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Where is SpongeBob?

Not sure why the beginning is so blurry… YouTube is way better looking.

My main objective was to have SpongeBob on the video and using characters from SpongeBob to make my whole video. I felt like I was restarting on my project but that is okay because I least I know that I can not use animation. I found my news person on YouTube, and I used the program in order to make him say different phrases. The phrases I used were my own wording, but I did the text to speech to get his voice. The news person was not hard because I was working with the program when we were first introduced to it, I did all of my problem solving back then.

During my making of this video, there was a lot of trial and error when it came to animation. Just so everyone knows and understand, you can NOT use animation in colab.research. I tried so many times and wasted so many hours thinking I was using the program wrong, so I started reading those error messages and it kept telling me a face was not found. It finally clicked. NO ANIMATION.

After I got the news person all finished, I started on Dr. Oblivion which was way easier than the news person because the video was already ready for me however I did put it into clipchamp to make the video shorter so it won’t take a super long time in the program. I was so excited that I was able to get the program to work so smoothly.

Next, I had to figure out what to do about my SpongeBob voice and video situation.

For the voice I used a website called Media.io which it did not have the best SpongeBob voice, but it was the only website that was not going to charge me, so I took it and ran with it. I just typed what I wanted him to say and in about 5 minutes I got it, and I was disappointed with how it sounded but I mean hey! It was free.

Here is the dialogue for the video: (This was the draft before starting the program and editing)

Introduction person: Welcome to the 5pm news and we start off by saying that Artificial Intelligence has the human society nervous because of how far technology is coming. We have many people upset or angry that now even Tv shows are making it seem like AI is good. We have tv shows like SpongeBob that is doing stand up comedy about AI.

*video of SpongeBob using: A son asks his father why does he speak so quietly at home?

The father replies because there is artificial intelligence that listens to everything we say.

The son laughs, the dad laughs… and Alexa laughs.

Introduction person: Aw yes, the square yellow guy that always makes young kids laugh are even telling jokes about AI. Who knows if SpongeBob is good or not, Dr. oblivion would like to come onto the air.

  • What I asked Dr. Oblivion: Do you think AI is SpongeBob?

Dr. Oblivion: “Oh sure AI…

 Introduction person: Who knows for sure what will happen in the future but we know that SpongeBob square pants will never be lived down. Alrighty folks, that is everything for 5pm news. Have a good night!

For the video, as you may have noticed, there is no video of SpongeBob talking. I spent so much time and energy to find something, anything, and websites. All the accounts I created on the websites just for them to tell me that I need to pay. I hate to say that I gave up, but I gave up. I was running out of time for the assignment, so I had to think about something quickly and I thought, “you know how when you watch SpongeBob sometimes it is the tv static.” BAM! An idea. I was so excited.

I got the static from YouTube again and it helped connect my different parts together of my video. I also used two of the SpongeBob waiting time frame to really draw the SpongeBob vibe into my video without having the visual of him. But something was still missing from my video…ahh yes music in the background. I made sure to add the SpongeBob song while he is talking. I used the same song in the intro while the news person was talking just very quietly.

I got all the pieces I needed and then I had to put them together using clipchamp, which was not that bad, it was just a lot of clicking, deleting, moving around parts. It took me about 2 hours to complete all of the editing, transitions, and rewatching of the video.

All in all, I enjoyed the project, but it was a learning experience. After I finished it and I watched it for the final time, I was happy how it turned out but:

I will definitely give myself a hug because there would be a lot I would change now that I know how everything works with the program. I would add more dialogue talking about the static and make it connect to AI taking over the news show. Thank you to whoever read this post and watching my video.

Thank you to whoever read this post and for watching my video.

Video Essay

I found it very intriguing how Wall-E strictly uses AI during their filmmaking. They have no humans in this film and it is fully animated. However, Wall-E is a robot who does chores that humans do not like doing such as cleaning up and compressing trash using his body.

Video Storytelling

For this assignment I chose to watch the movie A.I. 187 which is available for free on Youtube. The clip I chose from this movie was the most climatic from the whole movie. Most of the movie was simple and not many complex editing besides that actual technology.

Director Billy Dickson utilized white and black when showing older memories. The constant flickering effect was also applied to get the viewer more pumped for the actual scene that is occurring. The old memories are considered build ups in this case. You can also see the slow motioned running of the football players.

Lucky number 5

This week I was ready to start working on my assignments because of how smooth last week went. However, when I opened up the week, I noticed that we had to learn something new again. Which made me overwhelmed but nevertheless, we started to work on it one by one. I ended up posting some sort of update to my goals because I feel like I know more than I did coming into this class. My thoughts and feelings does leave an opening ended question: what is school if you do not learn something new each class? I am beginning to appreciate this class and yes it can be difficult at times, but it is very rewarding to see the outcomes of our projects.

I have learned my approach to this class which would type all my thoughts and feelings on a word document and then on Friday, after I come home from work I put it on my website.  This makes it easier on my brain because I can do all the work throughout the week and then put it all together at the end. So, in my head, first I do all the work and then I put it on the website, and then finally make it all to connect to the page with the post.

With that being said, below is my work for this week!

We started out strong by learning our terminology with the reading that were assigned to us. I ended up taking notes during my readings so that I can go back to them in the way that I understand them. I must break down readings to very simple terms and if you would like to read about how to analyze a film click here.

If you want to maybe watch some videos that were assigned to us instead of doing the reading you can always click on the video play button to bring you to the different videos and my reactions and or outtakes from them.

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If you click HERE it will take you to my review of this show!

