Ever watch those crazy corny ad’s for colleges on Tv? Or hear them on the radio? You think “Wow that was so cheesy, I could’a done that!” Well, let’s see if you can. Try and make a purposely cheesy and/or ridiculous Ad for you school.
Whats your morning sound like? Tell a narative of a regualr (or abnormal) morning using the movements and sounds from getting off the bed, to starting the day. This has to be all your own recording so no sound effects from outside sources. And try to keep the dialouge minimum to none at all.
Produce a beat with any (online) beat generator. (For example you can do it with Soundation: http://soundation.com/studio by using their beat libraries.) Then record your voice over the beat. Make it sound cool or funny or …
Select your favorite movie/show/book character (bonus points if they are hilarious/inappropriate). Write a script that depicts this person teaching a lesson to a group of children. Ilustrate the script with images or construct a storyboard to accompany your script.
Create a simple but artful video. Take a photograph of a detail of a person (eye, mouth, hand, feet) and use a video editing software to combine the picture with a narration that juxtaposes the image (male adult mouth says with a child’s voice “I am Hans from the fairy tale just around the corner.”). Make people think of something (The example may mean that adults have childlike, imaginative parts inside.).
Google has a magic search for all sorts of patent drawings. There is really amazing stuff in there that is both old and new. Find something you really like and turn it into the kind of image you’d have hanging on your wall. That could mean making it look vintage, excising pieces, using it as the source for something totally new.
Create an infographic that visually explores a movie (or a series of movies). Click and zoom in on the featured infographic to the left that explores the Mad Max trilogy. In this example the infographic looks at all the key aspects of these three movies, including their respective box office success, kill count, the price of fuel in the UK, US and Australia at the time of the films’ release, the weaponry used and the iconic vehicles that made the films stand out so much. This brilliant example intrigued me, and I couldn’t resist turning it into a ds106 design assignment.
Take at least three pictures (your own or someone else’s) mash them together into something that makes them more than the sum of their parts, something that would have been impossible in real life. Include the original images so we can see how they build on one another to make your final composition.
Create a Google Presentation “slideshow” of 9-12 images about a journey to somewhere. This may be interpreted literally or mterphorically.
Find something in your house. Take a picture. Let your imagination churn. Make as many different augmented versions as you can think of. Help others see what’s in your head.
Additional examples are here.
