Yeh, me neither!
I’m really not in a band (I have ZERO music abilities) but for this 2-star ds106 assignment I got to pretend I was in one! This was a really fun assignment and I laughed so much while making it!
First, you click on this wikipedia site http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random and the title of the page became your band’s name (it randomly generates new pages each time you open the link).
Then you click on this link: http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3. Scroll to the bottom and the last quote is the name of your band’s Album. Next click on this link: http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days and select the 3rd picture- this is your album picture.
From there you can manipulate the picture, add the text, etc to create an Album cover.
So what’s my bands name?
I just laughed when I saw this! For some reason I just picture a serial killer with the word “Manhunt.” I guess that’s what I get for having a dad who is a police officer and watching to many crime shows.
The album name?
We are getting deep here…
And I forgot to screenshot the album picture before editing it. But here is the final copy.
I used Picmonkey.com (you can read a tutorial on using picmonkey- here) to add the text and add the border. For the title I chose a font that had an “Old English” feel to it, I guess since it had the word “thy” in it, I felt it needed to look old. For the Name I went with a font that was edgy and had a creepy feel. Since “manhunt” and “serial killer” are synonymous in my mind, I thought it was an appropriate font. At the same time though I was trying to keep it clean looking, because the pelican takes up SO much of the picture I didn’t want it too look messy or be overwhelming to the eye.
I really like how it turned out, even though it such a bizarre combo of name, title and picture. But I guess that’s the whole point of the assignment- to see how ridiculous it can be! haha
What do you all think?
PS: This is my third 2 star assignment, taking me up to 6/10 stars!
