After 3 weeks of work and lack of work, I am finally completing my work. I put together a lot of elements for this project, using audio, video, and other storytelling elements to create a short video about AI. Meet S.A.I. (Smart Artificial Intelligence), a cute little AI who definitely won’t turn evil. For this project my main workspace was Canva. I used their make-a-cartoon option and began from there, looking through images and tools that I could use to create this piece of work. It was the easiest, unfortunately, but I found my path in the way of shadow figurines to represent my characters. I wanted a short horror story inspired by the Twilight Zone and two-sentence horror relying on the watcher’s imagination and foreshadowing.

I wanted something creepy, though honestly there are a few more things I wish I added to add depth to my story, more sounds and alternate images to show the passage of time, since there was no sun I would not accomplish this affect. The other tool I used was Audacity trying a few things that I had considered like moving audio. From one side to the other, in the end I edited lots of sounds however I did not end up using everything that I created. I used AI voices to make my characters talk though there were only two. Though I for the AI the voice took more effort I tried to reflect how it was growing and becoming stronger through it’s actions and voice. That slowly became more and more human. Taking on our characteristics despite it’s distaste more man kind.

Choosing the setting was one of the hardest things for me, since I did not want this to take place in a modern setting but was unsure of how late into the future I would choose. However, visual and designs are something that was stressed so naturally I took a while to think about it.

Futuristic road vectors, photos and PSD files | Free download Using a sight known as FreePik.com I was able to find the perfect visuals to use. Looking into a few options for the settings. I decided that most things would simply take place in the main characters office/Lab. So, I did not end up need too many visual items and just had many extra pieces.

Above is one of the audios I created but did not have the chance to use, I got to play around with moving audio and what side the sound would come out of. Far easier than the way I attempted to do it originally. I enjoyed making it even though way too much time went into something that’s not even 5 minutes long. Spent an hour a day on audio alone, very ‘fun’

Audio can create a scene of space and scenes invoking memories allowing you to visualize them since there was a visual component the audio did not have to do all the heavy lifting. So, I focused on ambiance sounds instead. I played with filters to give the impression of time moving as well. I wanted to do a spiral into madness, but it did not come out the way was hoping so I didn’t do it.

Although I did not select this one it was a favorite. Sounds nice but like the rest they were rather loud or aggressive and I had to go to audacity to soothe it, quiet it, or just adjust parts I didn’t like. Did that for every audio then remembered I have bad ears so even of it sounds good for me I fear it’s loud for others. Timing was a big thing for me since I needed to feel like the dramatic pauses could be felt, the tension in the air, and the deep anxiety that accompanies the unknown. I ended up using multiple Ai tools like robot voice generator, a picture generator, and Human voice generator. All tools that brought my vision to life.

Link For Canva

You can see a few of the layers there, of what I was doing, creating elements, editing elements and putting it together to tell a story. I write a script and brought it to life that is what creating is. Next is the actual upload hope you enjoy!