Where Should Alan Go on Vacation?

Alan has had a long semester teaching ds106 and is starting to think of where he will go on vacation. Try to use Mozilla Popcorn Maker to remix the original project built around Alan’s plans. You will remix the original base project to add images, video, maps, twitter info, text, URLs, and pop up text to create a new story.

The original project has 8 different points where you should add new media. Make sure the things you are adding build towards a final ending of the story. In this case, you get to plan a post ds106 vacation for your instructor; there are marked places where you are able to remix in various kinds of media. Each of these is marked with a popcorn “pop up message”.

Look for the remix icon in the bottom right; this will launch the Popcorn Maker editing interface. The eight places to add content have an image placeholder; you can insert other media on a track above it (and you may should extend the duration of the still image clip, it will men moving things around on the timeline). If you really struggle with it, you can use your familiar video editor and the original clip as done on YouTube, but we really hope you give Popcorn a whirl.

Puppet Trolls

Use a puppet or create one to troll a scene in film or television. Think about using a green screen, or just video a puppet in front the scene playing in the background. Be sure to find a way to make your puppet interact with the background story.

x versus x – movie remix

Make a video in which you mashup two movie characters from seperate films to create a seamless scene. Close ups, action filled shots and tight editing will assure the best results. Fight scenes, break ups, cop chases, are some examples of scenes that may work out well – but the possibilities are endless.

Thumbs Up For Ebert

Just a week after the Spring 2013 ds106 class applied Roger Ebert’s How to Read a Movie to analyze scenes of movies, he went on to that big movie theater in the sky.

For this assignment, create a tribute to Ebert’s love of movies; but do more than just make a montage of clips of him. Put him in context with film characters, musicians, or place him inside one of the movies he loved or hated. Or mash him up, Do anything to show some respect for Ebert’s devotion to not only appreciating film but teaching others.

Dancing Jim all over the world

Take the template gif of Jim Groom dancing and add a background and foreground, to make him dance in an interesting place.

Looking at yourself

Draw, photograph, or paint your self portrait.  Make it interesting, in some way tell a story about yourself within the image.  You can use one or mulyiple images to complete this assignment.

It can be realistic or abstract. 

 

StereoGIFs

Back in the 1800s, stereograms were a popular way of creating the optical illusion of depth in a static image by placing two very similar images side by side. they could be viewed using a stereoscope to create the illusion. The New York Public library has an extensive collection of stereograms, and recently created the Stereogranimator tool (http://stereo.nypl.org/) to allow people to turn these into animated GIFs, which are just as effective in creating a sense of depth. Use the Stereogranimator to create an animated GIF that makes the image appear to be 3D, or try manipulating the frames to create another interesting effect (e.g. http://stereo.nypl.org/view/41623)

Storytime! SongTag Style

Make a story using at least 5 different songs, the <a href=”http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/music-tag/”>SongTag</a> style.

Try to make the songs around a theme, for example, a story created using songs by Sondheim or things you work out to at the Gym or your favorite musical guilty pleasures.

4 lines, 5 dots, 1 curve

Use drawing software a picture using only:

  • 4 lines
  • 5 dots
  • and 1 curve.

The picture can be representative or abstract. Play with size, colour, texture and overlaying – so dots can be large discs or tiny pin-pricks, they can look like spots or holes; curves can be deep or shallow; lines can be thick or skinny, long or short.

Scott Lo The Driveby Show Interactive Audio Contribution

In what promises to be yet another wonderful ‘slice of life’ internet production, our friend-in-the-field, Scott Lo (@scottlo), has launched (at 6000 RPMs!) The Driveby Show on our very own #ds106radio. Each morning on his way to work in Saudi Arabia (or alternatively, on those mornings when Scott feels so inclined) Scott will broadcast his commute from home to work place, sharing his early morning reflections or his previous day’s learnings, accompanied by a nice background mix and selected classic engine revs from The Yaris.

Scott is asking you, the ds106radio community listener, for short, potentially interactive .mp3 audio files that he can incorporate into his broadcast. He’s looking for fun and original items and elements that wil serve to engage both himself and his listeners in educational, entertaining, and meaningful ways. 

Create an audio file (say a minute to three minutes in length) and either post it to soundcloud, or email it directly to Scott at scottloradio at gmai dot com. Then tune in to ds106radio to hear Scott and his take on the contributions from listeners, and how they relate to life. You, too, can listen to your own content shared from the other side of the world in real time. And we can all learn from that.  :-)