Have we had a real mandatory assignment lately? I can’t even remember! But lucky us(DS106 students) this assignment could count towards mash-up stars, woohoo! I don’t need all the stars, but let’s see what I can whip up when I 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 of this cast off media?”

Where can I find recycled media?! In the Recycle Bin of course! Earlier in the semester we were asked to drop 4 pieces of unused media into the bin. Well it really adds up when you have 2 whole sections of students dropping in media! However, it was hard for me to find something to tell a story with. I even watched other students examples and still wasn’t getting that feel, ya know? So I chugged along and came up with the idea of my trip to the zoo. But then I realized, “Well, I have tons of images of animals, but I don’t have different types of media besides that.” Then I stumbled upon these:

and

and I had an eerie, yet awesome story that popped into my mind. There was one other photo I had in mind, but that would give away the twist, but anyways, here is the story:

Okay, this may seem cruel, or disgusting, or just whatever it is against your morals…but I thought it was a funny little story to tell with the recycled media I had to work with. The video was a little quiet without having the music from the awesome Rick Astley and Eduard Khil. Does this make me a troll now? I sure hope not!

Welcome to another post of epic mashup! This time we will be taking a chance with the Mashup Those Movies assignment. “Take elements from multiple movie posters and mash them up into one. You can change anything- the caption, the title, the main image, etc. Lastly, make it seem like it could be a real movie.”At first I didn’t know what movies I wanted to mash. So I looked up movies from 2012 so that hopefully everyone that sees it will know the movies I used. It took me until August to have a light-bulb moment! As I was scrolling I found Lawless, a movie I saw earlier this year and was pretty bad-ass.

A who else would have a western-like movie (actually Spanish?) other than the man Will Ferrell himself? I present the 2nd movie I was going to mash (which was in March in case you were wondering), Casa De Mi Padre. I never saw this movie, but I will assume it was ridiculous on the basis of knowing Will Ferrell was the main character. So when you mix ridiculous and bad-ass…well bad-ass prevails obviously and this new movie will hopefully give Ferrell some badassery-credit! I present Lawless, featuring Will Ferrell. Why? Because Will Ferrell is the law.

This week was mashup week(crazy huh?) and my first assignment to do was Consumer Mashup. This assignment asked, “Think of anyplace you spend money, and what you most often buy at that place. Then redesign their logo to incorporate your favorite product.” Well, if you go back to my post waaaaaaaaaaaaaay back in week one, you would find my video for my keychain story…and if you watched that, you would find out that one of my favorite places to go is Sheetz. It’s convenient, it’s cheap, it has gas, and I have a Sheetz Card, Woot! But one thing always baffled me…Most convenient stores/grocery stores have their own generic soda and silly names to rip on the name brands, like Coke and Pepsi. Why doesn’t Sheetz have THEIR own soda? I feel like it would make a killing since soooo many people love Sheetz…

606,639 people to be exact!(or at least according to Facebook).

Well, alright then, I’m going to do my consumer mash by combining Sheetz and soda. But first, I needed to research why Sheetz hasn’t already done this themselves. As it turns out, they DID have their own soda line. If you go to the Wiki page and read the history section, you will find that Sheetz had a brand called It! Cola. Flash back into the mid 1990′s, the wiki even mentions that this brand had a cult following! =o So what the heck happened? No clue, and Wiki doesn’t know either. Damn. Well, if anyone finds an answer, I would love to hear it!

Continuing on, I now needed to incorporate soda and Sheetz. Well being the genius that I am (not really) I came up with this brilliant idea:

Okay, so admittedly, the “flavors” aren’t the most appealing, but it got the job done. I basically copped off of the major brand of Coke and Monster and went from there! Leaded = Coke; Unleaded = Diet Coke; Plus = Coke Vanilla; Premium = Mellow Yellow; Diesel Energy = Monster Energy. I even went as far as to download the Monster font from dafont.com!

During this weeks Remix segment, we were asked to complete 7 stars worth of Mashup Assignments. The first assignment that I decided to do for this segment was to create a Movie Trailer Mashup. This assignment asked to take a movie trailer and have the audio be completely opposite of what the movie actually represents. For this assignment I decided to take the movie trailer of one of my favorite movies “Bridesmaids” and make the audio of the trailer sound as if it’s a scary, when in reality it’s one of the funniest movies I’ve seen. The audio trailer that I used was of the movie “The Apparition“. The reason I used this movie was because I thought that the audio course of events sounded like it would go really well with that of the Bridesmaid trailer. I downloaded both movie trailers onto my computer using www.keepvid.com then I uploaded Bridesmaid’s into my iMovie, but took the Apparition trailer and uploaded it into audacity in order to get the audio. I then combined both the trailer (muted) and the audio in order to produce a scary version of the Bridesmaid trailer and make my own Remix. This assignment was very interesting to do simply because I have already seen the bridesmaid and I know that it’s not a scary movie….. when I added the scary sound to the trailer it made it a lot more interesting. I felt like I was getting ready to watch an entirely different movie. I was also surprised to see how well this specific audio fit into the movie trailer, I didn’t expect them to go so well hand in hand. This Mashup Assignment was worth 4 stars. I can officially say  that I’ve made my own remix!!! It’s awesome to see how easy it can be to combine different forms of media in order to produce a new product that no one else has ever done.

Bridesmaids Trailer Remix:  

 

Total= 4/7 Stars!

This is mashup assignment 746, “Recycle the Media” is it worth 3 stars. The assignment read:

This assignment was kind of difficult. There wasn’t as much recycled media as I thought there would be, but I made it work with what I had. I created a short (extremely short) story about walking on a beach and forgetting my sunglasses. I walked back to the hotel (alone) where the Joker was waiting for me.

First, I downloaded all of the media I wanted to use for my story. I copied all 9 pieces (3 audio, 6 photos) to Windows Movie maker. (The Joker was supposed to be a GIF but he wasn’t being very cooperative.) I played around with the timing of the photos and audio and then I added a caption to each photo so you would have some idea what is happening. I hope you enjoy it! I know it isn’t the most entertaining thing you’ve ever watched.

Media used:

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http://i.minus.com/i7mOLZYEl34Z7.jpg

http://minus.com/lPBFN2CXYLj7J

http://i.minus.com/iU0MTDfwqZH2B.jpeg

http://minus.com/lHg2EIy6lZ6kb

http://minus.com/lbzjPUBjEVaXbw

http://i.minus.com/iU7Az4KMCobeL.jpg

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For the assignment Consumer Mashup I actually had a hard time thinking of something I buy a lot at one specific place. In fact, I couldn’t think of any examples for me. However,one of my friends used to always buy candy at this random CITGO. She would rarely buy candy from any other place. I decided to use her as an inspiration and and do CANDYGO.

This assignment was fairly simple. I found a CITGO logo and uploaded it onto a powerpoint presentation (not sure why I used this, just seemed like a simple way to manipulate the picture). I then added a text box and tried to find the text that matched the original logo the best. I came up with aharoni. I then fixed the color and put a white box over the original logo and added my new text.