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Final Project-Characters and Aggressive Technologies and Week 13!

For my final project, I wanted to do something like “Intersecting Realms: The Artistry of Layla”

Layla, a talented manga artist hailing from Japan, finds herself immersed in a whirlwind of creativity and chaos. As she delves into her latest manga project, she discovers that her beloved characters begin to take on a life of their own, transcending the confines of the pages.

However, Layla’s world is soon disrupted by the intrusion of aggressive technologies, threatening to dismantle the delicate balance between artistry and innovation. When her digital artworks are hijacked by an unknown entity, Layla embarks on a journey to reclaim her creations and unravel the mysteries surrounding the malevolent forces at play.

As Layla’s world collides with the relentless onslaught of aggressive technologies. From cyber attacks targeting her digital artworks to the emergence of AI-driven creations mimicking her style, Layla must confront the darker side of innovation while safeguarding her artistic integrity.

Week 13 has been crazy for me. I opted out to do daily creates just because I just did not have any time to do it like I normally do. I hope everyone had a good week!

Week 13 – Final Project Work!!!

So this week was very, very light on the work that we needed to do in order to meet the requirements for the assignment. The basic idea for the next two weeks was to work on our final project to round out the semester and so that is exactly what I did. I decided to work with Peter once again for the final project and we decided to another radio-show type thing for our final project. Our show is called “Tech Insights” and the episode that we are creating talks about the pros and cons of artificial intelligence and how people may view the game-changing technology. The shows dives into both the good and the bad and the hosts make sure to talk about each point completely to make sure that the listeners are fully aware of what is happening and being talked about. We also used the bumpers that we created from the Radio Show Project, along with the commercials that we both made to make the video project more appealing and realistic. We were also advised to make some progress posts throughout the week, however, as you can tell by me posting this on Thursday, that I had a very busy week this week and was not able to get to those progress posts and since it was not a requirement, I figured it would be fine. i will include the progress that we made on our final project within this post. As far as this week goes, we came up with the idea for the project on Monday/Tuesday and then started working on the script Tuesday/Wednesday and over the course of those two days, we spent some time trying to decide what pros and cons we wanted to use for the show since there were so many. After we were able to pick some out for each side, we started working on the script and it looks like we will have roughly a 10-minute show for this final project and since there was only two of us this time, we figured it would be more than enough. As stated before, we decided to add the bumpers and commercials to make it more interesting. One thing that we decided to do for this project was to use completely AI-generated voices to further push the narrative of AI and make the final project a little bit cooler to listen to. Next week, we plan on actually creating the audio samples, getting the radio bumpers/commercials, and background music all into Audacity and putting the whole thing together. That will be the main focus for the next week and the rest of this week will be spent on editing the script to make sure it is what we want along with making sure that there is nothing else we need to add or find before we start putting things together.

I did not encounter too many issues this week when completing my assignments. I thought things went pretty smoothly this week and I enjoyed doing all of the assignments. From this week, I would say that creating the script for the final project was my favorite. This is because I found it very enjoyable to create a talk show for the two characters and have them interact once again. I anticipate that I will enjoy creating the audio clips for the characters since we are using all AI-generated audio clips. Once again, I did not encounter any issues this week for any of the assignments.

I definitely think that I accomplished all of the requirements for the assignments for this week and I think I did them to the best of my ability. I would not do anything differently for the work that I did this week as it was completed with effort, time, and creativeness. I believe that there are no larger issues at hand with my work. I think that the assignments were done properly and with effort. I do not have any further questions at this time for the class. One thing that I think I did well this week was managing my time. Since the end of the semester is getting closer and closer, things are starting to get a bit more hectic and now that I am about to graduate, I want to make sure that everything is going well in all my classes and other activities and so I am busier than usual, but was still happy I was able to get all the work for this class done while going through the final few weeks of the semester.

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

This week was the most fun I had. The video I created is probably my favorite creation. It has motivated me to create more videos that I thought I wouldn’t be able to make. I watched a couple of analogue horror videos on YouTube that are great examples of expositional storytelling that I enjoy. I go into detail on my video here:

I wasn’t able to do any daily creates, due to celebrating Eid with my family members. I had to create my video in the last hours of the week, but the stress paid off. Hope ya’ll enjoy the video too.

Week 12 Summary

This week was a pretty easy one once the video was out of the way!

