Spongebob – Assignment Bank

Cartoon-ize a face!

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So, since Titanic is my favorite movie, one of my oldest family friend’s fathers loves to watch the film with me, and here’s the kicker: he openly admits he loves it because his man crush is Leonardo DiCaprio. Now, I wish my own dad could be as open about his man crush, but it took much coaxing for him to finally admit that it is George Clooney. I don’t blame him; Clooney is a handsome guy, and all the best to him and his new bride.

Anyway, since my family loves Clooney, I figure that gives me permission to totally cartoonize his face by adding handsome Squidward. Yeah, I love SpongeBob, too, even though I’m a grown woman. No shame. That show brings me such joy and has for a decade.

So, fellow Clooney and/or SpongeBob fans…rejoice, for the two have been joined for all of digital storytelling history.

Handsome Clooney? PSH–more like handsome Squidward.

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“La La La” Animated Dance Party! (Animated Music Video ****)

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I would call this an “Anime Music Video” if the Spongebob clips weren’t in it. But hey! Spongebob DESERVES to be at this party! Check out his dance moves! ~~Plus I loooove Spongebob so I couldn’t not put him in the video!~~ To make this music video I used clips from a variety of anime shows; Haruhi Suzumiya, One Piece, Lucky Star, Gravitation ect. You never really notice how much the Japanese love dancing until you collect all of the clips together. I also notice that they like to do alot of synchronized dancing, Hmmm.

The song used is called “La La La” by a South Korean band named Big Bang. This video didn’t have a particular meaning other than just dance and have fun. This sort of reflects my personality because I love to listen to songs that aren’t focused around deep lyrics, ~~since I’m pretty slow to analyze things for a good number of reasons~~. This song proves this fact even more because if you listen to the lyrics, 80% of the song is in Korean and I have no idea what they’re saying, besides the little bit that’s in English. (“Everybody get em high! And we wont stop movin movin’!”) I guess this is sort of like the “Gangnam Style” craze where everyone was listening to it, and even played it on the radio, but no one understood what it meant.

I made this in Final Cut Pro, my specialty, and it took about 2 and a half hours to find all the clips, download them, find out where to match them up in the song, and add a few effects such as speed, fade in/fade out, and sepia. This video didn’t really need alot of effects because I found it to be extremely flashy without them. I added a few filter effects to some of the clips as an experiment and it ended up too “sparkly” and explosive. This is usually a good thing, but it’s not really a good thing to overwhelm the audience with seizure-provoking colors. The sepia I added toward the end when the song goes a capella and it’s just the weird guy from One Piece dancing.

I wish I could’ve changed the size of the video, but that would’ve ended up messing up the quality. Ah well, you don’t need good video quality to dance to good music!

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The Best Day Ever on Facebook

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What if Spongebob and Patrick could use Facebook? To document the Best Day Ever, I’m using the What They Might Have Done In Social Media Web Assignment.

I followed the instructions on the Fakebook page to build the foundations (name Spongebob’s page, fill out his profile, give him friends, etc). Then I started to type in the story via conversation.

I came to some frustration when I tried to change the photo in my soundcloud widget to reflect that Patrick supposedly made this for Spongebob. It worked on my Soundcloud page, but I still had my photo showing up within Fakebook. I’m not sure why. But then, as the page crashed occasionally (I learned to hit the save button (again) meticulously), and reloaded, the Patrick picture appeared in one soundcloud widget, and the entire widget disappeared and turned to a dysfunctional link instead. And of course, you can’t just edit anymore (where did that edit button go that was there before?!), and you can’t rearrange comments once they’re made. So I had to delete the comments below it and that post, re-insert the widget code and the comments following it, and save again.

And it’s a good thing I saved. When I went to embed flickr photos next, it threw the entire page off. Fakebook wouldn’t allow me to delete the post once it was made, it told me instead to contact the webmaster. I had to reload the page to the last saved version. So, the only thing I can do with photos in Fakebook, unfortunately, is to link to them. That’s kinda lame, but it’s what I had to do. At least the links work (or did at the time when I made this). Hopefully none of my previously-working widgets or links break again on a reload.

So I finished embedding all of my media that I intended to use for the day of (12/10/12), and was about to post a few follow-up comments and posts for the day after, including the Google History map to show that Patrick and Spongebob got off of Facebook for the rest of the day, but wanted to show everybody the next day all the places they had been. I also wanted to post a few videos and clips with some more dialog just for fun. It remains to be seen if I’ll be able to do that or not, since the entire site crashed, and crashed my entire web browser (thank God I saved this summary in progress this time and my work in Fakebook). Either way, assuming the site is working when anybody goes to check it out, here is Spongebob’s Facebook page. I haven’t had a chance to take screenshots yet, but I will come back and add them if the page comes back up any time soon. Enjoy!

