So I did the Actor transformation (2,5 stars) mashup, to show how Jennifer Aniston has evolved since the beginning of her career in the 90s. I want to know the woman’s secrets though because she honestly hasn’t changed much in 30 years. Crazy.

I used Quicktime to record my screen while the movie clips were running and then put it all together in iMovie. I added a song from free music archive as background music and uploaded to youtube!

I finished the Holiday Mashup (4,5 stars) assignment and choose the three holidays that Charlie Sass likes the best. Thanksgiving, Halloween and New Years! I found a good scary background, and then I layered different png pictures over the background to represent the three holidays. I used GIMP for the assignment, and didn’t run into any issues.

Here’s the result:

Holiday Mashup

For this assignment, I was instructed to use a photo editing software to mashup my top three favorite holidays/cultural celebrations. I was instructed to use whatever elements I liked from each holiday, creating a character or scene with the images/symbols I chose. Lastly, I was supposed to tell a story with the image. Below is my creation and the steps I took to create it:

This assignment was fairly easy and quick for me to do. I immediately knew my top three holidays are: Christmas, Halloween, and Thanksgiving. I was able to tell somewhat of a story with the magnitude/size of each holiday representation. Christmas is my #1, thus the Santa Claus is the biggest and focal point of the creation. Halloween is my #2, thus I decided to pick an image that had three elements to it (hoping that it would indicate more importance than the turkey did). Lastly, Thanksgiving is my #3, thus why I chose a fairly simple image to represent it. Below are my steps:

1. I googled Santa Clause, then Halloween, and lastly Thanksgiving. I saved all of the images you see above (and luckily, all of them were clip art – therefore I didn’t have to edit them at all! They already came with alpha channels).
2. I opened up the Santa Clause image in Gimp first, now the original image had him holding gifts in each hand. So I did have to erase those to clear up his hands to hold the other images.
3. Once I did that, I imported the Halloween and Thanksgiving images, placed them where I wanted them, and boom – I was all done!

I’m Ready For My Closeup

For this assignment, I was instructed to take a dramatic closeup of anyone’s face – an actor’s, a friend’s, my own – and superimpose a landscape or scene over said face. The goal was to take two completely unrelated images and put them together, then try to make a story out of it. Below is my final product and my thoughts and steps I took to create it:

This creation is the proudest I’ve ever been in this course. I am insanely proud of it and I have absolutely no idea why. It actually caused for a laughing fest to begin between my boyfriend and I. As I finished up the product, I calmly turned to him and said “mmm tators.” He had no idea what I was working on or what I was talking about, but when he looked at my computer screen – he lost it. We laughed for a good twenty minutes or so. But anyways, here is how I made this beautiful art:

1. I had to decide what face I was going to utilize in the photo. I knew that I wanted it to be a humorous photo, thus when I saw this photo of myself – I knew it was the one. Oddly enough, I was actually at my best friend’s wedding when this was taken.
2. Next, I needed to decide on a photo that would further add some humor to use as my background. I was thinking to myself, “Hmm, Thanksgiving is right around the corner…” and boom, I thought mashed potatoes.
3. I then took to google to find a mashed potato-filled background to use and when I came across this picture of a turtle eating mashed potatoes – honestly, it was fate. I saved it so fast.
4. I call this piece, Turtlesgiving. Happy holidays folks!

Photo Mash

For this assignment, I was instructed to take two actors and mash them together into one photo. Also, I had to make sure that they look like they belong in their setting and they look like they were actually together when the photo was taken. Below is my finished product and the steps I took to create it:

Alright so, by this point in the semester I’ve used Gimp so much that I’m now almost a pro. I remember when I first started using it, the application made me want to throw my computer at a wall. But anyways, I decided to go with Daryl from The Walking Dead and Tallahassee from Zombieland as my characters. I chose Daryl because The Walking Dead used to be one of my favorite TV shows and he was my favorite character. I chose Tallahassee because Zombieland is one of my favorite movies and I love Woody Harrelson. It was only logical that I put them in an apocalyptic setting! The step-by-step process for this creation is as follows:

1. I googled images of Daryl, Tallahassee, and a zombie background. I then downloaded them all to my computer.
2. I opened up the Daryl and Tallahassee files, separately, and used the lasso tool, added an alpha channel, and used the scissors tool to remove them from their backgrounds.
3. Next, I opened up the apocalyptic setting in a new window, imported both of the images I had just finished editing of Daryl and Tallahassee and viola!

10 Second Song Mashup – 3.5 Stars

For this assignment I had to chose some songs and do a mashup of just 2 seconds of each song to see if you can guess the songs. I chose all pop/upbeat songs for this assignment. I also chose songs that I feel like sound kind of similar. Try and see how many you can get right!

I made this song mashup using GarageBand. Some reason when you convert from Garageband to iTunes it adds a few seconds to it, but in Garageband it really was 10 seconds long!

I really enjoyed this assignment. I think it is fun guessing songs from just short clips of them. I think a fun assignment would be just playing the first few seconds of a song because usually when you listen to the radio you hear the first part and already know the song.

To kick off week 12, I decided to start with a little Disney Mash Up, worth 4 stars. For this assignment, I was simply to put together some Disney songs I thought would blend well together. I love all things Disney, so I was looking forward to this. I decided to go with How Far I’ll Go from Moana and Let it Go from Frozen. I chose these songs because they shared words in the title, so to me they went together. I used the versus from Moana and the chorus from Frozen to mash my songs.

To complete the assignment, I found both songs in my iTunes. Then, I uploaded both to Audacity and cut the choruses and versus that I needed from each song and mashed them together. Once I finished, I listened to see how they sounded together. They don’t blend well, but I think it is funny because instead of Moana singing how far she will go, it brings in Elsa singing let it go. It is like Elsa is telling Moana to let go of her dream of being a voyager and see what is beyond her island. After I finished the song, I uploaded it to SoundCloud and embedded it below.

For my first mashup assignment this week I chose the I’m Ready for my Closeup assignment worth 4 1/2 stars. I thought the juxtaposition this assignment allows for was quite humorous and that is what originally drew me to complete it.

To complete this assignment I first decided on an image for the dramatic closeup. I ended up picking a photo of Ryan Gosling from the movie The Notebook. I chose this image because it is the epitome of drama. He is standing out in the pouring rain trying to win the love of his life back. Once I chose the image I then picked a photo for the background. Like I previously mentioned I really wanted the dramatic close up to juxtapose the background so I picked the cutest picture I could fine, a basket full of puppies. Then once I had my two images chosen I used the app Pasteify to crop the two images together! Then I tweeted my final product here it is!

#MashupAssignments #MashupAssignments1945 #ds106 I am ready for my close up! pic.twitter.com/TpwExl1S5f

— Jordan Pamlanye (@PamlanyeJordan) November 12, 2017