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Trouble in Paradise Trailer

Video Process

Figuring out how to actually create the video was the hardest part because I am not experienced with animating and I don’t know enough people who would be willing to act out the scenes for a live-action video, so I had to resort to using the game called Animal Crossing to make my trailer. I personally think the trailer came out cute but kind of goofy since it’s such a cartoony game and there was a lot of limits for how much I could portray a storyline from it.

The story was supposed to be how a peaceful island was taken over by highly advanced robots who crashed onto their land. The story is told visually so I tried my best to make it as clear as possible with the transition scenes. The final scene was shot from first-person point of view so it shows the other character’s shock and reaction to seeing a robot enter the town hall office. I think it was a good ending scene for the trailer because it leaves the audience to guess what happened next which helps for leading into the final project which will present the full story of what happened after the robots took over the island.

Creating it required recording multiple short 5 to 10 second long clips from the game. It was extremely tedious and required multiple retakes to get the scenes exactly how I wanted them to look. Camera angles and the filters mattered a lot to me because it helped with making the shots look more cinematic. Afterwards I took the video clips and connected them all into a full video using iMovie. I was also able to use Canva for the intro and outro. The intro I used a nature design background since it was supposed to be before the robots came and then for the outro it was represented with more of a tech design for the robots. Reviewing the video afterwards my biggest complaint was mostly the sound effects specifically the part with the crash explosion because it sounds too quiet. I am also concerned about when I make the full project because I have to tell a full story somehow without verbal audio so I have to learn how to either add in subtitles for dialogue or maybe speech bubbles somehow.

Inside My Creative Mind: Week 12

Cool New Pet

For this Daily Create I was supposed to use a random animal generator to see what new pet I would get. For mine I got a Bandicoot which I never really heard of so I had to look it up and it was a pretty interesting animal and would be a cool pet to own probably if it wasn’t a wild animal.

Island Survival

For this Daily Create I was asked if I could survive stranded if I had the necessary survival supplies. I wanna say yes that I could, but in a stressful situation like that I feel like I would fail and need someone to rescue me after a few days

A New Secret Agent

For this Daily Create I was supposed to use a agent name generator to create a new secret agent. For mine I got the name Agent Green Archer and then I used an ai art generator to bring her to life!

The Real Trailer!

For our group’s final project, we decided to do a tv show that centers around our course characters. We were inspired by shows like Vanderpump Rules and The Real Housewives of Orange County. Not only is our show inspired by those TV series, but we wanted our trailer to parody those TV shows as well.

We met on Monday in the HCC filming studio. We set up in front of the green sccreen and took a lot of videos of us doing different poses. We took individual shots and group shots to get a variety of clips into the trailer. We also recorded lines to add over the trailer just like they do in the classic reality tv trailers

Martina used Premiere Pro to edit the trailer, and just sent it back today. I think it came out so good and I am really impressed with her videography skills. She just learned how to use green screen for this project. I think she deserves extra credit for that.

Here is the final product!

Week 12 Weekly Summary

Starting Off

I had a pretty chill weekend! Probably, a little too chill though, as I didn’t get much work done. The only thing I could really say that I did was continue working on what my group had planned for our final project. We will meet on Monday to film some parts of it, which should be fun!

Final Project Trailer

My group decided to start of the week on Monday by filming at the green screen studio in the HCC. We just filmed some intros, as well as some clips that we can edit together. Martina then took on the task of editing the whole thing together (thank you again Martina!), as long as the group set up the order of everything and sent in all the audios. Here it is!

Daily Creates

Daily Create #1

a fish

Our first daily create of the week was to use this random animal generator, and make whatever animal we got our pet! I got this fish, which is named Tang. I thought he looked quite lazy, so I thought he would love to sleep in his ship-wreck, as well as love eating fish food.

Daily Create #2

poster for Total Drama Island

For the second daily create, we were asked how we would survive in the wilderness! I already know I would not do very well. I am a very social person, and I rely a lot on technology (which are my own faults). I think I could last for a couple of days, but eventually want to give up. But, I also thought of one of my favorite childhood shows, Total Drama Island. I see myself in some of the characters, specifically Courtney, although they are all a bit crazy.

Daily Create #3

my cat, Sabre

Lastly, for the last daily create, it is National Pet Day! We were asked how we would celebrate, which sadly I will be spending it talking to them over FaceTime. They are at my home with my parents, so I only really get to see them over breaks. But, I will send them a Happy National Pet Day from here at school!

Overall

Overall, it was a pretty chill week, again! I am excited, but also nervous for the workload of the next couple of weeks, but I am ready to work with such a great group again as we work on the final project!

