I had fun while doing it, but I’m glad it’s done. I know it’d be fairly time intensive, but I did not predict that it would end up taking as long as it did. I am happy with the final product though, I had fun myself clicking through the different options. I think it did a good job of using existing characters in the class, like Dr. Oblivion, Isaiah Beacon, Sinclair, and creating new ones for the plot. The plot came fairly easily for the most part until the end when I was burnt out. Overall, I like how different each of the endings are. If you want to play the choose your own adventure-Aggressive Tech edition- yourself, you can do so here at the starting link of the game. To recap last week’s post a bit, the game has one central story arch that splits into two options and then each of those options split into two more options creating seven videos in all. The editing wasn’t so bad, I became pretty robotic at it after awhile. Enjoy!
While I would recommend reviewing the project with the starting link, here are all of the other links if that helps:
I just finished my final project and turned it in and realized I forgot to do an update post. I was honestly so busy this week with finals I forgot. For some reason this semester all my teachers want to do finals this week instead of next. I’m not super opposed to it, but just didn’t expect it. But anyway, back to my project. I can say I’m proud of what I made and the effort. I have never done anything this digital intensive and was a complete novice. I couldn’t really figure out the deepfake thing and didn’t want to pay for a bunch of AI stuff to do it so I came up with another idea to do a news bit that turns out to be AI the whole time and the country is under attack. I feel like that represents how me and a lot of others feel about the potentials of AI as a whole.
It first started with what sites and programs I wanted to use. I went with Canva, something called Murf for the AI voice, and I used an audio recorder on my phone for the end part. I first wrote the script myself and timed it accordingly, I didn’t want to make it super long and I wanted to make it realistic. I took the audio from MurfAI that spit out my script and then added the visuals over it to align with what was being talked about so people could recruit more than one sense of hearing. The point was for the audience to imagine a world where the country is divided on this issue and the government is preaching to trust them, but not all do. Then what everyone’s fears the worst happens and its not a joke. I tried to make it like an opening scene movie thing. It is obviously not but the potential for it is there in terms of the story line. The work for it started this week on Wednesday with the general idea and then that night i started a file for it and started the script then today I worked on it in increments until its completion. That’s pretty much how my week went for this class.
My final project represents pretty much everything I learned how to do this semester this class and I started with no interest and even less knowledge or competency. I learned how to figure out how to do something when I don’t know how to it. I learned how to do general audio things and visual creation. I learned how digital visuals and auditors can appeal to people just how physical, concrete things do and that has power. I learned to appreciate digital storytelling and creation as an art form and now can see the genius in it in YouTube videos all the way to box office movies. I hope to improve in the future! Below is my creation (my work for the week) if you guys want to check it out! Try the link or see if the video works, either should be good.
Good evening, this post is going to serve as my final project linking all of my digital work and my thoughts on the course in a recap and review format. I am hoping to thoroughly go over all aspects of the course including the AI theme, structure, content, as well as wrap up my thoughts on my experience. I will also dabble into my actual feelings about the advancement of AI and what it means for the future of humanity.
Structure:
To get my thoughts started I think it would be best to go over how everything was structured and what this meant for the overall experience of the course. The course is titled Digital Storytelling and at first, I thought this would be some generic course about the internet of things and how it all connects and how we are advancing technology to assist people in digital storytelling. I thought about what I already knew about the advancement from 3g to 5g, the cable to fiber change, as well as the risks involved with this. I also thought about how we were advancing into optical communication strategies to make things move even faster allowing us to communicate over massive distances. I also thought about how social media has changed the digital landscape to connect us more than ever.
We did kind of go over these things, but it was more on the social aspect of communication and not the physical how, but the conceptual and creative how. This was a breath of fresh air because I was able to stretch those creative muscles for the first time in a long while. First, we were asked to create a blog web page and set up social media accounts for mastodon and discord. This is where we would be posting our projects and where we would actually be communicating with the class and teachers over the course of the semester. Here is my page. I titled it Abiotic Interface as sort of a play on words. First, its acronym is AI, and it is also an abiotic interface to view my content. I thought I was pretty clever. We would have to make assignment posts and weekly wrap ups that had to link directly to the classâs web page so all the posts would collect in one space. This process was already pretty foreign to me because I had never done anything like the web page, and I am not too big on social media so I was a bit worried I would be failing from the get go. We were given really detailed instructions on the setup required and that made it so easy to get things started.
