Perhaps Forrest Gump is the original photo bomber-
But I think it’s more than that. Forrest actually interacted with the figures of history that he was in the photo with. This was not the case with me-
I chose to join the historical Ellen DeGeneres selfie photo. Although it may not be a highly esteemed moment in history, at the time, it broke all of the records for the most tweeted selfie. I figured that this was an appropriate historical moment for in light of the ENG 304 course. At the Academy awards on March 2, 2014, Ellen managed to organize a selfie with Meryl Streep, Jennifer Lawrence, Kevin Spacey, Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt, and Angelina Jolie. Bradley Cooper was also in the picture-he actually pressed the button.
I found an image of myself that seemed to be the right scale and shape to paste over Kevin Spacey. I also tried to match the image with the others’ tone, but I think that was the most difficult aspect to achieve. I used Microsoft Paint to edit my photo and cut my image out. Once I saved the photo, I tried to re-edit the tone of it, but I wasn’t able to get it quite right. I wasn’t able to devote more hours to it, but the above is the end result.
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We’re the Baker Bunch!
After some consideration, I decided to work on the Brady Bunch assignment. Most of my family members aren’t around this week, so the “That 70’s Show Circle” project was out! As you probably noticed, I couldn’t resist the last name alliteration, so I went with it. I struggled with the amount of people/dogs versus the spaces available. We have four dogs in the family and I wanted them all represented. I eventually settled with adding a small Baker Bunch sign in between the squares, rather than in the middle.
This project was fun to put together. I would say the most difficult piece was deciding which pictures to add and trying to get them to a similar scale. In order to create the entire piece, I used a combination of BeFunky Collage Maker, Microsoft Word, and Microsoft Paint. BeFunky was a great application to work with. I was able to easily resize my photos within the collage and flip the photos, as I wanted to mirror the Brady Bunch effect where some people are looking around the square. I took a screenshot when complete, pasted it into Word, and cropped it down. I also used Word to recreate the Brady Bunch lettering/font as much as possible. I was able to screenshot the picture again to include the sign and saved it as a jpg.
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