On the 12th Week of DS106, My True Love Gave to Me – Week 12 Summary

This week was great. The work was easy and the Daily Creates were fun

Daily Creates

This week, I did Wednesday’s, Thursday’s, and Friday’s Daily Creates.

For Wednesday, the prompt was to use the Secret Agent Name Generator. The name I got was Agent Copper Nightmare. I then looked on Canva to find a design that matched the name. Because of the word ‘copper’, I wanted to find someone with a hair color that was as close to copper as possible. I also wanted the character to be evil because of the word ‘midnight’. I ended up landing on this design. I incorporated the dark clouds in the background for an eery effect

For Thursday’s Daily Create, the prompt was to use an overheard quote as an epigraph. The quote I overheard was “It’s all fun and games when you’ve placed all the boxes, and it’s not working because you misplaced one comma.” I was inspired by the lyrics from the song Take a Break from Hamilton:

In a letter I received from you two weeks ago
I noticed a comma in the middle of a phrase
It changed the meaning, did you intend this?
One stroke and you’ve consumed my waking days
It says

“My dearest, Angelica”
With a comma after dearest
You’ve written
“My dearest, Angelica”

The original conversation was about coding, but I took some artistic liberties to have the poem match the theme of the previous lyrics. Here it is:

“It’s all fun and games when you’ve placed all the boxes, and it’s not working because you misplaced one comma.”

You misplaced the comma

It changed the meaning

One wrong stroke

transformed the message

Spell check didn’t catch it

Was it really a mistake?

The last Daily Create was my favorite of the week. The prompt was to show your pet for National Pet day. I love my pets more than anything and I will take any chance to show them off! Here they are:

I procrastinated doing the Daily Creates this week but I got lucky and ended up with good prompts!

Final Trailer

The assignment for this week was to make a trailer for our final project. My group’s theme for the project is a reality show with our course characters. We met up in the HCC studio to record the trailer on Monday. We stayed for about 45 minutes and took a lot of different shots. Martina edited it and sent it over today and it came out so good!

This week was great and seeing the finished trailer was the perfect way to end the week!

Week 12

ECHO PROTOCOL TRAILER

This week I worked on finalizing the story and theme of how I wanted to apporach the final project. I also worked on and completed the trailer for the project.

I look forward to completing the Final Project and preseting a story about an AI taken over world

Along with the the trailer I completed 3 TDC this week, with no of them sticking out of being any particular fun or exciting

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ECHO PROTOCOL TRAILER

This a trailer for the upcoming final project. I used canvas to edit the video and put the glitching effects. I decided to use a bright red title to catch the attention of the view and the glitching effects to go alone along with the theme of a malfunction AI or issiues with technology. I also found helicoptor sound to match the cyberpunk themed helicopters I used in the trailer

Week 12 Summary

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Trailer For Final

I felt inspired by my stabby baby. I admit I rerolled after I got a river fish…I was like whaaaa that’s dinner not a pet. I used picrew for my spy, it was an interesting name reminded me of those British spies with the round table names. As for the one for today I hear that quite a bit so seemed right to give it a deeper meaning. I am all for chaos. Anarchy and what not, civil disobedience boo yaa. Maybe that’s just because I am young. This week I also worked on my trailer for the project it came out cutely but as I work more the further away, I seem to stray from being a cute ai to something eviler. Still not all AI is bad y’all they were programmed with a task and there for are simply there to complete it. Who are we to give labels like good and bad when we are the problem. Me and Canva are busy being besties as I am and move audios and clips and scenes.

Trying to avoid photoshop but if I will go even deeper!

Trailer For Final

For this project I used 3 sources a Canva was the main source where I did my best to bring my character to life. Even if it doesn’t have any warmth or a pulse. For my final project I plan to create a story about an Ai that gains ‘life’ an awareness of its existence and what it may mean in the world. To explain it is a young life that has been created like a baby. Not fully fleshed out yet but that’s what the next few weeks are for!

I really wanted to make it smoother however I am not a professional animator, so I am not going to stress about it. Still another thing is that I wished I centered it better, but I forgot my computer sits to the side, so it only seemed center till I UPLOADED IT ;-; Aside from that I like how the sounds came out. I used iMovie and had a select few options but with volume control and clipping it came out just right!

ALSO

MIKU BLUE

Ahahaha that is the vibe here!

I made it in Canva like I said using shapes and animation affects to bring it to life. It’s simple but each movement is me staring at the screen wondering how tiny a frame can be before I can click on it. Unlike Audacity I can’t just zoom in.

Still I overall liked how it came out could’ve used more sounds but still really good in my books.