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One Story / Four Icons
So far, 276 people have completed this assignment and it has 16950 views.
This idea was first suggested by Tom Woodward and has been a long standing popular ds106 assignment. The assignment is to reduce a movie, story, or event into its basic elements, then take those visuals and reduce them further to simple icons, four of them. Write your blog post up but do not give away the answer, let people guess! The challenge is to find the icons that suggest the story, but do not make it so easy. For icons a great resource is The Noun Project.
Minimalist TV/Movie Poster
So far, 136 people have completed this assignment and it has 8493 views.
Create a tv/movie poster that captures the essence of the story through the use of minimalist design/iconography.
Messing with the MacGuffin
So far, 64 people have completed this assignment and it has 5784 views.
Wikipedia defines the MacGuffin as "a plot element that catches the viewers' attention or drives the plot of a work of fiction." For this assignment forever change the plot of a movie, tv show, etc. by changing a single line of dialogue. Put this new line of dialogue below a screen-cap of the moment in the movie you're changing. Credit to Tom Woodward for posting an example of this idea in the #ds106 Twitter stream.
Favorite Movie Quote
So far, 50 people have completed this assignment and it has 3416 views.
Choose one of your favorite movie quotes and insert the quote over an image from the movie you chose.
DS106 Propaganda Posters
So far, 46 people have completed this assignment and it has 16865 views.
Time to let out your inner Big Brother! Create a propaganda poster for ds106. Use your photo editing software of choice and write a message to inspire your fellow ds106ers. For example, I took a WW2 poster about increasing ammunition production, and turned it into a poster promoting tweeting.
Contradiction Creation
So far, 45 people have completed this assignment and it has 2887 views.
Create some sort of graphic. Design the overall graphic to convey some sort of feeling or theme, but then have text saying something completely contradictory to the theme or feeling. Sort of like one of those old anti-motivational posters, but with more design than a black box with a white frame.
Create a READ poster
So far, 43 people have completed this assignment and it has 7389 views.
Since 1985, the American Library Association (ALA) has tried to sell reading books as cool by showing celebrities reading their favorite books. You can read about the history of this promotional campaign here. Experiment with this tradition, introduce a celebrity with a book who hasn't been recognized yet, but should be. Or use the poster you create to poke fun at a public figure, or do something else all together. have fun.
Are we there yet?
So far, 43 people have completed this assignment and it has 4043 views.
Take an existing image and change the concept in where you are at and what you are doing.
Lyric Typography Poster
So far, 42 people have completed this assignment and it has 14739 views.
Choose one of your favorite lines from a song and illustrate it using only typography. Consider how the font, color, sizes and placement of the typography can reflect or emphasize the meaning of the words. Check out the posters at Music Philosophy for ideas and inspiration.
Wait, where’d that guy come from?
So far, 40 people have completed this assignment and it has 3167 views.
Photoshop someone(s) (or something(s)) into a picture that isn't supposed to be there. Here's the original inspiration for the project: http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20110629_1.htm