My final mashup assignment was “The Contest Nobody Could Win (Video-Mashup Edition” (4 stars). The hardest part of this was figuring out 6 movies that I liked and wanted to mash. The next hardest was figuring out what clips I wanted to use.

Honestly, some of these are dead giveaways. That’s why I stuck the older movie in at the end. It’s a great movie, and oddly relevant in this day and age. If anyone manages to guess the movie without googling the quote, I’ll be very impressed. (That’s why that clip’s a half-second longer than it should be, so I could get the whole thing.) If you can’t figure it out, google “I thought all the nuts went home after Labor Day” and it comes right up. I highly recommend the movie, it’s hilarious.

Overall, I think that if you’ve seen these movies, it’ll be pretty easy to guess what they are. Maybe I should have gone for more obscure clips, but it’s no fun if it could be any one of 10 movies.

I downloaded the clips from YouTube using 4k Video Downloader, then stuck them together in Movie Maker.

I love movies so this was a treat. To make this masterpiece I only needed some pictures from google and photoshop.

Oh Dirty Dancing, so romantic… it would be a shame if something happened. Insert Jack Nicholson saying “Heereess Johnny” here. I honestly think that is one of the most iconic movie scenes in history, so I had to insert the picture into this mashup.

I decided to put Jack into the back corner near the doors so he could break in with an ax later.

The Shining Dirty Dancing? The Dirty Shining Dancing?

Either way, it’s a movie I’d watch!

This assignment, “This Doesn’t Belong Here” (4 stars), requires a mashup of two famous movie scenes.

I love both the Princess Bride and the Indiana Jones series, so I decided to mix up those two. I chose the scene from the Princess Bride when Inigo Montoya kills the six-fingered man and the scene from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade when Indy picks out the Holy Grail, because these scenes (to me) had some of the highest emotional impact. Inigo finally gets the revenge he’s spent his life on, and Indiana cuts through myth and legend to reveal truth. In the end, I stuck the Holy Grail on the table behind Inigo.

First, I took the screenshot where Indiana picks up the Grail, and grayed it out some by playing with the contrast, vibrancy, and exposure. Then, I blurred it to make the Grail fit more into the background of the Princess Bride scene. All of this was done with PhotoDirector 5. Then, using Paint, I cut the Holy Grail out of the Indiana Jones scene and stuck it behind Inigo in the Princess Bride.

Overall, I’m pretty happy with the outcome. It’s not immediately obvious what the wrong thing is, and I think toying with the Grail in PhotoDirector really helped with that (I tried three Grails before settling on this version).

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Similar to the last assignment I did, I found this movie mashup assignment, where I have to make a movie poster for a mashup movie. Instead of choosing two movies to mash up, I chose a mixture of movies and TV shows. To be specific, I mashed up Star Wars, Star Trek, and Battlestar Galactica, all three of everyone’s favourite Star series. Together, they form StarStarStar. The poster that I made is something of a mixture between the posters for A New Hope, Star Trek:The Motion Picture, and various things from Battlestar Galactica, since that’s a show and thus doesn’t have a movie poster to take things from.

The tagline up at the top is a mixture of famous quotes from each series. “A long time ago in a galaxy far far away” from Star Wars, “To boldly go where no one has gone before” from Star Trek, and “All this has happened before, and will happen again” from Battlestar Galactica. They actually fuse together pretty well.

The transparency on the rainbow ended up a little wonky, since Paint.NET isn’t too great at making a gradual change from opaque to more transparent. I would’ve just left it fully opaque, but I wanted to put Darth Vader up in the same corner he’s in in the poster for A New Hope, so it had to be transparent enough for you to see him. Still though, it looks pretty good for what I had to work with.

For this assignment we had to mash up two different movies in a way that would make sense. I went with E.T. and Batman. They both have iconic parts that have to do with the sky. In E.T. they have E.T. flying across the sky and in Batman they have the iconic bat symbol. I made a picture of the bat symbol shining on the moon while E.T. flies across. I did this with MS paint. I cut the picture of the bat symbol out of another picture and placed it over the E.T. picture.

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First assignment I’m making a post for this week is a video game cover mashup. I wasn’t sure what two games to use, so I decided to ask my girlfriend to give me two absolutely random games with no context.

I’m now bound by honour to use those two games. For reference, here are the covers:

(Sorry about the huge images, but you need to see the two of them to get the full effect)

So, I took the two covers into Paint.NET and got to work. I decided to use the Yoshi’s Story cover as the base I’d work on while adding elements from Dishonored to it. The mashed-up title became Yoshi’s Honor, since Disyoshid and Disstory don’t make too much sense. In the background of the Yoshi’s Story cover, there’s a Shy Guy wearing a mask. I thought this was perfect to replace with an Overseer’s mask, since Overseers are a major enemy in Dishonored. I reduced the saturation of the cover to match the grey bleakness of the Dishonored cover, though I didn’t make it fully greyscale, so it’d still be like Yoshi’s Story. In the background of the Dishonored cover, you can see several smokestacks, as the setting the game takes place in is an industrialising Victorian England-inspired city. I added some Mario warp pipes pumping out smog to the background to match. The cover ended up looking like:

(Click it for the full size)

I’m actually surprisingly pleased with how it turned out. When I got the two games I had to use, I wasn’t sure how they’d end up looking together, but I really like it.

This assignment was worth 4 stars originally but I found it to be worth only 2 bringing it down to 3 1/2 stars (overrated still). We had to take 2 logos and mash them together. The first thing that came to my mind is Whiskas cat food because I have 2 new additions to my family and feel like I am constantly buying cat food for them (though my preferred brand is friskies). I always go to Walmart to buy the food for them.

The Whiskas logo looks like this:

And the Walmart logo looks like this:

So I got the awesome idea to mesh them into one! I used Photoshop to create my new meshed logo. I hand painted my own version of the Whiskas cat head in Photoshop with the “brush tool” and made sure I selected a color as close to the Whiskas purple as I could. The I took the Walmart logo and made the background transparent through LunaPic. Once I had my cat head and Walmart logo ready to go, I layered them together in Photoshop. This was really easy to do which is why I didn’t really get the rating on this assignment.

Here is the logo I came up with!