The Work Itself 

This mashup assignment is titled “Video Game Cover Mashup“, its instructions are as follows “this assignment will be completed through the use of photoshop. Take two existing video game covers and mash them up so that both can be identified but in a different style. Try to be creative in the title and artistic design.” It is currently rated 3.5/5 in regards to difficulty. My new video game is “Call of Duty Heroes”. It is available on the PS4 and XBOX1!

The Story Behind The Story 

Infinity ward and Activision have created a new video game, “Call of Duty Heroes”. Building off of the recent ISIS attacks, this game aims against ISIS. Within the campaign mode, the gamer can choose between the path of Superman or Batman and fight against ISIS. There is a different storyline for Batman and Superman, but the end goal is the same, to destroy ISIS. This game is available for Xbox 1 and PS4, pre-order a copy now and get 5% off!

The Process, Narrated 

I used two video game covers to create this mashup. Call of Duty Black Ops and Justice League Heroes. I found the images of these respective game covers that I liked and downloaded them. I dragged them into Photoshop from finder. I created new layers for each image. To combine the texts, I cut “heroes” from its layer and pasted it on top of “Ghosts”. I simply replaced heroes with ghosts. I did the same thing for the image of superman and batman. Using the box tool, I selected their bodies and cut it from its original layer and then pasted onto this new layer over the Call of Duty soldier image. I repeated this process for the rating pending, “infinity ward”, and “Activision”. I dragged each image off google and pasted it onto this layer. I minimized each image so it would appear that it was one image with the justice league heroes. Here a few photos to document my process.

The Work Itself 

This mashup assignment is titled “Mashing Friends And Emojis“, its instructions are to “take a picture of one of your friends or just a person that is in the moment doing something exactly like an emoji and then mash them together for comparison.” It is currently rated 3.5/5 stars for difficulty.

The Story Behind The Story 

My friend Sean Prin has been sick the last few days and my roommates and I have forced him to wear a mask and maintain a a 3 ft radius from anyone of us. These tactics are in an effort to keep the rest of us healthy. His face of amazement and disbelief stems from the moment I told him that he no longer has to wear the mask. After much consideration, my roommates and I agreed that the sickness was no longer contagious so he was no longer a threat to our health. This is what friends are for…looking after each other for the better of everyone.

The Process, Narrated  

I took two pictures of my friend Sean and matched to the appropriate emojis. I simply took the photos with my iPhone, emailed the images to myself and downloaded the images. Then I searched the matching emojis on google images and found the ones I wanted and downloaded those to my desktop. I uploaded the images directly into my blog post. I arranged the corresponding photos horizontally so as to show which emoji goes with what photo. Here a few photos documenting my process.

Well, I’ll be honest. I haven’t watched any Breaking Bad. Honestly, I haven’t watched a lot of popular shows or movies. Which means, when doing the Mashup Children’s Book assignment (2.5 stars), I had pretty much no idea what to do! It was a fun idea, and I love looking at these kinds of mashups (even if I don’t understand the pop-culture references). But I was basically grasping at things, thinking “This makes sense, right?”

I also haven’t read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Or any of Dahl’s novels. What a sad childhood I lived, what kind of English Major fraud am I! But I’ve watched both the movies multiple times, so I kind of had an idea of what to do with it. Plus, I didn’t want to use a Dr. Suess book, like the example and many of the previous students’ assignments. I thought, “What’s another popular children’s author? Roald Dahl!”

Then, after seeing the cover of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I decided that it would be pretty easy to convert that to Breaking Bad. I don’t know if this has been done before. It probably has. But I didn’t look up any examples, and I created this with my own bear hands, so I’ll just pretend that I am fully innocent of any similarities to other arts.

Process:

Step 1: Get a picture of the original cover (I used this one)

Step 2: Open it up in GIMP

Step 3: Basically just paint over it, trying to emulate the style of the original image.

Step 4: For the meth, I took one of the candies originally on the cover, copied it, and then rotated/flipped/scaled/and moved it around in various ways (and then drew the little baggies over them)

Step 5: Use the text tool and just type out what’s necessary, editing the size and line spacing as necessary

Step 6: Export the image, and that’s it!