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Final Project: Rumors Unleashed

For this project, I used these websites below:

Each of these websites were learned through this class. They were pretty much self-taught and I only went to the reading and writing center once this semester for help setting up WordPress

I used a combination of Wave2lip, attaching sounds and adding new voices to create my final project. I used my creative to be able to create a storyline that really makes my audience listen and wanted to stay focused into my show. Overall, I am pleased with myself and how much time and effort I put into this show. I hope you all like it just as much as I did!

If you would like to read about the long process of making this show, feel free to read my other post: 

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Week 14 Just One Week Left!!!

This week went by pretty quickly in my opinion. All we really had to do this week was to put together our final project and make a weekly summary post like usual. I started the week by getting all our audio files into Audacity so that we could begin making the final product for the project. I started by creating my radio bumper and commercial for the project and we used Eleven Labs to create my recordings for the scripts for each of the pieces. Once we had all the lines figured out and recorded, we were able to start putting together to the final product. We used the script that we made last week to make sure that all the lines matched up with our actual show. We also used the free sounds website to add music to our bumpers and commercials to try and add some more interest to the show and to keep the viewers and listeners engaged. Like past weeks, in order to create my radio bumper and commercial, I used audacity to take the recorded lines and the background music to put them together and create one audio file that was put into the entire show at the end when the show was being put together. The same process was applied to the creation of the commercial. Once we were able to get everything up into Audacity, we listened to the show back and decided that everything looked and sounded good so we uploaded our show in each of our respective weekly summary posts. I think this project shows a lot about everything we learned over the course of the semester because we used our audio editing skills that we gained over the course of the semester to make this whole radio show happen. I think that without doing the previous projects and audio assignments, this assignment would have been 10x harder because we would not have any experience with Audacity and we would not know where to begin or what to include in a project of this manner. I did not get a chance to post a progress post this week as my schedule is still very hectic and have not had much time for anything outside of school and tennis.

I did not encounter too many issues this week when completing my assignments. I thought things went pretty smoothly this week and I enjoyed doing all of the assignments. From this week, I would say that creating the final project was my favorite. This is because I found it very enjoyable to create a talk show for the two characters and have them interact once again. I anticipate that people will enjoy this talk show since it is shorter, and will allow them to stay engaged for longer to truly take in all the information being given. Once again, I did not encounter any issues this week for any of the assignments.

I definitely think that I accomplished all of the requirements for the assignments for this week and I think I did them to the best of my ability. I would not do anything differently for the work that I did this week as it was completed with effort, time, and creativeness. I believe that there are no larger issues at hand with my work. I think that the assignments were done properly and with effort. I do not have any further questions at this time for the class. One thing that I think I did well this week was managing my time yet again. Like last week, the end of the semester is getting hectic and things are starting to get a bit more bust especially with tennis and school ramping up. I think that I still did a good job managing my time and was able to getting everything that I needed to get done, done. Overall, I had a really positive experience with this class and think that most of the people in the class would agree with me. I gained a bunch of new skills and enjoyed working on the assignments and getting a chance to see how creative others got with their work and how they went about the process. That was cool to see and read about the insights into which people were getting their ideas from and actually completing their work. Like stated before, I really enjoyed the class and would recommend others to take if they have the time.

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Final project update – laughing bricks are creepy.

My children have informed me that the laughing brick is just plain creepy, and I have been looking at bricks for too long. I then went back to the drawing board and tried making a short animation of the original evil brick. I used adobe photo shop ai generative fill to give the brick some mouths. The mouths were all varying in opening size. I created 8 of these frames. I then put them in Priemer Rush and made a short video clip of a brick opening and closing its mouth. I tried to use this clip I made in 2 different lip sync programs. (wav2lip and gooey ai) It would not sync. Then I decided to old school animation it. I tried to quickly match the movements of the mouth to the audio I recorded. While it isn’t perfect I have made it speak. The voice of the evil brick is my 7-year-old Tabitha. I think it really fits. I spent numerous hours on like 20 seconds of video. I am not sure the creepy laughing brick that my nearly 17-year-old says is the stuff of nightmares will make the cut for the final project.

The group as a whole is communicating through discord and a google doc. The google doc has been great with organizing what everyone is working on and what still need to be done. The idea of the news broadcast was an effort to give everyone the space to make what they wanted and tie it together in a cohesive way.

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Lots of Progress Made – Final Project Update

Today I spat out a lot of work, surprisingly to me. Mostly, what I have done is create fake TikTok-like videos about the AI uprising, one positive and one negative, and then I used ChatGPT to help me spit out some serious and some goofy fake headlines. Tomorrow, I plan to use those headlines to create fake screenshots of the headlines.

My group has also gotten a lot done. We all have our to-do lists in the document, and it looks like the majority of us are pretty done with it outside of editing it all together. We also organzied how we want to put it all together, and I made a little checklist for what we have and don’t have for certain parts of the project, and the majority of it looks done! Honestly, it really looks like I’m the only one still with stuff to do outside of editing!

Tomorrow’s plan is to make the fake screenshots of the headlines, and then I want to do some more poster-making to create awareness posters or propaganda posters about the AI uprising to include in the project. Then, I think I will be done with my individual things, and I believe that means we should be able to start editing everything together on Thursday, which me and Sarah plan to do.

Overall, it’s looking good!! Very excited to see it all together!

Progress Report FP:

AI Takeover Breaking News Report
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Evil Bricks and Final Update

I saw another student used a website gooey AI to lip sync. I thought I book marked their post but once again I did not. internet search for the win! After much trial and error, I figured out how to get my Evil Brick to laugh. I made frames of a brick with a mouth slowly disappear and reappear. I made 8 frames in all. Then I took these and put them in Adobe Premier Rush and copied them and looped them. I then had a silent video of a brick opening and closing its mouth crudely. I them went to Gooey AI and uploaded the very short video and a sound of laughing from free sound. The program worked! it even improved my brick’s weird mouth. I now have to see if I can get it to say something other than laugh now.

I also have been having trouble with YouTube. It worked when I switched browsers.

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Week 13 Summary

For my final project, I want to build upon the video I created for my last project. I noticed that the last video focused more on Rikaro and his strengths, so I want to expand upon the inventions of Aggressive Technologies now; mostly the AI-related military technology. I am enjoying editing and have planned on using multiple tools to create a visual of Aggressive Technologies’ wrongdoings, which caused Rikaro to take action. I think I’ll put different clips together to tell one final story. I don’t know if I want to end Rikaro’s story here or leave it as an open ending, but I will know when I am approaching it. I need to look for more footage to use, but since the topic of warfare is present in this video, I don’t want it to be a grim story. Hope everyone likes the final product.

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Week 13 Summary

Week 13 was really light. The main focus for this week was our final project. I decided not to do any daily creates this week, as I wanted my focus to be on the final project. Not that I don’t love doing daily creates, I just wanted to really focus on working on the project. For the final project I am going to be working on it with Jackson Beale and Andrew Johnson. We worked really well in the past and I believe we can produce a great final project. As far as what we are going to do we have a few ideas. Our favorite idea is we are going to discuss the opinions on the pros and cons of using AIs from the perspective of Dr. Oblivion and our created course character. As far as the process for creating our project, we have met once to talk about ideas we wanted to do. We also have started to outline our video we’re going to do. I’m excited to see what our finished product will look like. I’m also excited for y’all to see as well. Until next time!

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Week 13 Summary

For my final project, I will continue off of the radio show and my video last week. I want to continue with the theme of my character trying to take down and expose Aggressive Technologies. My plan is to put together a video where my character is interrogating high ranking members of Aggressive Technologies to try to expose their shady behavior. This will include multiple different interviews and be set up like a 60 Minutes type show so ads can play between interviews. This will allow me to create some fake ads from Aggressive Technologies or maybe some anti-AT ads as well.

So far I have found some sound bites and video footage that can be used in the production and I’m excited to write a script and start editing the video and audio! This is definitely going to be the most advanced editing project I have done and I will try to incorporate all the skills I have been practicing throughout the year.

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Guess Who’s Back? – Weekly Summary

Alright, I’m here. This week I worked on my final project. I had several ideas, one of which I decided to start actually working on. 

Part 1: Brainstorming

First, I brainstormed from the prompts we got. The possible projects are a response to AT’s legal team, a wrap-up of our class characters, or a general analysis of the pros and cons of AI. I had a lot of thoughts, but there was one that I felt would be the most fun.

Part 2: The Idea

A few days ago in my English class, a friend and I put characters from some of our readings into a Drag Race simulator. I am a huge Drag Race fan and have been keeping up with season 16. The finale is this week (the day I am posting this, actually). 

With AI and Drag Race bouncing around in my head, it was only a matter of time before they collided. The Drag Race Simulator is not a super high-level AI, but the simulator does let you put in stats for each queen so presumably there is some analysis. I think it could be really fun to “test” AI in this type of silly way and would let me talk about AI’s merits without the video feeling too heavy.

Part 3: The Plan

My current plan for the video to put the season 16 queens into the simulator, give them as accurate stats as possible, and see how close the program’s prediction is to the actual season. I already filmed the main simulator section and, without spoiling anything, it certainly made some choices. I am still working on the main script and trying to figure out where some actual analysis of AI should go.

I am very excited to see what this project becomes. It is definitely a loose interpretation of the “AI analysis” assignment but I think still works.