secret agent character. Finally, attribute said quote to a third similar character. You want the characters you chose to be well-known but also similar enough that people would confuse them with one another.

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Personal Stories

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  • Submitted by: Thomas Worfolk

Create a short video that, 1) shows us who you are, 2) shows us your past experiences

This can be texts, pictures and possibly other videos that will be put together using all of your current social media accounts.

You will choose what to put in and what to leave out, and this doesnt have to be a long video, only 2-3 minutes 

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The secret life of a spy

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  • Submitted by: Michael Ryan

In this assignment the goal is to keep a journal of sorts of your life as a spy. Part storyelling and part roleplaying your job is to put yourself into the shoes of a spy character that you create and write about your life and actions as said characater. The purpose of the assignemnet is to come up with the most interesting and convincing story about your life and experinces of being a spy. 

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Explaining the Spy

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  • Submitted by: Callie Liberty

So you have created your character for the class now it is time to tell the story of what other your characters influenced yours. Explain other characters in the genre who potentially influenced your character and how you built off those characters. (In look, personality, type of character, name, etc.) Conversely feel free to expand on any characters that bother you and why your character will be nothing like that. Your explanation can include other media clips or novel quotes to familiarize people with the media that influenced your character. 

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The Everyday Life of a Spy

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  • Submitted by: Amari Byrd

Write an Diary entry from any of your favorite spy daily perspective of his or her life. What kind of trouble did 007 get into and how would he describe his adventure? How did Nancy Drew crack the mystery and How did she feel at that moment? You decide the story whether you stick with the original plot or come up with a new one.

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