Text to Video - A Personal Essay on AI in Film & Television

Even this text could be turned into a video in the future. What does that mean?
INTERVIEWS & SPEECHES
Channel 4 - Sora: the AI tool that instantly creates video from text: • Sora: the AI tool that...
BFI London Film Festival 2023 Screen Talk | Martin Scorsese interviewed by Edgar Wright: • Martin Scorsese interv...
Bloomberg Television | Jeff Katzenberg Says AI Will Cut Cost of Animated Films by 90%: • Jeff Katzenberg Says A...
Martin Scorsese American Express Commercial (One Hour Photo) [2003, Dir. Jim Jenkins] : • Martin Scorsese: You g...
60 Minutes | Cillian Murphy's first reaction to "Oppenheimer" script: • Cillian Murphy's first...
David Foster Wallace: What the Hell Is Water? | "This Is Water" Commencement Speech (2005): • David Foster Wallace: ...
NEWS
Chinese entrepreneurs express awe and fear of OpenAI’s Sora text-to-video generator, as US sanctions weigh on AI race: www.scmp.com/t...
Movie-making magic, directed by AI: www.axios.com/...
Tyler Perry stops expansion over OpenAI Sora: variety.com/20...
OpenAI completes deals that values company at $80 Billion: www.nytimes.co...
MOVIES & VIDEO GAMES (In Order of Appearance):
Westworld (1973, Dir. Michael Crichton)
Captain Question (2022, Dir. Nathan Hansen)
Brain on Brain (2020, Dir. Nathan Hansen)
F for Fake (1973, Dir. Orson Welles, Gary Graver, Oja Kodar, François Reichenbach)
RoboCop (1987, Dir. Paul Verhoeven)
RoboCop: Rogue City (2023, Dir. Piotr Latocha)
RoboCop (2014, Dir. José Padilha)
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023, Dir. Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, & Justin K. Thompson)
Oppenheimer (2023, Dir. Christopher Nolan)
Toy Story 4 (2019, Dir. Josh Cooley)
Toy Story (1995, Dir. John Lasseter)
Civil War (2024, Dir. Alex Garland)
The Matrix Reloaded (2003, Dir. Lana & Lilly Wachowski)
Avengers: Endgame (2019, Dir. Anthony & Joe Russo)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981, Dir. Steven Spielberg)
Death Stranding 2: On the Beach (2025, Dir. Hideo Kojima)
Brazil (1985, Dir. Terry Gilliam)
quaker's oats (2014, Dir. PilotRedSun)
Spirited Away (2001, Dir. Hayao Miyazaki)
Kung Fu Panda (2008, Dir. Mark Osborne & John Stevenson)
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (2018, Dir. Masahiro Sakurai)
Aladdin (2019, Dir. Guy Ritchie)
Aladdin (1992, Dir. Ron Clements & John Musker)
Batgirl (Unreleased, Dir. Adil El Arbi & Bilall Fallah)
Coyote vs. Acme (Unreleased, Dir. Dave Green)
Apple Mac: 1984 (1983, Dir. Ridley Scott)
ART & MANGA
"Faust and Mephistofle" by Eugène Siberdt (1851-1931), public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Uzumaki (1998-1999, Written & Illustrated by Junji Ito)
AI FOOTAGE from OpenAI was underlined to highlight each watermark to look for. Footage from Google VideoPoet, Google Imagen, TikTok, Pika Labs, & Runway Research was recorded using Kapture. (Editor's Note: One of these things is not like the others: Rabbit AI. I inclued the Kapture of "The Rabbithole" to match the audio, but Rabbit AI is taking a different approach creating a specific device & software to speed up tasks. They've got a great look, the R1 made with Teenage Engineering looks super slick, I just can't imagine having another device right now [www.rabbit.tech/])
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[@Its2Legit]

Whoa, you covered a lot in this one! You're right, I think it will be used as a tool to make elements, ideas, and speed up some areas of production. Looking at those clips even in the Tokyo and Woolly Mammoth you can see mistakes like how the fabric moves and the mammoths legs. Also, it's a transfer of wealth. Instead of going on location, hiring a crew you're paying an AI company to translate your vision for you. I'd argue using your own crew is more precise than AI to creating a movie all together. I think Animated moved are going to be hit hardest by this, and social media will be flooded with style transfers and weird 3D face trackers. I do think AI could be used in a movie to enhance it, but to create it entirely is a stretch and not something I'd like either. Thank you for this, excellent work!

[@cherylhansen6214]

Very thorough thoughts on AI and its use in film making. Great examples and excellent editing of the various works. Bravo!