For the Movie Mashup assignment, I wanted to make it spy-themed and to mashup two spy movies. Spy movies seem to kind of run together in my head, especially movies like the Bourne series and the Jack Ryan series. This mashup mashes together Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit and The Bourne Identity. The two original posters are here:

I tried coming up with a font and color scheme pretty similar to the original, and I went with the Jack Ryan poster because I could fit more actors in it easily. As well mashing together the titles, I mashed together the tag lines and other elements. I used red carpet images of the actors and just used Photoshop to paste them over the original actors’ faces, added a little finishing touches. with some brushes and color adjustment, and voilà, a generic mashup spy movie poster.

For one of the mash up assignment, I decided to the Im Ready for my closeup, which is rated 4 stars.

I had a lot of inspiration for this one, I knew I wanted to incorporate my spy, mac into it but I didn’t know how. At first, I blew up her face and put it on the moon, but that didn’t make any sense, why would she be on the moon?  I worked with my moon inspiration and decided to have her in space, and then had the fantastic idea of putting her on a spaceship.

Here is my final product. Agent Mac on her 3rd mission, they sent her to space and she had to fight the evil aliens that were trying to attack earth. She wasn’t pleased (neither was patrick) this was NOT in her job description.

For this assignment I had to take a photo from an iconic movie and add it to another iconic movie photo in a  subtle way. Can you tell what two movies they are? Can you find the thing that doesn’t belong here?

I created my assignment using Pixlr.com. Because I did the holiday mashup assignment first, I was familiar with Pixlr and was pretty much able to breeze through this assignment. The only thing that I really needed to do was find the two images that I wanted to use and then download them to my desktop. Then I had to adjust their sizes (make them smaller) so that they weren’t so enlarged when  I layered them on Pixlr to create my finished photo.

The next assignment I choose to do was the assignment called This doesn’t belong here which was worth 4 stars. This assignment was to mash-up two different iconic movie scenes by adding something like for example a movie prop to another movie scene. I decided use Alice and Wonderland and 101 Dalmatians as my two iconic movie scenes. These movies would be perfect not only because these are one of my favorite movies but also the scenes could be combined. I searched google for a portrait of the 101 Dalmatians which was easy to find. Then I searched the internet for a picture of the Bandersnatch which had spots on its fur that will blind in nicely with the Dalmatians. I usually use paint to edit my photos but this time I wanted to use PIXLR for editing the photos for the first time. At first it was hard to figure out the tools to cut out the Bandersnatch from the background but once I did it was easy to paste on the other picture. However, since the picture had already 101 Dalmatians there was no room to put the Bandersnatch. So, I had to change the size of the picture and put him on the couch to make it seem like he was lounging there. By putting him on the couch, the Bandersnatch does not seem noticeable and makes it look like he was part of the movie. Overall, I am satisfied with the final product and it turned out better than I thought especially using a new site for editing my photos.

I got this clip from Skyfall and I couldn’t think of a better clip to mashup with an inappropriate laughter sequence. So first I had to download this clip as an mp4 and I left it on my desktop so I could just drag it straight into iMovie.  From there I just edited the clip to be a little shorter and added in the audio to the parts I thought it would work the best.  I had to do a little bit of editing to the audio as well but that wasn’t too difficult to do either!  I think my previous experience with iMovie might have made this the quickest video/audio mashup I’ve ever done.  Can’t complain about that!

I choose to do this assignment http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/photo-mash/  which was worth 3 ½ stars. This assignment was to take two actors from different movies and mash them together into one photo.  I searched google for a background that would fit my actors and I found a black and white picture of an ominous woods. Now that I had gotten the background, all I needed the two actors to put on the background. I had a tough time figuring out the actors because I had many movies in mind that I love to use. In the end, I decided on Katniss Everdeen from the Hunger Games and Hawkeye from Avengers for the photo mash. I choose these characters because they both use a bow as their weapon of choice so when I combine them in one photo it would look like they were part of the same movie. Once I choose the pictures I wanted of the two characters I went to Canva to try to combine them all. All I had to do was upload the pictures and Canva removed the background from each photo. I uploaded the background and placed the two characters on the background. I noticed how the characters were still in color while the background was in black and white so I changed the color of the characters to correspond with the background. Thus, I created a photo mash for the first time!

For this assignment, I picked 5 of my favorite most current songs and combined them based on the themes. The song begins with talking about facing all your problems alone and trying to impress an ex, next it’s about being comfortable on your own without them, then it’s about not wanting to know what your ex has been doing, then it moves on to talking about how you still love them, and it ends with the person acknowledging that they don’t talk anymore and it how it isn’t worth it to continue on with them.

This assignment was so much fun . 5/5, would do again.