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Submitted by: Kathy Onarheim as Suggested by Ben Rimes
What happens when you combine two existing movie titles to create your own movie? Movie Mate Parodies, of course. This project allows students to show off their creative side while demonstrating mastery using masking, non-destructive editing, adjustment layers, blending modes, filters, and the type tools. Use your creative mind to meld two titles together. If you are stumped or have hit a wall - look at this version of a lesson plan for high school students in which several titles have been put together already for you to search and complete - reduce by one star if you use from ...
So far, 3 people have completed this assignment and it has 3132 views.
Submitted by: Kayleigh Barbee
Take some of your old magazines and newspapers and create a 2D or 3D collage/sculpture of words and pictures that represent a common theme (ex: color, media subject such as animals or food, things you like, etc.). Explain why you chose your theme and what some of the individual pieces mean to you.
So far, 15 people have completed this assignment and it has 3328 views.
Submitted by: Jameson Whipple
Imagine your favorite company whether it be food, clothing, or any other company. Now imagine their enemy or competitor in the business. Your goal for this assignment is to take your favorite company's trademark image or logo and reinterpret it in a way that reflects the design of its enemy. Look for the elements that make the competitor's logo what it is. What is the color scheme? Is there any methphors or hidden meanings? What is the form of the logo? How can you use its balance, porportion, or rhythm? The important thing is to still have the original company's ...
So far, 17 people have completed this assignment and it has 5215 views.
Submitted by: Cooper Graham
Have you ever thought a particular cartoon character would make a great advertiser? Well here's your chance. Take an existing product or even a regular item and have a cartoon character do their best salesman impression.
So far, 24 people have completed this assignment and it has 8722 views.
Submitted by: Jim Groom
Take a title of a well-known book and re-design the cover to suggest something entirely different. For example, the book cover for Cormac McCarthy's The Road (an apocalyptic novel about a father and son facing the end of the world) is reframed as a feel-good book about effective parenting (see image). Original idea found through this design contest on Book Ninja in 2008. Image credit: Ingrid Paulson's reimagining of The Road by Cormac McCarthy
So far, 17 people have completed this assignment and it has 12332 views.
Submitted by: Jim Groom
Givien the popularity and ubiquity of animated GIfs on the web right now, it is time to get jiggy with them. Animate a comic book cover. Check out Kerry Callen's examples for inspiration.
So far, 6 people have completed this assignment and it has 4361 views.
Submitted by: Jim Groom
Animate a magazine cover. Preferrably one with monstrous cyclops pounding on dragons.
So far, 35 people have completed this assignment and it has 8836 views.
Submitted by: Jim Groom
Pick a movie poster and animate it. You can see an awesome example and quick explanation by Michael Branson Smith here.
So far, 2 people have completed this assignment and it has 2980 views.
Submitted by: Alan Levine
Convert a key scene from a movie into an animated GIF and include graphics elements to make it look like the menu screen of a DVD. Be creative in the kind of items that appear on the menu; make it relevant to the plot
So far, 43 people have completed this assignment and it has 4154 views.
Submitted by: Dalina Beckham
Take an existing image and change the concept in where you are at and what you are doing.
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