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Final Project: Jingle Jangle for Prez Obama

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For the Jingle Jangle assignment,I created a jingle for President Obama as a super hero. The lyrics are “He’s runnin’ round the White House, quiet as a mouse, Stoppin’ crime, in his extra time, Michelle doesn’t know about this, but you bet stoppin’ sexism in on his list”.
Yeah I know. Good stuff, right?

Anywho, I recorded myself “singing” this and then I sang “It’s President Obama!” and changed the pitch on it and added an echo. Then, I downloaded this sound from free sound.

This is what I imagine President Obama sneaking around the White House to while he runs off to do his super hero job on the side.
In his fancy red cape.

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Final Project: Before and After

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make animated gifs like this at MakeAGif

For this before and after assignment, I took one white house picture and one superhero picture of Obama. I used a website called makeagif.com to make the gif with two pictures.

This gif is supposed to show how by day, Obama is merely president of the United States, but by night, he is a superhero. He runs around the White House and the DC metropolitan area stopping crime and destroying sexism. He takes superhero walks with Bo, the First Dog.

*insert super hero sound here*

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Final Project: Obama Chipmunk’d

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For the Mainstream Chipmunk’d assignment, I decided to “chipmunk” a video from Obama’s youtube channel. This was is “Finish What We Started” video.

I downloaded the video with PwnYoutube and stuck it into iMovie and speed it up by 175%. 200% sounded way too quick.

How does this work into my story?

It’s simple. To remain a super hero, Obama must continue to be president. To do this, he must make sure the people vote for him.

Commence cape wearing around the oval office.

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Also, my roommate said he sounded like a chipmunk king and all the cheers are his minions. This also fits.

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Cartoon Headed Obama

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Seriously, I cannot get enough of this Big Bird stuff. Politics gold.

Anywho, for this assignment, I decided to cartoon a picture of Obama and Romney after the debate. I choose the same Big Bird picture I did in the other assignment. Political bias aside, I think what Romney said was one the biggest gaffes of the debate/campaign, including the 47% remark.

For this one, I opened both pictures. On the Big Bird pictures, I selected his face, including his beak. Then I right clicked in the selection and pressed copy, then I went to my Romney/Obama picture and hit paste. Then I went to my layers panel (tip: hit control + L or command + L on a Mac to make this panel appear) and right clicked the “pasted” layer and hit “to new layer.” Then I moved Big Bird’s head to sit on Obama’s and used the scale tool to shrink it a bit.

I am just eating up all the political hilarity from the debate.

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Wait, where’d Big Bird come from?

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Since the only thing anyone got out of the debate last night was that “Romney hates Big Bird” I decided to make a picture for “Wait, where’d that guy come from?” of Big Bird and Romney about to debate.

I started by finding pictures of Big Bird and Romney before the debate with Obama. Then I selected around Big Bird in his picture and copied and pasted him in GIMP from his image to the debate image. Then, I went behind Big Bird (whom I placed over Obama) and used the “clone tool” over him, stamping with the blue background (which is why it looks so funky). Then I went over the blue with the blur tool because it looked wonky (still does) and made Big Bird visible.

Romney is such a silly goose… er bird.

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Lord of the Obama

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Just for fun, even though I’ve already done my 10 stars worth of Visual Assignments for the week, I decided to Obama-tize some photos. Specifically, some photos from Lord of the Rings. Because, hey, these assignments are fun, LotR is awesome (even though it isn’t the greatest film of all time, American Beauty, but you’ve heard my thoughts on that before), and Obama is awesome. So here they are:

I’m particularly proud of the second one. I really relied on my Photoshop skillz for that picture. What you see is the product of: masking, noise addition, Gaussian blur, pixel-selection-based curves manipulation, and brightness, over-exposure and a lens flare applied only to specific areas of Obama’s hair and hands to help him blend into the scene. You’d believe he was really there, right? (Okay, I can’t pretend my skills are actually that good. But a girl can dream.)