You Can Make a Movie with AI (in 60 Minutes) - Ep. 12 with Dave Clark

You can break into Hollywood with a movie you made alone in your room.
Dave Clark can show you exactly how in less than 60 minutes. He’s a film director with a body of work that includes both feature films and commercials for brands like Google. His latest achievement is a stunning sci-fi short that got Hollywood’s attention, one that Dave made exclusively using AI.
Dave and I make a movie live on this episode, iterating from rough ideas to a real motion picture in less than 1 hour. It’s a noir short featuring Nicolas Cage using a haunted roulette ball to resurrect his dead movie career that you don’t want to miss.
We dive deep into the world of AI tools for image and video generation, specifically exploring their implications on lowering the barriers to enter the traditional movie industry. This episode is also packed with Dave’s wisdom on how to use these tools to create mind-bending movies.
We get into:
- How AI is enabling everyone with a laptop to be a filmmaker
- Actionable tips to 10x your use of creative AI tools like Midjourney, Runway, and Elevenlabs
- How to integrate ChatGPT into the process to craft compelling stories
- Strategies to make your AI-generated clips stand out
- How to leverage AI tools to refine your videos
This episode is a must-watch for creative people interested in bringing their stories to life, movie buffs, and anyone curious about the future of creativity.
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Timestamps:
00:00:00 - Teaser
00:01:33 - Introduction
00:10:19 - How AI is enabling everyone with a laptop to be a filmmaker
00:14:30 - The new tool set for making AI films
00:16:56 - How to make your AI-generated clips stand out
00:25:00 - The first prompt in Dave’s custom text-to-image GPT for our movie
00:37:58 - The big advantage text-to-image GPTs have over Midjourney
00:44:13 - The best way to generate Midjourney prompts with a GPT
00:49:10 - Animating the images for our movie in Runway
00:53:42 - First look at our movie!
00:58:22 - How Dave thinks about animating images without an obvious motion element
00:59:46 - Why you need to be persistent while working with generative AI
Links to resources mentioned in the episode:
Dave Clark: / diesol
Borrowing Time, Dave’s viral sci-fi short: / 1747351624329355474
Forbes article that mentions Borrowing Time: www.forbes.com/sites/charlief...
Dan’s article on how AI is changing filmmaking: every.to/chain-of-thought/sor...
Nathan Labenz’s podcast, The Cognitive Revolution: link.chtbl.com/TheCognitiveRe...

[@tim-finnigan]

This was great! I haven’t found a ton of Runway tutorials out there. It was helpful to see the use of things like the motion brush. I’d love to see a Part 2 for more advanced techniques.

[@Afraid2Sleep]

Thanks for watching. I plan to follow this up with more tutorials soon

[@pollyhedralcathedral]

Amazing, Amazing, Amazing! Thank you, thank you!

[@maryamisraelyan]

As a person working in the movie production industry, it's really incredible to see more creative professionals embrace the power of AI. Truly, the possibilities are limitless and Dave Clark's example only proves it. Great episode!

[@char_art]

In the movie production industry? That's not what your linkedin says 😭

[@maryamisraelyan]

@@char_art lol someone went out of their way :D good to fact-check, I respect that. It's one of the projects I'm working on, though I haven't found a way to reflect it on my LinkedIn yet. Not a Hollywood studio, of course-just a small independent production company out of Armenia

[@char_art]

@@maryamisraelyan So many impostors on the net with the arrival of AI that I prefer to check ^^ Good luck with your project then 😃

[@maryamisraelyan]

@@char_art oh I understand completely! thank you and wish you good luck too, I'm sure you have things going on as well 😌

[@edgecity9090]

This was awesome! Thank you so much 🙏🏻

[@BigZencreates]

What kind of computer do you need for this kind of work specs-wise?

[@AInomaly600]

third !