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.
This week went by quick but I finally feel back on track and may have a chance to get ahead of things this weekend. This week we were assigned to complete 3 daily creates. The first challenged us to generate a spy name, this actually helped me with my project as I created a character from the name I generated and will hopefully be able to make them a part of the final project. For the second we were challenged to create a poem from a conversation we overheard and I loved how my poem turned out and actually found it catchy. The last create of the week had us honor our pets for national pet day which was awesome as a pet owner. It was refreshing to see everyone’s pet and finish the week with a wholesome daily create. For assignments this week we were only given one which had us face a more challenging task in creating a trailer for our 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!
