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Creativity and New Media

In order to show how new media and various types of platforms has been helpful in making content and expanding our creative abilities, I've made a video of Apple's Animoji that everyone has on their phones. Animoji was created recently and it was sort of an expansion of regular emojis where people can create their own faces and appearances or simply use different characters that Animoji has to offer. Recently, Apple integrated Animojis to Facetime where we can chat with people while using one of the funny appearances that we ourselves created. My video is basically a lip reading of the song Happy by Pharrell Williams. In the music video, there are many people from different backgrounds and cultures which I tried to also demonstrate in my video. I also used Apple's iMovie to make the video and included a globe in the beginning to show how many options the app has to offer. Hope you enjoy!




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