Unphotographable

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  • Submitted by: Alan Levine (inspired by phonar)

Sometime the photographs we choose not to take are the most powerful images- in this assignment choose not to photograph a subject but write out the image in text (or maybe describe in audio), and share why this is a more appropriate representation.

This is based on the Unphotographable site : “….a catalog of exceptional mistakes. Photos never taken that weren’t meant to be forgotten. Opportunities missed. Simple failures. Occasions when I wished I’d taken the picture, or not forgotten the camera, or had been brave enough to click the shutter.” and see also examples done by the phonar participants

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Before and After

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  • Submitted by: Michael Branson Smith (for Martha Burtis)

Inspired by the Return to the Scene of the Crime assignment, comes a related idea which asks you to digitally mix the past and the present. This was done exceptionally well by Shawn Clover in his series 1906 + 2010: The Earthquake Blend, “featuring photographs captured during the devastating 1906 San Francisco earthquake blended into views of what the city currently looks like.”

Use a photograph from the past and digitally blend it with an image of the present. And for five thousand bazillion extra stars, blend the past and present photos with a digital concoction of the future.

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Vernacular Video – The History of a Word

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  • Submitted by: Michael Branson Smith

Inspired by the animation series, Mysteries of the Vernacular:

http://mysteriesofvernacular.com/

Tell the story of the history of a favorite word. Mysteries of the Vernacular uses animation, but feel free to use any form of media to tell your word’s story.

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What’s In A Name?

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  • Submitted by: Melinda

Write a blog in which you tell us something, anything, about either your given names or your blog name(s).

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Charlie Chaplin’s Foley Artist

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  • Submitted by: Alan Levine

While an iconic of the silent film era, Charlie Chaplin’s movies never got the audio oomph of THX. Here is your chance to make the silent era come alive by adding foley sound effects to a movie lacking them. Select a clip from the Annotated Filmography of Charlie Chaplin. Turn the sound all the way down, and study the action to identify places where you could add sound effects using every day objects around you, or even just your own ability to mimic sounds. These should not be recordings of sounds on your computer, you must make them in real time.

Play the movie back with the audio turned down, and then record your own audio with the sound effects. Make a new video with your sound effects replacing the original.

Learn more about Foley Artists and watch examples (1, 2) of them in action.

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GIF-fiti!

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Now, I like graffiti as much as the next guy, except when it’s spray painted on my house. But you know what makes it even better? If it moves! Check out Animated Banksy for inspiration (http://madebyabvh.tumblr.com/tagged/Animated-Banksy). Photograph some graffiti or street art, or find a photo if you’re lazy, and make it into an animated GIF. It’s more fun than vandalism!

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Computer Books for Kids

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  • Submitted by: Jim Groom

Take a well-known kids book and recast it as a computer book. Look for inspiration here:
http://www.somethingawful.com/d/photoshop-phriday/childfriendly-computer-books.php

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Dialogue Mashup

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  • Submitted by: Alan Levine

As demonstrated by the Movies Mashup episode of the radio show The Truth, take two different movies and extract the dialogues scenes of actors form each, then re-edit them to create a story as if the characters from different movies were in the same conversation.

Listen to examples from the show including The Terminator and Legally Blonde (“Terminally Blonde”) and from the TV shows that become “The Sopranos in the West Wing.”

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Movies from Another Time

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  • Submitted by: Martha

Design a vintage movie poster from a modern movie using actors/styling from an earlier era. Try to capture the essence of the modern film by choosing the right actors for the different parts and using imagery that is evocative of the past while capturing the film’s meaning.

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Truthful Movie Poster

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  • Submitted by: Martha

Imagine if movie posters told the REAL story about the fillm they’re advertising. Redesign an existing movie poster by changing the text/images to tell us the real story. More examples at http://www.holytaco.com/classic-taco-if-movie-posters-were-honest.

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