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Write a blog in which you tell us something, anything, about either your given names or your blog name(s).
While an iconic of the silent film era, Charlie Chaplin’s movies never got the audio oomph of THX. Here is your chance to make the silent era come alive by adding foley sound effects to a movie lacking them. Select a clip from the Annotated Filmography of Charlie Chaplin. Turn the sound all the way down, and study the action to identify places where you could add sound effects using every day objects around you, or even just your own ability to mimic sounds. These should not be recordings of sounds on your computer, you must make them in real time.
Play the movie back with the audio turned down, and then record your own audio with the sound effects. Make a new video with your sound effects replacing the original.
Learn more about Foley Artists and watch examples (1, 2) of them in action.
Now, I like graffiti as much as the next guy, except when it’s spray painted on my house. But you know what makes it even better? If it moves! Check out Animated Banksy for inspiration (http://madebyabvh.tumblr.com/tagged/Animated-Banksy). Photograph some graffiti or street art, or find a photo if you’re lazy, and make it into an animated GIF. It’s more fun than vandalism!
Take a well-known kids book and recast it as a computer book. Look for inspiration here:
http://www.somethingawful.com/d/photoshop-phriday/childfriendly-computer-books.php
As demonstrated by the Movies Mashup episode of the radio show The Truth, take two different movies and extract the dialogues scenes of actors form each, then re-edit them to create a story as if the characters from different movies were in the same conversation.
Listen to examples from the show including The Terminator and Legally Blonde (“Terminally Blonde”) and from the TV shows that become “The Sopranos in the West Wing.”
Design a vintage movie poster from a modern movie using actors/styling from an earlier era. Try to capture the essence of the modern film by choosing the right actors for the different parts and using imagery that is evocative of the past while capturing the film’s meaning.
Imagine if movie posters told the REAL story about the fillm they’re advertising. Redesign an existing movie poster by changing the text/images to tell us the real story. More examples at http://www.holytaco.com/classic-taco-if-movie-posters-were-honest.
Create your own collage that has to do with your either experiences or expectations for camp. You can use your own images from your camp experience or stuff that represents what you think camp will be like, you can even use stuff from camp movies if that all you know about going to camp. Have fun with it be creative!
I want you to tell a joke, or create a longer comedy skit if you please, with sound effects! http://www.freesound.org/ should be able to help you find sound effects. So for example when you get to the punch line, I want to hear laughter from the “crowd”. Or if you fall down I want to hear a “thud”. I want sound effects! You should include at least 3 sound effects in you skit.
For this assignment I want you to find a video clip with at least two people in it, it can be from a movie, newscast, music video, etc. and I want you to be the voice for one of the people. So find a way to mute or edit out one of the voices and then I want you to add in your own voice. Make it funny and have fun with it, don’t just simply repeat the dialogue!
