Assignment Idea

Jingle Jangle

Write a jingle about a product that you like and then use your imagination. Extra points if you use an instrument.

That 70’s Show Circle

You know on That 70’s Show, when they’d all sit in a circle and smoke weed and talk about dumb shit? Yeah, me too. It was hilarious! But it was also filmed really creatively, with the camera focusing on each person’s face. Sit in a circle and film a conversation with your friends in the same style. Don’t get high for this (or do) because drugs are bad (but fun). If you need an example of the style, here you go: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJPvTNRCLxM

The One-Man Play

Act out a scene from a play by yourself, using different voices for different characters. Have fun with this!

Warhol Something

Andy Warhol was an iconic pop art mastermind. Now you can be one too! Take a photograph, or use an existing one, and create a piece of pop art. You can use something ordinary, like Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup can, or do a portrait, like Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe. This can be done in Photoshop, Gimp, or whatever photo editing software you have available. This website: http://www.melissaevans.com/tutorials/andy-warhol-up-your-photographs shows one way to Warhol Something.

Creep on a movie scene

Add yourself to a movie scene! Preferable a famous movie. The creepier you are, the better.

Best Assignment

Talk about the best assignment you have ever completed in ds106. Why do you think it was the best assignment you have completed? Was it because of the response you had from the community?

Make Music DAMNIT

Play the first song you have ever learned through any type of musical medium. Do it in a way that conjures up your memory of learning that song, or somehow fold the song into a larger story.

Room Raiders

Ever seen the MTV show Room Raiders? Basically, a person selected one of three people to date after having a chance to carefully examine their room. Cameras followed them in as they searched the room and made guesses as to what things in the room said about the person. Make a video doing the same thing to your own room, or better yet a friend’s (make sure they’re ok with that though). To be complete, your video should include titles, credits, and several “cuts” to show things from different angles.

The Recursive Camera

You’ll need a camera. And you’ll need another frame. Hold the frame in one hand (don’t let you hand cover the side facing you), and take a picture with it in the center of the image. Then step backwards and take another photo just like it. Repeat until you are tired of making art. Nest the images in Prezi inside the frame of the next picture. Now make a zoom path. Record it with video capture software. Add some video editing (you’ll have to use multiple stacks(only so much zoom in Prezi atm) and splice the ends of them together to make it seem contiguous), and you have a trippy video.

Make sure you’re telling a story with your images and add voice-over narration where/if appropriate.

Lip Read!

The basic idea for this assignment is to find a video clip of anything and change the words through a voice dub. The video could be of anything, but you should change the intention completely through your use of over dubbing.