For the assignment to “Recycle the Media,” I made a story about a princess who, upon encountering a Rosie the Riveter poster, realizes she can decide her own fate and goes off on a journey of her own instead of waiting for prince charming.

I took a cartoon picture of a girl and put her in a field to provide the setting of her kingdom, which has weird birds living in it because the audio clip of birds were not the chirping type.  I photoshopped the photo of Rosie the Riveter onto the mural that was for Fizzlebottom’s in Downtown Fredericksburg.  I referenced Rapunzel because she did get her prince charming and there was a still from the movie Tangled, and then photoshopped Natalie onto the back of the pug horse that someone dumped in the recycling bin.

Using discarded media, I made this little nugget.

It is the story of a simple, fun day in the sun, shared between two people.

I enjoyed this exercise.  What is the saying?  “One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.”

A woman walks down aisle seven in the grocery store.  She scans the items on the shelves, looking for a bottle of Gerber peas for her new baby boy.  She finds them, goes home, and prepares them for little Joey that night.  But Joey didn’t like those peas…  The rest of the story ensues.

The story is that of little Joey, who wanted revenge for those damn peas.  He hired his little friend Cindy, who waited for Joey’s mom to walk back from the grocery store.  As Joey’s mom came by the end of the overpass, Cindy threw a lizard at her face.  And that was Joey’s Revenge.

Unfortunately I had to explain this story for anything to make sense.  It was really hard to do this assignment when nothing really related, but I did the best I could.  Took a lot of thinking and planning to do this.  Originally I was going to do a love story between two babies but then I saw the lizard a day or two after I made the plans, and this idea came to mind (I also had the penguin in the grocery store saved).

I made the whole thing in iMovie again.  After downloading everything from the sources site, I loaded the pictures into iMovie all at once.  Then I took the audio files and loaded them into Audacity.  I edited 3 different clips and then exported them into mp3 form.  Then I loaded those into iMovie, and slid them into the proper place.

A couple of weeks ago we all had to submit old, unused media to this website.  At time we didn’t really know why we were doing it, we were just told it was going to come back up later.  Well it turns out that later is now and that we now have to take at least five different pieces of media and put them together to create a story.  All of the media that we had submitted previously could now be found here.

I was at first quite nervous about what I was going to do with this assignment.  It seemed like it was going to be kind of hard to put together five random pieces of media and make them coherent.  Luckily, as I began flipping though all the different media I found a common thread that I really liked.  Turn out I’m not the only person in this class to likes Disney!! I ended up finding 5 Disney related media pieces and knew I had to go for it.

So my story is a trip to Disney World.  In the background you hear a song from Hercules and in the pictures you see different sights and characters that you’d come across in the park.  The final picture is a greeting card that you could get on your way out to remember your trip forever.

Here is my next remix assignment.  Hope you enjoy it:

Apart of this week’s work was to make use of the recycled media that we submitted in week 9 named Recycle the Media! It seemed pretty cut and dry: take some old media, mash it up..However, if anything was that simple in DS106, then it wouldn’t be that much fun, now would it? Nahh. So we had to start off digging through about 170 pieces of recycled media through minus, which served as a host for all of our yummy leftovers. Man oh man do we create the randomest things in there! I even saw some of my own, which I would be rather impressed if someone managed to weave that into one of their stories! So anyways, I picked five pieces of media (two from different catergories, i.e., audio and visual!) and I put them into iMovie, that part was easy. The brain work that went behind it…Eh, not so much. See the tricky part was getting those pieces of media and constructing one story that actually made sense. But we’ve had plenty of practice learning how to do all sorts of things, so this was nothing! I used five images, and in the last one, I used a piece of media that was in the recycling bin. For the suspense background music in the beginning, I used freesound to my full benefit!

The story:

Paul the pug has always been infamously jealous of everyone around him, and he hates not being the center of attention. One day, to punish Paul for eating all the treats in the house, Lindsey (the owner) decides to go the store to buy only the cat treats. However, the three cats (Mickey, Minnie, and Moe) were in for a surprise because Paul had enough. He decides that if Lindsey wants to get treats for the cats and not him…He’ll make his own!

Yes, my story was a little morbid. No, I have no regrets since it made me laugh for a good five minutes straight!