TV Guide Remix
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Take an existing movie or television show and change the writing of the synopsis in a way where it's still factual correct, yet the storyline feels drastically different.
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Completely Factual
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Picture from Wikipedia
A man obsessed with his dead wife kidnaps a young boy and takes him to a mysterious land where they encounter a strange and possibly dangerous creature and find themselves in a fight for their lives.
Assignment-
The assignment I chose was TV Guide Remix. …
Back to the Future I guess
This writing assignment requires me to take the synopsis of a T.V. show, movie or book and rewrite the plot in a way where the plot is still factually the same, but feels very different. Here is my take:
A young man named Marty gets into a pretty cool looking …
Finding Nemo
A father lets his son get kidnaped and put in a prison colony in Australia. After tricking a girl with memory loss into befriending him, she finds out the father’s really just a selfish prick.…
“The Little Mermaid”: A Psychological Thriller Synopsis
For my first Writing Assignment, I chose to complete a “TV Guide Remix” (https://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/tv-guide-remix/). The goal of the assignment is to approach an existing film or show by shifting the characterization of the story and plot as significantly as possible with a TV/movie synopsis of one to two sentences. In …
Planet Sabotage?
Tired of the army, a soldier escapes with one of the prisoners and teams up with a warrior and her robot to destroy a planet.
Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens
__________
This prompt was super fun to think about. What would a movie look like if it was …
The Dishes and the Beast?
For 2 stars this week, I decided to complete the TV Guide Remix Assignment.
Take an existing movie or television show and change the writing of the synopsis in a way where it’s still factual correct, yet the story line feels drastically different.
After a whole afternoon of thinking, …
TV Guide remix: Noir106 style
Do they still have TV Guides? I haven’t looked at one since the 90s. The cable people I know all use the on-screen guides, and the rest of us out here in the wilderness are lucky if we can get two channels, so what’s the point of a guide?
But …
Romeo and Juliet: Remix Description
Here is the link to my Romeo and Juliet Remix synopsis. http://lifebysavanna.com/uncategorized/romeo-and-juliet-remix-description/
Romeo and Juliet: Remix Description
Star-crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet, meet at the funeral of both there parents, who had died over a great battle that all started when their mothers were wearing the same designer: Shouks Pearuttion. When their fathers got word of the petty fight, they too consumed themselves in battle over snotty …
3 Orphans Climb a Snowy Mountain
The Assignment Bank is FULL of such creative things to do! For this post, I’m focusing on TV Guide Remix which I found to be challenging and extremely fun. I’m a very big Disney fan, so I thought the best movie I could pick for this assignment was Frozen…
What do you mean?
Take an existing movie or television show and change the writing of the synopsis in a way where it’s still factual correct, yet the storyline feels drastically different.
Story Behind the Story: Words are an interesting aspect of our language. We can manipulate them and force them …
Rated R
The Wire (9-10 p.m., HBO)
R-Two gangs wage war on a chessboard set in the streets of a post-apocalyptic city where it constantly snows, and the kings sit unharmed in their thrones atop mountains.
This writing assignment was to “Take an existing movie or television show and change the writing …
Titanic
This assignment was to take an existing movie and write a synopsis in a way that is completely factual but misleading. Rated R- Rebellious teenager cheats on fiancé with young man who is known to associate with prostitutes. After breaking and entering into an automobile the
Full Metal Jacket
For this assignment you create a misleading T.V. guide synopsis of a movie or show that uses actual facts to distort the story. I chose the film Full Metal Jacket and make it sound almost patriotic or noble in its portrayal of Marine life. I think Stanley Kubrick had different …
The Lion King (6-8pm, EST)
(Rated G) A story about an African lion prince who’s Father is killed by his uncle and blamed for his death. He runs away and lives with a meerkat and warthog surviving on bugs in the jungle. After the prince’s girlfriend tries to kill his warthog friend they fight Hyenas.
TV Guide Remix: Bananas gone bad
When I first browsed the DS106 bank of writing assignments, the TV Guide Remix appealed immediately:
Take an existing movie or television show and change the writing of the synopsis in a way where it’s still factually correct, yet the storyline feels drastically different.
I think the appeal had …
TV Guide Makeover
This assignment is two stars for “too” much fun.
Tonight I dipped into the DS106 Assignment Bank to complete my first assignment, in this case Writing Assignment 722, TV Guide Remix. I thought this was respectable low-hanging fruit for The Twilight Zone episodes we are considering this week and I …
TV Guide Makeover
This assignment is two stars for “too” much fun.
Tonight I dipped into the DS106 Assignment Bank to complete my first assignment, in this case Writing Assignment 722, TV Guide Remix. I thought this was respectable low-hanging fruit for The Twilight Zone episodes we are considering this week and I …
Completely Factual
Up
Picture from Wikipedia
A man obsessed with his dead wife kidnaps a young boy and takes him to a mysterious land where they encounter a strange and possibly dangerous creature and find themselves in a fight for their lives.
