Muppet GIFs

Muppet GIFs

by @emilymayashman

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January 26, 2017

This animated GIF assignment asked me to create an animated GIF from The Muppets. I decided to focus on a point in the Muppets show where Kermit gets heckled by Statler and Waldorf. Kermit then looks straight down the lens at hos audience and gulps. I feel like this is exactly why The Muppets are&ellipsis;Read the full post »
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The World in Colour

by @emilymayashman

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January 25, 2017

As I am a visual learner, and I often notice the colours of things first before anything else. So doing the ‘What colour is your world?‘ task seemed really fun as a task and as a thought experiment. The task set is to pick a colour and take pictures of the things in that colour&ellipsis;Read the full post »
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A Nostalgia Trip – Web Archives

by @emilymayashman

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January 24, 2017

I thought this task was a really interesting experiment. Moore’s law says that technology advances every eighteen months. You buy or use a piece of technology and after a year and a half something new has come along and it’s already outdated. I wondered whether this was true for websites as well. So using The&ellipsis;Read the full post »
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Everything is fine

by @emilymayashman

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January 23, 2017

So in the essence of telling a story through a web page, I decided to go to that place where you will find the most news stories and that was, of course, the BBC News homepage. Here, there are excerpts from other news stories all collected in one place. I thought this was ideal for&ellipsis;Read the full post »
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Another Quiz

by @emilymayashman

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January 22, 2017

I really liked doing the guess the film on four icons quiz I decided to do another but with audio this time. This is an idea I saw here. Feel free to try it yourself. I downloaded the original songs and uploaded them into Adobe Audition and then using that programme I reversed the track. Then&ellipsis;Read the full post »
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Make it 800% Slower

by @emilymayashman

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January 21, 2017

Making something slower or faster changes it into something very different to what it started. In this assignment, the task is to slow down a piece of music to the point where ‘it becomes an amazing piece of ambient music‘. Using Adobe Audition I uploaded, “That’s Not my Name” by the Ting Tings and slowed&ellipsis;Read the full post »
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One Story Four Emojis

by @emilymayashman

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January 20, 2017

So I read this assignment brief and it seemed really easy to do but when it came down to it I found it really difficult, to sum up, the main elements of the story into four icons. Until I had the brainwave of summing up a story using four emojis. So here goes. I will leave&ellipsis;Read the full post »
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Playing it Backwards

by @emilymayashman

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January 20, 2017

This task asks you to make a film of something and then play it backward, and it seems on this blog that I really like playing things backward. I thought I’d try this one out. So I chose a running tap because I thought that it would look really interesting. This turned out really well. It’s&ellipsis;Read the full post »
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Common Everyday Cafetiere

by @emilymayashman

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January 18, 2017

A cafetiere is an everyday object, right? This assignment asks you to take a photograph of an everyday object and change or manipulate the colours. So I chose my flatmate’s and I’s prize possession a rose gold cafetiere. So this was the original photo that I took. Then I uploaded it onto my computer and edited&ellipsis;Read the full post »
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Minimalism and Movies

by @emilymayashman

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January 16, 2017

In this task, we were asked to create a minimalist poster for a TV show or movie. This I thought was a really interesting idea and something that I could really run with creatively. The essence of the story had to be captured but only using key icons, props, and characters. The first idea that came&ellipsis;Read the full post »
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Splash The Colour Assignment

by @emilymayashman

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January 13, 2017

This DS106 Assignment asks you to take all of the colour out of a photograph accept for one object or aspect of that photograph. The example given is the little girls’ red coat from “Schindler’s List” The process of adding a pop of colour or taking colour away from a photograph draws the eye to a certain aspect&ellipsis;Read the full post »
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Daily Create

by @emilymayashman

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November 1, 2016

#tdc1751 – Streetview an interesting spot in the World you may never visit. I randomly went to a place in Poland and found a little village in West Pomeranian Voivodeship.
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Daily Create

by @emilymayashman

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October 31, 2016

#tdc1752 A GIF Trip to the Moon This daily create was to make a GIF from the Georges Méliès Film, ‘A Trip to The Moon‘ View post on imgur.com The particular clip I’ve chosen was because I loved the use of scenery and costumes use. It is an amazing way to tell a story especially with limited&ellipsis;Read the full post »
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Daily Create

by @emilymayashman

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October 30, 2016

#tdc1709 A Dozen of Anything.
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Upper Storeys

by @emilymayashman

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October 24, 2016

The Shape of Stories So in storytelling, all stories can be described into about eight different journeys or, a mix of them. This is a theory by Kurt Vonnegut. He outlines his idea here. And an infographic on the idea is here. Applying these to movies, TV shows, and books can be easy. The video of … Continue reading Upper Storeys
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Say it Like Peanut Butter

by @emilymayashman

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October 16, 2016

My first ever assignment on this Blog! The assignment is to; ‘ you’ll be creating an animated gif of a clip from your favourite (or least favourite) film’ As someone who loves films, to pick a favourite is so difficult! But none the less I persevered and came up with one of my favourite scenes from … Continue reading Say it Like Peanut Butter
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