{"id":268,"date":"2020-07-30T17:51:09","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T00:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vaughan\/?p=268"},"modified":"2020-08-02T13:53:32","modified_gmt":"2020-08-02T20:53:32","slug":"task-12-speculative-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vaughan\/2020\/07\/30\/task-12-speculative-features\/","title":{"rendered":"Task 12: Speculative Futures"},"content":{"rendered":"

This task was a lot of fun!\u00a0 I wanted to try another new-to-me piece of software, so this time I chose to use VideoScribe<\/a>.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

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.\u00a0 Specifically, I wanted my first speculative narrative to represent a dystopic future; one where we’ve gone too far with consumerism and human selfishness.\u00a0 (Channeling my inner Orwell, perhaps?).\u00a0 I’m not going to spoil the video for you, but I’ll set the stage a bit.\u00a0 I wanted to use freely available images in addition to small pieces of text to tell the story.\u00a0 I chose to incorporate music as well.\u00a0 I intentionally left out voice.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

That’s all I’m going to say.\u00a0 Take a look and see what you think of my Dystopic Speculative Narrative .<\/p>\n

Speculative Narrative 1:\u00a0 Dystopia<\/h2>\n