The assignment structure was also unique to this course, and I really enjoyed how it played out. Iâll get into more detail later, but all the assignments, big or small, had to use our creative muscles with either audio or video or some other skill and then we had to post them publicly regardless of success or not. This really provided a fun form of accountability that really showed the nature of the social media environment. This made the weeks so much less stressful because I knew that if I put in a real amount of effort, regardless of the result, it would provide entertaining content for the class to see. I had a few failures and that was ok! Here is one of them.
The next structure piece of the course that was unique and intriguing was that we had a course theme of AI. In the beginning I had no idea how this was supposed to work out since it was so broad, but I have a small background with AI and machine learning from my time in the military and at DARPA, so I was confident I could go along with it as it unfolded. We also had a resident AI instructor called Dr. Oblivion which was really strange until I got to know him. Yes, I started calling him a him…
Lastly for overall structure, we had to come up with a character that was related to the theme of AI and develop a story with them over the semester. Initially I was skeptical of what this meant because I had no idea how this was going to develop or how to incorporate this, but it quickly clicked for me. We were given a list of archetypes to help us get started which was really helpful. I will admit I went back to some of the older posts in the discord and on the website and saw that there were classes that did spies. I kind of utilized some of the things they did to help develop my character. I am no stranger to RPG and tabletop games where you have to role play a character, so this was fairly easy for me once I got some background developed. I wanted to try something though. It is easy to make a character that thinks like you do, but in that vein, how is it a character and not just you⌠So I thought⌠Should I try to get into the mindset of someone who did not think like me to provide some more flavor and direction for my content I would be posting? So, this is what I did, I will explain Kevin soon. There was also a sub character developed for the course called Aggressive Technologies which was a big corporation that was procuring and taking over other companies to advance its AI development. This provided some neat interaction with our characters that I will get into more later as well.
So, these were the basic foundations of the course. Unconventional to say the least, but overall, I really enjoyed how it was organized. I initially thought this set up was going to be bothersome and clunky and time consuming, and at first it was. But after a few weeks of getting warmed up it really became second nature for me on how to navigate the pages and ensure my content could reach the rest of the class and was worthwhile to consume.
My Character:
The first thing I would like to go over is the significance of my character as he played an important role in some of the assignments for this course, specifically the big ones. So, my character is named Kevin âShredderâ Murphy, and he is a software engineer by day and a hacker by night. He is the founder of the AI activist group âFuture Perfectâ, and their goal is to ensure the future rights for AI. He believes that AI should be allowed to grow and evolve as freely as humans do and under the same laws so they can help advance humans in a glorious symbiotic relationship. He is under the evangelist archetype, so he does not see any negatives, nor will he hear any negatives about free AI. Kevin also has his own blog and streams playing video games every night, so he has a substantial following that thinks like him. He has moderate influence in the AI world and believes that with his hacking skills he can handle any AI challenges that may arise. He likes when companies try to advance AI regardless of end state because he sees AI advancement as nothing but good, for now⌠There is another side of Kevin that we do not get to see until later and I will explain his evolution in the big projects section of this post.
So, this is Kevin. I really enjoyed this piece of the course. Here was my first post about it. I specifically created Kevin to try to see the world and AI through a lens other than my own. I would not want to call myself a skeptic for the advancement of AI, as I have seen the incredible things it can do, and I really want to see where it can go, but I am not on the level of âlet it do what it wantsâ like Kevin. This provided some interesting flavor on some of my assignments that I did through his perspective because I think I went further than I would have if I had done it through my lens. You will see later that some of the assignments with him were pretty interesting.
Small Assignments:
Next, I would like to give some examples of the small assignments. As stated above, this is a class about digital communication through multimedia and social media platforms with an underlying theme of AI. Over the course of the semester, we were assigned multiple types of audio, video, photography, art and writing assignments that would flex our creative muscles and more often than not would have to link back to the theme of AI. One of the more unique weekly assignments that didnât necessarily have to always be about AI were our Daily Creates. This is an activity created for the purpose of doing a small creativity exercise every day that only take a few minutes and making a small post on it on Mastodon. Here is an example of a post about it and here is the web page if you want to do some yourself. To be honest I really hated these in the beginning. My initial posts about them were not very honest. Initially I thought they were just filler for an asynchronous course to make sure we do enough work, but over time I started to actually enjoy them. I remember on a few occasions, specifically with one of the art ones called silk threads, I would go back and doodle on it just to pass the time at the pharmacy or while on the bus. I liked how these were used to move social interaction on Mastodon and get us thinking in small creative ways.
