When I feel like laughing, I often watch comedy movie like Hangover. The movie is really funny, and it always makes me laugh. Edit the funniest momenet of this movie and overlay your own analysis as to why it makes you laugh (and why others will laugh)
Like when you have a movie playing on TV without the sound and you’ve got the stereo on at the same time. Take a clip from a movie, remove the audio, and add audio from a song or radio show that, somehow, kind of fits. See my two examples.
Make a how to tutorial about something you are good at like a sport or honny. Add a song that fits and narrorate it!
Take a favorite cartoon or anime like show, take some clips, mash them together and add music to it. Try to pick out a specific theme in your clips that follow the theme of the music. Keep an eye out for changes in the music and plan your clips accordingly.
For examples check out youtube and type in “AMV”, or look at this one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8vvTQDrPec
Go to mapcrunch and take a journey through the world. Your goal is to find the nearest mass transit. Train station, airport, etc. Good luck and enjoy the culture.
Take a 2 minute video and go through the frames until you find the one that best represents the overall story of your video.
Poetry is meant to be read aloud. Select a poem – it can be a personal favorite or one you find randomly – and read it aloud in a way that itself makes it a story. Then at the ending of that poem extend it or connect it to a story — this has to be more than just reading a poem to be a story.
For this assignment, choose a new emerging technology that just came out in the past few years. Tell us about it. Be sure to include how it made the pre-existing technology better, what is can now do for us, how much is costs, what’s it’s used for, and how much it costs. Be creative, have fun with it.
Some professionals believe the language we use on social networking sights is different from everyday language. They say this because of the words like g2g, ttul that we use on a consistent basis over text messaging, aim, and Facebook messenger. Write a short paper on this topic. Be sure to include some of the saying we use, which one’s you understand and don’t understand, and most of all discuss if social networking language is in fact different from our every day language.
After being inspired by tonight’s class, I thought it would be funny to see if anyone would make a video like Numa Numa. You can be creative.. Mouth it yourself, sing it for real, animate something.. Be creative!! Humor us with your hidden talents of being like Numa Numa guy.
