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In this assignment I picked three holidays and mashed them together into one picture. My inspiration for this was were are nearing Easter and St. Patrick’s day just passed. And also The Fourth of July is coming up. So I wanted to celebrate all of these holidays.
I have to admit this assignment was challenging. I used GIMP to edit the photos but learning how layers work and how to superimpose layers takes time to learn.
Two of my favorite Tom Hanks movies, Forrest Gump and Saving Private Ryan. I decided to do these two movies because I feel like Tom Hanks is compared in both of these movies even though they are completely different and he has completely different rolls in each film.
To make this movie poster I found the poster of Hanks from the film Forrest Gump and recreated the name to say Private Gump, combining the two main characters from each film. I was able to change the time of the movie poster by using the Preview application on my desktop.
This photo was taken while at a top secret spy meeting. This is my colleague, Agent 00009. This shot of him is currently classified and is by no means allowed to be seen by any outsider of the organization for fear of recognition.
During this picture, we were discussing the potential outcomes and risks associated with dropping the world’s largest non-nuclear bomb. This was the face of a man genuinely concerned for everyone’s well being, the face of a man who heavily weighed his options, not taking any bias or favoritism into consideration. This was a decision maker. This was Agent 00009.
These two logo mashups were great. The North Face is one of many people’s, including my own, favorite brands and is known for it’s really simple text logo. The cliff logo is from Prudential Financial and is also relatively clean and simple.
Choosing all black made things really simple and made the overall design and look of these mashups even better in my opinion.
The second mashup is of the Playboy Bunny, which I always thought to be funny, and IHOP. Because what else do Playboy bunnies eat? This one was definitely more humorous than the first, but kept the same simple all black stripped-down type of design aspect that I think works incredibly well in todays markets.
Originally, my family and I are from Cleveland and we’re all into sports. So naturally, I knew which couple of teams I could pick from for this assignment.
This logo is the Cleveland Cavaliers sword logo, mashed up with the Cleveland Browns name and colors. Turned out really cool actually! I was surprised.
I would love to see some creativity like this in actual leagues, however it would definitely cause some controversy to die hard fans. They identify with one team and ONE TEAM only. However, if there were to be a farm system created for the NFL or NBA, like the MLB currently has, the leagues could definitely look to the fans for inspiration. Many of the current Minor League baseball teams have fan picked logos and mascots, which is an awesome point of pride for a city.
For this assignment, worth 4 stars, I had to choose 6 movie clips and stitch them together into a single video. Now it’s your turn to watch this and guess which movies/ tv shows the clips come from.
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The answers in order are:
I messed with the rules a little bit though, the clips were only supposed to be no more than two seconds long, however I felt that it didn’t allow sufficient time for a character to say an important quote from the film. These movies and one TV show are some of my favorites, with Hot Fuzz earning its respective spot as number one in both this list and my heart.
Making this movie was pretty simple. The I got the clips from YouTube using the FireFox Video DownloadHelper tool. These clips were then stitched together using iMovie. A transition was then added between each clip to help make it flow a little smoother.
For my second assignment, I decided to do The contest Nobody Could Win. This assignment was rated 4 stars. I decided to mash up different Melissa Mccarthy movies because I really like them, so why not. I started out with wanting to do spy movies but then I started watching all the Melissa Mccarthy trailers and just figured I would do it.
I did all of this on Movie Maker, and just trimmed it together.
Try and figure out what movies are there!
For this assignment, we were supposed to put two actors together that didn’t originally appear together in a background and blend it all in to make it look believable and natural. I knew I wanted this one to be spy-themed, so I used a picture of Jude Law from the movie Spy and Daniel Craig from James Bond. I knew it would be hard to do this perfectly, because I would have to worry too much about finding the perfect perspective to match the background to the actors and other details like that, so I went more with what looked good enough and what was silly.
To do this assignment, I used Photoshop and cut out a picture of Jude Law in Spy aiming a gun and looking offscreen and found a similar pose of Daniel Craig in James Bond. For the background, I wanted something spy-ish but that would fit in with the pictures and be believable enough. At first I wanted a photo of a fancy building like a casino on the riviera, but nothing I could find fit with the right perspective, so I chose this photo of a rooftop in a city. Jude law is aiming in front and offscreen while Daniel Craig is sneaking up in the back and aiming at Jude Law. Twist!
One of the mashups I took on this week was the Two Movies, One Line for 3 1/2 stars. I was excited by this one because it had a cool premise about combining different films. (Also I knew the person who originally put out the assignment so I thought it’d be fun to try it out.) While working through this assignment I thought it was a good example of different editing tools so I decided to go back and recreate the assignment when I was done and create a tutorial on it.
One of the harder parts of this assignment is deciding what you want to do for it! I decided what I needed to do was just go out and watch a bunch of youtube trailers for spy films to get inspiration. (Also wanted to stay on the class theme.) I went through and listened and tried to find interesting phrases by different characters. Whenever I found a phrase I thought could be useful I would download the video. Trailers can be hard because they only give you short bursts of dialogue (especially for action packed spy films) so I had to find moments where the trailers had dialogue and quiet backgrounds. Another part of my aim was to make sure the two lines really felt like they could flow off each other and that there was not over powering noise to distract from that.
Ultimately I went from a clip from the first Mission Impossible trailer and from the James Bond film Skyfall. (Mission Impossible is like a sub-theme for this weeks assignments.) I wanted to pull out the line “it’d much worse than you think” from Mission Impossible and “you must be joking” from Skyfall. I felt like these phrases went well together and actually regardless of placement could create different connotations in dialogue. It could either end in an exasperation of Bond or the smug look of Hunt. I actually decided to make both versions to show how context of dialogue really can change the perception of story. Who we think is in charge of a conversation or how we perceive dynamics often has a lot to do with the exchange of dialogue and body language.
To create the clips I downloaded the trailers off Youtube and then used the program MPEG Streamclip to trim the videos down to just the lines I wanted to use. After I had the lines down I brought both clips into iMovie to combine it. In iMovie I combined the two clips to make sure they went together well before I uploaded them to youtube. The clips were a little short in the end but that works in terms of the pacing of a conversation and also into the fair use of copyright material. (Since videos are supposed to be less then 5 secs borrowed when possible.) After that I was pretty much done doing both versions of the dialogue. I think the two scenes both try to capture frustration that occurs in a lot of spy films. Where agents are left in the dark or brought into unforeseen issues.
For this assignment I used pixlr.com to create a photo combination of my three favorite holidays. In case you couldn’t tell, my favorite holidays are halloween, thanksgiving, and Hanukkah.
At first it was hard to figure out. It took me about an hour to learn how to edit the photos and layer the other images on top of the original image. I ended up having to watch 3 different video tutorials. Eventually I was able to figure out how to layer the images to make it look like one image.
