Philosophy
The panopticon
An interactive model of Bentham’s prison design and the idea of power through constant, unseen observation. Build the model step by step, then turn it, cut it open and see it from a cell or from the tower.
Adding narration
Can Claude add narration to a video?
Not convincingly: code can only produce synthesised sounds, not natural-sounding speech. If you ask Claude to include narration, it will use the browser’s built-in text-to-speech tools, which sound flat and robotic. This is a limitation of creating videos with code alone – Mayer’s research suggests that narration is generally more effective than on-screen text alongside animation (Mayer, 2021). If you are willing to invest more time, you can add narration in two ways:
- Give Claude an existing video you’ve made, along with a transcript that shows the timings of the voiceover, and ask it to create animations for part or all of the video. Claude can edit them into your video for you, or give you a silent clip timed to your narration to edit in yourself. This is what Dr Christopher Blunt (Co-Director, LSE100) did for a video already used on LSE100.
- Write a script (you can ask Claude for help), then record yourself speaking it, for example using the voice recorder app on your phone or the transcribe function in Microsoft Word. Give Claude the audio file and a transcript which has timings, and ask it to create an animated video that matches the timings of the narration. The video here was made this way.