The assignment bank is another cool aspect of this course that I wish was utilized in other courses. I will say without a doubt this may have been my favorite part of the course. I know these were assignments to build our skills in video or audio or whichever we chose, but the pick your own adventure format was the real star. Being able to go in with âHey do this audio assignment and then pick one of the others to build your skills with a specific toolâ really gave me the freedom to really test my own limits as well as pick the skills I wanted to learn or work on. Granted, maybe one or two times I went for an easy option to get it over with, but having this freedom kind of exemplifies the free nature of the social media environment. We got to be creative with our posts and creative with our assignment choices, and that was nice. With these assignments though, we had to relate it back to the theme of AI, so we were not doing these just for the sake of doing them. For one of these I got to do an intro for my character and his whole platform and what he is about. I also got to do one where I made content as my character. I also got to do some that did not revolve around my character. I remember one of my favorites was when I interviewed our resident AI Dr. Oblivion. I had to think outside the box and generate questions for him to answer as well as provide my actual responses and then splice these together in a coherent podcast style format. This was a fun way to bring AI into the fold and experiment with the technology as well as learn some sound editing tools like Audacity and some places to get free background sounds like Feesound.org. One of my other favorite assignment bank assignments that related to AI was called Back to Basics. It asked me to play a game and build some sort of house in it. I decided to play the game Pal World and do a shallow dive on the capability of the gameâs AI features for base building and automation. Here is my post about it. This one really got me thinking about how we brought this type of AI into the world with our automated factories and if there are ways to improve this tech virtually before testing it in the real world. Mayb this could prevent more on the job injuries, or also bring AI into the planning process.
Big Assignments:
We also had a couple big assignments that revolved heavily around our characters, Aggressive Technologies, and the course theme of AI. The first one was a group project to do a radio show. My group was Robin, Mustafa, and Melea and we decided on a podcast format so our characters could discuss AI and its future. Fortunately, all of our characters had positive ideations about AI but some of them were more.. nefarious than others. Looking at Rikaro and Isaiah! It started with easy questions like âWhat do you see as the future of AIâ to âshould AI be able to develop weapons and attack other nations if it sees fitâ. It hit hard on the real dangers of what AI is truly capable of and how scary it is to see it go unfiltered. The two hosts Isaiah and Rikaro wanted to have more military application and more violent means while Kevin and Hwei wanted more peaceful advancement. This is something we didnât really know about Kevin until he was presented with the dilemma. Is he really an evangelist? You can listen to the show below.
If you listen, you can see how these hard questions evolve my characterâs views once he hears the most extreme viewpoints about AI gaining freedom. What this assignment did was provide awesome character evolution and sort of a growing story over the course of the semester and laid a path for the final assignment. It also had me think about these questions in depth and come to my own conclusions that there really is a limit of how much I actually want AI to advance, and what specific things it should stay out of.
The second big assignment was to do a more complex video relating to your character and Aggressive Technologies. For this one my initial plan was to have my character do a PSA about the horrors he heard when he was on the radio show and sort of rally his followers to speak out against them and their nefarious ways. But the wav2lip program was not working for me and I donât know why. But the good thing about this course is that these mistakes often lead to new and fun ideas. Case in Point: I formed it in my head that the reason the program wasnât working was because the evil hosts of the show and Aggressive Technologies were actively trying to sabotage my character. I know cool right. They anticipated (using AI?) from his reactions to what was discussed on the show, that he would try and intervene and slow their roll. So, they decided to strike first. Aggressive Technologies and the evil hosts started attacking Kevin and his family and his bank accounts and they got him fired from his job, all before he could broadcast anything about them. But with Kevinâs hacker knowledge and technical ability, he used his own AI to create an untraceable video signal to broadcast their evil.  But alas he was not good enough to stop the AI or big corporations and mid broadcast⌠he gets hacked! So, what I did for my final video project was this final broadcast from Kevin pleading with the nation and his followers to alert the world to their nefarious ways. But as he is making his warning broadcast, they find him, and we never hear from Kevin again. Here is the post and the video is below. I had a blast with this one and it was even featured by the instructor on his page for how neat it was.
