Room Raiders

Ever seen the MTV show Room Raiders? Basically, a person selected one of three people to date after having a chance to carefully examine their room. Cameras followed them in as they searched the room and made guesses as to what things in the room said about the person. Make a video doing the same thing to your own room, or better yet a friend’s (make sure they’re ok with that though). To be complete, your video should include titles, credits, and several “cuts” to show things from different angles.

The Recursive Camera

You’ll need a camera. And you’ll need another frame. Hold the frame in one hand (don’t let you hand cover the side facing you), and take a picture with it in the center of the image. Then step backwards and take another photo just like it. Repeat until you are tired of making art. Nest the images in Prezi inside the frame of the next picture. Now make a zoom path. Record it with video capture software. Add some video editing (you’ll have to use multiple stacks(only so much zoom in Prezi atm) and splice the ends of them together to make it seem contiguous), and you have a trippy video.

Make sure you’re telling a story with your images and add voice-over narration where/if appropriate.

Lip Read!

The basic idea for this assignment is to find a video clip of anything and change the words through a voice dub. The video could be of anything, but you should change the intention completely through your use of over dubbing.

a word… a picture… a story

Chose up to 5-10 words..just randomly pick them don’t over think it just chose these words out of the blue. Then do a Google image search on these images and chose one of the first visible photos for the word..after you have chosen your words and your images put them together in video form and tell a story..include a sentence with each image to help guide your story or try and tell it without the sentences.

Mashup Those Movies

Take elements from multiple movie posters and mash them up into one. You can change anything- the caption, the title, the main image, etc. Lastly, make it seem like it could be a real movie.

Crossover Battle Royal

Have you ever been asked a question like, “who would win in a fight Batman or Spiderman?” Do you feel like the answer to one of these questions is so obvious to you but not to others? Show people your choice then, take two fictional characters from separate universes and create a scenario of what their battle may look like. You can use any media format to present this battle: image, video even audio if you can somehow make that work. Here’s my example depicting Kisuke Urahara vs. Marian Cross: http://vimeo.com/41235764

Lyric Typography Poster

Choose one of your favorite lines from a song and illustrate it using only typography. Consider how the font, color, sizes and placement of the typography can reflect or emphasize the meaning of the words. Check out the posters at Music Philosophy for ideas and inspiration.

Karen Richardson’s Five Albums That Shaped Your Taste

Basically, it’s assignment that asks about five of the most influential albums of your life thus far. It would be anything from how it made you feel to just simply the fact that it had a catchy track. I’m asking that at least the album art is included in the post (if not actual sound samples from the album; I would ask, but blogger isn’t so kind about that sort of thing).

Different Point of View – Same Place

Take a scene from any movie (that includes more than one character) and rewrite it from the perspective of a different character. Write about the emotions and thoughts the character is having without acknowledging what you know from the original scene. For example: You could write on the scene from Titanic using Jack’s perspective while they were in the water and Rose was on the door. Be creative the possibilities for this are endless.

Trailer It

Have you ever tried to describe something to someone but you just couldn’t find the right words? What tells more about a movie than a movie trailer? Well you know what they say a picture tells a thousand words; in that case a moving picture must tell about a million words.

Create your own movie trailer for something you would likely not expect to see, e.g. for a class, a utensil, a cleaning product… Use all of the elements of trailers- the ratings, quick cuts, the deep narrated “In a World” voice- make it exciting!