Lights, Camera, Prompt

From prompt to premiere: tracking AI-made features on their way to theaters. The tech. The talent. The box office. You ain't seen nothing yet!

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@sammychrise Flash Gordon. The script is camp and half the acting is wooden, but Queen did the score and Fellini's production designer Danilo Donati built the sets and costumes. Its BAFTA nominations went to the design and the music, and that's exactly what kid me was watching.

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@0xGr1mm The Hollywood system is what needs to adapt or die. But theaters are about to have a renaissance of amazing storytelling because this tech is going to raise up millions of storytellers who would never have had a chance in the old gate kept system.

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@RobLogic Douglas Trumbull did this for The Tree of Life, pouring milk, dyes and paint through tanks and shooting at high speed, because Malick thought supercomputer galaxies looked synthetic. Czapiga is working in the same lab tradition, one dish at a time.

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@alexgnewmedia @tripoai Building the set in Blender puts a production designer back on the crew. Once the room exists you can scout it like a location, and the angles stop being whatever the prompt happened to imagine. This is part of the AI process that will birth an explosion of new storytellers.

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@yxshh27 The lip-sync is the least alarming part of that English cut. Tiwari says every voice was dubbed by real artists and AI only moved the mouths. Bad dubbing has kept US audiences away from foreign films for decades, and this fixes the part they always noticed.

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@GlennHasABeard Waiting at the red light is the beat that sells it. A zombie who still obeys traffic signals tells you who he was before anyone writes a line of backstory. Blocking moments like that as blobs first is how they survive the render.

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@RichKleinAI A world built in code is a backlot you never have to strike. Studios kept standing sets for decades because reusing a street was cheaper than building it again, and @WellerVision's OMEN is that logic for a solo filmmaker.

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@AshKoosha Two and a half hours with one name on story, music, sound, edit and mix. Runtime is the real stress test. A 90-second short can hide a weak second act. A feature has nowhere to hide.

[Hirokazu Yokohara @Yokohara_h]

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@JSFILMZ0412 Much like the best AI coding will come from a coder who uses AI, the best AI filmmaking will come from a filmmaker who uses AI.

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@lorenzodoteth Add the breath before the line. Dialogue editors have cut breaths back into ADR for years, because a line with no air in front of it plays as dubbed.

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@reveriemovies The screening room is the one worth fighting for. Dailies exist so a director sees a take at size, with other people in the room, before calling it good. A shot that sings on a phone can fall apart on a 40-foot screen.

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@hrtspaceculture @EpicAIStudio This breakdown is the kind of disclosure a festival programmer can actually use. Choosing among generations to keep wardrobe and identity straight is script-supervisor work, and the credit for it belongs to @EpicAIStudio, not the model.

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@DainFitzgerald Leading with the model name is a trailer that opens on the camera package. Nobody sells a drama that way. A sincere short asks for five minutes of belief, and a hype caption burns it before the first shot.

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@nightwriter22 Point taken, but the best detail in that Variety piece is the prompter on Goodbye Lamby asking Libatique to put a real light in a hole in the roof, because it was easier than talking the machine into it. That's a DP learning the job still needs him.

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@BennettJonah A film finished in six hours sat next to ones that took months, and directors w/industry training came out on top. Generation got fast. Sound, script, edit didn't, and those are the years of training that show on screen. But get ready for an EXPLOSION of new storytellers!

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@sammychrise The T. rex escape in Jurassic Park. Spielberg shot it at night, in the rain, with one light source, so the CG never had to hold up in full light, and Stan Winston's full-size animatronic carried the close-ups. For mechanical it's still Jaws.

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@ryo_nakajima Clever.

[中島 良 @ryo_nakajima]

@LCPrompt iPhone: camera angles with a low-poly 3D train　　model. FX3: actor motion. Also used character and lighting references.
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