This is mashup assignment 746, “Recycle the Media” is it worth 3 stars. The assignment read:

This assignment was kind of difficult. There wasn’t as much recycled media as I thought there would be, but I made it work with what I had. I created a short (extremely short) story about walking on a beach and forgetting my sunglasses. I walked back to the hotel (alone) where the Joker was waiting for me.

First, I downloaded all of the media I wanted to use for my story. I copied all 9 pieces (3 audio, 6 photos) to Windows Movie maker. (The Joker was supposed to be a GIF but he wasn’t being very cooperative.) I played around with the timing of the photos and audio and then I added a caption to each photo so you would have some idea what is happening. I hope you enjoy it! I know it isn’t the most entertaining thing you’ve ever watched.

Media used:

http://i.minus.com/ibfcGx7jIk7xsK.JPG

http://i.minus.com/i7mOLZYEl34Z7.jpg

http://minus.com/lPBFN2CXYLj7J

http://i.minus.com/iU0MTDfwqZH2B.jpeg

http://minus.com/lHg2EIy6lZ6kb

http://minus.com/lbzjPUBjEVaXbw

http://i.minus.com/iU7Az4KMCobeL.jpg

http://i.minus.com/ie1bbH0Lowy60.png

http://i.minus.com/ibzNiRHrdXoRS0.gif

The assignment Recycle that Media involves taking at least 7 different previously unused works from other ds106ers and create it into a whole new story out of it! I first went through all of the 153 items to see what was available to use. My first thought was “what the????”. I had no idea how to even start to pick random items and mesh them together. I then came across a cat file. Of course, since it involved animals I just saved it to my desktop. I then saw a few other nature like pictures and thought maybe I could do a story of how a cat travels everyday. Having 3 cats of my own I know they do not stay close to home if they are allowed outdoors. I also found a bird audio that worked perfectly with my outdoor story. I then found a picture of a dog and decided to include that too.

I made a bit of an adjustment on the audio. I didn’t really like just the birds playing throughout the whole story so in the end I added a dog barking (had to adjust the pitch for the smaller dog) and a cat hissing. I had these files left over from when I did the 5 sound story.

Other than a minor adjustment in the audio, the rest was a breeze. I wanted an interesting title clip so I used a weird transition for the title words. I didn’t want any other captions besides the title slide and a bit of an introduction to Sadie the cat. I feel cats prefer silence on their daily adventures anyways (hint the hissing when a dog interrupts the bird noises).

Recycle the Media

“Your task for this assignment is to Mashup at least 7 different pieces of this media to make a new story, and use at least 2 different types (e.g. audio and image, image and video. The story most likely would be done as a video, but see if you can make these different kinds of media make sense as the content. What kind of recycled story can you make out if this cast off media.”

I used Recycle the Media as part of my 7 star worth of assignments. For this assignment I first went to the minus.com  and selected 10 different pieces of recycled media. I wanted to make a story out of images and audio, therefore I chose the audio and video formats.

Since friendship provides orientation in our life, life surrounded with good friends is a life in the heaven. Therefore, the video I created is about the importance of true friend in our life. After selected the images and audio, I used Windows live movie maker for editing them. I used subtitles for telling the story behind the images. The background music was called lantern_fest ; I chose this sound effect because it was going well with the images I chose.

The importance of true Friends:

I really enjoyed creating this assignment, since it was very fun to do. Secondly, it was good to see other students recycled medias .

Recycle the Media

During the Fall 2012 iteration of ds106 taught at UMW, we collected media from students that was unused in their previous work uploaded to http://dropitto.me/ds106phonar (the password was “photos4life” newly added media might take some time to be moved- we have to feed the squirrels that do this manual labor). The content was migrated to a public download site, which contains at least 150 images, audio and video http://minus.com/mvKXzhhcO.
Your task for this assignment is to mashup at least 7 different pieces of this media to make a new story, and use at least 2 different types (e.g. audio and image, image and video). The story most likely would be done as a video, but see if you can make these different kinds of media make sense as the content. What kind of recycled story can you make out of this cast off media?

This is a 3 star assignment

Before working on this assignment I looked at a previously done assignment called:

Cat? A ds106 Recycled Media Assignment: This assignment was really well done.  I like how it started and ended with the cat.  I also like how this short video has a scary theme to it as you are wondering what happened to the cat.  The recycled media was used very well and the sounds went well with what was happening during the video.  I also really liked how it zoomed in on the cat at the very end.

After looking through all the recycled media in the recycling bin, I decided to create a story with photos about a nature walk that I’m taking.  For this I took 6 pictures and 2 sounds from the recycling bin that I thought related best to nature and things you would see on a nature walk.  The story I created with recycled media represents me taking a nature walk, and the things I see while walking around outside.  The starting image is of a house.  This represents me leaving my house to start my day with a nature walk.  The sound in the background for most of the movie is called forest birds.  This is the sound represents the birds I hear while outside on my walk.  The next picture shows me turning a corner and walking by some pretty fall trees.  The following picture shows me walking down the stairs into the forest where there is nature.  The next picture shows a leaf I found on my nature walk.  Then I look up a the nice blue sky and see some hot air balloons.  The last sound that is at the very end of this video is called swish, which represents the sound of the hot air balloons.  That there ends my nature walk.  I wish that there was a sound for footsteps in the recycling bin that sound like I’m actually walking.  I really enjoyed this assignment and using recycled media for my story.  I like how I can reuse what other people do not end up needing.

Below is my embedded YouTube video: