A mash-up of movies, for this assignment we were to take 2 movie trailers and use the audio from one and the video from another to create a new a different story or feel.

For this assignment I took two movies which I look forward to seeing, The Great Gatsby and The Collection. It was actually quite a simple process, these two trailers where particularly well suited for each other because both started with a sort of club type party intro which now go horribly wrong as the Great Gatsby has killed his party goer and takes a girl hostage to be his love slave. as one man who has escaped Gatsby’s clutches goes in search of Mr. Gatsby to get her back.

I actaully did this assignment twice with the same trailers but switching which was video and which was audio, The Collection video one kept the same dark feel to it which was unacceptable which is why I decided to do the other orientation. Diffidently gave The Great Gatsby, which is Romance movie, a much darker and twisted interpretation.

Movie Trailer Mashup:

Worth 4 stars:

I mashed together the Brave trailer with the Harry Potter theme music. At first, I was going to use the Pirates of the Caribbean theme song but I think Potter works much better.

I downloaded the Brave trailer from youtube with iLivid and imported it into premiere. Then I muted the track Audio 1 so there was no sound coming from the actual trailer. Once I did that, I imported the Potter theme music. Yes, I already had it. I put the mp3 on track Audio 2 and used the razor tool to cut out what I didn’t need. I tried to make it go pretty closely together with Brave. Both movies are kind of magical too. Then I exported it as an mp4 and just let youtube have it (and probably report me for copyright infringement. oh well, bring it).

I really love the movie Brave and HP has got to be my favorite wizard movie of all time! (I say wizard movie because I always liked Neville wayyyy more than Harry. I even thought I was a really good Hermione look alike for a while). I tried really hard with this assignment. I wanted to make it so that I could match it up with different dialogue, but nothing else seemed like it would work.

Have we had a real mandatory assignment lately? I can’t even remember! But lucky us(DS106 students) this assignment could count towards mash-up stars, woohoo! I don’t need all the stars, but let’s see what I can whip up when I Recycle The Media.

“Your task for this assignment is to mashup at least 7 different pieces of this media to make a new story, and use at least 2 different types (e.g. audio and image, image and video). The story most likely would be done as a video, but see if you can make these different kinds of media make sense as the content. What kind of recycled story can you make out of this cast off media?”

Where can I find recycled media?! In the Recycle Bin of course! Earlier in the semester we were asked to drop 4 pieces of unused media into the bin. Well it really adds up when you have 2 whole sections of students dropping in media! However, it was hard for me to find something to tell a story with. I even watched other students examples and still wasn’t getting that feel, ya know? So I chugged along and came up with the idea of my trip to the zoo. But then I realized, “Well, I have tons of images of animals, but I don’t have different types of media besides that.” Then I stumbled upon these:

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and I had an eerie, yet awesome story that popped into my mind. There was one other photo I had in mind, but that would give away the twist, but anyways, here is the story:

Okay, this may seem cruel, or disgusting, or just whatever it is against your morals…but I thought it was a funny little story to tell with the recycled media I had to work with. The video was a little quiet without having the music from the awesome Rick Astley and Eduard Khil. Does this make me a troll now? I sure hope not!

Welcome to another post of epic mashup! This time we will be taking a chance with the Mashup Those Movies assignment. “Take elements from multiple movie posters and mash them up into one. You can change anything- the caption, the title, the main image, etc. Lastly, make it seem like it could be a real movie.”At first I didn’t know what movies I wanted to mash. So I looked up movies from 2012 so that hopefully everyone that sees it will know the movies I used. It took me until August to have a light-bulb moment! As I was scrolling I found Lawless, a movie I saw earlier this year and was pretty bad-ass.

A who else would have a western-like movie (actually Spanish?) other than the man Will Ferrell himself? I present the 2nd movie I was going to mash (which was in March in case you were wondering), Casa De Mi Padre. I never saw this movie, but I will assume it was ridiculous on the basis of knowing Will Ferrell was the main character. So when you mix ridiculous and bad-ass…well bad-ass prevails obviously and this new movie will hopefully give Ferrell some badassery-credit! I present Lawless, featuring Will Ferrell. Why? Because Will Ferrell is the law.

This week was mashup week(crazy huh?) and my first assignment to do was Consumer Mashup. This assignment asked, “Think of anyplace you spend money, and what you most often buy at that place. Then redesign their logo to incorporate your favorite product.” Well, if you go back to my post waaaaaaaaaaaaaay back in week one, you would find my video for my keychain story…and if you watched that, you would find out that one of my favorite places to go is Sheetz. It’s convenient, it’s cheap, it has gas, and I have a Sheetz Card, Woot! But one thing always baffled me…Most convenient stores/grocery stores have their own generic soda and silly names to rip on the name brands, like Coke and Pepsi. Why doesn’t Sheetz have THEIR own soda? I feel like it would make a killing since soooo many people love Sheetz…

606,639 people to be exact!(or at least according to Facebook).

Well, alright then, I’m going to do my consumer mash by combining Sheetz and soda. But first, I needed to research why Sheetz hasn’t already done this themselves. As it turns out, they DID have their own soda line. If you go to the Wiki page and read the history section, you will find that Sheetz had a brand called It! Cola. Flash back into the mid 1990′s, the wiki even mentions that this brand had a cult following! =o So what the heck happened? No clue, and Wiki doesn’t know either. Damn. Well, if anyone finds an answer, I would love to hear it!

Continuing on, I now needed to incorporate soda and Sheetz. Well being the genius that I am (not really) I came up with this brilliant idea:

Okay, so admittedly, the “flavors” aren’t the most appealing, but it got the job done. I basically copped off of the major brand of Coke and Monster and went from there! Leaded = Coke; Unleaded = Diet Coke; Plus = Coke Vanilla; Premium = Mellow Yellow; Diesel Energy = Monster Energy. I even went as far as to download the Monster font from dafont.com!