Recycle the Media

“Your task for this assignment is to Mashup at least 7 different pieces of this media to make a new story, and use at least 2 different types (e.g. audio and image, image and video. The story most likely would be done as a video, but see if you can make these different kinds of media make sense as the content. What kind of recycled story can you make out if this cast off media.”

I used Recycle the Media as part of my 7 star worth of assignments. For this assignment I first went to the minus.com  and selected 10 different pieces of recycled media. I wanted to make a story out of images and audio, therefore I chose the audio and video formats.

Since friendship provides orientation in our life, life surrounded with good friends is a life in the heaven. Therefore, the video I created is about the importance of true friend in our life. After selected the images and audio, I used Windows live movie maker for editing them. I used subtitles for telling the story behind the images. The background music was called lantern_fest ; I chose this sound effect because it was going well with the images I chose.

The importance of true Friends:

I really enjoyed creating this assignment, since it was very fun to do. Secondly, it was good to see other students recycled medias .

The purpose of this assignment was to find a video (music, newscast, etc.) in a language other than English; and caption it in English.

For this assignment I used an Afghani Pashto song called Tasara Meena larm ; and I translated into English. I used windows live movie maker to caption it in English. Since Pashto is my second language in Afghanistan; it was very easy to translate it. I have never thought that translating a song from one language to other language would hardly make the same sense; but I tried my best to make it sound great. And I hope you all enjoy listening to it.

Ben Harwood’s Track Blazing Troubadour

The purpose of this assignment was to make a movie trailer by taking a trilogy or any series of movies; and combine scenes from all the trailers to make one trailer.  Therefore, I chose the Fast and the Furious series one, two and three trailers; which were The fast and the Furious, Fast and Furious 4 and Fast Five.

I downloaded the trailers from YouTube with PwnYouTube . Afterword, I selected the scenes I wanted in my trailer; using MPEG Streamclip .

On the other hand, I used Windows Live movie make for editing the video. I wanted to create one story by combing all the three trailers therefore; I chose my scenes very carefully. I also used some cue cards to better tell the story to the audience who have never watched any of those series. I also put background music to the video to make it more interesting; the background music was downloaded from YouTube .

The Fast and The Furious series:

I really enjoyed doing this assignment and I found it very interesting to do. This assignment requires a lot of time and effort; since it is important to consider the video aspects, sounds, dialogues and combining them in a way to create a story.

Movie Trailer Mashup

Take your favorite movie trailer and mash it up with a different trailer to completely change the meaning of the original trailer. For example, if you have a funny movie trailer, give it the sound of a terrifying movie; or vice versa. You may need to clip the audio or the visual, use imovie and audacity to cut the clips to give you what you need. Good luck!

This is a 4 star assignment

Before starting this assignment I reviewed two other examples that helped me get an example of what I needed to do.

Toy Story 3 Horror Recut Trailer: I am reviewing this because I love all the Toy Story movies.  I really liked this mash-up for the movie.  The music and the editing of the clips made it seem like this movie would be really scary.  Though this trailer was really good it reminded me more of the assignment Return to the Silent Era.

A Different Interpretation: I decided to review this assignment because I love all the Harry Potter movies.  I really liked how this mash up included two different Harry Potter films.  I like how one of them was used just for the music and background of the movie, and one for the actual video part of the movie trailer.  Though not everything went well together with what was happening in the movie, I liked how there was a mash-up of two films from the same series.  It was a very creative idea.

After reviewing these two examples and a few of the other ones I found under the assignment, I decided to make a mash up of the movie Up and the movie the Avengers.  I thought that these two movie choices were very different and I think that is what a mash up is supposed to be.  Combing two very different genres of movies to make it look like one.  I decided to keep the movie trailer for the movie Up and use the background music from the Avengers.  I first found the movie trailer for Up on YouTube and downloaded it to my computer using PwnYouTube.  After that I then found the movie trailer for The Avengers and converted it to an MP3 file using Pwn YouTube.  To convert the file to MP3 using PwnYouTube I clicked on the link that said share/mp3/convert.  I then followed the instructions that were given to convert my video file into an MP3 file.  Afterwards I then opened up Window’s Movie Maker and added the Up movie trailer and the Avengers sound.  Though not everything matches up with what is happening in the movie trailer I think these two trailers mashed-up go well together.  This mash-up gives the movie Up a new meaning, making it seem like there’s more action and adventure to the movie.

Below is my embedded YouTube video:

Recycle the Media

During the Fall 2012 iteration of ds106 taught at UMW, we collected media from students that was unused in their previous work uploaded to http://dropitto.me/ds106phonar (the password was “photos4life” newly added media might take some time to be moved- we have to feed the squirrels that do this manual labor). The content was migrated to a public download site, which contains at least 150 images, audio and video http://minus.com/mvKXzhhcO.
Your task for this assignment is to mashup at least 7 different pieces of this media to make a new story, and use at least 2 different types (e.g. audio and image, image and video). The story most likely would be done as a video, but see if you can make these different kinds of media make sense as the content. What kind of recycled story can you make out of this cast off media?

This is a 3 star assignment

Before working on this assignment I looked at a previously done assignment called:

Cat? A ds106 Recycled Media Assignment: This assignment was really well done.  I like how it started and ended with the cat.  I also like how this short video has a scary theme to it as you are wondering what happened to the cat.  The recycled media was used very well and the sounds went well with what was happening during the video.  I also really liked how it zoomed in on the cat at the very end.

After looking through all the recycled media in the recycling bin, I decided to create a story with photos about a nature walk that I’m taking.  For this I took 6 pictures and 2 sounds from the recycling bin that I thought related best to nature and things you would see on a nature walk.  The story I created with recycled media represents me taking a nature walk, and the things I see while walking around outside.  The starting image is of a house.  This represents me leaving my house to start my day with a nature walk.  The sound in the background for most of the movie is called forest birds.  This is the sound represents the birds I hear while outside on my walk.  The next picture shows me turning a corner and walking by some pretty fall trees.  The following picture shows me walking down the stairs into the forest where there is nature.  The next picture shows a leaf I found on my nature walk.  Then I look up a the nice blue sky and see some hot air balloons.  The last sound that is at the very end of this video is called swish, which represents the sound of the hot air balloons.  That there ends my nature walk.  I wish that there was a sound for footsteps in the recycling bin that sound like I’m actually walking.  I really enjoyed this assignment and using recycled media for my story.  I like how I can reuse what other people do not end up needing.

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