Video Brief:
For this video, I carried the same theme throughout my last video and expanded on it in this one. In this video, I focused on the topic of Artificial Intelligence and its various uses, advantages and disadvantages. The goal of this video was to provide the audience watching a sense of Artificial Intelligence and how different people have different views on it, both of which are valid. But bias towards the supporting side was shown in the video because that’s what the creator(I) believed in. My intended audience for this video was intended to be broader than the last video, not focused on one group of people. Any person who is curious about Artificial Intelligence is the intended audience.
The approach to this time was the same as my whole channel, a personality filled video which the users can relate to and connect with me through the video. It should feel like watching someone in real life having a conversation, not someone they are watching through the screen who is miles away. The video shows two sides of a long ongoing debate and while it does not reach a conclusion at the end, it expands on both sides of the debate backed up by facts and scholarly sources.
Reflection:
At the start of making the video, I was brainstorming through different ideas on how I can expand on my last video of being supportive of Artificial Intelligence. But the inspiration came from TikTok where users pretend to be two people having a conversation. This sparked an idea about pretending to be two people, both representing the two different sides of the same coin of Artificial Intelligence. It would make the video more engaging, fun and even more educational as both different sides are debating with references. This is how I ended up creating the narrator: Saqib Ali; the supporter; Saqib and the against, Ali. These both characters represent two sides of me and how I feel about Artificial Intelligence, which is why Saqib The Supporter ends up winning.
The process of editing was surprisingly simple and easy, albeit a bit lengthy. The use of multiple tracks of audio and video came in handy as I put in the video and audio of Saqib on track 1 and Ali on track 2 which made the process easy and fun. Also, one major creative decision was to use voice overs instead of using actual voice for the two characters as it would be easy to manage audio levels and give the video a more comical feel. For the source materials, I had to look up scholarly sources which for both sides, the ones which highlighted the positives of Artificial Intelligence and the ones which highlighted the negatives of it.
The B Rolls were used in an ironic and an extremely self-aware method, which made it fit naturally in the video without it being shoehorned in. The music was used at the start, in the B Roll and at the end. Initially, there was background music while the debate was going on but later chose to remove it because it took away from the immersion of it and did not feel natural.
One challenge I faced during the making of the video was to put all of the reference list in a single graphic at the end of the video as the list was too big to fit in one screen. I could have put it in two graphics easily, but I wanted to take on a challenge. After thinking about it for a while I decided to learn how to make rolling credits which would make it look natural. After watching some YouTube tutorials and numerous trial and errors, I finally learned how to make proper rolling credits.
The new major things that I learned from making this video were:
- Unlinking videos and their sounds
- Using multiple tracks at once
- Use the ducking function (background music goes down when speaking)
- Making rolling credits
There was no proper call to action at the end of the video as it was meant to be open ended and make the viewer ponder over the uses of Artificial Intelligence and how they perceive it. But there was an encouragement of engaging at the end of video by asking them to comment on the video and be a part of the discussion which was started in the video.
Reference List:
Müller V.C., Bostrom N 2016, ‘Future Progress in Artificial Intelligence: A Survey of Expert Opinion’, Fundamental Issues of Artificial Intelligence, vol.376, p. 555-572, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26485-1_33
Minsky, M 2007, The Emotion Machine, Simon and Schuster, p.329, <https://books.google.com.au/books?hl=en&lr=&id=OqbMnWDKIJ4C&oi=fnd&pg=PA1&dq=artificial+intelligence+future&ots=uEK5XuJfMu&sig=0zGx-y99b8Q050uT1Zs4Va0Ot7A&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=artificial%20intelligence%20future&f=false>
‘The danger of AI is weirder than you think | Janelle Shane’ 2019, Video, YouTube, https://youtu.be/OhCzX0iLnOc
‘ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR HEALTH IN NEW ZEALAND’, Hauora i te Atamai Iahiko, AIForum, <https://aiforum.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/AI-For-Health-in-New-Zealand.pdf>
Carder, J 2020, ‘Reality Check: The Benefits of Artificial Intelligence’, aiThority, 25 May, Retrieved 27th May, <https://www.aithority.com/guest-authors/reality-check-the-benefits-of-artificial-intelligence/>
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