These past two weeks really taught me about remixes and mashups. I was very familiar with what a remix was before these assignments, but only when it came to music and movies. However, these past two weeks have taught that pretty much anything digital can be remade and almost everything in our society can have […]

I was looking through Mashup Assignments and saw the 10 Second Song Mashup. I thought this would be great. Unfortunately my laptop has been running very poorly since we did all the work with video assignments so I had to use my sister’s laptop to download audacity and give this assignment a whirl. My sister’s […]

For this assignment we had to create and audio track or video, of a discussion between us and someone else talking about what a remix and mashups are. I decided to do an audio track and I was able to convince my little sister Alexi to have a conversation with me about the topic. She […]

For my MashUp Assignment requirement I chose the Movie Mashup (4 1/2 stars). The basis of the assignment was to take two movies which have been compared to one another and mix them together into one movie poster. Here’s my submission: To complete the assignment I took several pictures off …

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Since I was home for Thanksgiving Break I decided that it would be a good idea to talk to my sister about remixes and mashups. We both felt pretty unclear on what remixes were going into it. We each thought that we knew what it was but then we check out some videos of remixes […]

For my remixed assignment I received the Car Lust Visual Assignment, in the original assignment you were post a picture of your dream car and write a blog post demonstrating how it makes you feel and what you love about the car. The twist the remix adds to the assignment …

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I created a visual assignment this week with the title “Comparing the Past to the Present.” I came up with this idea because there are so many pictures around the house hanging up that my sisters are posing the same as my mother that age and I thought it would make a great visual assignment for […]

25 Days till Christmas is a video assignment that I created. I thought of the idea on Thanksgiving day while my family was decorating for Christmas and watching How the Grinch Stole Christmas. One of my favorite things about Christmas is watching the Countdown to Christmas on ABC Family. For this assignment I challenge everyone to […]

  For my final Mashup Assignment, I decided to venture into video after making the other two using photoshop. I went with an assignment called Actor Transformation which showed the transition of actors from earlier in their careers to the present day. I went with Will Smith who has been a Hollywood staple now for […]

For my second mashup assignment, I decided to jump into the world of photoshop and complete a Movie Mashup in the form of a poster. I thought for quite a while on this one and made a mashup using Fight Club and the movie Rocky. While the plots of the two movies aren’t the same […]

The first assignment that I have created this week is a video assignment. The title of the assignment is “Favorite Actor/Actress Highlight Reel.” For the assignment students are suppose to create a 30 to 60 second highlight reel of their actor or actress’s favorite scenes from movies. I rated this assignment at 3 stars because […]

For this assignment, we had to take movie clips of one actor/actress and put them together to show the transformation the actor/actress went through their life and career. Creating this video was not very difficult but time consuming. It was difficult to find the right movie clips in order to show the transformation that I wanted […]

For one of my Mashup Assignments, I chose to do Your Favorite Teams Mashup. Being a big sports fan this one was right up my alley, so I knew what I wanted to go with ahead of time. I decided to mashup my two favorite football teams, with one being the Philadelphia Eagles and the […]

This assignment was kinda of difficult. I had to really use my creative juices. I thought I was very creative for this assignment and I hope it looks as cool to everyone else as I think it does. I took the Super Smash Bros Brawl theme song and I imposed it on the Narnia Battle. […]

In this assignment, we had to create a mashup of our favorite songs within 10 seconds and have people guess what they are. It was very easy to make this all I had to do was get the songs off of YouTube and download them to my computer. Then from there I just added them into […]

When I saw this assignment, I knew wanted to do this one. We had to put different clips of music and sound effects together. The process to create this was fun and simple, I am very familiar with Audacity, and it was fun to play around with the music and sound effects. Every time I […]

3 stars At least four times, by my count. For the Vocal Instrumental Mash Up assignment, I decided to mash up ‘All Apologies‘ by Nirvana with ‘Lose Yourself‘ by Eminem, and ‘Summertime Sadness‘ by Lana Del Ray. I pulled the… Continue Reading →

For the first of my mash up assignments, I decided to do the Techno Viking Music Video assignment. We were asked to take one video with music in it, and place a clip of a dancing guy inside it. It… Continue Reading →

In this assignment we had to remix a video and add our own aspects in it of where we thought Alan should go on vacation. I used the Popcorn Maker software in order to remix the video. This assignment was very difficult and time consuming for me, and the software was very difficult to use. […]

For this assignment, we had to take an original assignment and using one of the remix cards create a new assignment with it. The assignment that I had to do was take emojis and find actual pictures that look like them and create a story. Then remix it by adding mustaches to them. Going into […]

So….Popcorn Maker is the worst. Using it for the “Where Should Alan Go On Vacation” project was one of the worst experiences I’ve had in this class thus far. In theory, it’s a very simple program that you can use… Continue Reading →

The last 2 weeks have flown by… Some exercises to start off the week Here are is my conversation and thoughts of remixes and mash ups Using Popcorn to help Alan go on vacation Remix Generator and My 10 seconds of thanks My Mashup Assignments that total 9 stars A Changing Character – 4.5 Stars […]

I had a short conversation with my sister on what I thought about the words remix and mash up. The reason it didn’t last that long was because to me, everything is a remix and/or a mash up. She even had asked a great question about my boyfriend Chris working on cars and if I […]

What is the difference between a mashup and a remix? A mashup is a song or composition created by blending two or more pre-recorded songs, usually by overlaying the vocal track of one song seamlessly over the instrumental track of another. A remix is more like alternate versions of work, while mashups blend two or […]

Vine It Then Combine It! I created a new assignment this week and was definitely more on the excited side to complete it. My assignment was a Mashup Assignment in favor of our main topics of these past two weeks assignments (remixes and mash ups). The goal of the assignment was to create 2 or […]

Can you guess the Songs or Artists? Four Songs in one track. The inspiration behind all the songs comes from my favorite genre of music, Country. I created the soundtrack using Audacity. I took the four songs I wanted to use, trimmed them to roughly 4 seconds each, and then layered them into audacity. Next […]

Actor Transformation: 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. One of my favorite actresses is Sandra Bullock, I think she is an incredible […]

Using the ds106 remix generator I got an assignment where you write about a scene with multiple characters but write about the perspectives and emotions of one of the other characters in the scene. That original assignment was Different point of view- same place. The trick is for my remix I got play it back Jack […]

Harry Potter vs. Twilight, Movie Mashup Take a movie that you really like, Now take a movie that has been compared to it, and now make a new movie poster that incorporates the two. I choose to do my poster on Harry Potter and Twilight. When the twilight series first came out, it seemed like […]

Remixed: Capture/Screenshot a scene from an episode on a television show or a movie and try to make a poster for that episode or movie. Remix Card: Introduce an unexpected character into the assignment, someone as strange an unexpected as your Uncle Bob. http://remix.ds106.us/remixassignments/scene-poster-remixed-uncle-bob/ Poster: I created my poster based off of one of my […]