Take a popular figure from politics, education, that you would not expect to be there, on the cover of a teen fan magazine. Bonus points if the cover includes a heart throb of initials JB and a lot of pink color. Re-edit the text as well to blend them into the style of the magazine. Inspired by a tweet by Cathy Finn-Derecki
Everyday we see different colors throughout our day. Pick a single color to photograph throughout a typical day. How is this color part of your daily routine? Now the fun part. Find a song that is relevant to the color that you choose. Mash up these images to make a short film/clip while layering which ever song you choose on top.
Go to Bildwirkerey von Bayeuxbe where you will find the “Historic Tale Constrvction Cit”, a web-based app inspired by the Tapestry of Bayeux.
Follow the directions to create your own tapestry story, then be sure to share it with us!
Create a ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ styled demise in a single blog post. The You Chose Wrong tumblr blog – http://youchosewrong.tumblr.com/ – gives a number of great examples of single pages that describe ‘your’ death after having picked the wrong path for the next page in your adventure.
From Wikipedia – “Choose Your Own Adventure is a series of children’s gamebooks where each story is written from a second-person point of view, with the reader assuming the role of the protagonist and making choices that determine the main character’s actions and the plot’s outcome.”
In the spirit of pumping up activity for the Daily Create I issued a challenge to see who was strong enough to do one every day for a week. That is the first part of the challenge, and to do this assignment, you should do the same.
Then, and here is where it gets interesting, my friends, is that you are to make a mashup of content that other people created for each fo the seven days, and to make an interesting story out of it. How you do it is up to you, but you should use the media (and link back, give ’em credit) to 7 different pieces of media submitted for the Daily Create on the days you did yours.
Create a supercut montage of overused dialogue, themes, motifs, filmmaking techniques, etc. for a particular character, tv show, film, and/or public figure. A supercut is a “fast-paced montage of short video clips that obsessively isolates a single element from its source, usually a word, phrase, or cliche from film and TV. Supercut.org collects every known example of the video remix meme.” For examples and descriptions of supercuts visit:
Using a range of media, create the illusion of a real character from the past, and analyse him/her/it in an academic style based on the “newly discovered” evidence you have created.
The Abebooks Weird Book Room lists a collection of titles so farcical you would think they are made up, but they are not. “Grandma’s Dead: Breaking Bad News With Baby Animals”, “Beyond Leaf Raking “, and “Goats: Homeopathic Remedies” are all actual book titles — “finest source of everything that’s bizarre, odd and downright weird in books.”
Your assignment is to design the cover of a book title so weird that it will look like it will fit right in to the Weird Book Room. Be sure to include a little bit of jacket blurb for your blog post where you include your designed book cover. Go weird!
It’s your favorite narrative, but this time all the characters are cats! (Or if you like, pick a different animal.)
What’s better than one of your favorite stories? That’s right! Two! Pick two (or more) narratives, take a pivotal scene from one of the stories, and see what happens when worlds collide. This is also known as a “crossover.”
For example: What would happen if the characters of Star Trek met up with the characters of Star Wars? What would Jean-Luc Picard say to Chewbacca?
