Take a picture that catches something mid action, and makes it appear different than it normally would.
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Take a picture that catches something mid action, and makes it appear different than it normally would.
On Seinfeld, the astute George Castanza noted “If you take everything I’ve ever done in my entire life and condense it down into one day….it looks decent.” — if you take everything you have done in a day and condense it down to a video… it looks decent (or better).
Create a video that shows your entire day that compresses your day into a video no more than 10 minutes long (bonus points for making it 5). Capture bits of your day in video or still photo form, and edit as a movie. Include titles, time stamps, and background music. Try your hand at speeding things up.
For some examples so ones created by Dean Shareski and Jabiz Raisdana
Make a campaign ad for or against the Bagman’s presidential campaign! The sillier, the better. Read more about this candidate.
There are amazing corners of the web where ridiculous products go to die, and then are reborn with amazing reviews. Find a product and write a review for it that makes light of it or tells a story in a new way.
Create a children’s book cover using primarily cutting and pasting. Imagine you’re cutting shapes out of construction paper and gluing them onto another piece of paper. Except it doesn’t have to be paper. You can make a cover for a book that already exists, or make up your own.
Video was the new frontier for teaching in the 1950s and you can find rich (and funny) examples of educational videos of that era. In this assignment make a 5 minute or less video of a modern topic in the vintage style of these films. Include elements like cheesy music, titles, cut out graphics, booming voice to make something educational.
As an example see How to Be Cool: an educational film
Make a short tutorial showing someone who is not very familiar with computers or asks you to do something for them all the time because they don’t know how. It doesn’t have to be for your mom, it can be for grandpa, sister, etc. This example is pretty long (I didn’t make it, I just found it), but it doesn’t need to be this long, and it can be showing how to do one thing and not every thing.
Make a song that you might never expect to hear! Take some background music, or make your own, and find some artists you like and make a forced collaboration with their lyrics Try to make it sounds as natural as possible.
This is a simple mashup that searches Freesounsd and flickr for the same word. It then display the sound and picture. You can reload either until you get an image and sound you like. This can be added to a list, and the exercise repeated. Once you have a set of picture/sounds you can grab an embed code to put hem on a blog. A set of pictures/sounds could create a story, illustrate a quote, saying or slogan. Make flickrSounds at http://johnjohnston.info/flickrSounds/
Take any picture and caption it with a meme, whether common or uncommon. Or come up with a personalized meme.
