I chose this mashup assignment because I though tit was kinda funny. I had to pick an upcoming movie and then make a movie cover that is in a way the opposite. To start I looked up movies that were coming out in 2022 and then chose SCREAM. I have never seen this movie and don’t plan on ever seeing it because it is scary- and I don’t do scary. Since this is a scary movie I wanted to make this new movie poster that didn’t look scary. I added the title and the descriptions of the movie to my new poster. I used word to place text over the picture. This assignment made me laugh, but also if it were real life, I would be so mad at the movie producers if they made the poster look like it was a funny and kid-friendly movie.

In this mashup assignment I mashed up my three favorite holidays into a photo.

My three favorite holidays are Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. In this photo I mixed up elements from each. I got a photo of a ghost, a candycane, a jack-o-lantern, a pilgrim hat, fall leaves, and a Christmas background. I went on Superimpose and imported the background. Then, I started added all of the layers and added them together. I placed them where I thought they looked good, and then uploaded the photo on Flickr. I really like how this mashup turned out!

For this next assignment this week, I decided to create a children’s book cover for the “Mashedup Children’s Book” assignment. Lately I have been excited with the news of there being a Season Two of the Amazon Prime Show Good Omens, so I wanted to create a mash-up book cover that reveals some of the plot without fully giving it away.

For anyone not familiar with it, Good Omens (1990) was written by Neil Gaimen (of Sandman fame) and Terry Prachett (of Discworld fame). They are two of the greatest British authors in recent times, and Good Omens has had a devoted cult following since its release in 1990. Amazon Prime adapted the book into a six-episode show in 2018, starring Michael Sheen as the angel Aziraphale and David Tennant as the demon Crowley. The show is a marvelous adaptation of the book, and I would recommend it to anyone looking for a platonic love story between former enemies, which also has some very dry comic bits in-between. The book does this more than the show, and some parts will have you doubled over laughing as how off-track-without-actually-getting-off-track it is at times. 10/10, glowing recommendation from me!

Anyways, I started by looking around for some Good Omens fanart. There’s quite a bit, since the book came out in the 1990s. However, I found a wonderful piece by Chocodile on Twitter that portrays Crowley driving his 1933 (in the show; it’s a 1926 in the book) Bentley as it’s on fire. This is something that occurred in both the book and show, and I immediately knew the title I wanted to go with. First off, I do not own this fanart! Chocodile is the artist, and I only repurposed it for this project! The original Tweet that contains the art can be found below!

To make the book cover, I downloaded the image then used Pixlr to create a canvas that was approximately the size of a book cover. I wanted to keep the yellow background, because I liked the way it looked and felt it really complimented the children’s book aesthetic. I messed around with shading a bit before deciding it looks better as the original. From there I generated the title “A Demon’s Guide to Stopping the Apocalypse” by Neil Gaimen and Terry Prachett. I personally like to image there’s a sequel out in the world somewhere, titled “An Angel’s Guide to Stopping the Apocalypse” or something like that. This one is from Crowley’s perspective, so that one could be from Aziraphale’s. There could actually be an entire series! “A Witch’s Guide…,” “A Witch Hunter’s Guide…,” “The Antichrist’s Guide…,” etc., etc.! These are all references to the book/show, by the way, so I apologize to anyone unfamiliar with it. Basically it’s a motley crew consisting of an angel, a demon, the antichrist, three human children, a witch, a witch hunter, a former witch hunter, and a medium who team up to stop the apocalypse. It’s quite fun(ny) actually!

Here’s the final product! Please let me know what you think in a comment down below!

For this next assignment this week, I decided to create a children’s book cover for the “Mashedup Children’s Book” assignment. Lately I have been excited with the news of there being a Season Two of the Amazon Prime Show Good Omens, so I wanted to create a mash-up book cover that reveals some of the plot without fully giving it away.

