Pick a film and create an animated mosaic from a single image (like a poster) or gif (a single moment). Divide that image into a grid – 3 x 3 for a total of nine images. For each portion of the grid add a different moment of the film into a new gif. Tile the new gifs together in a mosaic (tumblr does this well). The resulting set of gifs should alternate between the single image and the various moments.
Inspired by Jet Studio’s Cinema Mosaic Tumblr.
So I like to play Magic the Gathering. I thought it would be neat to try and create my own cards based on characters from tv, movies, etc. Come up with at least 4 cards based on characters or locations from your favorite show, movie, book, or other story. To actually create the cards, you can use this Card Generator site. Aditionally, if you are unfamiliar with the terminology used in magic, you can find the glossary here helpful. Get creative and make Magic art dammit!
Create some form of ID for a fictional character that seems believable, knowing your character’s environment or circumstances.
Use an existing template such as a credit card or library card from a found source and modify it as needed in your favorite graphical editor.
Using Knightlab’s Story Map, create a map telling a story of a trip you took or would like to take. Include pictures. They can be your own, or from flickr (just give them credit).
First, choose what you want to replicate using song lyrics. It can be a Wire epigraph, a nursery rhyme, a speech, a poem, anything really. Then find songs that have the words that you need in them. Put those songs into Audacity and take out the words that you need from those songs. Order the words, make them the same volume, and space them out/slow them down so you can understand what is being said. And there you have it, an epigraph, nursery rhyme, speech, or poem out of song lyrics!
Many artists sing songs about similar things or that each tell similar stories. Find an artist like this and choose five of their songs that you can make into one story. Using Audacity or another audio edting software, edit five or more songs by one artist into a new story! Use at least 5 songs and make the new song at least 5 minutes long. I recommend not uploading it to SoundCloud as it will likely be taken down due to copyright infringement, but you can still put it up on your blog and Twitter. Have fun with it!
Colors are an important tool that any good cinemotogrpaher will utilize to the fullest. Using clips from your favorite tv show or movie, try to showcase prominent examples of the colors of the rainbow (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet/purple). Can you give a good reasoning behind your choices?
Dystopic world building can be a rough task when you have only 90 minutes to tell a story. So sometimes there’s nothing wrong with a little expository writing in the form of title cards to establish your particular apocalyptic setting. So in six slides ground your catastrophe. Help us understand what started it all.
For this assignment, you will need to created a sereis of GIFs that sumamrize the main plot pots, themes, or moments of interest. To make it a bit more challenging, you are limited to six GIFs
Take the sound from one video and put it with the video of another. And make it work somehow.