Assignment-
The assignment I chose was TV Guide Remix. …
Back to the Future I guess
This writing assignment requires me to take the synopsis of a T.V. show, movie or book and rewrite the plot in a way where the plot is still factually the same, but feels very different. Here is my take:
A young man named Marty gets into a pretty cool looking …
Finding Nemo
A father lets his son get kidnaped and put in a prison colony in Australia. After tricking a girl with memory loss into befriending him, she finds out the father’s really just a selfish prick.…
“The Little Mermaid”: A Psychological Thriller Synopsis
For my first Writing Assignment, I chose to complete a “TV Guide Remix” (https://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/tv-guide-remix/). The goal of the assignment is to approach an existing film or show by shifting the characterization of the story and plot as significantly as possible with a TV/movie synopsis of one to two sentences. In …
Planet Sabotage?
Tired of the army, a soldier escapes with one of the prisoners and teams up with a warrior and her robot to destroy a planet.
Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens
__________
This prompt was super fun to think about. What would a movie look like if it was …
The Dishes and the Beast?
For 2 stars this week, I decided to complete the TV Guide Remix Assignment.
Take an existing movie or television show and change the writing of the synopsis in a way where it’s still factual correct, yet the story line feels drastically different.
After a whole afternoon of thinking, …
TV Guide remix: Noir106 style
Do they still have TV Guides? I haven’t looked at one since the 90s. The cable people I know all use the on-screen guides, and the rest of us out here in the wilderness are lucky if we can get two channels, so what’s the point of a guide?
But …
Romeo and Juliet: Remix Description
Here is the link to my Romeo and Juliet Remix synopsis. http://lifebysavanna.com/uncategorized/romeo-and-juliet-remix-description/
Romeo and Juliet: Remix Description
Star-crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet, meet at the funeral of both there parents, who had died over a great battle that all started when their mothers were wearing the same designer: Shouks Pearuttion. When their fathers got word of the petty fight, they too consumed themselves in battle over snotty …
3 Orphans Climb a Snowy Mountain
The Assignment Bank is FULL of such creative things to do! For this post, I’m focusing on TV Guide Remix which I found to be challenging and extremely fun. I’m a very big Disney fan, so I thought the best movie I could pick for this assignment was Frozen…
What do you mean?
Take an existing movie or television show and change the writing of the synopsis in a way where it’s still factual correct, yet the storyline feels drastically different.
Story Behind the Story: Words are an interesting aspect of our language. We can manipulate them and force them …
Rated R
The Wire (9-10 p.m., HBO)
R-Two gangs wage war on a chessboard set in the streets of a post-apocalyptic city where it constantly snows, and the kings sit unharmed in their thrones atop mountains.
This writing assignment was to “Take an existing movie or television show and change the writing …
Titanic
This assignment was to take an existing movie and write a synopsis in a way that is completely factual but misleading. Rated R- Rebellious teenager cheats on fiancé with young man who is known to associate with prostitutes. After breaking and entering into an automobile the
Full Metal Jacket
For this assignment you create a misleading T.V. guide synopsis of a movie or show that uses actual facts to distort the story. I chose the film Full Metal Jacket and make it sound almost patriotic or noble in its portrayal of Marine life. I think Stanley Kubrick had different …
The Lion King (6-8pm, EST)
(Rated G) A story about an African lion prince who’s Father is killed by his uncle and blamed for his death. He runs away and lives with a meerkat and warthog surviving on bugs in the jungle. After the prince’s girlfriend tries to kill his warthog friend they fight Hyenas.
TV Guide Remix: Bananas gone bad
When I first browsed the DS106 bank of writing assignments, the TV Guide Remix appealed immediately:
Take an existing movie or television show and change the writing of the synopsis in a way where it’s still factually correct, yet the storyline feels drastically different.
I think the appeal had …
TV Guide Makeover
This assignment is two stars for “too” much fun.
Tonight I dipped into the DS106 Assignment Bank to complete my first assignment, in this case Writing Assignment 722, TV Guide Remix. I thought this was respectable low-hanging fruit for The Twilight Zone episodes we are considering this week and I …
TV Guide Makeover
This assignment is two stars for “too” much fun.
Tonight I dipped into the DS106 Assignment Bank to complete my first assignment, in this case Writing Assignment 722, TV Guide Remix. I thought this was respectable low-hanging fruit for The Twilight Zone episodes we are considering this week and I …
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. Young boy nearly murdered by a man with no nose, is rescued from his abusive foster parents by a giant, only to be taken to a dangerous boarding school, where he and his friends seek to bypass the school’s deadly booby traps and murder …
This is a GIMP tutorial on how I created this graphic for the DS106 TV Guide Remix writing assignment:
This post will focus on the creation of the visual. You can read more about the writing process here. Although I have been creating eLearning visual designs and some graphics …
This assignment is two stars for “too” much fun.
Tonight I dipped into the DS106 Assignment Bank to complete my first assignment, in this case Writing Assignment 722, TV Guide Remix. I thought this was respectable low-hanging fruit for The Twilight Zone episodes we are considering this week and I …
This assignment is two stars for “too” much fun.
Tonight I dipped into the DS106 Assignment Bank to complete my first assignment, in this case Writing Assignment 722, TV Guide Remix. I thought this was respectable low-hanging fruit for The Twilight Zone episodes we are considering this week and I …