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Splash The Color
So far, 147 people have completed this assignment and it has 11407 views.
Color splash is a technique to emphasize details- you remove all color from a photo, and then restore original color to a single object, e.g. a green apple on a table. Think of the Girl in the red dress from Schindler's List. You can do this in a number of ways with photo editing software or using mobile apps. The answer lies in the Google
The Boone Gorges Parent-Child Headswap
So far, 11 people have completed this assignment and it has 5637 views.
Swap the heads of parents and children. Inspired by the work of Paul Ripke
Remix an Album Cover
So far, 26 people have completed this assignment and it has 4892 views.
Find an iconic album cover and remix it to represent a something different. It can be a play on the title, the image, the aesthetic, genre, etc. See the visual example featuring Snoop Dog and Dr Dre as Chronic Youth (a play on Sonic Youth's album cover Goo).
Troll Quotes
So far, 52 people have completed this assignment and it has 9247 views.
Find an image of a well known figure, add to it a famous quote by someone related in some way to the figure in the image and then attribute the quote to a third, related figure. From the Know Your Memes: 1) Get a picture of someone people idolize. Obi Wan Kenobi, Barack Obama, Captain Kirk — any beloved public figure will do. 2) Slap on a famous quotation from a similar character from a different book or movie. Pick something close enough that a non-fan might legitimately confuse them. If you’re using Captain Picard from Star Trek: The Next ...
Messing with the MacGuffin
So far, 64 people have completed this assignment and it has 5772 views.
Wikipedia defines the MacGuffin as "a plot element that catches the viewers' attention or drives the plot of a work of fiction." For this assignment forever change the plot of a movie, tv show, etc. by changing a single line of dialogue. Put this new line of dialogue below a screen-cap of the moment in the movie you're changing. Credit to Tom Woodward for posting an example of this idea in the #ds106 Twitter stream.
I Can Read Movies
So far, 27 people have completed this assignment and it has 3811 views.
Create a film-based book cover using the aesthetic framed by Spacesick here: http://spacesick.blogspot.com/2009/01/i-can-read-movies-series.html See the original images here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/spacesick/sets/72157614482499746/with/3198823976/
Movie Trailer Mashup
So far, 42 people have completed this assignment and it has 6799 views.
Take your favorite movie trailer and mash it up with a different trailer to completely change the meaning of the original trailer. For example, if you have a funny movie trailer, give it the sound of a terrifying movie; or vice versa. You may need to clip the audio or the visual, use imovie and audacity to cut the clips to give you what you need. Good luck!
Return to the Scene of the Crime
So far, 16 people have completed this assignment and it has 2403 views.
Take a photo from the past that you took in a particular location. Return to that stop, and take another picture, "framing" the original within the current view.
Redub The Audio
So far, 16 people have completed this assignment and it has 2928 views.
Take a classic movie (or heck any movie you like), and rescript the audio of a key scene. You will want to re-write the lines to change the meaning or intent of the scene, delete the original audio, and record your own (this can be done many ways, voiceover in iMovie, recording the audio and editing the track in any other movie editor). For my example, I took Howard Beale's on camera rampage from "Network", and changed it to a diatribe on being bored in school.
Fan Fiction Picture
So far, 40 people have completed this assignment and it has 2076 views.
Take the name or title of your favorite band, song, movie, or tv show and display it in the form of photography. You can take as many pictures as you want, but have your photos capture the band, song, movie, or tv show you pick. Be creative and have fun!