Before moving forward, we will quickly review next steps with our video poems.
We will also discuss reading, I was struck by these:
The more we understand about memes and their mutations, their origins, and how quickly these are accepted by other individuals, the more we will understand cultural trends that may have been previously considered bewilderingly anomalous.
At its most basic, an Internet meme is simply the propagation of a digital file or hyperlink from one person to others using methods available through the Internet.
Here is more on the meme study, which says "Similarly, concrete words like house are generally easier to recall than abstract words like proof in short-term memory tasks." And
The model likewise correctly predicted a lack of success for the meme "Does this look like the face of mercy?" This meme also contains a concrete word, "face," but because the meme is over four words in length, the model treated it as long.
And I'm curious what people think of this
Shubeck envisions a day when his model might be flipped upside down, so that instead of predicting successful memes, it will be creating them, citing the recent case of the neural network that learned how to generate new cards for Magic: The Gathering. "I think people are tickled at the idea of neural networks generating new content," he says.
Finally, we will look over the assignment, and then get started with an in-class activity steps:
Start with an image of an animal or person that might lend itself to a meme. Download the image to your computer. Here are some starter images for our exercise:
sailor -- pilot -- kilt guy -- turtle
Also download and image with a background scene. Here are some images to get started:
dean smith center -- New York -- cactus
Next, we will walk through some tasks in Photoshop.
- Open Photoshop on your computer and create a new image that is 1200 pixels wide by 630 pixels high. Save the image as meme1.
- Next, open an animal or person image in Photoshop. Use the Image menu to resize the image to be 1200 pixels wide.
- Next, select all of the image using the Select Menu, and then choose Copy.
- Next navigate to your meme1 blank image. From the Layers menu, select New > Layer. From the Edit menu, select Paste.
- Next, choose the Quick Selection tool, and select relevant parts of the image to create trace lines around the animal or person.
- Next, from the Layer menu, select Layer Mask > Reveal Selection. See what happens.
- Next, open the image with the background scene, and resize it to 1200 pixels wide. Select all of the image, and copy it.
- Next return to the meme1 image, and create a new layer, and then paste the background image into the new layer.
- Next, rearrange the layers if needed to the proper order by dragging them in the Layers pallete.
- Next, choose the text tool from the toolbar, and add some text. Experiment with the fonts, sizes, color etc. Once you have a text layer in your composition, experiment with some of the effects available at the bottom of the Layers pallets
When finished you can continue to experiment with your image, or move on to thinking about the two collage memes you will develop.
For homework, you can turn to revising your video poem or begin working on the memes you will develop. Both are due in one week.