Category Archives: Tech Noir

Cyber Talks Trailer

Carson and I started this project with the idea of creating a podcast duo where we talk about different tech noir, cyberpunk, and AI topics. We’re covering things like film reviews, AI for good, and privacy. We used Canva to create the trailer together, and we plan on launching a subdomain where we’ll post the podcast as part of our brand.

It was a bit difficult to make a trailer for a podcast since it’s all conversation based, but overall the process was fun. I’m really excited to see how this turns out and where we can take it next.

The Ambassador: Choose-your-own-future

For the final project, Rylie and I are working on an interactive choose-you-own-future game surrounding the idea of an AI governed society.

Our trailer:

To make this trailer Rylie and I made a script that pitched the idea and premise of our game. Rylie had a text-to-speech (that we wanted to sound like Dr. O, but couldn’t clone him) read the script and edited it so that the pauses and flow of the voice sounded as natural and un-natural as we wanted it be. I worked on compiling a bunch of relevant stock video into iMovie and created a trailer and timed it with the finished script and uploaded it to youtube!

I think I would have liked to have more filters I could use but iMovie didn’t have a lot of options. I also had a hard time finding the exact videos I wanted for the trailer on the free stock video websites (that didn’t also had an obnoxious watermark) so I think I couldn’t have done more if I had the right time and materials.

Daily creates:

  1. For my first daily create of the week I used a secret name generator to create Agent Diamond Flame. She works hand and hand with my character Yohan and she was put on ice and froze for 100+ years. Once I generated her name I used a photo generator to create her character which I think turned out well and fits the theme of tech noir. I plan to incorporate this character at least once in my final, but if I’m unable to at least I can say I tried.

2. For my second daily create of the week we were assigned to create a poem from a dialogue we overheard. I heard my family member on the phone with their friend and they said the phrase “it’s always good to get out and walk”. I used this as the start of my poem and built around this phrase. I tried to do a rhyme scheme that skips a line then continues. I actually like the poem I made and believe it’s quite catchy and holds a good message as we approach warmer weather. I also created a cover to go with my poem on canva that’s in my favorite color which is green.

3. For my third daily create of the week we honored national pet day, so I posted my two babies. I wasn’t able to go see them today on the 11th due to my schedule and class, but I will go visit them tomorrow and be sure to give them extra love and treats since I wasn’t there today.

This Week I Got To Film With The Real HouseWives of Cyber Manhattan

I completed 3 Daily Creates. I got to post about puppies, water, and some dialog I overheard.

Below is the blog post that has the trailer to the short film I’m going to be in!

The Real HouseWives of Cyber Manhattan!!!

This piece was so fun to create with my fearless femme girls, well now they are my HouseWife friends from Cyber Manhattan. Each of them is so talented and creative. Martina and her wonderful planning and editing skills, Olivia and her creative Canva Intros and music vibes, Coni and her tech-savviness and gracious support, and Kristen with her bubbly personality and overall creativeness! The short film trailer was a success.

Read more about the process of this short film trailer in my blog post above 🙂

Enjoy your weekend everyone!

Trailer For The Real HouseWives of Cyber Manhattan

AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! This is so fricken cutee. I love making content like this with my fearless femme girls.

To record this trailer we had to…

  • book a space to use the green screen room in the HCC and borrowed a camera from the HCC.
  • Then film some content with each other and individually. We used inspirations from the real housewives shows and then tried to incorporate our characters into it and use the class themes of course.
  • After recording, we downloaded the content to 2/3 computers. We learned from last time that it’s better to have the content saved a couple of times on different computers than to not have it or lose it.

Overall, recording was so much fun. It kind of felt awkward at first but Martina and Liv put on some Sabrina Carpenter, and we started vibing and it all started coming to life.

I have to give credit where credit is due! Martina is a wonderful editor and has helped us tremendously with the editing role for our films, along with her still being involved in all of the other tasks that are required to generate this type of content. She described the editing to us as, clipping the videos, adding the backdrop picture to the green screen, and then adding some music to it.

Also, Oliva created the intro part with Canva. I think it’s perfect for CyberPunk theme and goes really well with the rest of our material.

I can’t wait to finish this project up with them next week and create one huge final piece together.

Daily Create Shenanigans – Week 11

This week I did 3 daily creates 🙂

#tdc4834 #ds106 #ds106 This Daily Create was all about survival skills!

All I need is my water jugg! LOL I can live without the rest.

#tdc4836 #ds106 A Daily Snippet.

This DC was dialog overheard and used as the opening thought of a poem.

“Read the textbook. Write down the formulas!” – Dr. Zhao <3 His commentary is the best and always the highlight of my day lol

#tdc4837 #ds106 National Pet Day

Not my puppy, but I wish it was!!! So cuteeeeee.

The daily creates were a blast, as always!

Cheers!

My Creative Journey: Week 12

Summary

This week allowed me to be really creative and think outside the box for my trailer idea. I put a lot of time and effort into it so I enjoyed how it came out in the end. I still need to think of the full actual story for the final project, but for a sneak peak at the creation you can watch my trailer and the whole process behind it on my post called Coming Soon! I also did three Daily Creates this week which can be found on my post called Inside My Creative Mind.

Coming Soon!

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.