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I watched this film a few days and it made a real impact on me….

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I watched this film a few days and it made a real impact on me. From the trailer:

Paris, 2020.

A beautiful couple, a city over-saturated by holograms and digital stream.

A polaroid camera.

Tomorrow will never be the same.

An electromagnetic storm wipes out all our data, worldwide. The only thing he has left is an old polaroid she took before he left him for spending too much time on social media.

I put this together with a quote from Alone Together by Sherry Turkle:

We are not in a position to let the virtual take us away from our stewardship of nature, the nature that doesn’t go away with a power outage.

The moment captured in this image has been running in my head for days so I thought I would do some giffing. I did not want it to loop forever, but to stop and give the sense of it all breaking up when it ended. However, it looks like this will not work with Tumblr so I slowed it down a little and looped it forever.

Followed Michael’s tutorial again, and experimented with a few more settings in GIMP. I did want the glass smashing to make more of an impact. I need to play with it more.

However, I want to end with Alan Levine’s comment on watching the movie:

Hard to empathize with a digital dude who did not make local backups of media ;-)

Update: I am submitting this gif as an assignment for the assignment ‘saying it like peanut butter’. I did it a few days ago, it was one of the first gifs I made properly (i.e not with an automated tool) and it was inspired by a film that moved me.

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GIF Challenge #6

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Two different ideas fighting to get out of the gif for the August 2013 GIF Challenge #6: Sophisticate Your Own, Personal “Under Construction” GIF from I am Talky Tina.
Not really an under construction, but a 404.

I’ve already got a tenuous ds106 linked 404 page. Ironically the mashup I made for that is broken as one of the flickr phots it relied on is MIA. 404 page. I think I’ll leave it in place.

Hat Tip to Andrew for the font (Ringbearer Font | dafont.com).

Face is an old gif I had from a twilight zone exercise. Rainbow and unicorn from open clip art, hopefully the opposite of sophisticated.

Here is the ds106 Assignments: Sophisticate Your Own, Personal “Under Construction” GIF.

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The Painted Lady Vanishes

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So there are some pretty serious problems with this as my gif submission for day 1 of the August Animated Gifpolooza Eternum or whatever the Dog and the Doll are calling this end of summer gif thing.

First, you might have guessed (if you know me), that’s not me. That’s Blanche Sweet, a silent-era film actress who starred in a number of D.W. Griffith’s movies including The Painted Lady (where this gif is taken from) and Judith of Bethulia. She’s one of my favorites (I’m slowly working my way through the history of film according to a big World History of Film book that I got out of the Ann Arbor District Library).

The reason that I chose this shot to gif is because the story of the movie (scroll down for the embedded version, well worth the watch, it’s only 15 minutes long or so) seemed to fit with what I felt like were some of the themes possible with a “head disappearing gif,” meaning a loss of identity, a fear of feeling or seeming invisible to other people.

The Painted Lady is about an unnamed woman who, because of her father’s rules, declines to wear makeup or dress up to meet men. Because she doesn’t dress up, men ignore her. The only one to pay any attention to her is a man who is really after information on the woman’s father’s business dealings. After she [SPOILER ALERT] catches him burgling her father’s papers and shoots him (not knowing at the time whom she is shooting), the woman dies of grief. This shot is from the woman’s final moments alone on a bridge, where she imagines meeting her suitor again, miming the motions of their first meeting. Here she looks at the mirror; she is about to flip out, disgusted by her appearance, but here she is still hopeful [END UNNECESSARY SPOILER ALERT].

The second problem is that I wound up making part of the pole behind her disappear, not just her head. When I had the gif in photoshop, though, I mistook that part of the pole for a kind of halo around Blanche Sweet’s head, even though there’s no obvious light source there. I still like that interpretation a little, though, so I didn’t fix it.

Here’s another gif pulled from the movie, and an earlier head-replacement gif that didn’t quite work out like I wanted, and the movie The Painted Lady.