For anyone not familiar with it, Good Omens (1990) was written by Neil Gaimen (of Sandman fame) and Terry Prachett (of Discworld fame). They are two of the greatest British authors in recent times, and Good Omens has had a devoted cult following since its release in 1990. Amazon Prime adapted the book into a six-episode show in 2018, starring Michael Sheen as the angel Aziraphale and David Tennant as the demon Crowley. The show is a marvelous adaptation of the book, and I would recommend it to anyone looking for a platonic love story between former enemies, which also has some very dry comic bits in-between. The book does this more than the show, and some parts will have you doubled over laughing as how off-track-without-actually-getting-off-track it is at times. 10/10, glowing recommendation from me!

Anyways, I started by looking around for some Good Omens fanart. There’s quite a bit, since the book came out in the 1990s. However, I found a wonderful piece by Chocodile on Twitter that portrays Crowley driving his 1933 (in the show; it’s a 1926 in the book) Bentley as it’s on fire. This is something that occurred in both the book and show, and I immediately knew the title I wanted to go with. First off, I do not own this fanart! Chocodile is the artist, and I only repurposed it for this project! The original Tweet that contains the art can be found below!

To make the book cover, I downloaded the image then used Pixlr to create a canvas that was approximately the size of a book cover. I wanted to keep the yellow background, because I liked the way it looked and felt it really complimented the children’s book aesthetic. I messed around with shading a bit before deciding it looks better as the original. From there I generated the title “A Demon’s Guide to Stopping the Apocalypse” by Neil Gaimen and Terry Prachett. I personally like to image there’s a sequel out in the world somewhere, titled “An Angel’s Guide to Stopping the Apocalypse” or something like that. This one is from Crowley’s perspective, so that one could be from Aziraphale’s. There could actually be an entire series! “A Witch’s Guide…,” “A Witch Hunter’s Guide…,” “The Antichrist’s Guide…,” etc., etc.! These are all references to the book/show, by the way, so I apologize to anyone unfamiliar with it. Basically it’s a motley crew consisting of an angel, a demon, the antichrist, three human children, a witch, a witch hunter, a former witch hunter, and a medium who team up to stop the apocalypse. It’s quite fun(ny) actually!

Here’s the final product! Please let me know what you think in a comment down below!

For this assignment take a music video and mash it with a new song. Replace the audio to a music video with another song. Try to get them to fit together as best as you can.” 4 STARS

I chose to use these two songs for my mashup because I love how upbeat they both are. I believe that these songs truly have the ability to produce happiness. I also believe that happiness is what helps us continue to push forward day in and day out. Ross always says to be different and do what will make you happy. Working with this mad me happy, so I would say I successfully followed Ross’s advice. I decided to use the Sugar music video because I felt that it matched up to Happy better then if I would have used the Happy music video and played Sugar over top of it.

To complete this assignment I started off with thinking about what songs would be fun to work with. I quickly thought of these two songs due to their up beat tone. I then had to find a website that would allow me to download both videos from Youtube. After I found one and downloaded the two songs I opened QuickTime. I then uploaded Happy and exported it as just audio. I then uploaded the Sugar video with music and the Happy music with just audio to GarageBand. After that I split the audio from and the video apart from the Sugar video and deleted the audio. I then had to find a good place to start the music and the video. After lining the music and the video up the best that I could. I created a opening title slide and a credits slide at the end. I then picked out a transition for after the initial slide and one before the credits slide. After that I uploaded the video to YouTube.

I had a great time working with this assignment because I was able to work with two great songs. It really boosted my happiness working with these songs. My main take away from this assignment was the YouTube video downloader website that I found. If I could do this assignment again I would have probably added some transition effects during the rest of the video.

One of my favorite comfort movies is the 1991 superhero film The Rocketeer. One of the most prominent descriptions of the film that I have seen is that it is “an airborne Indiana Jones.” So, for my second mashup assignment, I decided to make a Rocketeer poster in the style of Indiana Jones.

