Okay so I’m taking on the putting disney in focus assignment. I saw somebody else had used a photo from a trip to France and I jumped at the bit to use a picture from my trip to disney world. So an important symbol from the movie Tangled is the sun which is on the flag on the kingdom. So I snapped this pretty pic of the flags they had out. While some people had things that were’t as direct from disney, I went with straight from disney world.
This Visual Assignment was called “Putting Disney Into Focus” while blurring out what is surrounding the object in the photo I took. I chose to take a scene from the movie The Hunchback of Notre Dame when Esmeralda is singing “God Help the Outcasts” in the cathedral. I chose this window because the song it is a part of has great animation and lighting and developed Esmeralda as a character we should care about.
When I took a trip around Europe after I graduated from high school, I was able to go to Notre Dame and took this picture. After I downloaded the photo onto my laptop, I edited the photo in Paint and Photoshop by blurring the edges and darkening the background to make the window pop out from the wall. I then uploaded the edited photo to Flickr and embedded it in this post. I also embedded a video of the song from Youtube so it is easier to see the similarities between the photo and the movie.
Assignment Value: 2 stars
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This assignment mainly had to do with taking a classic piece of Disney memorabilia and looking at it in a different way. Ok, so, I figured that a tea cup is pretty standard for Alice in Wonderland. But, that’s why I wanted to pair it with the book picture, and weave some sort of narrative about how Veronique wants to view herself as Alice in the story, but is more akin to an incredibly vain villain who is jealous of that innocence.
So the criteria for this assignment was to take a picture of something Disney related and focus on that particular object then blur the surroundings. I used instagrams blur feature to sort of streamline the process.
LINK TO PUTTING DISNEY INTO FOCUS.
Worth 2 stars.
Hope there to hear back from some fellow #ds106 Redskins fans. I decided to do my “Putting Disney into Focus” post on the Skins cause I know we all have big expectations for them next season. I also assumed their have to be a few Disney movies about football… Let me know if you can think of any besides Air Bud: Golden Receiver.
I found an app that helped made this focus assignment particularly easy.
It is a free iPhone app called SynthCam that allows you to select several focus points in a picture and take a short video. As you select your focus points and begin your video you slowly rotate your phone in circles around the main point. The longer you record the more blurred your background will come out. Check out this video if your interested. SynthCam
This rose is supposed to symbolize the enchanted rose in the Disney movie, ” The Beauty and the Beast.” I took a picture of a large rose I have, changed the color from pink to red and blurred the surrounding areas.
Put a famous object from any Disney movie into focus. Blur everything around it, make the color pop out, BE CREATIVE! In your blog post, explain why you picked that object to focus on.
This rose is supposed to symbolize the enchanted rose in the Disney movie, ” The Beauty and the Beast.” I took a picture of a large rose I have, changed the color from pink to red and blurred the surrounding areas.
link to photo:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/67520151@N03/8792617978/#
link to assignment description:
http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/putting-disney-into-focus/
We had to create two assignments for digital storytelling. I was really excited to do this! I could create an assignment and pick my favorite topic to create one in! Obviously, I picked visual! LOVE visual!!!!
My assignment is called Putting Disney into Focus. I gave this assignment a rating of two stars. In this assignment, you had to pick a famous object from a Disney movie and take a picture of it. Putting in focus meant making the color pop out or blurring the area around it. Being creative!!! Here is my picture:
I chose an apple from the Disney movie Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The apple symbolizes the queen’s jealousy for Snow White. The queen wanted to be prettier and nicer than Snow White so she wanted to get rid of her. I picked to put the apple into focus because it is a very important element in this story. Without the apple, the queen would have kept being jealous and…well…I don’t really know what would happen. That’s how important the apple is to this story.
A lot of Disney movies have one important element that if it didn’t exist in the story, there would be no story. For example: the glass slipper in Cinderella, the rose in Beauty and the Beast, the magic lamp in Aladdin - just to name a few! This is why I chose to create this assignment, I thought it would be fun for students to think about Disney movies and I thought that it would make students think about how certain elements are important and vital in a story.
I took a picture of an apple and used my ColorEffects app on my phone. With this app, I made the background black and white and the apple stayed green. This way, the apple was the main focus. I also used Instagram to blur the black and white background. So now only is the apple the only thing that has color to it, but it also is the only thing that is not blurry. I felt that by doing these two things, I was really putting the apple into focus. Of course my Instagram friends were wondering why I posted a picture of an apple…hehe whoops :)
Song blog post title: Whistle While You Work – Snow White
Put a famous object from any Disney movie into focus. Blur everything around it, make the color pop out, BE CREATIVE! In your blog post, explain why you picked that object to focus on.
