I took on the assignment This Doesn’t Belong here mashup worth 4 stars.

So at first I read this assignment wrong so I did a totally different assignment. I thought it said combine an iconic film scene with something that does belong subtly. (Not combine two iconic scenes.) So I did that instead at first. So here is my first version of this assignment! I decided that I wanted to work with a James Bond scene because it would be on theme with the class and I’ve been avoiding doing bond before now because it felt too easy. I wanted to take the famous gun angle scene and edit it so it was a magnifying glass in the gun barrel. I took both images from wikimedia commons, and mashed them up together. I brought both images into GIMP (which is a software I use whenever I image edit on my personal computer. I prefer Photoshop when I can use a university computer.)

It was pretty simple I just put the image on top and lined up the magnifying glass. Then I cropped the image to  make it look all nice. Except it went so well so quickly and I wanted to get max stars out of it so I decided to push it forward. I thought about how I could slightly change the perspective of the image but still keep the original context and meaning. After trying out some ideas I decided what if the perspective changed? What if instead of being in the middle of the frame Bond was off center? So I made it a reality. I used the clone stamp tool in GIMP to copy the pixels of Bond and duplicate him.

Next I had to get rid of my extra Bond. So I used the clone stamp tool again this time using the white background as the reference to effectively erase him out. I could have just erased him but I am a real stickler for pixels and I hate how erasing changes the colors of pixels and it looks too unnatural to me.

After that it still didn’t feel like it was done so I started messing with different tools to try and get different looks. I decided to use the dodge tool to lighten up Bond and create a little more visual interest. While I was at it I experimented with a few other tools to mess around but did not like any of my changes, until I decided to smudge the magnifying glass. By smudging the rim of the glass it helped it to better fit into the background of the gun barrel. I tried to smudge it so that it followed the curve of the gun but not smudge it so much that it was still recognizable. This was my final product.

Of course when I went to write up the corresponding blog post I realized I had done it wrong so I had to do a take two. But I decided to include my first version because I still think it came out cool, and mistakes are 100% part of the progress to success.

Now I had to do something that stayed more to the nature of the actual assignment. I decided to go with another Bond image but a new one to change things up. I decided to mash things up by adding in Bourne to the mix for my other iconic figure. I selected an image of Bourne running to add into Bond in front of a car. Again I used GIMP to do my image editing because I started this project in GIMP and was determined to finish it in GIMP. I brought the images into GIMP and cut out the image of Jason Bourne so I had just him running. Next I erased out any extra pixels left around him so that layer was just him running. I ended up with this.

I was playing around next on how to blend him into the background and make it as subtle as possible I thought about skewing the image but it just made him look goofy.

So instead I kept it the correct way and changed the sizes of the image. By making Bourne smaller and placing him farther back on the road he blended back into the image better. It also helped that his color palette was similar to the colors in Bond’s clothes which helped it seem more connected rather then inserting something colorfully bright. I am happy with how it came out and think it worked out better second time around.

http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/this-doesnt-belong-here/ (4 stars) [12/12]

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Scene from breaking bad where they are stealing chemicals from a train and a kid approaches them at the end. What doesn’t belong here I wonder? Only BB fans will really understand!

-Agent Smith

This is my final mashup that was worth 4 stars. The point of this assignment was to insert something into a picture that does not match. I added a picture of a Range Rover onto the Moon. I got both of the images from google. Then I used pixlr to edit them.

The final image looks interesting. Enjoy!

The This Doesn’t Belong Here assignment had me photoshop something where it doesn’t belong. I chose to put myself into a scene from Pulp Fiction. I definitely don’t belong with gangsters in tuxes.

I used a green screen to make cutting myself out easier. I used Adobe Photoshop. I used the magic wand tool to select all the green and deleted it. Cleaned it up, especially the hair, with the eraser tool, and pasted myself into the scene with Samuel L. Jackson and John Travolta. The lighting I used made it so I didnt really fit in with the tone of the image though. If I were using yellow lights, or if I turned off the florescent lights above me, it would have turned out better I think.

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!

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Third and last assignment is one where I have to subtly add something from one movie into a scene from a different movie. A couple years ago when I heard they were making the movie Nightcrawler, I thought it was going to be about the X-Men character Nightcrawler (hint: it isn’t even close. Fantastic movie, though). When I saw the assignment, I thought it’d be perfect to fit Nightcrawler into the background of a scene from Nightcrawler, especially since his power is teleportation. Maybe he just accidentally teleported into a crime scene or something. I used this scene from Nightcrawler:

and this promotional image of Nightcrawler from the movie X2:

I took the two of them into Paint.NET and erased the grey background in the image of Nightcrawler. Once the background was totally transparent, I put him into a new layer over the Nightcrawler scene. I erased some of the image to make it seem like he was behind some things, and fooled around with distortion and blurring until it looked like he was actually out of focus in the background of the scene. The final product is this:

I think he fits in pretty well! He doesn’t draw too much attention away from the characters in the middle of the shot, so I’d say it’s subtle enough.

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).

This assignment was tricky in part because finding two scenes that worked well together took a good while. The assignment specified being as subtle as possible so that’s what I aimed to do. I looked up a bunch of movie scenes on Youtube and went through them. I finally decided on a scene from the film Dazed and Confused. It’s where they just let out of school for summer and the guys are just cruising around. I chose this still because it had some sky in the background that I could possibly add something to. I then chose a scene from another movie and cropped a piece of it and added it to this scene.  I gave this assignment 4 stars because finding the right images and editing (cropping, scaling, layering) took some time. Can anyone guess what prop and movie it is? Hint: H. Potter.

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.