I absolutely loved filming the trailer for the final project. The Fearless Femmes decided to get together again and make the final project and trailer. We all loved working together on the radio show and decided to work together again.
First we met on Wednesday the week before the project was due and brainstormed ideas. It was a bit difficult to settle on an idea for a while but then we settled on “The Real Housewives” concept we were all really excited and fans of the show and started throwing out ideas that could relate to cyber and tech noir.
We met Monday to film the trailer, we filmed in the green screen room in the HCC. It was really fun and creative. We had a fun time and just bounced ideas off each other. The only problem we ran into was getting the camera to focus, but we figured out pretty soon.
Here is he finished project, we’re still brainstorming the actual show but i’m very excited to see the outcome.
Girl, this week has been too much. I had an event reschedule, ended up with three group projects, was double booked whenever I had things to do, and had people have to bail on meeting up with me. If you’re interested in listening to Mozart’s Requiem, I’m singing the entire thing on Sunday. I need to make my therapy appointments more frequent. Anyway, as per usual, I did three daily creates:
We had a zoom meeting to discuss our ideas for the project, and I decided to edit everything together with a (unknown to me at the time) double booked schedule. I don’t know why I did this, but we have a solid head start for the final project. My group members and I found stock images, video, music, sound effects, and took some pictures ourselves. We put everything together in a google drive folder and I edited it in OpenShot Video Editor. I put all the files together at specific times, making some images last longer or shorter, making sure everything fits in with the music, and trimming some audio and video to make everything fit. We wanted the trailer to be like an introduction to our characters, which would be expanded upon in the final project. To be honest I probably should’ve used Krita and CapCut and OpenShot Video Editor, but hey, we’ve got two weeks to work on that. We plan on writing out a script for the final project in our next zoom meeting. I very much appreciate that my group members found or made files for their characters/stories and sent them to me, because that would’ve been a bit of a nightmare to figure out. Thank you to listening to my ramblings, I’ll see you next week.
For this week we were assigned to make a trailer, In a group of 4 we decided we wanted to incorporate our course characters, we met on zoom and decided that we wanted to introduce them. We split up the work into parts so that everyone had a task. I started on finding music for the trailer to give it a suspenseful feel and found pictures and videos of people that would give off a vibe of my course character Jack Cross. We had a group member volunteer to put everything together so I did not have a part in that video part, I found more of the videos and pictures and audio for it. I found my audio on a copyright free website and found my videos on another copyright free video, for the picture of my course character I had AI to help me complete it because I am not a great artist. This was a very fun assignment because we had a lot of freedom to do what we wanted and create.
This is the trailer for our final project. I’m in a group again with Emily H., Sam H., and Brigid W.. Since I edited together the clips for the radio show, Emily edited the clips this time, and put them together for the movie trailer using OpenShot video editor. I sent in clips of my cat, Daisy, for my character D41SY, some with her looking normal, some with her “glitching” (I used a tiktok filter, lol)… Emily used what we all turned in to create this! We had a Zoom meeting Thursday night to discuss our ideas for the final project, and agreed on our different roles in producing this, and we scheduled a Zoom meeting for Monday to write a script. I’m excited to see how it will turn out!
This week I created a trailer for my upcoming final project titled Analog (2143).
In creating my trailer, I first had a friend film a few scenes of me using an iPhone while I walked into an attic and opened a box with an old camcorder. I directed her to incorporate a few interesting shot perspectives which I thought would look cool. After shooting these clips I had to brainstorm the rest of the script for my trailer and sought to incorporate some interesting cyberpunk script elements such as AI ruling the world. I used a basic editing app called InShot on my iPhone to edit the clips together and then transitioned to Canva to find some free stock videos of a dystopian city for the intro, a patrol robot overlooking the city, and then some red evil-looking AI pixel cloud.
After putting the clips together, I searched for a robotic AI generated voice I could use to give a warning announcement around using prohibited analog devices in order to capture an oppressive tone which would make the camcorder discovery feel like a rebellion in motion.
I wanted to add some more voiceovers but reached a max limit of one recording and figured the one voiceover would suffice for a short trailer. This gave the trailer a more minimal-teaser style essence to it.
I then found an eerie sounding synth audio available on Canva that I used for the beginning of the trailer to set the mood. For the discovery scene, I found a more hopeful synthwave track on Canva to transition and end with. Looking back at it, maybe I should have kept the eerie sounding synth throughout the video to continue building tension.
Overall, the trailer isn’t as great as I’d like it to be. I wish I had incorporated more sound effects into it and had figured out how to incorporate some more narration or maybe some captions into the trailer to convey more of the storyline I drew up for it. This project was fun though! I’m looking forward to incorporating some of the elements that I either rushed or completely missed while I start working on this final project.
In creating the trailer for the final project I used many tools and tried to create something useful that my final project could build off. The first step was to create a name and rough draft for my short film. After I jotted down some ideas the script quickly began to form and the content you see in the trailer was created, I then moved into the audio side of things so I could get a grasp on how long my video portion had to be I added free sound effects using pixabay and the audio was edited using bandlab. Once the audio was finished I moved to the video portion which I knew would be the hardest. I created the video on canva, making the script come to life was very hard but not impossible. For the final I will spend more time fine tuning edits and I want to learn how to edit the video portions better. I also want to learn how to better manipulate photo generators as it took me much longer to get the photos I needed than expected and it was hard to pull consistent results.
This week was mainly focused on making the trailer for our final project. I’m deciding to combine the trailer post and the summary for the week, so let’s discuss the trailer. Our final project is going to be a blog podcast series focusing on different tech themes, which also taking a bit of a more positive approach. It’s called Cyber Talks, and if you haven’t already watched the trailer embedded above, then you should. For production, we used Canva to be able to easily test how we want out video to be structured. Going through different styles in a matter of minutes proved to be a very time-effective method to find a style that works for what we want to do with the show. We ultimately decided on a glitchy, noir themes trailer, not that I think that would surprise anyone, to present our 3 episode special. The start of the trailer intentionally included a podcast studio to give the audience a sense of being in the studio with us while we record, a form of persuasion to make sure we get as much of a turnout of viewers as possible.
Per usual, here are the 3 daily creates I did this week.
Rebecca (of Rebecca’s Radiant Realm) and I are working together on our final project, which will be a choose-your-own-adventure game hosted on Twine. We’re incorperating tech-noir elements and focusing primarily on the prompt regarding a world controlled by AI. I had brought up the idea of a future where all countries’ ambassadors were some form of AI, and we built a script off of that. I plugged it in to a text-to-speech tool and downloaded an mp3 of the script. Then, using favorite place to get free sounds, freesounds.org, I added in some different sounds in order to get a layered background effect. I also used the same site to get sounds to create my glitch effect around the “year.” Once the audio was done, I sent it over to Rebecca so she could work on the video! Overall, I think everything turned out really nice, especially for just the trailer for this project. I’m a little nervous about the amount of writing involved in creating the game, but I’m really excited to start working on it!
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.
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.
