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I did the 4-star “This Doesnt Belong Here” mashup assignment where “you need to mash up two different iconic movie scenes. However, you should aim to be as subtle as possible. Perhaps a famous prop that simply doesn’t belong or a character that looks a little out of place.” I must admit that it was not subtle at all, but I did a mashup of Jim Carrey as the mask and as Ace Ventura. I just edited The Mask’s face on Ace Ventura’s body.
by Thomas Pulsifer
Based on the 4-star “Audio & Music Video Mashup” assignment from the assignment bank, I’ve created this incredibly cursed mashup of 100 gecs and ABBA. When choosing the song and music video, I knew I wanted to combine a cheery pop song with intense or bizarre visuals, but I also wanted them to match strangely well. ABBA immediately came to mind for the song, since they’re the pinnacle of pop music, so I chose my favorite ABBA song, “Take A Chance On Me.” The music video, on the other hand, was a bit harder to decide on. I ultimately ended up going with the video for “hand crushed by a mallet” by 100 gecs, which definitely fits the intense/bizarre criteria I was going for.
As you should come to expect by now, I used Vegas Pro to combine the audio and visuals. The editing process was much, much easier than the process of actually finding the right song and video, which ended up being so difficult because of how hard it was to find a good match. Thankfully, this pairing turned out great. There’s a lot of funny synchronizations between the song and the video, such as how the beat kicks in once the fly breaks into the room, or how the lyrics say “You want me to leave you there” when the fly leaves through the window. There’s also a nice descending musical motif to go along with the iris-out at the end of the video. The song recontextualizes the music video quite a bit, implying the fly has romantic feelings for green man. Overall, I’m very happy with how this turned out. ABBA and 100 gecs are both great in their own right, and combining them is equal parts ridiculous and hilarious.
Create a poster or ad for an upcoming movie. Let the ad’s theme and movie contradict themselves. For instance, you can have your movie be about kids playing on a Summer day, but your ad shows a spooky side to the plot. A good “everything is not what it seems” kicker. Your movie could be an action packed movie called “Fight It”, but in your ad you can show everyone laughing as if it is a comedy. There are many ways you can mashup this assignment. Make it your own!
https://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/is-this-the-right-movie/
I used Canva to complete this assignment. I chose to make a poster with this more light-hearted food background that contradicts the theme of the title of the movie: “The End of the World.”
Mashup two (or more!) songs that are similar to each other, by either the same or different artist(s). Do your best to show the similarities—edit parts of the songs next to each other. If it’s possible to do this without making it sound terrible, try to overlay the songs at parts to highlight how much they sound alike.
https://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/similar-songs/
I used CCMixter to find free music to use for this assignment. I chose “Precarity” by airtone and “She Moved Through the Fair” by Stefan Kartenberg because they both sounded someone similar. I used Audacity to edit the parts that they sounded alike together. I actually really like how it turned out. There are some parts that don’t sound all that great but overall I was impressed with how easily both songs worked together.
So I decided to remix the “I’m Ready for My Closeup” mashup assignment where you “take a dramatic closeup of anyone’s face – an actor’s, a friend’s, your own – and superimpose a landscape or scene over the face. Since this is a mashup, get crazy with it. Take two completely unrelated images and put them together, then try to make a story out of it!” Instead of making a story out of it, I decided to make it look like a player vs. player screen from a fighting game. I used images of Puss in Boots pointing from Shrek and Leonardo DiCaprio’s character Hugh Glass from The Revenant. I used photoshop to superimpose both images on the background of a Bob Ross painting which substitutes for the fighting arena in fighting games. I even added the cool “vs” image/logo to make it look closer to the actual style.
For my second mashup assignment, I created a short talking animal segment. Specifically, I took footage of my cat Dinah me0wing and overdubbed various iterations of Marlon Brando’s “Stella!” from A Streetcar Named Desire (1951). More like A Streetcat Named Dinah, am I right?
Initially, I was only going to use Brando, but I ultimately thought it would be funnier and more intertextual if I also included Seinfeld’s homage to the original. In the final version, it sort of ended up as a conversation between the original and the parody.
I used Premiere Pro for this. I downloaded .mp3s from the scenes I needed and isolated the “Stella!”s that I wanted. Ultimately, because Dinah’s meows were short bursts of sound, I had to speed up some of the audio so that it would better fit the brevity of her ‘speech’.
Here’s the result:
For my first mashup assignment, I decided to take another shot at properly mashing two songs up. However, as opposed to my earlier Kinks/MF DOOM mash-up, I specifically tried to think of two songs that were actually musically similar in terms of melody and harmony, not just rhythmically.
I ultimately chose “Does He Love You?” by Rilo Kiley and “Don’t Make It Harder On Me” by Chloe X Halle. I’ve loved that Rilo Kiley track since I was a kid and I found the Chloe X Halle track earlier this year and it instantly reminded me of “Does He Love You?”. In the process of mashing up these two tracks, I found that, indeed, they have nearly the same harmonic framework which made them blend together seamlessly.
For this assignment, I used Logic Pro X and Audacity. First, I downloaded .mp3s for both songs and used Audacity to remove or isolate the vocals. I also used Audacity to match the keys of the two songs. Using a metronome and the time-stretching functions in Logic, I was able to determine each song’s tempo and key. Ultimately I had to pitch “Does He Love You?” down by nine half-steps, which is why the instrumental is much deeper than in the original. I had initially planned to have them meet somewhere in the middle, but I felt the vocals lost too much clarity when I pitched them up.
Even though I approximated the tempo of each piece, the vocal performance still needed some adjustments, so the majority of the editing came from cutting up the vocals and inching them around so that they jive best with the instrumental.
Here is the final result:
For this mashup, I found two clips of the movies that I wanted to use, and downloaded them. Then I used Microsoft’s video editor to trim them both to work with each other, and add some title pages.
I decided to do the Holiday Mashup assignment. For this assignment I had to make a poster that depicted different holidays together as one. For this poster I used canva and created this. The pumpkin background is to represent thanksgiving, Santa of course represents Christmas, and the bunnies and eggs represent easter.l
This Doesn’t Belong Here-For this 4 star assignment you need to mash up two different iconic movie scenes. However, you should aim to be as subtle as possible. Perhaps a famous prop that simply doesn’t belong or a character that looks a little out of place.
I took scenes from Wonder Woman 1984 and Star Wars: the Last Jedi to create this mash up. I used paint to cut out Master Yoda from the scene where he was speaking to Luke Skywalker. Then used Canva to put them together.
