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Video Project Plan

For my video plan I choose to use a back and forth dialogue that I still have yet to find. I do have a clip from Frank Sinatra but its not exactly what I am looking for so I will keep searching. I plan to use wav2lip to make this video work. I am excited to see what happens further. Here is the script I plan on using.

Person 1: AI’s getting a bit too close for comfort lately, don’t you think?

Person 2: Definitely. The rapid advancements are both thrilling and worrisome.

Person 1: Exactly. What if we lose control or AI evolves beyond us?

Person 2: It’s a real concern. We need to ensure it aligns with our values and ethics.

Person 1: Agreed. We must tread carefully into this brave new world of AI.

Person 2: Let’s hope we find the right balance between progress and responsibility.

Daily Creates

I completed three daily creates this week and each one was great. I especially like the Megamind one.

Firstly, I had to find a picture of what made our day good that day and I chose to talk about getting a perfectly ripe banana from the dining hall at UMW. Loved that banana.

This one we had to look up Ds106 and find the weirdest image that pops up, this is what I could find. I mostly thought it was just really random but I also thought this photo was funny.

Lastly I made this rip off of the game Top Trumps and picked Megamind as my character as he is iconic and amazing.

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Radio Show Listening

Listening to the radio shows was so much fun. I got my parents and four of my friends to log in to listen to my radio show on air and they even got to hear me speak and answer questions with Destiny. I really loved Logic Pod and it was really fun listening to it and comparing how my group made our radio show different to theirs. All of my friends and family was so excited to listen and it was so fun to experience this with them. I was only able to listen to the first group on Monday, mine (Ravioli Radio) and Logic Pod. They had such a unique radio show and I loved all of the commercials and radio bumpers. I think it was really nice to get to listen to others final projects.

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Week 11

This week is interesting to say the least. I hope I understood the video assignment correctly because, again, I am not good with all the hyperlinks and reading different things from other places. too many words and links make me lost and I tend to do assignments wrong with hyperlinks so I hope someone could help me out with some ideas! I think I will read other peoples blog posts to see what my classmates are doing and to see if I actually did the assignment correctly!

I wasn’t sure if we had to do any daily creates so I am kind of sad about that because if I did an assignment wrong, I always have faith in my daily creates lol!

But I loved everyones radio show! I was only able to tune in on Monday but wasn’t able to join the discord but I did get some nit from the Dr. Oblivion show on Wednesday too!

-Reese Kubricki

Dr. Oblivion Trading Card

For my last daily create of this week, we made our own version of a trading card! Now I would like to begin this post by mentioning that I know absolutely nothing about trading cards, maybe I live under a rock or something I don’t know but I’ve never heard of it. With that being said I hope I did it correctly.

I wasn’t quite sure of what or who to put on there so yes, I threw Dr. Oblivion under the bus, I hope he doesn’t mind. He’s been a big part of this class so I treated this like a review on him. Let’s breakdown the four categories I gave him. The first one is seriousness, which is really obvious to point out even if you just listen to him once, therefore, I gave him a 100 on that. Next is friendliness, where I gave him a 15 but he only got the 15 because maybe he tries to be friendly, so some points for effort. The reason his score is so low is because I told him to make a joke and he said, “I don’t have time to make jokes, I have to prevent from AI taking over the world.” Next is appearance, where he got a 27 and that’s because it’s the same facial expressions and outfit we see every time. He could step up his game more to make it more entertaining to listen to, because I’m tired of now! Lastly, is how informative he is, where he got an 86. I took off 14 points because sometimes I feel like he is excessive in his responses, there have been multiple instances where I feel like he could have gotten to the point much faster.

I hope I did this correctly, let me know what scores/points you would give him!

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Video Project Idea

I was hoping to use my green screen skills that I have learned for this. I don’t know exactly what I want to do but I think using a pet like my cat would be fun! maybe make my cat be a fun animation of my cat dancing and singing? I don’t know, Just spitting ideas! but I think it would be fun to make like The Lion King Hakuna Matata song and get me cats to sing and dance. That was my first idea I thought of but I don’t know how well that would workout for me lol! But I do think doing something with audio would be a lot more fun than just a simple old animation.

If anyone has any ideas, Let me know!

-Reese Kubricki

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Radio Show Listening!

Hello everyone!

I did listen in on the first day but because of my work schedule I wasn’t able to be active in the discord! I was listening on my headphones while I was working but I loved everyones show! It was fun to see the titles and the little description and see it come to life! I think everyone killed it and I loved the Dr. Oblivion show as well! I was able to tune in to that part as well and I thought it was super fun and such a creative idea! I loved being able to just casually enjoy the show while I was doing work because they were amazing background sounds.

Anyways, I hope you all enjoyed the radio listening! I sure did!

-Reese Kubricki

Sips & Smiles

The second daily create I did for this week is of something that made me smile that day. This week I had a lot going on in classes as well as a week long of events for a club I am in, MSA. After one of the events, my good friend and I made a quick trip up north to Tysons Galleria for a coffee I had been craving all month!

This past almost month now, I have been fasting and almost every coffee shop closes super early except for Shotted in Tysons. Their pistachio latte is truly amazing. I love it so much that I drove an hour there and back for it, and it was the perfect end to my day. Here is what made me smile:

I think only coffee drinkers can truly understand that first sip feeling. It feels like a refreshment and makes me forget about my entire day. Leaves you feeling happy and energized for sure.

I have even tried remaking their pistachio latte at home, but it’s missing some sweetness that Shotted adds that I quite haven’t figured out yet. I made a little video on me recreating it which I will attach on to here.

Cats In Amazon

A website I use frequently for various things is Amazon. With that being said, it is definitely not my favorite since it takes all my money!!!

For my first daily create of the week, I looked through the source code of Amazon’s website. When looking through it, I put on my computer scientist hat and kept scrolling and scrolling to see how they are running their website. That is what led me to scrolling to the very end. Which is where I found a surprise…..

It was such a cute and unexpected surprise. The next thing I did for this daily create is took the screenshot of the source code to Canva for a little more creativity. At the bottom, I added paw prints and changed the colors on it to add a fading out effect. Then, I added a cat to the side who seems to be climbing up but in this case the cat is scrolling up through the page to check out some Amazon source code! Lastly, I went to Pinterest for a cat background for this post.

You can view the screenshot and what I created at the bottom of this page.

That’s all I had for this one, I think it looks purrrrfect!

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Week 11 Summary

After a tough week of grinding out the radio show, I’m glad that this week was much lighter.

I first did a reflection of the radio shows that we created, and the experience I had tuning into ds106 radio to hear my own show, as well as another group’s. I went into detail about how three different listens all gave me a different perspective on the radio show creating experience overall.

Next I had to do some brainstorming about what I would do for the upcoming video assignment. I decided on continuing to develop my course character, but ran into some troubles finding sources for my character. I had to do some potentially illegal improvisation from the Netflix show Arcane to fit my needs, and I’ll see soon if the project I’m envisioning will work after all.

And finally, here are my daily creates for the week. I got to do a coding one, which was cool for me to do!

That’s pretty much it for this week, we’ll see how the video project turns out and if I’ll be running into a lawsuit with Netflix in the near future.