Think of an actor who has been in many movies throughout their life. Make a mashup video of clips from some of their most popular movies in order of the correct timeline that they came out, and try to document the story of the growth of the actor with their changing roles. This video can be no less than 4 clips and must be at least 2 minutes long.
Develop your own song utilizing the two songs from separate genres. This assignment will be complete using Audacity or a similar audio editing software. An example of a remix would be the utilization a classical song and a pop song in your remix.
Okay so we all watch actors change roles and character. It’s crazy to see what they were like in the beginning of their career compared to now. Find a actor or actress and use film clips to show a metamorphous.
Blend two songs from any two different movie scores, creating a mix of the two songs into one, but that make something new by the combination. Make sure the music matches or plays against itself- and expand on what story evolves from doing this. This may sound a bit daunting, but it’s fun to do! A great way to check on two different songs sounding the same is to look at YouTube Doubler – http://youtubedoubler.com/.
Can two different YouTube song videos work together to make a new piece of musical art simply by combining the videos? An example of LCD Soundsystem – New York, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down played with Miles Davis – Louis Malle’s Elevator To The Gallows Recording Session seems to make a case for a “Yes” answer.
See it done via YouTube Doubler and also as a screencast of the video playing in two different browsers.
To make this assignment work, find music from two different eras and/or genres and see if you can make a duet by playing them together. What new story does this tell?
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, imahe 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?
Find some clips of a classic movie where a character is in a movie theater, or is watching something on a TV or computer screen. Edit in sequences from a newer movie’s trailer, one that you wou;d totally not expect this character to be watching. Get it? One movie watching another. If you are good, the watching character’s emotions will be relfectd by the scenes in the new movie. Even better, bleed some of the audio of the newer trailer over the original so the sounds overlap.
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Everyday we see different colors throughout our day. Pick a single color to photograph throughout a typical day. How is this color part of your daily routine? Now the fun part. Find a song that is relevant to the color that you choose. Mash up these images to make a short film/clip while layering which ever song you choose on top.
In the spirit of pumping up activity for the Daily Create I issued a challenge to see who was strong enough to do one every day for a week. That is the first part of the challenge, and to do this assignment, you should do the same.
Then, and here is where it gets interesting, my friends, is that you are to make a mashup of content that other people created for each fo the seven days, and to make an interesting story out of it. How you do it is up to you, but you should use the media (and link back, give ’em credit) to 7 different pieces of media submitted for the Daily Create on the days you did yours.
The basic idea for this assignment is to find a video clip of anything and change the words through a voice dub. The video could be of anything, but you should change the intention completely through your use of over dubbing.
