This four-star assignment states “Take 2 actors and mash them together into one photo. You can use Photoshop or Pixlr to do this. Make sure that they look like they belong in their setting and they look like they were actually together when the photo was taken (the colors match, the sizing is right, etc). Have fun with it!”

Now… This was my chance to have a lot of fun… Especially with current events, you can’t tell me I wasn’t fully justified in creating what I did!

Let me tell you how I did it. I ran to Photoshop and decided to find the most accurate picture of a Hispanic baby shower that I could find on the internet (I’m Hispanic, I know precisely what they look like). After I found a picture that satisfied me, I ran to Google Images and found a full-body photo of Chris Rock. Yes. The one of him at the Oscars. I then cut out his body from the photo, and pasted it neatly onto the baby shower photo. Of course, I had to edit the lighting and all that to make sure it blended in nicely, so I think it came out pretty well. THEN, I did the exact same thing… With Will Smith! I pasted him right across Chris Rock as neatly and happily as I could, and here are my results!

Great, no?

This four-star Mashup Assignment states “We all have favorite holidays, but sometimes it’s hard to pick just one! For this assignment, use a photo editing software like Pixlr or Photoshop to mashup your top THREE favorite holidays/cultural celebrations. Use whatever elements you would like from each holiday, creating a character or scene with the images/symbols you’ve chosen. Tell the story behind this character or image!”

So, let me show you what I did!

As soon as I saw this assignment on the assignments page, I FLEW to my computer and opened up Photoshop IMMEDIATELY. This is, by far, one of the more exciting assignments that I’ve been given the chance to do. I started by taking a cute little transparent PNG of a bunny and I slapped it on a Christmas-Wintery-themed background. After that, I just continued cutting out more PNGs and adding them strategically on or around the little bunny, so I could end up with a Valentine’s-Christmas-Easter Bunny! Isn’t it adorable?

I did the 4-star “This Doesnt Belong Here” mashup assignment where “you need to mash up two different iconic movie scenes. However, you should aim to be as subtle as possible. Perhaps a famous prop that simply doesn’t belong or a character that looks a little out of place.” I must admit that it was not subtle at all, but I did a mashup of Jim Carrey as the mask and as Ace Ventura. I just edited The Mask’s face on Ace Ventura’s body.

For this 3 1/2 star mashup assignment, I had to “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.” I decided to do a mashup of Call of Duty and Overwatch. I took an image of a character from Overwatch and combined it with the cover of Call of Duty Cold War to bring you “Call of Duty Black Ops Overwatch.

I did the “Mashup Those Movies” mashup assignment where you “Take elements from multiple movie posters and mash them up into one. You can change anything- the caption, the title, the main image, etc. Lastly, make it seem like it could be a real movie.” But, I decided to remix this and for the remix, I had to use a Dr. Seuss-inspired character. I decided to use images of Thing1 and Thing 2 and make them the main characters of….”Parent Trap”. I just superimposed the image of things 1 and 2 on top of the Parent Trap movie poster and fill in the colors with the same colors as those in the original movie poster.

So I decided to remix the “I’m Ready for My Closeup” mashup assignment where you “take a dramatic closeup of anyone’s face – an actor’s, a friend’s, your own – and superimpose a landscape or scene over the face. Since this is a mashup, get crazy with it. Take two completely unrelated images and put them together, then try to make a story out of it!” Instead of making a story out of it, I decided to make it look like a player vs. player screen from a fighting game. I used images of Puss in Boots pointing from Shrek and Leonardo DiCaprio’s character Hugh Glass from The Revenant. I used photoshop to superimpose both images on the background of a Bob Ross painting which substitutes for the fighting arena in fighting games. I even added the cool “vs” image/logo to make it look closer to the actual style.