Reflection on week 9 – Work in Progress presentation

The main feedback I received from our guest panel member Steph during the WIP presentation was to focus my video explainer on how AI and ADM are impacting creative writing industries instead of broadly speaking about all creative industries. She felt that I was more passionate about the writing aspects and would have the opportunity to explore this in more detail if I centre the video around it. I agree with this and had felt myself leaning towards this idea as well. Steph gave me two great ideas that I am excited to incorporate. She suggested that I could have AI write some of my interview questions and see how effective they are compared to the ones I write myself, which poses the question to the audience: can they tell the difference between human and AI writing? She also suggested that I use the Writers’ Guild of America (WGA) strike as a hook into the video to intrigue the audience before revealing the actual topic. When preparing and presenting my research and ideas, I felt that I had a lot to cover and not a clear way of linking it all together, so the feedback really assisted me in narrowing down my topic to make the ideas flow cohesively. Whilst it was daunting to share my work in progress with the class when I didn’t feel entirely confident about my topic, I benefited from hearing the constructive feedback which I feel will strengthen my video. Furthermore, I found Marlow’s presentation to be very interesting; his video will revolve around the idea of Melbourne as a smart city and the Internet of Things (IoT), and how data is being collected from us literally everywhere we go. I really enjoyed his presentation and am intrigued by his idea as it is something I’ve never really considered. His research stated that data is being collected from our phones, watches, laptops, etc, every time we walk somewhere or how long we stay somewhere with Wifi, which tracks our movements and is used to train other AI models. I like his idea of filming a walk through the city that will show what aspects of it are ‘smart’ and how they work. His approach to choosing a topic is different from mine and I like how relevant it is in today’s society.