1. Aleen

    One Archetype, Five Movies, Five Seconds

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    Create a five second video of one archetype from five different movies cutting together one second of each. Examples could include: Prisoners, Thieves, Beauty Queens, Kings, Robin Hoods, James Bonds, Bank Robbers, Assassins, Bad Boys, Kung Fu Masters, Femme Fatales, Sports Heroes, High School Bullies, Rogue Police Officers, Brainiacs, Pregnancies, …

  2. Aleen

    Return To The Silent Era

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    The dawn of cinema had no audio; silent movies created an atmosphere with music and the use of cue cards. Take a 3-5 minute trailer of a modern movie and render it in the form os the silent era- convert to black and white, add effects to make it look …

  3. Aleen

    What makes you laugh

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    When I feel like laughing, I often watch comedy movie like a Hangover. The movie is really funny, and it always makes me laugh. Put the video which makes you laugh. Explain why you choose the video and what kind of situation you will watch it.

    Not another teen movie …

  4. Aleen

    Return To The Scene Of The Crime

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    Take a photo from the past that you took in a particular location. Return to that stop, and take another picture, “framing” the original within the current view

    Fantastic Four My Best friends from high school and still growing strong are time apart doesn’t erase the memories we had, love …

  5. Aleen

    Buddy Photo

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    Find a little figurine or a stuffed animal that you can carry around with you. Use that “buddy” and take photos to document where you have gone together. ie: going out to lunch, going to the movies, etc.

    This is my favorite picture of Waddles. I was taking him to …

  6. Aleen

    Find Yourself

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    Find your name in the environment around you. Look for your first name, parts of your first name, or even the individual letters that make up your name in the environment around you. Take photos and crop them together. Share. Enjoy!

    My favorite cousin went to Spain to study abroad …

  7. Aleen

    A Whole New World

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    Take a picture of your subject (grandparents, pet, yourself) and put it into a totally different background in which they appear abnormally too small or too large. Think of Honey, we shrunk the kids…

    I did this assignment because I thought it would be easy, as it was. I just …

  8. Aleen

    Splash of color

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    Color splash is a technique to emphasize details- you remove all color from a photo, and then restore original color to a single object, e.g. a green apple on a table. Think of the Girl in the red dress from Schindler’s List.

    You can do this in a number of …

  9. Aleen

    Web 2.0

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    What is web 2.0?

    This is technology at its best I would have to say.  There is so many ways that you can interact and grow and learn through the way that the web functions nowadays. Much simpler I must say.

    For every problem or dilemma one might have the …

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