The specific poster I used as a template was one for Temple of Doom. This poster prominently features images of the main character, their love interest, the sidekick, and the main antagonist, so I had to find analogues for each for mine. I found images of Cliff Secord, Jenny Blake, and Neville Sinclair. I ran into some trouble finding an adequate image to use for Peevy, who is the main character’s closest friend. I ended up taking a black and white photograph of him that I really liked and ran it through a website that uses AI to colorize photographs. The last photograph I used in my poster was of the Bulldog Cafe, a prominent location in the film.

I edited the images together in Procreate, sharpening them and adjusting their individual color balances to achieve the look I wanted. I also downloaded an Indiana Jones style font to use in the poster. Though my poster does not fully capture the intensity of the Indiana Jones poster nor the whimsy of the actual Rocketeer film, I think it still stands as a worthy merging of the two properties.

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For this assignment, I wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to use my Animoji on my iPhone. I created my Animoji to look similar to me. Even though, we have this function on iPhone’s I have not really put it to use. My character has the same hairstyle, hair color, eye color and skin complexion as I do. I think this is the fun part about creating these type of emojis. The idea of being able to make them look like you. The song that I chose to use for this video was “A Thousand Miles” by Vanessa Carlton. I not only enjoy this song, but I like the scene on the movie “White Chicks” with Terry Cruise, where he sings this song.  I think for the purpose of this assignment, it allowed me to use a lot of gestures, while lip syncing the song. I think lip syncing allowed me to capture some of the emotion that the artist incorporated into the song as well. 

After playing the song on my phone and recording myself lip syncing with my Animoji, I did some editing of the screen recording and then I was done with my mashup. I think one of the challenging parts of this assignment, is making sure that the lip syncing lines up with the actual song. While also making sure the Animoji captures every word that is being said. Overall, I had fun doing this assignment and it makes me want to use my Animoji even more now.

In honor of the recent announcement of the Illumination Animation Mario movie cast, I decided to attempt the Photo Mash assignment. For this assignment, I wanted to make an edit of an image from the original 1993 Mario movie, replacing Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo with Chris Pratt and Charlie Day.

I started by finding an image from the original film that featured Mario and Luigi. Next, I found images of Chris Pratt and Charlie Day where their heads were in roughly the same positions as Hoskins and Leguizamo. I cut out their heads in Procreate and superimposed them on top of Hoskins and Leguizamo. To make sure their heads were merged appropriately with their bodies, I left a bit of their necks on and used the blend brush to provide a smoother transition from the face’s color to the neck’s.

I worked on this immediately after one of our longest rehearsals, so I didn’t feel like writing up a blog post about it immediately. However, I still wanted to share it since I thought the image was funny, so I posted it on Twitter, where the official archive account for the 1993 Super Mario Bros. movie liked and retweeted it.

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The goal of this assignment was to mash up two iconic movie scenes to make them flow together and look like part of the same frame. I started out by doing a google search of iconic movie scenes. I chose an iconic scene from The Shining and Home Alone. I downloaded them and placed them side by side. Since the man on the left is peaking through a door and looking to the right in a creepily way and the boy is looking at the creepy man in terror from a different room, it looks like they could go together but they are actually from two different movies. I chose these two movies because I thought they were photos that everyone would recognize and also it displays a little bit of a Halloween spirit with a Halloween movie scene and a little bit of Christmas spirit with a Christmas movie. I think they fit together pretty well. Let me know what you think in the comments below.

For my first mash up of the week. I decided to do a friend and emoji mash up. As I was scrolling through the assignment bank, this one looked pretty fun. I asked three of my friends if they would be willing to help me with this assignment. I let them choose an emoji and then they tried to mimic the emoji as I took their picture. I then went onto google and downloaded a photo of the emoji. I used a photo editor app called Pic Collage to put the pictures of my friends next to their corresponding emojis. This was a really fun assignment. One day I want to try to remake all of the emojis. I think it would be cool to make a grid of all the emojis but with me trying to make all the different faces.