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Vocal Instrumental Mashup

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  • Submitted by: Amber May

For this assignment, you’re going to take the instrumental of a song and mash it up with the VOCALS of another song! Here’s the main challenge with this; both songs have to have similar beats per minute (bpm) to work properly together.

You can find songs with just instrumentals or just vocals on Youtube, then use Audacity or Garageband to match up the tracks. (Hint, if the bpm is a little bit off, you can always delete portions of the vocals and move them closer or farther from each other to keep things on beat.)

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Creating your own character

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  • Submitted by: Joey

Create a character covering all aspects of them. Write about a paragraph of backstory, cover their appearence, personality, likes, dislikes, and what their place is in their world.

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For The Remix!

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  • Submitted by: Jonathan Worth

A series of photographs taken by Jonathan Worth of author Cory Doctorow are now available for you to remix, regenerate, and to make new art, especially in light of the themes and topics of his books.

Your challenge is to make something new out of the photos, or better yet, remix of someone else’s remix. But we not only want you to make art, we want you to share the story behind it. Be sure to write up your work somewhere on the public web, license it under creative commons, tell the story of what it means or why you did it, cite the sources (e.g. links) to the image, and share how you made it.  Here’s HOW to write up and share your remix.

This is a new experiment in public art, and a new way of thinking about digital media. Who could be a better figure than an author who releases all of his published works under creative commons license with an open invitation to remix? Jonathan explains more about this project

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Privacy on the Web.

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  • Submitted by: jenni00

Count the number of open source programs you are using on your computer today. How many commercial software programs could be replaced with free and open source alternatives. I counted 4 commercial products on my system. If you need to, use a browser to get a list of open source programs which are available in place of commercial software.

Think about the words “open”, “community”, “cooperation”, compare them to the words “share”, “like”, “social data”. How do they compare. Where could these concepts ultimately end up. What media are you using that compromises your personal data, count the programs and devices. Try to be specific regarding services that collect your private data and reflect on how much this concerns you. I use 2 services that are notorious for collecting private data.

 

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So and So’s Greatest Hits

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  • Submitted by: The Fandom Princess

There are some bands/musicians/artists out there who constantly make solid songs/albums. Using Audacity, pick a band/musician/artists and create a mash-up of what you consider to be some of their greatest hits. It needs to be at least 5 songs (if you can’t find 5, then they might not be as great of a band as your think they are) and at least 5 minutes, but feel free to go over if the music is groovin’. Upload to soundcloud and introduce us to your favorite band and their songs! Have fun!

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What’s Your Opinion On…

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  • Submitted by: The Fandom Princess

Onions? Love? Politics? Ke$ha? Have you ever had people just randomly ask you what your opinion on things are? Be it pop culture or something historical, we are always wondering what people think about something specfic. For this assignment, pick something that you are curious about what other people think on the matter. Go around and ask people “What is your opinion on…” and record their response. Compile the responses into one video. Have fun!

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Mockumentary with your favorite archtype

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  • Submitted by: Chloe Smolarski

Make a 3-5 minute mockumenatry which includes a skit of an interview with a character who is based on an archytype.  

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Where Should Alan Go on Vacation?

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  • Submitted by: Alan Levine

Alan has had a long semester teaching ds106 and is starting to think of where he will go on vacation. Try to use Mozilla Popcorn Maker to remix the original project built around Alan’s plans. You will remix the original base project to add images, video, maps, twitter info, text, URLs, and pop up text to create a new story.

The original project has 8 different points where you should add new media. Make sure the things you are adding build towards a final ending of the story. In this case, you get to plan a post ds106 vacation for your instructor; there are marked places where you are able to remix in various kinds of media. Each of these is marked with a popcorn “pop up message”.

Look for the remix icon in the bottom right; this will launch the Popcorn Maker editing interface. The eight places to add content have an image placeholder; you can insert other media on a track above it (and you may should extend the duration of the still image clip, it will men moving things around on the timeline). If you really struggle with it, you can use your familiar video editor and the original clip as done on YouTube, but we really hope you give Popcorn a whirl.

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Puppet Trolls

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  • Submitted by: Michael Branson Smith

Use a puppet or create one to troll a scene in film or television. Think about using a green screen, or just video a puppet in front the scene playing in the background. Be sure to find a way to make your puppet interact with the background story.

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x versus x – movie remix

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  • Submitted by: Chloe Smolarski

Make a video in which you mashup two movie characters from seperate films to create a seamless scene. Close ups, action filled shots and tight editing will assure the best results. Fight scenes, break ups, cop chases, are some examples of scenes that may work out well – but the possibilities are endless.

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