How To _________

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  • Submitted by: Emma Stotz

For this design assignment, you will first need to pick one of your favorite persons from a tv show or movie–make sure it is someone with LOTS of character that displays their characteristics frequently. This is important; it should be something that defines them (i.e. Sterling Archer, from Archer). Next, create either a book cover, or a smartphone app icon, or the like. Add some text that says “How To [insert the name of the character you choose here]”. Make sure you tell who this app/book teaches the user/reader to be like. (NOTE: it doesn’t HAVE to be an app or a book. Get creative with it. What else can you come up with?)

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I am me

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  • Submitted by: Anapaula Ojeda

Make a video that represents who you are. You can either talk about yourself, show pictures or show things that you like to do (don’t let these limit you). The point is to be creative and let your fellow ds106’ers know a little about who you are and what you’re about. Feel free to incorporate things into your video (music, pictures, words, etc). Don’t forget to have fun while creating it.

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Inanimate Motion

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  • Submitted by: Crystal Moyer

Take successive photos of inanimate objects and put them together in a way that it makes at least one inanimate object move. Make it tell a story!! Bonus points for an epic sound track attached. The idea here is bringing something inanimate to life through the power of video, without taking away the fact that the object in motion is obviously not supposed to be able to move on its own. Make it cheesy, make it awesome, make it rock.

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Imaginary Places

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  • Submitted by: Haley Campbell

Hogsmeade, Gondor, Cair Paravel, The Emerald City, Never-Never Land… all fantastical places that started as text and have now been interpreted into visual landscapes. Now it’s your turn!

Take a place–a city, a significant geographical formation, ship, maybe even a dimension–and render it visually. You can compile stock images using GIMP or Photoshop (make sure to give credit where it’s due!), draw, paint, or even create a collage. This assignment isn’t limited to places that don’t have a well-known visual representation yet, either; if you want to show us YOUR version of Bag End, go for it!

For your writeup, explain why you chose your imaginary place, the technique you used to create your image, and what effect the transition into a visual medium has on the original description.

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The Ultimate Merger

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  • Submitted by: Isaac Whalen

Businesses merger together all the time (at least that’s what Mad Men has taught me). For this assignment create a logo in which you combine to famous logos. Humor is encouraged.

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Y.O.L.O is the motto!

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  • Submitted by: Rediet Abate (Rudy)

For a lot of people, Y.O.L.O (You Only Live Once) is a term used prior to, after, or while doing something morally unacceptable or idiotic. For this video assignment, just like charades, try to explain what this word means to you through storytelling, by using pictures or videos and not just explaining it through words. Even if you hate the word or if it means something completely different than what is explained above, try to incorporate it in your video. Challenge, >> your video should be less than 5min (5 min max) << ENJOY!!

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Sports Mashup

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  • Submitted by: Matthew Poole

Submit a video mashup of what you think are some of the greatest sports plays ever. What is the story it tells? This needs to be more than just a montage of clips, find a way to make it present a theme, an arc of ambition, a message about the moments.

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Alternate History Timeline

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  • Submitted by: Matt Meyer

Write an alternate history timeline showing how some famous events would have proceeded differently had something changed. This could be a big event (IE, America loses the Revolutionary War) or something smaller but still important (Archduke Ferdinand survives the assassination attempt in 1914).

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PSA Billboard

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  • Submitted by: Kendall Simonpietri

Using Gimp or a similar program, create a public service announcement billboard on something that really aggravates you about people, society, the world, etc. It can be serious, goofy, but not offensive. Use a 680 x 300 work space in order to mimic the space of a billboard and have fun with how your positioning, font, colors, and images can help get your message across in a small space.

Take it to the next level but superimposing it on a photo of an existing billboard!

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Historifig

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  • Submitted by: Matt Meyer

Write about your favorite historical figure, it could be anyone famous or not so famous from the past. Do more than just giving some biographical details however, describe WHY they are your favorite, how and why you relate to them, and why they inspire you.

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