You get to be the censor of a movie scene or clip. Choose a sound effect or dialogue you want to substitute for a recurring phrase or expletive, or over-used character speech and use it at the appropriate moments in your movie.
Save your movie on YouTube and embed it into your blog which you will link to this assignment using the appropriate tags.
Share a free book in internet that you have wrote. That’s sharing knowledge too, specially if it has some historical research as this one has.
Re-design your favorite book cover!
In GIMP/Photoshop/any image editor of your choosing, create a new book cover for your favorite story! Imagine that there’s a new, special edition of the tale coming out, and YOU are the special, super awesome artist who has been chosen to design the new look!
Have fun!
This assignment is essentially to create your own music video for a song. There are many different ways to go about this. If you’re using a Mac it is very simple to record videos and upload and edit them into iMovie. If you’re using a PC, Windows Movie Maker is probably the way to go, unless you have a software like Final Cut which is is the top of the line. It doesn’t have to be the entire song, but at least try and get a minute and a half to two minute length. Trust me, this assignment can be tough, but it’s definitely a lot of fun.
Take your favorite song. Remove the lyrics. Play only up to thirty seconds of the song. Listener must be able to guess.
Imagine your favorite company whether it be food, clothing, or any other company. Now imagine their enemy or competitor in the business. Your goal for this assignment is to take your favorite company’s trademark image or logo and reinterpret it in a way that reflects the design of its enemy. Look for the elements that make the competitor’s logo what it is. What is the color scheme? Is there any methphors or hidden meanings? What is the form of the logo? How can you use its balance, porportion, or rhythm? The important thing is to still have the original company’s message and essence within the new design, but masked by the competitor’s look.
Telling a story in a collage, creating a story for someone to view.
For this assignment, use the app Steller (free from the App Store) to tell a visual story. Steller lets you incorporate photos, text and video into an interactive storytelling format.
Use Steller to tell a story. You can use it to narrate a recipe, talk about a vacation, play with videos, or document something exciting.
You’ll need to sign in with Twitter to use the app, but when you’re done, tweet your results using the #DS106 hashtag!
Create your own search engine! Make it personal, funny, interesting. I recommend using either x-ray goggles, or firebug through firefox. The downside of using firebug is that it is more difficult to use, easier to loose your work, and you have to download firefox and firebug. So I strongly recommend using X-ray goggles. You simply drag it into your bookmarks and start editing. When you are finished click publish, and copy the url that it generates for you.
Choose your favorite musician, and then head to Youtube and pick one of their videos to make an animated gif of. Try to use the best quality video possible, preferably HD.
