Anatomy of a Mashup
I was asked, so here’s how the Mashup for “Jumped The Shark?” was put together.
While I love “Glee”, I think it may have gotten too big for it’s britches. Too much stunt casting and less than worthy themes were getting in the way of telling the story of some “not the most popular” kids in high school dealing with life in a fantasy/musical comedy setting. So how to I express this in a “Flickr Twitter,” i.e. sharing a thought through an image?
I wanted to show “Glee” getting eaten by a shark. I looked all over for a shark sketch of a shark swimming horizontally with its mouth open. I couldn’t find any, so I settled for the great poster art for Spielberg’s “Jaws.” The poster’s swimming woman was erased and I replaced the word “Jaws” with “Glee’s” title logo using the correct “Glee” font (which I had found months earlier for another photo).
I wanted the image to be framed with black funeral bunting to symbolize the death of a series (ok, I’m being a bit premature). This was the toughest search, but I finally found this strange photo that just reached out to me. Of course I had to get rid of the woman with the crazy hair and change the colour of the velvet drapes to black, keeping the tassel’s gold colour. I also kept the photos “frame.”
Oh, let’s not forget that I had to resize, stretch and otherwise tweak most of the final components (my shark wound up being a bit fatter than the poster). Ain’t Photoshop wonderful? I certainly am learning to scratch its surface.
Anatomy of a Mashup
I was asked, so here’s how the Mashup for “Jumped The Shark?” was put together.
While I love “Glee”, I think it may have gotten too big for it’s britches. Too much stunt casting and less than worthy themes were getting in the way of telling the story of some “not the most popular” kids in high school dealing with life in a fantasy/musical comedy setting. So how to I express this in a “Flickr Twitter,” i.e. sharing a thought through an image?
I wanted to show “Glee” getting eaten by a shark. I looked all over for a shark sketch of a shark swimming horizontally with its mouth open. I couldn’t find any, so I settled for the great poster art for Spielberg’s “Jaws.” The poster’s swimming woman was erased and I replaced the word “Jaws” with “Glee’s” title logo using the correct “Glee” font (which I had found months earlier for another photo).
I wanted the image to be framed with black funeral bunting to symbolize the death of a series (ok, I’m being a bit premature). This was the toughest search, but I finally found this strange photo that just reached out to me. Of course I had to get rid of the woman with the crazy hair and change the colour of the velvet drapes to black, keeping the tassel’s gold colour. I also kept the photos “frame.”
Oh, let’s not forget that I had to resize, stretch and otherwise tweak most of the final components (my shark wound up being a bit fatter than the poster). Ain’t Photoshop wonderful? I certainly am learning to scratch its surface.