Besides that, we had three daily creates for this week, which were fairly easy and simple as well. You can read my daily create post to see what I created and see my view of the solar eclipse!

Now for the video project, this took some time to complete. I did it in about two days and I’m feeling pretty accomplished of it! I wrote on there my whole process and hope you guys enjoyed it.

Looking ahead.. now that seems like a lot of work we still have left. Nonetheless, ready to tackle on this final project!!

Week 1 And 2 =12

My life right now is work and school with little of sleep. I am so excited because soon enough the classes are going to be finished and I will be doing a road trip from Virginia to California!

As far as this class:

This week was weird for me because it was an easy assignment, but I ran into issues that I did not know it was me that was messing up. I thought it was the program being stupid. Now I know that yes; it was me messing up. It makes me laugh now but at the time of figuring out I was pissed off. However, we worked with what we could, and the result of the video and my struggle is down below:

* Not sure why the beginning is super blurry, it is clearer on YouTube.
If you want to read about my making of this AWESOME video, please click the button.

Next, we had 3 daily creates:

I enjoyed this week’s load, but I really like rules and we did not have much this week. It makes me uneasy not knowing how I am doing in this class and I know the end is right around the corner. I am really going to miss this class. I do not know how the professor made this class so special without having an in-person class. I know that I will always think back to this class because I have learned so much from audio making, video making, discord, mastodon, etc.

Weekly Summary: (Week 12)

I thoroughly enjoyed working on the video project for the past two weeks. I thought it was awesome how I could collaborate with Andrew Poon’s course character, Leo Storm. My course character Himothy and Leo had a great day together. It is a must watch.

I have already started watching some of my classmates videos and they are very good. I am excited to watch more in the coming days.

The daily creates were very fun. I think many people will enjoy looking at the works I created for this weeks daily creates.

Weekly update! week 12!

oh me oh my this week has wiped me good! I don’t know where to start.

for my video project, I had to switch to canva video editing because premiere pro kept crashing every time I would try to add any effects to it. so last minute I made this edit of an idea I have wanted to do for myself only. but why not use that idea for a project!

for my daily creates I was slacking even though they are my favorites to do! I did the spiral thingy and the internet meme!

I hope everyone is doing well with the last few weeks!

-Reese Kubricki

Week 12 Summary

This week we did three daily creates which can be found on my Mastodon here. I always like the poetry prompts since it is not something I do often, but this week we wrote a nonet, which I enjoyed trying! One of the prompts was also coming up with hypothetical alternative quotes from books, but the example they used was from The Great Gatsby, so I felt like I couldn’t use that book unfortunately. The symbolism in that book is incredible and it’s one of my favorite books, so that was slightly disappointing.

We also made our videos this week! This is what I came up with, which I think is pretty in line with my video plan from last week. Video editing is not my strength, so this took some time to figure out, but I love the idea of a silhouette interview. I decided to make this a follow up to my group’s radio show since it was a great starting point for a video with someone (sort of) talking about something. I looked back through our script to decide what to include and decided on some talking points which you can see here! Adding some eerie audio to the background also brings a sense of post-apocalypse and shady things going on which is what I was trying to portray. Let me know what you think of the video!

Weekly Summary

by Andrew Johnson

Daily Creates & Video Project

To start off this week, I wanted to complete my daily creates first then work on my video project. My first daily create, Daily Create: 04/10, was a poem about nature and its majestic aspects. Two of the daily creates this week incorporated the use of poems, very different from previous weeks. This daily create, Daily Create: 04/11, was interesting because there are so many different directions this could have. On the internet no one knows anything about you, which can be frightening to some but is usually not a big deal.

For my video project, I wanted to go off of some of the aspects that were included last week in the Radio Show. I feel that Jonathan had a lot to add on for aggressive technologies. Adding Dr. Oblivion into the picture was a for sure right move. Off of this, I wanted to make the video project gloomy and dark rather than just a normal storyline. Formulating responses off of Dr. Oblivion was the best part of this experience. I also wanted to make offers to those who may want to invest in aggressive technologies so they are ahead of the 8 ball. If they are left in the dust, they will be doomed and be taken over by AI robots or their counterparts. I am glad the way it came out and I hope y’all enjoy it as much as I do.

Links:

iMovie

https://deepai.org/machine-learning-model/supernatural-character-generator

Edgar Allan Poe

Poetry Foundationhttps://www.poetryfoundation.org › Poets