Pods Embed Error: Pod not found.
This assignment is from the ds106 assignment bank and is worth 3 stars. Your supposed to mix short pieces of 5 or six songs and people are supposed to guess the artist or band. This one should be pretty easy to figure out.
Combine separate previously recorded audio and video files to create a video mashup of a talking pet. Use Audacity or another audio recording software and Movie Maker or another video editing software. The segments from each should be edited to deliver your message from the talking pet.
For this assignment, I used an audio assignment of my host character giving a morning message to the village people. I also had a video of my dog barking while I was talking to him, which was used as part of a video assignment. The original audio and video segments were uploaded to Movie Maker. Both were edited so that the pet’s voice is that of the host character (or yourself) delivering a message, telling a story, or reading poetry. Be creative!
This assignment was to mix an emoji with a friend. We also had to work our host character in this weeks assignments. The good news is you can now see how the Anonymous Host really feels.
This assignment is currently worth 3.5 stars.
I had originally wanted to do ET coming out of one of the spaceships from independence day, but I couldn’t find the right images to make it work. I saw that a lot of folks were doing Star Wars, and I know they have another movie coming out soon, so I figured the stock photos would abound. After I found the image you see here, I had to find an alien to add to it. Star Wars is a pretty diverse galaxy, so pretty much anything would work. I typed alien with a cloak, and this is one of the guys that popped up. He is the head alien from Mars Attacks!, a really great comedy staring Lesilie Nealson. It was a makeup test picture I beleave, so he was standing against a monotone backdrop, it was easy to remove with paint.NET’s magic wand, and the rest is history, as Star Wars Attacks!
I chose to mash up scenes of Leonidas from the movie 300 that made him look like a jerk. I re-watched the movie again recently, and I noticed that Leonidas was a very one dimensional character. He has no flaws, he never does anything wrong or questionable, he’s just a mans man, a good husband, a noble leader, and blah blah blah blah. So I decided I wanted to make a highlight reel of some of his jerkiest moments and try to paint him in a different light.
I already had the movie in digital format, so I just converted it to mp4 and loaded it in movie maker. I watched the movie and picked out parts I thought would suit the video, then I cut the video down to those clips, used music and effects from different parts of the movie, and made this little baby right here. My favorite part is the twinkly eyes (serious Leonidas eyes shot with little twinkly sound from a different part of the movie).
Assignment (2 stars)
For this assignment, we had to find four songs that we could include in a mashup. To incorporate my host character Edward Creeper, I chose his four favorite halloween songs that he plays year round. let me know if you can guess any in the comments!
To complete this assignment, I first found the four songs I wanted to use on YouTube, and used a YouTube converter to download them into iMovie. I then found the sections that I wanted to use in my mash up, and edited them appropriately. After that was finished, I saved the mashup as an audio-only file, and uploaded it to Soundcloud.
For this mashup assignment I had to mashup two iconic movie franchises. I chose my favorite two franchises Star Trek and Star Wars.
In this picture Captain Kirk is helping the Jedis fight Count Dooku’s droid army on Geonosis. I chose this scene because the Jedi are trapped in a circle and there was a perfect spot open for another character to join the circle. So I found a picture of Captain James T. Kirk with a phaser, cut him out of his original scene, and added him to this scene. I really enjoyed this assignment because I got the idea while I was re-watching all of the Star Wars movies (so I can prepare myself for The Force Awakens). I saw this part in episode II and knew Kirk would fit perfectly into it.
Assignment (3 stars)
For this assignment, we had to take a character from a TV show and mash together pictures and videos of them. I chose to mashup J.D. from one of my favorite shows, Scrubs. J.D. is one of the main characters, and is a doctor at Sacred Heart.
To complete this assignment, I first found several different pictures on Google, and clips on YouTube of J.D. to put into my mashup. I downloaded the clips using a YouTube converter, and edited them all together in iMovie. I then downloaded the Scrubs theme song (found here) and added it into iMovie. I then saved the movie, and uploaded it to YouTube
Classical-Modern Mashup: Ingredients: 1 piece of classical music, 1 modern music video. How to make: First, strip or mute the music out of the modern music video. Then layer the classic music on top. Voila! Some hopefully hilarious, weirdly sexual classical-modern mashup. (4 stars).
I immediately watched the example for this assignment and thought it was so creative and thought mine could be hilarious. This video assignment takes audio storytelling and merges it with a video to develop a new story! I chose to take a modern video, that is recently very new and talked about: Hotline Bling by Drake. This video is really just Drake dancing around multiple colorful stages with some women occasionally popping up. Then, for the modern song, I chose Fur Elise by Beethoven, which many people have heard before. I thought these two would make for a great mash-up.
I used iMovie again, which I love using for these assignments! It makes it so easy. I converted the YouTube video of Hotline Bling to a mp4 file so I could easily add it to iMovie. I then converted Fur Elise to an mp3 file and inserted it into my iMovie timeline. I used fltvo.com to do both of these things!
I inserted a title screen and a credits screen to give credit! I did also have to turn down the volume for the Drake video. Once I had the video in place on my timeline, there is a place which shows the audio for the video. I just dragged it down to 0%, so my Beethoven music could be the only audio heard.
I had a great time making this video. It is comical to see these two very different types of genres/styles interact. I think the classical music I added to this new and funky Drake video provided some interesting dancing and an imagination for the watcher. I enjoyed making this and showing the difference in times that these 2 songs present.
Here is my final video mash-up of Hotline Bling and Fur Elise:
–SALTY SKINN
This is the first of my two video assignments for the week. I chose to complete the Classical-Modern Mashup assignment. It’s a four-star assignment. Here are the directions.
Ingredients:
1 piece of classical music
1 modern music video
How to make:
First, strip or mute the music out of the modern music video. Then layer the classic music on top.
Voila! Some hopefully hilarious, weirdly sexual classical-modern mashup.
Here’s what I ended up with. I think it works pretty well.
(My internet is crapping out and I’m not able to upload the video at this moment. This is where it will be as soon as I am able to upload it.)
My first decision was which music video to use. I don’t listen to much modern music, so I really haven’t seen many modern music videos. I asked my girlfriend for an idea and she suggested I use the music video for “Chandelier” by Sia. I actually had seen this music video (because she showed it to me) and I think it’s completely ridiculous. I honestly don’t understand why it’s so loved because the dance just looks silly to me. So maybe touching it up with some classical music will help it be a bit better. I searched online for some classical music and listened to a couple different songs, but I decided that something a little weird would be better than something dramatic or moving. I ended up choosing the 2nd movement of Maurice Ravel’s “String Quarter in F Major.”
I found the video on YouTube and then used http://www.clipconverter.cc to download the video as an .mp4 file. I used the same site to download the song, but that file was saved as an MP3. I opened it in Windows Movie Maker and got to work on removing the audio. I’ve never used Windows Movie Maker, so I had to look up how to do this. I found this site, which gave me the following directions:
These directions weren’t perfect, but they did get me on the right track. I was able to upload both the video and the song, cut the end point of the song by selecting an option on the right-click menu. I used the Audio Mix option (seen in the top left of the screenshot below) to make sure only the song’s, not the video’s, audio played. 
To add the introduction credits, I used some of the options shown in the screenshot below to add a couple frames and set the text. I also shortened the duration on some of them because they were just too long.
I uploaded the video right onto WordPress and embedded it above. Voila! Finished assignment!
