THE NEW SURREAL
Creating AI-generated experimental cinema
Crow (2023, Cr. Glenn Marshall)
STUDIO PROMPT
How might deep learning provide a creative framework for experimenting with the expansive AI-generated filmmaking field?
STUDIO QUOTE
“Uncanny, disconcerting vibe in its first few shots. Vast icy mountains, a makeshift camp of military-style tents, a group of people huddled around a fire, barking dogs. It’s familiar stuff, yet weird enough to plant a growing seed of dread. There’s something wrong here…Welcome to the unsettling world of AI moviemaking” Heaven, Will Douglas. Welcome to the New Surreal, MIT Technology Review, 2023
DESCRIPTION
Deep learning is coming to Hollywood. If you are impressed by the recent spate of text-to- image generators, be prepared for the next step in artificial intelligence (AI) artistry: text-to- video. The surreal or hyperreal aesthetic of AI-generated video may rely on models trainedon live-action footage, but the result “feels closer to dreaming”. This new form of virtual media produced with the aid of AI is growing exponentially and allows for greater flexibility and diverse ways of experimental storytelling through media.
In this Studio – enabled by exploration of traditional cinema and a range of immersive cloud software and apps – students created film, video and audio work that explores AI-generated filmmaking and were provided a comprehensive overview of the development of AI generation in film, the techniques used to produce artificially generated content and the industry opportunities for filmmaking and virtual production.
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