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Week 12 Summary

Week 12 definitely felt like a short one. As the main focus of this week was our video project. However, we still had our daily creates. Let’s start with the daily creates for this week. We only had to complete 3 for week 12. My favorite would probably have to be the https://andrewpoon.org/daily-create/spiral-gyra/. The reason I think this was my favorite was because you had so much freedom to what you can do with the application. There were no rules, and you could be as creative as you wanted to be. I kept my design simple and bright. I didn’t want to over complicate it. For the video project I decided to collab with Jackson Beale and his AI created character, Himothy. For our video we used our radio show, Three-Pointer Chatter, as inspiration. For our video we decided to do a day in the life of Leo storm and Himothy. The first step was to record the voice over of our day in the life. We used Audacity to record our voice over. Audacity has become really useful for me as DS106 progress each week. After that we found pictures and clips to incorporate into our video. After uploading them we had to make sure the clips and pictures all lined up with our voice overs. We did run into some trouble with some images as they weren’t uploading properly but we eventually resolved that by finding new images to use. Our last step was to add our intro and outro for the video. We wanted to keep it clean and simple. Overall, this week was stressful creating the video but fun at the same time. I really enjoyed the whole video making process. Until next time!

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Week 12 Summary

Week 12 Video Project – The Rise, the Continuation of Hwei’s Story

Not much to summarize in this week other than my video project. I will say that I had a foot injury earlier today from playing tennis, so I had to go get it checked out and I got home pretty late. Luckily, I still had time to put something together to wrap up week 12.

Daily Create Roundup: Week 12

And as usual, here are my daily creates for week 12. On to the final project. Almost done with the semester!

Weekly Summary 12

Busy week with the kids’ school and my schoolwork. So, I started off the weekend with a daily create.

Get Bent

Eclipse day very busy but I got this in.

Eclipse Erasure Poem link

By Thursday I had found some videos to try and edit for my project and gotten some good audio from Dr. Oblivion to play with. I also had viewed the eclipse with the family, chaperoned a field trip, Wednesday was no school day. Thursday appointment at the elementary school.

Thursday I also did a 3rd daily create.

On the Internet

Friday another thing at the elementary school. I also have had a terrible headache all day. It is a migraine headache. the double vision has been the worst. I quickly through together some of the material I have for more project so I could show I have collected some things and put it on the video project post. It is only about 8 pm but I have given up hope of salvaging my day and putting my video together. crying and going to sleep sounds more likely. My kids are fed, alive, and in bed. that is today’s win.

Video Project – Origins of Evil Bricks

Weekly Summary 12:

by Greta Hammen

Favorite daily creates to do involve making art. I enjoy the websites that the prompts take us to, in order to have the desired art outcome. This week we had the solar eclipse, which is a rare occurrence and a reminder of what an amazing world we live in! I put together Daily Creates: Pockets Ablaze TDC: – According to Greta (gretahammen.com), Psychedelic Art TDC: – According to Greta (gretahammen.com) and https://social.ds106.us/@gretahammen/112248565098336091.

It has been beneficial to see and read what others in the class are able to do Comments to: Daily Create – 4/7/2024 – Creative Bytes: Exploring the World of DS106 (rishicshankards106.com), https://blog.raptnrent.me/2024/04/09/turn-around-bright-eyes/?unapproved=215228&moderation-hash=a132365dc08aa9931d, Daily Crate 04/12/24 – its_Senpai (lesenpai.com), Video Project, Troubles As Usual – Abiotic Interface and Video Project: AI in Space & Skis – Tubba Talks (tubbanoor.com). Thank you, Professor Bond, for sharing about your recent travel experience to get the best view of the solar eclipse and for recording the sounds at the time it occurred.

My video, AI For Our Future – According to Greta (gretahammen.com), can be watched here and a reflective analysis of the process is written. I plan to try the Wav2Lip application on a different clip in the near future, so that I have that sense of satisfaction that comes from achieving the goal!

Video Project, Troubles As Usual

This week was kind of wild outside of school, so it made school a little hectic. For starters I had a terrible experience with Carvana, and I highly recommend you do not use them. Multiple re-schedules for delivery and they still missed the window. They also wouldn’t let me pick up the vehicle. Anyway, so arguing with that and then having a retirement ceremony for someone I worked with took up a lot of my extra time.

Anyway, I did my 3 TDCs on my phone this week and that was pretty neat. Here is the post about it. I really liked writing the nonet about Carvana.

So, for the video project I had, like last time, a lot of trouble. From my plan post last week I intended to do a psa where I used the wav2lip to add audio to an already existing psa and have the lips line up to that audio. I was going to have my character speak about his time on the podcast he called in to. He was going to try to get people to rally against the hosts of the show because he found out they were dangerous and had a different agenda than him. Well, I don’t know what I was doing wrong, but I watched the tutorial video and did everything exactly as displayed, and it just would never process correctly. Idk if I was missing steps or labeling wrong or something, but I would never finalize or work.

So, I ended up changing the whole idea on Thursday evening to have my character release a video “from the shadows” because the companies and hosts of the show were after him and trying to silence him. I used multiple different AI generated voices to “hide” background noise and to protect any type of signature that could be taken from actual video or audio from the character. I mean he is a hacker, so he covered his bases. I had to keep it under two minutes because that’s how long it takes to trace calls and data in movies right… wink. But I had Kevin kind of reach out in fear for people to draw attention to Isaiah and Rikaro’s plans and stand up to them and fight their cause. I made wild accusations that they are plants for Aggressive Technologies, and they may even be AI (I actually used Rikaro’s AI voice from the show to say that line).

