MashupAssignments1511 – Assignment Bank

Week 11 pt. 1: This Doesn’t Belong Here

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I’m feeling an early start to Mashup Week. This assignment’s task is to mash up two famous movie scenes, with placing a prop from one movie into the scene of another given as an example.

Link to Assignment: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/this-doesnt-belong-here/

Stars: 4.5

Process: To begin, I grabbed a scene from Saving Private Ryan. Feeling like this was iconic enough, I searched for a prop or character to match. After debating for a moment putting a chest-bursting alien coming from Tom Hanks’s wound, I settled on Luke Skywalker in the background. I loaded the scene into Photoshop and placed Luke in the frame. I then scaled him down to match the size of the existing characters and blurred him, as the image focuses strongly on the foreground. To place him behind a character in the frame, I made a new layer of Matt Damon’s leg and changed the layer stack order.

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The Hills are Alive

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Jurassic Park and the Sound of Music

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The Hills Are Alive

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For this weeks Assignment I chose to do another mash up. I chose Assignment151 This Doesn’t Belong Here. The assignment was to mash up two movie scenes that don’t really belong together. The first image I chose was from the Sound of Music.

I then opened the image in GIMP. I cropped the image just around Julie.

I then had to decide where I should put her. I was trying to think of another movie with great scenery and going through my old pictures for this class I saw a Jurassic Park picture. I first tried to put her in the picture where the T Rex is eating another dinosaur.

I could not get Julie to match proportionally. She was to close to the T Rex’s size. If I made her smaller you could not tell it was her. So I then decided to go find another picture from the same movie. I happened upon a scene from the beginning where the cars are on the track and there is great scenery in the background.

I then decided to put her in front of that photo. I added Julie and was then faced with the problem of blending her in. I used the color picker tool to pick up the color around her then used the paintbrush to paint around her. It is not perfect but I am getting closer to blending two images.

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Why So Angry, Alien?!

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For this weeks Assignment Bank assignment I chose one called This Doesn’t Belong Here. This assignment 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.

So my photo-shopping ended up a little less than subtle. However, this was a fun assignment to fit this angry little alien from my childhood into iconic science fiction movies. I tried to pic my favorite one, but then just decided to share them all here.

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British lord of the ringtones.

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Maybe they grabbed the wrong costumes? For the photo for this assignment, I put a couple of odd balls in a scene where they do not belong. They look like naturals though, I don’t even think they noticed. The assignment was to put something in a movie scene that was totally out of place. I have been waiting all semester to use something from LOTR, so I knew now I have my chance. I just grabbed a couple other random photos of people, watched Return of the King in 8x till I found a good scene, and put them in to the scene. I lightened them and did a few other things to make them blend. I didn’t realize how wide a suit of armor makes a guard till I tried to cover him with a guard wearing just clothes.

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Civil War, Crossover Edition

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Everyone is excited for the big Marvel Cinematic Universe take on the events of Civil War, but the DC Cinematic Universe was feeling a bit left out once it realized its big showdown only contained three heroes in it, so Superman jumped universe to join in on the fun.

Somewhere along the way he must have jumped to the wrong earth though, as this earth seems to have an epidemic of mustaches!

Edited to include Superman and got the mustache remix, so put mustaches on a couple of characters

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Mashup Assignment – This Doesn’t Belong Here (with Tutorial)

For this assignment, you mash up two distinct movie scenes into one. I chose a scene from 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Godzilla. 2001 has many great shots, so I felt it was a fitting movie to try and find a background to Photoshop something into. Once I picked my scene, I thought of what to add, and the idea of putting a giant monster in the background sounded pretty interesting, so I picked the classic, Godzilla. My two base images are below.

And the final product below:

Instead of vaguely telling you how I did this, I’m going to go step by step, with pictures. First, open up the picture you want to crop out in Photoshop.

My go-to cropping tool is the pen tool, so I just outline the entire image that. Below is a start to my process.

And this is the finished product:

Once you have a path around what you want to crop, go to the path menu and right click your path. Then, click make selection.

Your path is now a selection, which lets you copy and paste it into the receiving document, like so. You may need to resize your image; The Godzilla below is about 25% size.

Now move your image into place.

Now we have to find a way to put him in the background of the image. This is accomplished by selection the foreground objects you want to cover an object up with, and making a mask. First, select the rocks; I used the pen tool again. It’s helpful to lower the opacity of your pasted in image, so that you can see the objects behind him, while still being conscious of its position.

Do the same process as before to turn the path into a selection. Once you have a selection, and while still on the Godzilla layer, click the mask button at the bottom of the layer panel.

Click on the mask part of the layer, and invert it.

You’re mostly done, but if you’re a perfectionist like me, you can use the brush tool on the mask layer to clean up the rocks a bit; as you can see, it wasn’t perfectly cropped.

And voila! Your finished product!

Looks Like It Belongs Here To Me

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I completed the “This Doesn’t Belong Here” assignment for my final mash up assignment. It asked to combine two popular movies. I sort of remixed it myself a little bit in order to incorporate my character. I combined a picture of a homesteader’s wife working in the field with a puppy from the 101 Dalmations movie. I thought adding a pet to the family would make it look natural, even though the pictures are from two different sources.

I actually cropped the puppt using Word document’s photo formatting options. It made it very simple. Then I merely placed the puppy in the picture right under my character.

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ET’s Wonderful Life

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The four and a half star assignment This Doesn’t Belong Here wasn’t too hard. It was pretty amusing.

I mashed up the scene in It’s a Wonderful Life where Jimmy Stewart was giving away the moon and the scene in ET where Elliot is flying in front of the moon. The result is seen below.

This was achieved by downloading stills of the two different scenes from the internet. I cut ET out of one picture and pasted him in the other.

I figured since the two scenes featured the moon, it would be amusing to see ET and Elliot flying in the background.

Overall, the assignment wasn’t hard, and it gave me a couple of laughs.

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Unusual City Picture

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I took a picture from Breakfast at Tiffany’s and added a giant horse to it. The picture I chose was a city and I added a giant horse, because a normal sized horse would be eh. It would be normal, because in NY you can still find horses, but a giant horse, no you cannot.

This might be a stretch, but you see the horse relates to my Western character because that would be the horse she and her husband, Tate, would ride from their home to the saloon, just not the giant version.

To create this image I took two pictures off Google and combined them on PicMonkey.