Social group depiction | Blog Post #27

Are the social group/groups in your video represented negatively or positively?

I feel like some people might interpret it as a negative representation of people struggling with mental health. It's really dark and only kind of shows one side of the struggle. However, it is not my intention. I wanted to represent the issue based on my own experience and how I coped with it. But it’s only a part of the experience and not the full picture. And not entirely the reality since I’m not constantly depressed. So I did try to add some light to the story and try to show another side to the issue.

Is the social group in your video an under-represented social group in global pop culture?

I think that I am not under-represented in global pop culture. Especially after the whole pandemic thing I think that the social group really got a lot of light shown on it. There are many coming-of-age stories especially recently and there are a lot of representations of “broken” people in pop culture. I think I can speak for everyone when the pandemic hit by mental health is like a roller coaster like everyone else. So there's a lot of pop culture representation of this issue and social group and there are both positive and negative representations of this.

Does your video intentionally represent the social group in a negative or positive light?

I don’t intentionally represent the social group in a negative way as I mentioned before. Each viewer might interpret it differently however when I chose this topic and came up with the story, the intention was to tell my story and show my inner deepest feelings to others at that particular moment. While my mindset isn’t the same anymore, it was then and sometimes that thinking comes back. Anyways, I didn’t intentionally represent it negatively. Honestly, I’m not even sure if it’s negative or positive.

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What social groups are represented in your video?

I think that my project kind of represents everyone in some way. But the huge social group is probably teenagers and people that are struggling with mental health and life basically. It just came to be like this because my project was just representing me and my problems but I feel like a lot of people also go through the things that I go through. Just constant fights with yourself and these things going through your mind can be positive one day and negative the other. So I think a lot of people can relate to this if not then it repents represents me and who I am.

What social group/demographic do you consider yourself a part of? Is this similar to your characters or target demographic in your video?

I consider myself a part of the Asian, young adult demographic. The character that I'm representing in my project is basically me but a more glorified version for the sake of storytelling. So I am in the same demographic or at least I consider myself to be. Teenagers, young adults, coming of age, someone that is struggling with themselves and having all these different thoughts. And their mind clash together and someone has a lot of mental health problems. It is also the demographic that I am targeting because I feel like they will relate most to this story.

AI Authorship, Creativity, and Postmodernism | Blog post #25

So… the whole 349 words of the previous blog post, blog post #24, was written by a rather new AI chatbot, ChatGPT. The only thing that I had to do was to feed in this prompt: “Write 300 words about how I have to shoot during the night because of my dark film tone and I have noisy upstairs neighbours that run around and cause literal earthquakes and that it will definitely affect the sound quality of my project.”, and it gave me a whole new blog post for my blog.

While it’s really cool that ChatGPT can do my work with just a prompt and a few seconds, the paragraphs seem more like advice and an article rather than a personal blog writing approach that I have. The tone that I’m getting from it is like what I will get when looking for tips in articles rather than a blog. It isn’t what I usually write and it’s quite vague on the main points that I want to highlight in my post. It really stretched out the problem.

I think that the problem is that ChatGPT doesn’t create new knowledge. It’s just an impressive compiler which looks through the Internet and its thousands of resources and summarises it. So the answer is that’s maybe why ChatGPT gave me an answer that felt more like an article rather than a personal blog post.

It’s still too early to say anything as AI is a technology we are still developing and discovering. But in my opinion, I feel like AI is definitely going to change journalism and the creative arts industries. From what I’m seeing, I think it would enhance the art field. I think that it’s a great tool for people like me who aren’t good at visualising how to put my art ideas on paper.

For someone that wants to pursue a career in the creative field, hopefully, it won't be replacing everything. I still feel like the current technology can't replace the creative arts. As we still need to come up with the main idea for it to be able to create. And from what I saw from its creations, there isn't as much depth that it has compared to what we can produce.

For journalism, I think there are a lot of articles that are only for clickbait purposes so I think AI would be able to do that. So there's a chance that it will affect journalism or it would just enhance the content produced and published if humans don't want to be replaced by AI.

ChatGPT could have definitely helped me to write my screenplay. I’m more of a storyboarding, directing-the-shots kind of person rather than a screenwriter. It would have definitely given me a skeleton for me to continue building on. And would have made this particular area of the project easier and way faster.

However, one aspect that has to definitely come from a human, me, in my project, is the original idea and tone of the film. I would have to have something to feed into it for ChatGPT to write a screenplay for me.

While it can write a whole screenplay for me, ChatGPT can’t plan out all of the shots and angles and types of shots used. And since it doesn’t know my situation, it can’t plan out all of the locations that I’m going to use.

My film is really personal to me and shows my internal emotions, so I don’t think that ChatGPT will be able to convey this now. my idea came from my experiences which today I didn't go through so I would be able to come up with this idea