I then had the AI that “assumed control” of the radio broadcast do the same to Kevins video and tell him he is not safe, and he will pay. It was haunting to do and think about how something like this would happen in the real world. Maybe it happens now and we just aren’t important enough to be on the receiving end…

Oh, and I layered in a lot of technological audio sounds from Freesound in Audacity and brought them over with other video clips to make it really flow. I used Clipchamp to compile everything and add text to the video and add the layers. I am really getting the hang of Clipchamp and I feel like my skills with it are getting a lot better. Here is the video. I hope you like it.

Week 11 Summary

As the week goes by, I look back on the week and I think to myself what a crazy week. For starters Hearing everyone’s radio show was really enjoyable. I love seeing how different and creative other groups radio show was. Everyone had different approaches and different techniques used. One radio show I really enjoyed was Pop Perceptive. Pop Perceptive looked into the AI side of Superheroes. One of my favorite moments from the show was the conversation between the host and Jarvis. It really captured the feeling of a radio show or podcast vibe. Overall, they did a great job, as well as the other groups. As far as planning my video project I am thinking of colabing with Himothy to create a day in the life video. Just like our radio show Three-Point Chatter, we talked about our day in the lives. Now we are bringing that to life with a video. As far as the three daily creates we had to do this week, I enjoyed all three. My favorite would have to be searching DS106 into the search engine and seeing what was the funniest thing that came up. It was really interesting to see all the different thing, but I think the funniest thing that popped up for me was this image.

Overall, this week was great, and I can’t wait for what next week has in store. Until next time!

Weekly Summary #11:

by Greta Hammen

Comments went to: Still Wanting to Fit in – The Wisdom Well (kelbellz.com), Week 10 Summary – AI106 Blog – Robin Yu (robinsyu.com), Daily Crate 04/05/23 – its_Senpai (lesenpai.com), Digital Discoveries in Video Project Plan – Mastering the Art of Storytelling (peterleese.net) and radio show promo – here and there it’s everything (feigrace.com).

I’m an artist at night, my work can be viewed at Daily C. 1 of 3: – According to Greta (gretahammen.com), Daily C, 2 of 3: – According to Greta (gretahammen.com) and Daily C, 3 of 3: – According to Greta (gretahammen.com).

The talk shows are revealing how people think and how people can work together on projects. I listened all three nights to the shows and wrote DS106 Rad.io Shows: – According to Greta (gretahammen.com) about one of the shows.

I watched some free source videos for options to use in the animated video project due next week. This is my proposed plan: Lips Waving “My Way” Video Plan: – According to Greta (gretahammen.com).

Week 11 Summary

After a tough week of grinding out the radio show, I’m glad that this week was much lighter.

I first did a reflection of the radio shows that we created, and the experience I had tuning into ds106 radio to hear my own show, as well as another group’s. I went into detail about how three different listens all gave me a different perspective on the radio show creating experience overall.

Radio Show Listening Experience – Similar Format yet so Different

Next I had to do some brainstorming about what I would do for the upcoming video assignment. I decided on continuing to develop my course character, but ran into some troubles finding sources for my character. I had to do some potentially illegal improvisation from the Netflix show Arcane to fit my needs, and I’ll see soon if the project I’m envisioning will work after all.

Video Project Plan – Incorporating Hwei in a Different Fashion

And finally, here are my daily creates for the week. I got to do a coding one, which was cool for me to do!

Daily Create Roundup: Week 11

That’s pretty much it for this week, we’ll see how the video project turns out and if I’ll be running into a lawsuit with Netflix in the near future.

Weekly Summery 11

It is Saturday night and I ain’t got no body…..(yes it is a song) I made my self into a plant!

It’s Saturday night and I ain’t got no body…

The behind-the-scenes drama that is my life has made getting schoolwork done this week difficult. I needed this daily create today.

What made me smile?

I was able to come up with an idea for my video project. It may be too ambitious for me. Won’t know until I try.

Video Plan

I found out that Ravioli Radio had some members that were having trouble with LipSync. I have used it before, so I went through and explained what I did. Don’t know if it will help more than the video that is already made. I added it to my video plan. I made Frank speak in my voice this time.

I finished my 3rd daily create on Friday.

Trading Car Time!

A summary of my listening experiences.

Listen!

And so, ends another week in DS106.

The Radio Show Week, Plus Video Plan

This week was pretty neat, despite being sick most of the week I managed to get everything done.

Here is my post about my daily creates. They were fun, especially the flag one. I liked looking for a flag that resembled me and I’m glad if found one. I also really enjoyed the source code one since I have never gotten to that screen on purpose before lol.

As the title suggest we also got to listen to the radio shows. I listened to the one on Monday since it had my show and I thought it was amazing. Here is my post about it.

This week we also had to plan out our video project. I had a lot of trouble with this since I really had no idea where to begin. It really didn’t start to form up until about an hour ago, so I don’t think I planned as much as I needed to. Here is my post about it. I feel though that an almost rebuttal to the radio show to kind of fight back against Rikaro and Isaiah’s views would be a fun thing to do, especially since my character did not like how they were going about the future of AI.

Again overall, the week was great, but I have always had trouble with video stuff and this project will probably take the most effort for me. I will have to start this weekend, or I won’t finish.