My second assignment of the week was inspired by my first assignment, but this time follows the Logo Switch Up assignment rules.

While looking for inspiration for my first assignment, I stumbled upon the logos for Cabbage Patch Kids and Garbage Pail Kids. I knew it would be a fun mash-up. Cabbage Patch Kids were popular dolls in the 1980’s and Garbage Pail Kids were a play on baseball trading cards.

To start I needed to find a clear and editable Cabbage Patch logo. Similar to with my first assignment, to eliminate the unwanted logo letters, I “Quick Selected” the components I wanted to keep and painted over everything else with white to match with the pre-existing background.

The next step was to get the Garbage Pail Kids logo. I was able to locate a logo someone had already created.

Next, I knew I wanted to incorporate a Garbage Pail Kid to replace the Cabbage Patch baby on the logo. After a little searching I found one of the original kids.

I isolated the head, erased the rest, and put it all together for the finished product. Looking back, the hear is a little pixilated, I should have soothed out the edges and maybe manipulated the resolution to make it look less Photoshopped and more cohesive.

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For my first assignment this week I took a little spin off the Consumer Mashup assignment. I wanted keep with the 1980’s theme so I looked up the most popular 1980’s brands for inspiration.

I decided to focus on food and began to look into Pepsi and Coca-Cola products of the ’80’s. I specifically looked at “New Coke.” New Coke was released in 1985 as a reformulated Coke. Coca-Cola stocks had been slipping during this time and Coke wanted introduce something that they hoped would reignite people’s interest. Unfortunately, New Coke did not have the intended effect and was short lived. It was briefly rebranded “Coke II” in the 90’s, but ultimately was pulled from the shelves. It made a brief come back as a promotional tool recently for the newest season of “Stranger Things.”

Opposed to Coca-Cola, Pepsi was fairing quite will in the 1980’s and its product were rapidly expanding in the global market.

Given that Coca-Cola and Pepsi are arguable the biggest soda competitors of our current age, I decided to mash them together. I first found a stock image of the New Coke product and then found the Pepsi logo used in the 1980’s.

The next step was to upload both images into Photoshop, erase the coke brand from the Coke can, and isolated the Pepsi logo. To isolate the Coke lettering I color matched the red and silver coloring of the can and simply colored over the letters. To isolate the Pepsi logo I selected the circular logo with the “Quick Selection” tool in Photoshop and the hit the masking tool.

My original design utilized another Pepsi logo used on their 1980’s cans; however, I thought it was too plain.

In the end I opted for the circular Pepsi logo and layered the blank New Coke can with the new Pepsi logo. Here is the finished result:

It’s not perfect, but given Photoshops inability to cooperate with me while I was making it (some added technical difficulties, I don’t normally have with Photoshop), it turned out ok.

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This Doesn’t Belong Here:

For this assignment I was asked to take two iconic movie scenes or images and combine them in an unnatural way that makes you think – yeah, that doesn’t belong there. I chose the iconic scene from Titanic, and the Millennium falcon from star wars to fly in the background. I used photoshop to create this mashup and it is worth 4 stars!

Consumer Mashup:

For this assignment I decided to use my favorite company (and most often used) Starbucks! I used photoshop for this assignment and simply painted over the original lettering and added my own text in to replace it with my favorite drink. I also used a coffee cup clip art on the sides to replace the stars that were there before! 4 stars!

The first mashup assignment I did for this week was Storytelling Through Text. For this assignment, I had to record myself having some sort of storytelling text with a friend. For this assignment, I got my friend Kayla and we got together. We first had to think of the topic of our story. I took a little bit of thinking, but Kayla had just gotten stung by a bee. We decided that could be a really cool storytelling through text.

We started recording our screens and just started texting. I was fun to come up with things on the spot to make the conversation even more interesting! It was not as hard as I thought the conversation would be to come up with and I really enjoy this assignment!

4 ½ stars 

I decided to create this assignment because I felt I needed a reminder of the most exciting times of the year. 

To really resonate how amazing these holidays are, I decided I couldn’t just use a plain and still photo; this called for a gif assignment.

 I went onto my instagram and through the story application (where you can create a visual for up to 24 hours), I decided to use the gif generator to create my main background. 

Nightmare before Christmas is one of my favorite holiday movies because it captures two of the best holidays, so It was only right to base my background off of Jack Skellington. I then decided to add even more gifs to this live-photo, by adding christmas accessories to Jack such as antler ears and a christmas hat. I lastly topped it off with fireworks to represent my life for fireworks on the fourth of July. 

I posted this assignment on my instagram feed, asking if my fellow classmates could guess which are my favorite holidays. 

5 stars 

For this assignment, I had way too much fun creating! It was definitely the most amusing assignment I had this week, as I had to do a couple of retakes from laughing. 

I went onto the feature on my iPhone on iMessages, and began recording by listening to music in the background (I didn’t need the lyrics as I can sing this song backwards if I wanted to haha). 

To make this assignment even more amusing, I didn’t realize I was recording this feature through my boyfriend’s messages and sent it to him. He’ll probably get a good laugh from it too when he wakes up!

 I then saved this video to my camera roll after sending it through a message. However, I didn’t like the way the background music sounded, so I decided to import the video into iMovie and using a youtube video converter, was able to import the song onto my video to make it sound more clean. 

I imported the video to my camera roll, and lastly posted it to Twitter in hopes of amusing other with my masterpiece.

Overall, 10/10 assignment. 

For this week’s Mashup Assignments, the first one I chose was Animoji Karaoke. I chose to sing along to Men At Work’s 1981 hit song, Down Under. I chose to use a Koala face as my Animoji because its only fitting for the “Down Under” theme. I also think I somewhat resemble a koala thanks to my round face and lazy disposition. This assignment was very fun and I got to use my phone’s technology to make something entertaining.

For one of my mashup assignments I chose to do “Storytelling Through Text” which was worth 5 stars. This assignment challenged us to tell a story from any background but to do it through text and record the entire thing. I drew some inspiration from an event that actually happened to be this morning, getting stung by a wasp. Yep. Just my luck. I was walking into the house I nanny at with a toddler and I reached for the railing and a wasp was hanging out underneath it and my hand went right over top of him. It hurt, like a lot. For this assignment I used my iPhone as it already has a screen record option. I simply began the screen recording and went to text my friend Emily who was playing the role of my housemate. In most situations I would write a script with what we would be texting but for this assignment I chose to do it freestyle and let it be how we actually have conversations. Let me know what you think!!

I Believe by Cher

I created this assignment from the Mashup Assignment for 5 stars.

I used my iPhone to create an emoji of a self close-up. It was actually kind of fun. Then I looked through our music to see what was hip in the 80s. So, I chose I believe by Cher.

Sat in front of my TV on YouTube with the song with lyrics. Turn on the emoji which only has a 30 second recording time. Tried it a few times since I kept receiving texts during recordings. Sent the final video to myself and uploaded it to Photos.

I thought I could upload it on iMovie but it only played the song and not the video so I tried YouTube. That worked!

Enjoy!

Who doesn’t love Molly Ringwald?!

I completed a 4 star Mashup Assignment to mix together video clips of Molly Ringwald in 80’s films.

I took several clips from the 3 movies; Pretty in Pink, Sixteen Candles, and Breakfast Club.

I utilized Quicktime to capture and save the video clips on my photo folder. I also used iMovie to collaborate the video clips together and shorten the clips.

I added background music, toned down so it’s not overbearing.

Enjoy!