Author: Greta Hammen

Hello, I am a senior at UMW in Communications & Digital Studies. Marketing is my passion and I am looking forward to a promising career in increasing a business's income!
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AT Conference:

by Greta Hammen

At the onset of the semester, I would diligently review the list of assignments for the upcoming week. The task list might include nine items, such as three daily creates, reading an article, watching a video, or recording an audio. Initially, the prospect of completing these tasks seemed daunting, but as I began working on them, I found the experience to be not only manageable but also deeply rewarding. The assignments added significant value to my life and I learned a lot.

To make this video, I first created an avatar on www.d-id.com, with the prompt of blonde lady with brown eyes on a university lawn. I used text-to-speech generator on www.elevenlabs.com to share my summary of a favorite project by another student, our final group project, and one that I made as well. The ending brings in our class theme. Then on d-id.com, to create the video, I selected the “create a video” prompt, and the avatar I you wished to use, and uploaded the saved mp.3 audio just created. The website syncs the two files and makes a mp.4 that is downloadable. I opened up Premiere Pro and selected that download for a new project. Her gray t-shirt needed text, I added UMW in a dark blue. I did look on the school website for the exact identification for the blue color with letters and numbers, however I was unable to locate it, “I needed Librarian Bond”, so I just went with my selection, exported it to my saved videos and then uploaded the video to YouTube, copied the link and embedded it in the blog. The links to the videos referenced in my video; http://tubbanoor.com/uncategorized/video-project-ai-in-space-skis/, http://gretahammen.com/ds106/final-project-%f0%9f%8e%a5/ and http://gretahammen.com/ds106/public-service-announcement%f0%9f%8e%99%ef%b8%8f.

Watching what my classmates made for their exit video was both fun and sad. I typed some responses: ATconference – its_Senpai (lesenpai.com), That’s a wrap – Leila’s Corner (the-comeup.com), Passion, Young, Fever – Sunrisen, and They need us – HURKLE-DURKLING Thoughts for DS106 (hurkledurkling.com).

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Photos Edited with Art:

by Greta Hammen

Photoshop images of overlay and masking examples:

Sheet music over a photo
Boy in 5 positions entering pool

BeFunky.com has a large variety of art tools to transform your photos! It is one of my favorite sites to use and is worth the subscription fee.

horses running with pink sky behind White dog with green toy Woman at beach wearing a hat
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Video: Making Memories Fair

by Greta Hammen

The Multicultural Fair of 2023 had many events on campus. The food was delicious and the people with different crafts and unique menus were a delight to talk to. I was in a class group of three others, but they could not attend the fair. One girl was getting married and went home to plan, hire the cake maker, etc. The other girl had just gotten a job that started the day of the fair. I barely knew how to use the video camera! Some footage was blurry and I deleted it. Amazingly, this video turned out this good.

Multicultural Fair 2023.
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Weekly Summary 14:

by Greta Hammen

One of our headlines in the AI takeover final project is “AI-Powered Healthcare Innovations Transform Patient Care”. On Tuesday evening, I created a poster of nurse robots in a hospital and wrote about it https://gretahammen.com/ds106/progress-report-fp/.

Each of us in the group contributed by individually making videos and posters that would fit together like a puzzle at the end. We communicated on Discord and after completing any steps, we updated the Google doc for our final project.

I made comments on peer’s blogs https://www.kelbellz.com/uncategorized/final-project-matching-game/#comment-99, https://ds106.hurkledurkling.com/blog/uncategorized/final-project-update-laughing-bricks-are-creepy/#comment-159, and https://cat-on-a-moped.com/uncategorized/final-video-project/#comment-75.

It’s Friday and the final project is complete https://gretahammen.com/ds106/final-project-%f0%9f%8e%a5/. I appreciate this group and all that was done for the final. So far, it has been the most responsible group at UMW, that I have been in. My memory is strong and I will always remember this experience.

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Final Project 🎥:

by Greta Hammen

In ds106, I have learned to do many digital tasks, I had some video editing experience from a prior class, but the experience this semester, solidified my skill. The websites that I used several times were www.elevenlabs.com and www.d-id.com, to create talking avatars. These were used again in the final project to put together the news reporter.

Poster designs are my favorite to envision and produce. AI makes it a breeze and I love it! Adobe Firefly and Adobe Express are my go tos’ for poster design. I tapped onto those for the robot nurses poster advertisement. My spouse whistled when he saw them and commented that he would like that group tending to his needs.

Watching the sci-fi movies from the list early on and also wathcing. Black Mirror, episode Be Right Back was entertaining. I would not have looked for these things, without the prompting of needing to do so for this class and I did enjoy this activity. Lastly, I enjoyed the variety of daily creates and the unique websites that were in the prompts to visit, to be able to do the assignments. Overall, this class was satisfying and added to my foundation of skills for future employment and for creative ventures.

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Progress Report FP:

by Greta Hammen

Our group’s final project is an AI takeover situation. We have a news anchor who reports breaking news from all over the country, I embedded the video below, that I made last week. It will be edited by group members to include stories and propaganda posters, that each of us is creating. One of the headlines is “AI-Powered Healthcare Innovations Transform Patient Care”. I created the above poster of robots in nurse uniforms in a hospital in Adobe Firefly, then I added text in Adobe Express. The font is Source Sans 3 in black with a shadow effect in blue #1D06CC. Imagine if all healthcare providers were robots.

AI Takeover Breaking News Report
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AI For Our Future

by Greta Hammen

My video project is of Grant, an AI image generator of a man talking straight into a camera. I uploaded this image onto studio.d-id.com and gave him a profile with name and a pdf of text that he might say, if asked questions. Then, I was able to create the video on that site with my text and the lip syncing is done with the click of a button. Tonight, I added music and text. I am happy with the results!

I originally worked on a video titled, Frank talks AI, FranktalksAI.mp4.3gp. I spent approximately 5 hours on the process of the video during this week. I downloaded it from House I Live In, The : Ross (Frank) Productions, Ltd. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive, then I uploaded it to YouTube, I thought that I should do it that way, but there are other ways of doing it. I imported it into Premiere Pro, cutting it down to a minute. I created the audio on AI Voice Generator & Text to Speech | ElevenLabs. Then, I did the Wav2Lip process four times. I got the green checks on the left for the uploads, but the syncing was unsuccessful and did not output a video.

You can view a clip of it here: https://www.youtube.com/clip/UgkxdFmw8ntaiysQjTrtQe3NYWPirGKF9RVj

The lesson learned here, is that on occasion, even with considerable troubleshooting, sometimes you have to create a new plan and proceed.