Take a portal into what’s humanly impossible with an animated GIF. Tools such as cinemagram are really useful for this assignment.
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Take a portal into what’s humanly impossible with an animated GIF. Tools such as cinemagram are really useful for this assignment.
Some of the best parts of ds106 happens when people spontaneously build off of the whacky things others share. Rapid fire style.
Your assignment is to riff on someone eles’s ds106 work and make it new in a GIF form. It can be revising an existing GIF, or taking a graphic and turning it into a GIF.
Riff the GIF, say it three times fast.
Cartoons are full of conflict and violence, what would happen if a character was brought into court and put on trial? It has happened, in the case of Wile E. Coyote v. Acme Company.
Your assignment is to write up a legal document outlining a case that might arise out of a cartoon, TV show, or comic. Use all of the legal language, and make an effort to make your document look real. For added points of challenge, include some form of media (a traffic cam photo, a chart of evidence, a video) to support the case.
“Train kept a rollin’ all night long…” “Down around the corner half a mile from here, see them long trains run and you watch them disappear…” Trains. They are in songs, movies, and a metaphor for steady movement. And they are ripe for GIFing- given their regular repeated motion.
Capture the essence of train movement in a GIF, and do what you can to keep it under 1 Mb (much of the train passing is repeated and you can delete frames and not lose the motion). Step it up a notch and match your train gif to a song using http://gifsound.com.
ALL ABOARD!
Search the Jim Henson universe and create a fabulous muppet GIF.
Create an animated GIF that includes your name as it might appear (or does appear) in a movie.
If you cannot find a movie that somehow features your name in it (Luckily for me there is a place in This Wonderful Life called “Potterville”!), well you are just going to have to apply your mad ds106 skills to make it happen.
Animate your favorite music performer, it need not be rock and roll (bu of course “Rock and Roll will never die”) – see if you can capture the essence of a single performer and their relationship to music or their instrument.
Using a free online quiz service (I used PollSnack), create a quiz that shows off your knowledge of a particular story. Try to make it interesting enough through the questions you choose and the way you phrase your answers that someone taking the quiz is able to see that there’s a larger narrative informing the questions. Your quiz should have at least three outcomes and at least five questions.
For this design assignment, you will first need to pick one of your favorite persons from a tv show or movie–make sure it is someone with LOTS of character that displays their characteristics frequently. This is important; it should be something that defines them (i.e. Sterling Archer, from Archer). Next, create either a book cover, or a smartphone app icon, or the like. Add some text that says “How To [insert the name of the character you choose here]”. Make sure you tell who this app/book teaches the user/reader to be like. (NOTE: it doesn’t HAVE to be an app or a book. Get creative with it. What else can you come up with?)
Make a video that represents who you are. You can either talk about yourself, show pictures or show things that you like to do (don’t let these limit you). The point is to be creative and let your fellow ds106’ers know a little about who you are and what you’re about. Feel free to incorporate things into your video (music, pictures, words, etc). Don’t forget to have fun while creating it.
