Go to Google type in “I hate a” and look for the auto-complete (additional examples here). Screenshot your auto-complete suggestions as you move from A to Z and pick one letter to make into an animated gif.
Do them all if you’d like.
Using Audacity (or any other sound editing program) create an audio mashup with 2 very distinct songs. According to wikepedia these mashaps may fall under “fairuse”.
Take the line from the film The Big Lebowski “Say what you will about National Socialism, Dude, at least it’s an ethos” and change National Socialism to a different -ism, like, for example, [[Veganism]]. Here is the GIF for you to use as a template to change National Socialism to a different -ism. Now here’s the trick, after that you need a GIF to setup the punchline. So Walter Sobchack is referring to Nihilism in the scene we are quoting when defining National Socialism as an ethos, my idea for this (now convoluted) assignment came from Tom Woodward’s unsettling animated GIF of me eating Roy Rogers chicken, which could only lead me to the following punchline…
Compose a sound piece using only found sounds. Edit and mix the piece on any sound editing equipment and upload to soundcloud.
The concept is to mashup something along the lines of a public apology, a commercial, a pandering politcial speech or anything you’d like to mock for the public good.
Here are the steps-
1. Pull the audio as an mp3 from YouTube using Zamzar or something similar.
2. Import it into audacity or any audio mixer you have
3. Import the music you want to layer behind the audio
4. Edit to taste
5. Upload to soundcloud
6. Share the link
Get ready to sing with yourself!
Record at least 3 different voice tracks of you singing 15-20 seconds of your favorite song (or make up a song of your own.) Then put the tracks together to make it sound like you’re singing with other people. Ta-dah! Instant Barber Shop Quartet!
Include harmonization for extra kudos!
Playing on the ds106 design assignment “Movie Trading Cards,” which basically asks you to make a trading card for a scene from your favorite movie. With this assignment we are asking you to take it a step further and animate it!
Create a book cover that captures the essence of the story through the use of minimalist design/iconography.
Inspired by the Minimalist TV/Movie Poster Assignment.
Find or scan an old advertisement (high resolution) and create a piece of cool clip art by extracting and cleaning up a particular element. Be sure to use a PNG file type to preserve transparencies, and try to make a high and medium resolution version. Inspired by Phil A Go’s awesome Toyota Corona Graphic Gift.
Movies are often based on books. Not this time. Design a book cover that is based on a movie. DO NOT use an image of the actor/s. Try to find or create imagery that captures the essence of the movie without using the actor’s picture.
