Create a trailer out of movie clips, tv show excerpts, news sources, viral videos, or even other trailers. Consider which pieces you are combining and what the new message is. Here is a template for a movie trailer green screen intro. Have fun!!
Download different scene clips from one movie to create a short commercial for DS106. Clip, trim and remix them to let people know what DS106 is all about and how they can find us at ds106.us. Challenge yourself to overdub the audio to have the characters saying DS106 where it would be appropriate. Also try and add the DS106 logo onto an object in a scene. You can find an example at The DS106 Matrix
Selfies are pretty terrible and associated with massive amounts of ego. Take the hubris and arrogance exemplified by Selfies at Funerals and Rich Kids of Instagram and apply them to a historical or literary figure on the eve of an impending disaster.
You can see more examples and get a Photoshop template file here.
Take a classic piece of literature – something that begs to be read aloud – and have animated characters do a dramatic reading.
Using layers in an image editing program make a time line that tells a story. Tips: make it short and include events that lead up to the main event.
Choose a color and then take 20 minute walk in which you take a 5-8 pictures of the color as you encounter it. Then upload the photos to Flickr and create a time line using TimeLine JS.
Most likely your backyard has a story to tell. Or perhaps a park nearby will share its secrets. With this assignment take your camera on a photo safari to capture interesting images of a place you frequent. Cull your photos down to the best 5-10 images that when combined will tell a story. Create a slide show and embed it into your blog. Include a written or audio story telling component as well to help flesh out the story for your viewers.
See example at: Bygone Backyard Photo Safari
Using Photoshop or another image editing program create an image inwhich you combine two animals that traditionally hate each other to form a new hybrid animal. Consider adding text.
Use Twine http://www.gimcrackd.com/etc/src/ to create an interactive story.
Examples:
Myriad by Porpentine
The Temple by Luna
Rat Chaos by J Chastain
At the Bonfire by finny
Brooklyn Trash King by Ben Esposito
Host your interactive story on your site and share it out.
So we cannot go back in time…. but can you recreate a pose of someone’s old photograph with them doing the same pose in the present? Make a photograph of someone holding their own old photo, with them trying to replicate the expression.
Try to recapture the then and now story of that moment in time.