Now was the part that I could apply what I read and watched so many videos on. Grab your bucket of popcorn ladies and gentleman because we are watching a scene from Tomorrowland.

if you want to read how I made this please click on the button below
Land Tomorrow

Our professor then gave us two daily creates to do this week, which was nice!

kelbellz: “@tdc #tdc4417 My favorite poe…” – ds106 Social

kelbellz: “Captain Felix is so happy beca…” – ds106 Social

Overall, this week was a pretty much light load which me feel like a could take a deep breath from this class. I would say that I am learning a lot but for some reason, I feel like I will have to learn another software for this class soon. Hopefully the DKC will still remind open to help me!

Video Essay

For my video essay I chose an opening scene from Stars Wars: Episode 1 A New Hope. The scene introduces C3-PO and R2-D2 which are forms of AIs in this film. The process of making this video was a little bit hard for me. I’ve never created a voice over video before, so I had to look it up on how to do it. I ended up using Audacity to record my voice over then used Wondershare to upload my film clip then I added my voice over clip into the software and meshed the two. This assignment was a learning experience for me and now I have a general idea of what it takes to create a video. Overall, this was a fun assignment to complete a little bit challenging but definitely worth my time.

Ghost in the Shell Video Essay

Beginning Audio is a little loud but it gets fixed in a second

This was a fun experience for two major reasons. First, I got to see Ghost in a Shell with a new lens that made me appreciate the movie even more. The cuts were integral to the story, as it was a living element itself. Since it was an animated movie, the editing was much more involved than live action movies, in a sense. The level of detail behind the scenes to subconsciously give us context and emotion is impressive. Second, I got to edit a video for the first time. It was a simple one with a video and audio attached, but I experimented with the tools, which excite me. Next week, I will use this tool for the video assignments to improve my speed and skill. I have a general understanding of how the software works so I can’t wait.

Video Essay!

I did a video essay about memes! I couldn’t think of an idea right away. I had done some shot by shot videos I had taken and I was going to go in a different direction but I lost my footage so I spent some time working on this. I hope you enjoy! It isn’t my greatest work but Premiere Pro was glitching out a lot by the end.

I hope you guys enjoy!

-Reese Kubricki

Film analysis: Coming Full Circle with WALL-E – My Favorite Project So Far!

This is hands down my favorite ever project for DS106.

Initially I had a hard time coming up with a film to analyze. I don’t have any subscriptions to any streaming platforms, so I had to do my best to find clips on YouTube. While brainstorming, I had a lightbulb moment that reminded me of a particular scene in WALL-E that I wanted to delve further into.

I picked a scene where the majority of the attention is put on the characters. I focused in on the close-ups of the characters, and how different cinematography elements were strung together to tell a story without the use of dialogue.

I used OBS to recording my desktop screen, with the audio recording on. I wrote a script beforehand and printed it out to read, and it was recorded all in a continuous take. This allowed me to not perform any extra work of overlaying my voice on the clip, nor did I have to download the video to my computer. However, this forced me to record everything in a single take, which gave me no leeway to mess up any of my lines for 3 minutes. It took way too many takes than I want to admit to get all of my lines down, and timing my commentary with the transitions of the clips was even more difficult.

Once I did get it down though, I was so satisfied with the end result. I think this is one of my best works so far, and I had a blast walking through the creative process behind the analysis. I’d argue that the timing of the commentary is a method of storytelling in and of itself, and I think it really shines through in my WALL-E analysis.

I’ll definitely explore editing clips in a video editor in the future, but learning OBS was a great experience for the rest of my DS106 journey.

Video Analysis

This took a lot of effort and I am not really happy with the result. I wish I had more time to play around with video editors and to make it better. I did get it done and I hope that you enjoy it. To start with this I watched the movie and picked a specific scene. I thenn found the scene on youtube and converted it to a downloadable file. I then added said file to my Capcut account in a new project. After watching the clip a bunch of times I selected a little less of the clip to analyze. For this I chose the build up to the initial fight. This was very packed with film techniques, so I rewatched the clip a couple more times and made a script for my audio recording. I took a bunch of audio takes and then picked three which I cut to match the video. I did have to freeze frame, and slow down certain points of the video to completely match it but it worked out. I then added subtitles and a title screen and then posted the video. This is probably the most time consuming project to date but I really appreciate that I learned how to create a youtube video. I have more appreciation for those who do it consistently.

Video Essay Oh No…

I had a rough time with this. I have found out that I am not very good with video editing software. First, I tried to use Microsoft Clipchamp and I was getting the hang of it, but I could just not seem to figure out how to get things the way I like or the way I envisioned them. I was working on this all week, and I could not seem to figure it out, so I decided to use a different program to talk over myself watching the scene and pausing at key moments to discuss. I managed to use Loom to get that to work but I could not get the video volume to come through while I was recording. Good thing I was only discussing lighting… So, I was still unable to get audio of the scene, but my voice and thoughts carried through fine so now that I’m down to the wire I just decided to try and embed the file in this post. Now that I am trying, I can’t from loom for some reason… If I do the link copy route, it doesn’t actually put the video on my post. If I go the embed code route, it still won’t. So, I decided to download the video from loom. It is an MP4 and will not embed as a video in this post for some reason. Says it is an unsupported file type. So, I am having a hell of a time trying to get this to work. what I am going to do next week is get on my wife’s Mac and use I movie for whatever I need. this stuff as just not working for me this week and I am really disappointed that I could not get my point across the way I wanted. I have found my media weakness and that is video editing. Below is the video i am trying to embed, I hope it works. If it doesn’t here is the link to the page.