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Weekly Summary 14 & Final Video Project

by Andrew Johnson

For week 14, my group’s main goal was to complete the Final Video Project incorporating our AI Characters from ds106. It was a very exciting project and we are happy to have it done for our viewers. In this process, my classmates Andrew Poon and Jackson Beale helped formulate a script as well as questions that we used to put together all the pieces. Throughout the video, we wanted to share the pros and cons of AI in the work environment. That said, we used Dr. Oblivion to answer questions regarding the pros and cons to see if he had any input on the case at hand. Our group used iMovie to create the video as well as the voice-over feature to records our words. We did have some issues along the way such as uploading it to my blog page, but we figure it would be best to just link the video so that y’all could tune in. Overall, it was great working with my peers and to finish the semester off strong with our final project.

Link to Final Video Project:

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Weekly Summary 14:

Final Project 🎥:

Week 14 Summary

I am so glad I took this class. Editing and creating videos were always in the back of my mind, but nothing really pushed me to do it until I joined this class. This final project made me do more research and put more effort than I thought I could’ve. I used multiple software to make this video a reality. I recommend ElevenLabs to everyone, since their AI voices are very close to real-life, since you can alter to range and emotion of the voices. I used OpenShot to edit the entire video and it was easy to use for beginners. I had practice with it when doing previous projects. The audio was created with free sfx and my voice through Audacity. Overall, I recommend this class to anyone who wants to enter the digital space.

I’m graduating in the upcoming week so thanks for the amazing final semester!

Rikaro Attacks Again (FINAL PROJECT)

For this final project, I wanted to expand on the story of Rikaro. I chose to continue the story after the hijacking of the TV. That was my video project. For this, I had an insider send an unknown detective a VHS that contained evidence on who this mysterious hacker was and their plan. It has audio of a famous Professor giving a speech to citizens that are against Aggressive Technologies and the unknown hacker’s. His speech is violently interrupted by a robot from Aggressive Technologies, but it is revealed to be Rikaro. Rikaro explains that he will kill this Professor and frame Aggressive Technologies to gain more supporters. He also adds that he will use bots to spread this narrative. I wanted to show some of the dangers of AI without it being too serious. There are researches that show the possibility of AI assisting hackers in infiltrating power plants to alter the temperatures, which can lead to explosions. I just altered this to robots.

I hope everyone enjoys the video. It took a little more work than I thought it would. Thanks for taking the time!

Final Project – Almost at the Finish Line

Week 14 Summary

Straight to the good stuff – my final project:

I put a lot of thought, planning, and effort in making this video, so I hope you all enjoyed it and learned something from it as well!

My thought process:

I wanted to incorporate and highlights parts of my character, myself, and the AI theme of this course. My character and I both love coffee, therefore, the setting of this video is in a cafe. I also snuck in my favorite iced latte recommendation in there. Additionally, I have background music that’s playing nonstop in the back, giving it more of a coffee shop vibe. Lastly, the topic of discussion is AI, in particularly some pros and cons and examples of each as well to make it a more informative video. I wanted to make this interactive as well so I created a GoogleForm where at the end viewers can visit the form and list of their pros and cons based off of their experiences with AI.

Tools used:

  • I used YouTube for uploading my video
  • A free text-to-speech generator for my audio
  • Pixabay for my coffee shop background music
  • GoogleForm to create my pros and cons form
  • Canva to create the video
  • Pexels is where I found all the video clips

I incorporated audio, text, videos, sound, AI, my character, editing, and an interactive aspect throughout my project. I cut the text to fit the clip where the audio was spoken. However, I wanted to to generate the text as the audio played, but I could not get that to align properly and work. Besides that, there isn’t anything that I wish I could change or do better, I am pretty happy with how it all came out together!

To wrap up this week, I opted out of the daily creates just to give myself more time to focus on this final project. Now I’m off to view all of my classmates projects!

Video Final!

Lets remember what I wanted to do for my final project….

With the reminder of what I wanted to do, here is the video!

I wanted to upload it to youtube for other to see! I took video art and it reminded me of a project I wanted to do something similar to it! I worked all week on finding clips, filming my own clips, picking a song to use, and after everything, I am pretty proud of what I did!

-Reese Kubricki

Finally Done – Week 14 Summary – 4/10-4/26

We’ve done it!! We’re at the end!!

I’m going to speedrun through this so I can get to working on some final papers I have . . . so, here is my song of the week!

Need this song injected into my head so that I hear it every second of every day.


Final Project Update

I ended up making my project update on Tuesday, I think, as I ended up getting a lot of work done that night that I wasn’t anticipating doing. There’s not really a lot to say about this, just that I was really happy to have gotten so much done so soon, and my group had also gotten most of their work done as well! We were doing great!!


Final Project

And the final project!

I talk about it much more in the actual post, but I was very pleased with this. I used so much of what I learned to do my parts in this, and my groupmates did an amazing job as well, and we really made something really cool!!

I’m grateful to have finished this in the time that I did. I was nervous that I’d be really late with mine due to having the flu last week, but I managed! And it’s not even 4 pm on Friday and we’re done, so I get to call it a day early. I’m so happy about that.

Very happy with my results, and I hope you all are too!


Overall, this week was fun!! I didn’t think I had much difficulty with my parts in the projects, and I was able to create good and interesting parts for our AI uprising video using what I have learned throughout the semester. I’m very grateful!!

I fear this may be my final weekly summary, or maybe there is one next week, so this is a little sad . . . but I’m grateful for all that I have learned!! 🙂

Weekly Summary 14

Saturday I finally had success with giving an evil brick a voice!

laughing bricks are creepy…

The final project above was fun to do. I had some ideas and some good people to work with. This exceeded my expectations of what we could do. Can I do all group projects with them forever?