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Get Ready With Me: With a Shot!

… Shot as in shot of espresso, make that a double shot actually 🙂

If you’ve ever seen me in person, I’ll have an iced latte in my hand ALWAYS. I guess you can say I’m a little addicted …

For this Video Assignment from the Assignment Bank, I chose the get ready with me! I decided to do my own twist on this since I start getting ready for my day by making my latte!

I filmed my entire process of making lattes, from beginning to end. I used iMovie to edit the clips together and sped up some parts on it as well. I know some people only enjoy drinking lattes, but I enjoy making them even more. In fact, being able to make my own lattes in my morning routine, is what motivates me to get out of bed. The parts I sped through where when I was utilizing my WDT tool, when spinning my distributor tool, and in between refilling my ice scoops. I also sped up the video all together to get it from 48 seconds down to 26. Parts of the process have also been clipped. For example, the extraction of the espresso shot was clipped from 28 seconds to about 2 seconds. I had so much fun putting this together and I hope you enjoy my version of getting ready with me!

P.S. it’s an iced oat milk latte with macadamia with caramel drizzle.

Get Ready with Me… Sorry Get Ready With Xander!!!

The final assignment bank assignment I chose to do this week was the “Get Ready With Me!” in which we needed to create a video of someone getting ready for the day, getting ready for practice, bed, etc. Since one of the course requirements this week was to incorporate our course characters into at least two of out assignments. I thought, why not create a great ready with me, alongside my course character Xander Neoteric. I enjoyed creating this little video because it allowed me have full creative thought and input over what was going to happen in the video and how it was going to happen. This video takes place on the day in which Xander is preparing to out Aggressive Technologies for what they did to him. (P.S. Read about that here). I decided to use an AI chatbot to generate the images for me and then used a text-to-speech converter to give Xander a voice because I felt that was more creative than me just voicing over the video. In the end, I am glad that I did because the video turned out so much better and sounded better as well. It was really col to see how the AI chatbot interpreted my prompts to give me the images and I was able to use the skills that we learned over the last couple weeks to create this video. From generating images to creating text-to-speech audio outputs, I brought everything together in the following video. I hope you enjoy!