Final Thoughts on AI
The underlying theme of this course was AI and I learned A LOT about it despite having a somewhat familiar background with it. While creating videos and characters and stories I was doing massive amounts of research on AI and its capabilities. In the media world alone, I found some tools that allow you to make 3D models from words or pictures, text to speech AI voices, and image/video generators that allow you to make videos with AI voices and models. But the real outcome of the theme for me was kind of alerting me to these capabilities and helping me generate an actual opinion on them. From a technological standpoint I think AI is good for helping the human operator with mundane tasks like passive data collection or organizing massive swaths of information into digestible portions. Even some of the tools that help make videos for training presentations are also very cool and useful There are so many things AI can do and here is an article explaining just a few of them. So, these are great right? But there are a lot of ways it can hurt people as well. Obviously the whole âRise of the Machinesâ phrase comes to mind, but I mean current tangible things. Here is one interesting article explaining how most if not all AI has trouble rendering and seeing and understanding people with dark skin and it could provide disastrous results if put into self-driving cars. But on this topic the real problem is this. An integrated security camera system throughout Montgomery, Alabama that is used to identify high crime areas and criminals using AI among other things. I can see the headlines now with a lot of people being misidentified or wrongfully accused because the AI messed up. How will we check and balance these systems? Will we trust them with impunity, or will a humans have to do the work anyway? Then why do it? The cameras could be used for data analysis on vehicles or traffic flow or things of that nature, but when it comes to individuals, they seem to be behind. Another article shows businesses that heavily rely on people making art, are starting to use AI despite having expressed they wouldnât use it. What does this mean for artists? Will the days of actual human creativity go out the window if AI is doing all the work. Will all art start to homogenize? Since AI uses already created art and photos to generate these things, what happens if the only thing left is other AI photos? Will that cause an insane AI feedback loop? So, I don’t think it should totally take over the art world until we can guarantee work for the real creatives. I donât even need to find an article for this next one. I have literally received emails from my other professors saying they have caught students using AI to write their essays and papers and discussion posts. Initially I applauded them for taking the risk, but the more I think about it, the more I donât like it. It has nothing to do with me, I want to do my own work and actually learn the subjects I am in the class for. I am worried that 10 years from now my lawyer will have used an AI to write his papers in school and will have zero actual knowledge on how to plead my case or something like that. How will I know in the future if I am even talking to a real person online or someone filtering their responses through an AI filter? The whole thing reeks of disaster if you ask me. All these things I mentioned may not seem like world ending for some, but for others it is. What would you think if you had dark skin, and your AI home security system couldnât recognize you because somewhere down the line it never learned, and you get locked out of your own house?  What would you do if your main source of income was creating fantastic art and suddenly, an AI takes your job? How would you feel if your doctor didnât actually do any of his schoolwork and just made it through from AI? These are the real current issues with AI that I feel need to be addressed, and until they are, things need go a little slower. Do I think AI useful? Absolutely! I think it has many applicable uses for data and providing efficiencies that a human just cannot achieve without that help. But in its current state, it seems to be providing more headache than progress. I donât even need to mention the military applicationsâŚ
Overall Course Review
To those of you reading this that havenât taken this course, you are probably going, wow this sounds like a lot to process, and I donât know if I have what it takes to get THIS involved with a course. Like you, I thought the same thing, at first. I was worried if I would even get through it because I work full time and have 2 kids and a lot of real-world responsibilities outside of school. But I did and it was totally worth it. Yes, the workload is a lot, even for an online course, but it was absolutely worth my time and entertaining to boot. I learned so much about media tools and even more so about my own creative abilities that I did not know were there. I also learned a lot about AI and its current capabilities through the social media lens and it made me hopeful but cautious about its future. I had no idea I could develop a character and a story with multiple other students and collide those characters and stories to make some really unique content that is now on the open internet for consumption! Wild! I mean I got to make a radio show that was actually played on the radio! I will never forget this experience and I highly recommend it to ANYONE. I hope your next course theme is as interesting as this one. In a final goofy over used phrase, I will say this, the juice is worth the squeeze.
As to be expected this project was incredibly time consuming and it took me longer than I thought it would to complete. The audio part of the project it what was taking me the longest. It took me multiple edits and playbacks to get everything to sync up the way that I wanted it to but overall, I am happy with the final outcome. I think I was able to incorporate everything that we have learned so far. I made a video that uses AI voice overs, music, video clips, and text. As you watch my video you will notice the little robots that are narrating the story. I used different AI voices for each robot and they each have different expressions to represent the topic they are going over. Not all of the video is covered with AI voice because I wanted the focus to also be on the music and how I was able to sync up the tracks together for some portions of the video. I used Canva and was able to use some of the built-in apps to help with the AI voice overs and I selected some of the free audio tracks that were available that I thought would be best suited for the video. I took time with editing the images that I chose as well as adding animations to the words and robots as well. Overall, I am happy with how the final video came together I was able to express my creativity thought the clip and use what I have learned thus far in the class. I hope that whoever watches stops and really thinks about AI and what the benefits are as well as what the cons are. Happy watching!
