Assignment Idea

Autotune Something

_cokwr: You've heard Carl Sagan. You've heard Bed Intruder. You've even heard Gardner Campbell autotuned. Now it's your turn. Take something not typically musical and autotune it., _cpzh4: Audio, _cre1l: https://docs.google.com/uc?id=0B4C0CBooYBY_YzU5OTYzZTUtNTM5OC00ZWEzLTlmZDgtNzAzZDUxNmZhZmJl&export=download&hl=en_US, _chk2m: Jason Green, _ciyn3: 72, _ckd7g: , _clrrx: , _cztg3:

Celebrity Radio Interview

_cokwr: You may have seen parodies in which the camera cuts between an interviewee in a real interview and a fake interviewer, for example The Soup's interview with Miley Cyrus about being a vampire (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldNycG-IATY). The nice thing about doing this with audio rather than video is that you're not restricted to using responses from a single interview since you don't have to worry about making it look real. Record yourself asking questions to someone famous, then use audio clips of the celebrity from real interviews as the responses., _cpzh4: Audio, _chk2m: Matt Martin, _ciyn3: 95, _ckd7g: , _clrrx: , _cztg3:

Recording a Memory

_cokwr: Capture on video a friend, family member, or stranger recounting a favorite (or least favorite) memory. Be creative. Then, check out the "Re-Living a Memory" assignment., _cpzh4: Video, _chk2m: leelzebub, _ciyn3: 162, _ckd7g: , _clrrx: , _cztg3:

Social Network Story

_cokwr: Enact a story in realtime using social networks and websites. Get creative by combining multiple sites like Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare. Document it in some audiovisual form., _cpzh4: Fanfic, _cre1l: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sghwe4TYY18, _chk2m: Tim Owens, _ciyn3: 16, _ckd7g: , _clrrx: , _cztg3:

Create a ds106 radio bumper

_cokwr: Now that we have a #ds106 radio up and running creating a 15 to 30 second bumper for the station., _cpzh4: Audio, _cre1l: https://files.ds106.us/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2011/12/radio.jpg, _chk2m: Jim Groom, _ciyn3: 36, _ckd7g: , _clrrx: , _cztg3:

Evolution

_cokwr: Alot can happen from birth to death. Be creative, show how things; animals, objects, technology, evolve throughout time. This assignment doesn't have to be precise, your object evolving doesn't have to evolve the way is expected during the process of evolution. Be creative!, _cpzh4: Visual, _cre1l: http://Isaacthesatus.net, _chk2m: Isaac Thesatus, _ciyn3: 197, _ckd7g: , _clrrx: , _cztg3:

Susan Carter Morgan’s Tell me a story

_cokwr: Everything has a story. So, find an item that you have an extreme emotional attachment to, take a picture of it, and tell the story! Convey all the emotion and feeling, and let us know why the item is important to you!, _cpzh4: Writing, _cre1l: http://takterajima.blogspot.com/2011/10/tell-me-story.html, _chk2m: Takeru Terajima, _ciyn3: 205, _ckd7g: , _clrrx: , _cztg3:

Digital Story Compilation

_cokwr: Create a video compilation of some of your favorite things you've made in ds106., _cpzh4: Video, _chk2m: Matt Martin, _ciyn3: 113, _ckd7g: , _clrrx: , _cztg3:

One Shot

_cokwr: Take a single photograph. Chop it up comic book style to create tension and narrative. Checkout this image for an example*. *It may, or may not, be one image- the concept is still sound., _cpzh4: Visual, _cre1l: http://ffffound.com/image/41773f67656c44cfc1064821e59acec5de7aeb29, _chk2m: Tom, _ciyn3: 42, _ckd7g: , _clrrx: , _cztg3:

The Hero’s Journey

_cokwr: Remember those Choose Your Own Adventure books they used to have at the library? Well, let's do something like that. We’re going to tell the journey of a storybook hero. We won’t give him/her a name, or go into specifics like that. We’re not going to get bogged down on the details. Try to use archetypes and motifs that are recognizable, but it is up to you whether or not you want to make a comment on the accepted norms of fairy tales by breaking them. Start with a picture from Flickr. It can be random or deliberate, as long as it's not All Rights Reserved. Narrate the step of his/her journey, adding what details you will, but staying true to the plot. Comment on the step prior with a link to your step, so there is a clean series of narrative frames, each linking to the next. If there be multiple paths, then we will have a tree of potential outcomes for our hero. You may also start a new story if you wish. Also, please post a link to the step prior so that a reader can backtrack if they get lost or stumble upon a middle step. In summary the strict limitations: -You MUST have an image -Narrate in first person so gender can be generally overlooked. -Post a link to the step prior for backtracking purposes., _cpzh4: Visual, _cre1l: http://blog.houseoftheabsurd.net/archives/150, _chk2m: Tempest, _ciyn3: 45, _ckd7g: , _clrrx: , _cztg3: