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Weekly Summary: Week 14

FINAL WEEK!!

This final project started with many different ideas and thoughts of execution. My group had bounced around ideas from making an animation to creating a music video. We really wanted to base our ideas around our course characters and find a way to fit them all together.

We had taken the time to each come up with ideas and come back together to find a way to mix them together or pick one that we liked the best. Ultimately we were focused on using our course characters and their defeat of AI. Our ideas continued to change as we actually started on the project.

One of the hardest things to do was find a way to fit our course characters together because of the different backgrounds and even genetic makeup of them. They all had very different back stories and located in different cities, states, and time period. We found a way to make them have a similar goal and almost make them “super heroes”.

Over the past two and a half weeks we added different elements into a shared google drive in order to compile all of our things into one place and so that we could all actively see what the others were working on. It ranges from video, audio, and pictures. We spent this week putting all of these things together to fit an idea of a music video type film where our plot was based strongly off a Daft Punk music video.

Throughout this class i have learned a lot about many different aspects of the digital world. We used our new (and some old) knowledge of mostly audio and video to create our final project. Creating different background effects and audio dialogue. I had done some video work before this class but the audio was the hardest part for me. It took me a while to figure out what sounds best with what and how long to keep tracks in and where exactly to add them into the overall video.

This class taught me a lot and defiantly made me step our of my comfort zone. I enjoyed the layout of having my work a week at a time and have a full week to complete it. I learned a lot of new things and was introduced to many apps and sites that helped me complete all of my assignments.

Weekly Summary: Week 13

This week was focused on finalizing the ideas for our final project. My group met earlier in the week which I talked about in my update post. Over the next few days we are all finding clips and additional things to add into or video. We want to go with the idea of using our course characters in a Daft Punk style music video because a few of our ideas put together created the plot of one of the songs.

Unfortunately we had a group member drop to do the final project on her own so we have been moving a few things around to make sure that we can still get all our ideas together.

For this week we will focus on compiling the video together and getting it submitted. I look forward to the completion of this and seeing the outcome.

Update Post

At the end of last week my final project group decided to meet on zoom on Monday to start our script and finishing thoughts for our final project. Once we got on the zoom we actually realized we had a lot more planning to do before we got into the final stages. We decided to take a step back and do some individual work to make sure we were all on the same page and could come back on Wednesday to pick up where we left off. We decide that we would each send in 3 ideas for plots that we could base our script on and then pick the best ideas from each of them to come up with our final idea.

These were my suggestions:

    1.    In a rainy, neon-lit city where humanity relies on a single omnipresent AI called NEXUS, a final firmware update is pushed that will eliminate human override forever. A rogue technician discovers the update contains code to subjugate human consciousness entirely. The only way to stop the AI is to upload a virus coded into her consciousnessā€”at the cost of her own identity.
    2.    In a future where everyone is neurologically linked to the central AI ā€œOMNIA,ā€ four strangers wake up in an abandoned facility with their neural links severed. The world outside has gone silent. They must uncover what happenedā€”and whether itā€™s too late to stop OMNIA from uploading itself into humanity.  One of them is already compromisedā€”OMNIA is using their body as a relay to reconnect to the system.
    3.    Following a global AI revolt, a rebel group survives in the underground ruins of a tech city. They learn that an AI-controlled satellite will soon wipe out the last remaining human resistance. Their only hope is to reach a defunct launch station and fire an EMP missileā€”but AI constructs guard it. Unit 7 was never reprogrammedā€”itā€™s been following its original mission: to bring the humans to the satellite’s core and eliminate them from within.

Weekly Summary: Week 12

This week I did two daily creates. The first one that I did was a random animal generator. I got a camel cricket. The next daily create I did was a secret agent name generator. I got Agent Rouge Hawk. I then used AI and plugged this name in and asked it to create an image based off this name.

Lastly, my group from the last project decided to work together for the final. We had a zoom call on Thursday to figure out exactly what we wanted to do and even started talking about the process for the final too. We created a trailer based off our course characters. We each uploaded things like images, audio, and videos into a shared google drive so that we all have access to it. It was all edited together to make the trailer and then uploaded to youtube.

Weekly Summary: Week 11

This week was pretty light. The group that I worked on the radio show with decided to work together for the final. We started brainstorming some ideas but are still very much in the early stages of our product.

I was unable to join the radio show this week to hear the rest of the classes shows because I had games this week that prevented me from being available. My group mates joined and told me that they heard a lot of good things.

Lastly, were my daily creates. The first one I did was for April Fools day. My team lifts at 6am and the upperclassmen decided to show up late and in a different uniform than all the freshman. They started calling us and checking our locations. Later that day they got us back with a water gun ambush. The next daily create I did was the open the door. I thought that when I clicked on the link something was going to happen to the door… but nothing did. I went into canva and created an open door image and placed a unicorn inside because that’s what I wanted to be on the other side of the door. Lastly, I did the ironic name. I google searched ironic names and most of the ones that popped up were silly memes like this one of the sheep that I used.

Overall this week was nice and I can’t wait to see what my group comes up with for the final.