This task was a lot of fun! I wanted to try another new-to-me piece of software, so this time I chose to use VideoScribe. If you’ve ever watched a video where a hand appears to be drawing an image or writing the text on the screen, there’s a good chance that video was created using VideoScribe.
Thanks to its fairly intuitive design I was able to take the idea that was floating around in my mind, and turn it into a video. Specifically, I wanted my first speculative narrative to represent a dystopic future; one where we’ve gone too far with consumerism and human selfishness. (Channeling my inner Orwell, perhaps?). I’m not going to spoil the video for you, but I’ll set the stage a bit. I wanted to use freely available images in addition to small pieces of text to tell the story. I chose to incorporate music as well. I intentionally left out voice. The only drawback is that I’m using a trial version of VideoScribe so you can see the watermark throughout the video which I found a bit distracting at first.
That’s all I’m going to say. Take a look and see what you think of my Dystopic Speculative Narrative .
Speculative Narrative 1: Dystopia
Speculative Narrative No. 2: Utopia
Utopia, the journey toward societal perfection, is what I’m trying to reflect in this light-hearted second speculative narrative. I wanted to flip the first narrative on its head and really lighten things up. I used VideoScribe again, but this time I tried to use some of the features it’s known for (hand-drawn vector graphics) just to see how it all came together. Again, this was a lot of fun! I tried to keep my projections quite specific to future ‘potentials’ I thought might be realistic.
Enjoy!