Autoplay Carousel but with Full Bleed Background

Hi there, 

I'm trying to make my blog landing page have a headline at the top of the page that is populated by featured blog posts. 
So I thought about putting a summary block at the top but the images don't bleed through as background images. 

Do you know a way to have the main image of a blog post, to be used as a full-bleed background image in a auto-playing carousel?
I hope that comes across somewhat clearly? Haha 

I've included an image below to give you hint of what I mean.

And so that would be a featured post and it would auto play to the next summary post.