Work in Progress – For making

Regarding making the video, time has been the biggest challenge I’ve faced. During this busy semester, I’ve struggled with time management and unfortunately the filming may have suffered from this. I really wanted to include handwritten text in my video to have a homemade and artsy aesthetic, but with time running out I’ve had to eliminate this idea. Which is a big shame for me because I was looking forward to it. I have conducted my interview with Meg Herrmann, a PhD candidate at university of Queensland researching how AI and ADM impact aesthetics in film and television. The interview was very successful! Meg had a lot of insightful things to say about how AI and ADM affect creative industries, particularly about ethical considerations and how we can smoothly integrate AI into human work and environments. The interview went for 40 minutes, so I had to examine which parts were the most useful and extract them.

When showing Ruth my rough cut, I hadn’t edited it together yet and hadn’t filmed my piece-to-camera, so I showed her my interview with Meg and she helped me pick out sections of it that were particularly interesting to put in my video. I enjoyed showing my footage to someone else to get her perspective, though I was stressed because I still had quite a lot left to film. Most of the class actually couldn’t make it to the rough-cut screenings so it was disappointing that I couldn’t see the work other people had done. Nevertheless, I’m grateful that Ruth could provide me with feedback and guidance on how to proceed in the next steps. With some of the found footage I’d collected that I plan to use as my introduction (overlapping news reports about AI and the writers’ strike), Ruth suggested that I trim these down at the beginning and end to make them sharper instead of playing the whole clip, creating a punchy opening that immediately hooks the audience. I wish I had more footage to show her but like I mentioned, I’ve been struggling with time management.