I figured it out. Since I needed a fake Twitter also, I used that as Spongebob’s day after post. Kinda lame that I can’t embed the media again, or even make the link clickable, but if you copy and paste the link within the tweet, it works, and takes you to the Google History Map I created. Score.

And I’m back into Fakebook. Remember that you have to read it from the bottom to the top in terms of thread, top to bottom within each thread, because this is old style Facebook. Here’s the shots. I put them in order the best I could – preferably, though, the link above will work and you can just read it through it the way it’s intended.

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Meme Wars

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Living it up in modern day style, as part of my Final Project, Spongebob and Patrick will spend part of the Best Day Ever in a meme war. To do this, I’m using the Caption That assignment. To be perfectly honest, though, I felt the assignment was too easy for two stars (either that or I’m getting better at this…and we know *that* can’t be), so, I decided to make a bunch of them.

The entirety of my story will be tied together through a Fakebook I’m creating, or at least that’s the idea. I admit to being a bit nervous about my grand plan now, since as of last night it wouldn’t let me into the page I had created using the link they gave me to do so. So I may be re-making it today, although this makes me nervous as to whether it will be accessible for others to see once I’ve completed it. I’m not sure what else to do but to cross my fingers, however, and maybe take a bunch of screen shots of the work I complete on it. It’d be a shame if none of the links are able to be clicked on, though, as the whole idea was to tell the whole story and embed *all* of the media I’ve created onto this Fakebook, woven into the conversation to help build the story…the way a Facebook stalker would view it. But, if it doesn’t work, at least all the media will still be accessible through my blog – I’ll link to the Fakebook page as well as each of my own blog posts containing the original media I created for it. Here’s hoping that’s enough.

But I digress. Back to Caption That.

To get themselves pumped up for The Best Day Ever, Spongebob and Patrick begin posting memes back and forth. To do this, I found a few images on Google and right-clicked to select Save Image As. I saved them into my Caption That Assignment Folder, and then went to GIMP. Once there, I resized the images if necessary, and selected the text tool and changed the font and size. I settled on Segoe Print Bold, 18 for some of the memes, 14 for the last. I selected the text boxes once the text was entered and selected the align tool and played with those settings to see what I liked best for each meme.

Finally, I saved a workable copy (as a .xcf), just in case I needed to get back to it in GIMP, and then exported each file as a .png. Here you go!

The conversation will make it funnier. I think. …I hope. At least in my head it did.

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Google Map History of The Best Day Ever

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To help summarize Spongebob’s Best Day Ever, we’re using the all-powerful magic of Google through the Google History Maps Story Web Assignment.

I simply went to the site and followed the tutorial, and used a bit of creative license, and TADA! Spongebob’s Travels on his Best Day Ever.

View Spongebob’s Best Day Ever in a larger map

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Patrick’s Second Try

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As another part of my Final Project, I decided to give Patrick a second try at cheering Spongebob up (not being allowed to go to work is horrifically depressing for the best fry cook of all time).

So to do this, I used the Onomatopoeias! Audio Assignment, and it was completed in the same way the Uninteresting Story was, which also happens to be the same way I approach most Audio Assignments. I got a clip of a bunch of Patrick jokes on Youtube. I downloaded it to my computer using my ‘Keep It!’ Keepvid.com button on my toolbar, and saved it as an mp4. Then, I imported it into MPEG Streamclip, which I only used to Export the Audio from the file.

Then, I hopped into Audacity and imported that sound file, along with the Small Group Laughter clip I used with Uninteresting Story. I clipped off the rest of the 4 minutes of audio or so from the original joke reel to leave behind just the one joke I wanted to work with, and zoomed in until it was able to be clipped. I then found a Tada Trumpet sound effect on freesound to try to help introduce the joke, which I had to lower the volume of quite a bit to make it fit. Then, I layered the small group laugh on top of Spongebob’s laugh to help make it sound canned and cheesy, which again, is my goal here. Finally, since Spongebob’s laugh is the ultimate sound I was going for here, I amplified it a bit, copied it, and echoed it.

Sounds like Patrick was a bit more successful this time around. What do you think?

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Poor Uninteresting Patrick

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To add to my Final Project Story, I decided to take on the Audio Assignment called Uninteresting Story.

To do this one, I found a YouTube video of Patrick telling Spongebob a story. I grabbed it using my ‘Keep It!’ Keepvid.com button on my toolbar. I downloaded it as an mp4, and then uploaded it into MPEG Streamclip. From there, I exported the Audio into my Audio Assignments file on my computer, under a new folder I’d made for this project. Then, I uploaded this clip into Audacity.

From here, I went to Freesound and grabbed a few sound clips I wanted to round out the piece. I used The Crash, the Epic Fail clip, the Fall clip, a Gaspy clip, and the Small Group Laughter clip. Each of these I edited to grab the parts I wanted from them, and, after clipping the original story clip at the necessary parts, placed each clip accordingly.

Once satisfied, I exported the file from Audacity, and uploaded it to soundcloud. Enjoy!