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My attempt at making a movie infographic for the movie, Baby Driver.

Create an infographic that visually explores a movie (or a series of movies). Click and zoom in on the featured infographic to the left that explores the Mad Max trilogy. In this example the infographic looks at all the key aspects of these three movies, including their respective box office success, kill count, the price of fuel in the UK, US and Australia at the time of the films’ release, the weaponry used and the iconic vehicles that made the films stand out so much. This brilliant example intrigued me, and I couldn’t resist turning it into a ds106 design assignment.

ds106 assignment info: movie infographic

I chose this assignment because I am a huge consumer of movies and TV shows so this would finally be a chance to use it. After looking at the example I wanted to create mine to have the inclusion of some iconic imagery that would pull focus to something cool. So I choose Baby Driver because the cars are such an iconic part that would look amazing on an infographic as well as it being such a detailed amazing movie. This infographic gives the viewer a brief rundown on some small trivia and captures the important parts of the movie that make it so incredible. By taking the story of a movie and putting it into a quick and easy-to-read instead of scavenging through scattered wiki pages, interviews, and reviews it becomes the perfect digital story format.

To make this assignment I knew I wanted to focus on the cars since they are the focus of the movie so I found a list of all the cars used. I then found images of all of them with proper coloring on the web and used a background remover tool to make each image transparent. After compiling all these images into Canva along with a few extras relevant to the movie I added some facts I found on IMDb and Moviepedia. I then immediately deleted all the images that piled up on my desktop, only worsened by my indecisiveness over what I wanted to include in such a small space.

Please enjoy an assignment I put too much time into and enjoyed way too much.

Baby Driver Infographic

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My take on the Five Frame Story assignment.

Tell a story using five photos. Basically, that’s it. Figure out the story you want to tell and then take five photos to tell it. If you need to edit, add filters, etc. in order to get the effect you want, go for it.

ds106 assignment info: five frame story

I chose this assignment after seeing Sydney Says Things do it. I loved the idea so much that I had to try it because I love making silly things. It tells the story of one of my favorite movies and I’ve rewatched many times with friends. While it is a well-known movie it was hard to summarize it into 5 gifs so I really hope someone gets it. This is definitely a form of digital storytelling as it takes a movie (already digital), into a format that is faster to digest for people on the internet everywhere to view. Not scary at all.

Making this post was pretty easy. First I looked through my list of favorite movies to find one that I knew well enough to convey in 5 gifs which was harder than I thought it would be. Once I decided I searched through Giphy for the right images and embedded them here.

Best of luck and enjoy the funny images people!