Same As It Ever Was

Get out of the way, dude

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Audacity Tutorial

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Ok here is my Software Angel Assignment. I decided to create a basic tutorial on Audacity. As you can see I had a few hiccups but everything went alright for the most part. I used FastStone Capture to complete this assignment. Where to get it and how to use it will be my second tutorial. I hope it helps people. I do warn you it is longer than I hoped. It’s 17 minutes and I barely scratched the surface.

Star Count:

Mashup: 4/5

Video: 3/10

Remix: 0/5

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Relaxing Royskopp

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Here’s a two Star mashup assignment which turned out to be an old favorite of mine. It’s a nice track paring to sit back and relax to. Since I used YouTube Doubler for this one all I can do is give you the link. If you like the rain sound, I highly suggest going to the Rainy Mood website. I like playing it in the background while listening to soft music. Also great if you need some simple background noise.

Rainy Royskopp

Star Count

Mashup: 2/5

Remix: 0/5

Video:0/10

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Tutorial for Opposites Attact

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Tutorial for “Opposites Attract”

http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/opposites-attract/

For this assignment, you are supposed to pick two songs that are from different genres and mash them together. I used a DJ program called VirtualDJ because I’m familiar with the program, however, most audio programs, such as audacity, will work just fine.

If you are using audacity, open the program and import both songs that you will be using. It is easier and more pleasing to the ears to use songs with a similar rhythm and BPM (beats per minute). Once both clips are uploaded, you will move the clips left or right (such as in audacity) to find out where the waveforms (squiggly lines of audio) best match up. This will take some trial and error to figure out where the audio matches up best. Once they are lined up, you can get creative with adding in some effects. Audacity has an effects drop down menu so simply highlight the section you would like to apply the effect to and select one. After that, make sure to save and export and enjoy your mash up!

If you are using a DJ program, such as VirtualDJ or Traktor, you will drag one song to your left deck and one to your right deck. Make sure that the songs are within ~15BPM’s of each other and in a similar key for the best effect. After that, make sure you press the “sync” button to equalize the BPM’s. You can play around with adding “hotkeys” to add sections of the songs to loop together. This is a more advanced technique but comes with great rewards when it is done successfully. Practice around with the song until you have figured out all you’d like to do. Once you’re ready press “record” and start playing both songs. Make sure that the songs are sync’d up and get creative with effects and looping.

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Submit an Assignment + Video Assignments: Why so Serious? – 3 stars

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I made this one:

Why should movies be so serious? Take a clip from a movie that is supposed to be serious and remove the audio. Then, replace the audio with that from a comedy movie. Try to line up the speaking from the audio clip with the movements and actions in the video clip. This creates a hilarious effect that we all enjoy. Try using well known movies and clips so that we knwo what the actor should be saying. It makes the clip all the more funny.

http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/why-so-serious/

I mashed up a clip from “Scarface” and the audio from “Old School.” I thought the “We’re going streaking!” part made a hilarious mash up with Tony Montana shooting up the gangsters trying to take his house.

Used Video Pad Video Editor. Extracted the audio from the movie “old school”. Put it on top of the scene from “Scarface”. Tried to match them up as good as I could.

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Old Scars

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Entourage Movie Premier

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For my “One Movie Watches Another” assignment I took a scene from “Entourage” where the whole gang is watching one of Vince’s movie premiers and mixed it with a funny animated trailer I found on Youtube. I mashed these up using iMovie, which is a fantastic program if you are using a mac.

These are the original videos.

Here is my mashup…

Difficulty: 4 stars

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Bold Strategy Cotton

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For my “Mashup Those Movies” assignment I chose to put Jason Bateman on the cover of “The 40 Year-Old Virgin”. I added one of my favorite lines from “Dodgeball” as well. I edited this image using GIMP by cutting out the face with the lasso tool, then scaling and pasting it onto the poster.

I used these original pictures.

To make this…

And if you haven’t seen Dodgeball here is a video of the quote.

Difficulty: 1 star