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==Approach / Implementation== | ==Approach / Implementation== | ||
The project was entirely done on Openframeworks, with no use of | The project was entirely done on Openframeworks, with no use of [[Pure Data]]. The videos, sound, and text were all taken from a selection of news, documentaries and videos from YouTube. Snippets from these recordings were made, the videos were separated from their sounds and text was generated with "Watson Speech to Text" from the sound of dialogues. These files were all named with numbers and put in a file, unassociated with each other (meaning a selected video clip does not necessarily have a soundtrack or text file that corresponds to that selected clip, and if it does, it is not grouped with it). | ||
With this library of different media, a fake documentary on the habitational deficit is made by mixing real documentation of real situations related to the theme. The code does this by superimposing a sequence of randomly selected video with a randomly selected soundtrack and a subtitled generated from a randomly selected text file. | |||
==Code== | ==Code== | ||