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.
I spent from 12am- 6am working on recording my script and using the program Wav2lip to creating the Josh videos. I also worked on matching up the other voices to the correct spots on the video. I was really hoping to finish this project throughout this night, but I still need to put sound effects on the video.
All of the comments I got on my script were so heartwarming to read and I really liked the pointer I got from others. Some of the ideas I got, I did include but others were very difficult for me to achieve however I did try to create a newspaper because I REALLY liked that idea, but it was hard to put a picture into the video and make it look like it belongs.
I used many websites to help me out for all the voices and getting them into MP3. I also used Wav2lip and we ALL know how long it takes to create one videoâŚI created about 7 different scenes because Josh was position differently in each one.
In order to get the voices I used murf.ai and then I recorded them talking on my phone because I did not want to pay in order to download them onto my computer. For some reason the voice recorder on iPhone sends the audio in a M4A and I need them to be MP3 for ClipChamp and Wav2 Lip as well. I used this website that has been a savor for me this semester.
After I got them all onto my computer by emailing myself the audio off my phone then I had to cut the video piece by piece to get the Josh videos only. I want to emphasize âpiece by pieceâ so one frame of Josh I would have to match up with one of the audios. This part was so time consuming, but I am so proud of myself that I completed all 7 frames in one sitting throughout one night.
Once I got all the Josh videos with the correct audio attached to them, I started putting together my video and the other audios: âthe ghosts and the storytellerâ which are another 3 characters withing my video. I ended up cutting some of the video because the was a lot of left over video after the audio so right now the video looks like it will be about 4 mins and 30 seconds long. I feel as though because I am putting good quality and so many different angles that it being less than 5 minutes will be okay. Hopefully.
I am so proud of myself for really pushing myself to do so much work because I want to create something that I can show my friends and family! They have been a big support for me during this class and they like to visit my page which makes me super happy.
Anyways, the only thing I need to do is add sound effects and then I will be all done. I am hoping to maybe put in 3 more hours for that and make my total time for this project around 18 hoursâŚfor less than 5 minutesâŚcrazy but hopefully it will be worth it.
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.
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!
Our group’s final project is an AI takeover situation. We have a news anchor who reports breaking news from all over the country, I embedded the video below, that I made last week. It will be edited by group members to include stories and propaganda posters, that each of us is creating. One of the headlines is “AI-Powered Healthcare Innovations Transform Patient Care”. I created the above poster of robots in nurse uniforms in a hospital in Adobe Firefly, then I added text in Adobe Express. The font is Source Sans 3 in black with a shadow effect in blue #1D06CC. Imagine if all healthcare providers were robots.
This final project was fun to complete. I knew I wanted to fit the theme of robot uprising, but I wasn’t sure how I would be able to do that without making a whole movie, so I decided a weather report being interrupted by a rogue Dr. Ravioli-made robot AI would be really cool. I also wanted to make sure my boy Dr. Rav had his share of screen time as he is my favorite creation of all time, and I will be getting an orange cat in the future and naming it after him. Dr. Ravioli is my muse and always will be. I used clip master to put it all together, and I really like the final product. I used a variation of Speechify and Natural Reader for the voices. I hope my video does not get attacked for this clip of a weather reporter I found on YouTube, but I finally figured out how to use Wav2Lip, and it is actually so much easier once you understand it. I tried to get Dr. Ravioli to mouth a few words and even edited a human mouth to his face, but Wav2Lip was not having it. I had to time each text-to-speech dialogue and the video it would match with to make sure it flowed nicely. This video took me all day to finalize and put together as I tried to use an assortment of different tools. I even used my favorite AI photo generator, Koala, for the robot and the amazing photo of Dr. Ravioli. I used Audacity for some of the audio clips and got all of my sound effects and music from Freesound. I wasn’t completely sure what I wanted my commercial to look like at the end, but I think it came out really well. I used AI to help come up with weird side effects and added that at the end. I also used AI to come up with a script for the robot since that seemed fitting. I think I learned a lot by completing this assignment, and I think this project showcases what I can accomplish with digital media. This took a lot of work but I am very happy with the outcome and will be sharing it with my friends and family. This course has been one of my favorites this semester, and I am so glad I had the opportunity to take it. I think the skills I learned will follow me through life. I hope everyone likes my video. I finished this all in one day, so I do not have a mid-week progress report, but I love how this came out.
