Agree entirely. Authors especially have an incredible opportunity to bring to life stories that have only existed in their imagination and as words on a page. As a fiction writer, it is incredibly exciting to see the things in your imagination starting to come to life in a whole new dimension.
11:14 yes!!!! As I work on projects it becomes clear to me we will still need experts in different fields, just less of them for each project. The result? Less bureaucracy and Hollywood shenanigans and more creative inventive projects. Not sure how to find musicians to help score films withiu having to breakout the ole checkbook so its gonna be solo projects for me for a while. Luckily AI like Claude 3.5 are pretty good at explaining things.
I really liked the video, how you explain while the stories appear and what is good and what can be improved. Of the 3rd trailer I would go see it. It is very true that the story is important, AI is only the tool to tell it.
Yes its a great way to make a case for your films to be made with real actors. I'm inclined to think some of these AI films work as is. Something about the pure indie approach without lots of fundraising also appeals to me. Lots of new options and avenues.
I would love to see you on Curious Refuge someday, I've been following Caleb for a little while and it would be awesome to hear more from your experience in the film industry and how AI can be used or how it will affect the industry. I have a story I have been working on, I'm new to filmmaking but have always wanted to write and create something. I finally found my idea and now am fleshing out the world. So I love watching things like this and learning as much as I can about the process. Being that I am a one man band so to speak and have pretty much no budget, I am forced to be as resourceful as possible often using a combination of free tools from 3D to AI to bring my ideas to life visually and my storytelling from my days of being a lyricist and hip hop freestyle performer. I certainly appreciate your insight and look forward to hearing more from you as I look to soak up as much as I can. You will see me around a bit more. Thank you for sharing this video my friend!
"Being that I am a one man band so to speak and have pretty much no budget, I am forced to be as resourceful as possible"... I'm right there with you, my friend. I personally don't see AI tools "replacing" Hollywood or mainstream filmmaking techniques for a long time, but I do love the possibility of lone-writers, yearning to bring their creative visions to life, finally being able to visualise their stories in ways that are otherwise closed off to them for one reason or another.
Ah, I'm not one of the two kinds of people watching this video. I fit into the "lunatic with a laptop" category". Thanks for putting together another video with great advice for novice film and video makers, and more professional people alike. I am reconsidering elements of a current project in part due to having watched this video. That's all great advice and will undoubtedly improve people's trailers. However, it's a great big world with all kinds of art and all kinds of approaches, and a completely new medium with limitless possibilities may allow for, or even favor in some cases new approaches. Y'know, kind of like how punk rock or rap musicians started making music without going through the usual learning process and proper channels. That said, my favorite music of the 70's is prog rock, and other music where the musicians were consummate, and often classically trained musicians. But there is also the freedom of breaking all the rules from the get-go, and that can sometimes be more interesting for some of us who see creativity also exploring the fabric of the medium itself. A curious lesson I learned from the band, Ween, who deliberately made bad songs, was that attempting to do something bad was so liberating that the end results were not only good, but unique. Whether one needs to do it right first, or needs to know how to do it right is debatable. I'm definitely a fan of understanding and appreciating the fine details of traditional approaches, which is just one of the many reasons I'm subbed!
Woaahhhhh, have I told you about my other channel yet? If not, check out "Shocks & Feelers Showbiz Academy". You and I would have a bucketload to talk about on this subject!! www.youtube.com/@shocksandfeelers
Ultimately, one of the great strengths of AI SHOULD be to allow us to create stories that we wouldn't normally see, like a Jane Austen novel set on another planet, with completely different, alien characters (for example).
You sure do attract a lot of disgruntled Luddites to your comment sections. I see AI, in all its forms, as just another tool. Thanks for your videos - they have been most helpful. Is like to use some of these but we aren't quite there yet, especially for continuity.
Thanks very much for the morale-boosting vote of support 😁😁 I agree entirely, we’re far from “there” yet, but raging against AI would feel like going back to the early days of CGI and raging against that too.
😂😂😂😂😂 I'm really sorry to disappoint. It's worth pointing out that I also think my 6-year-old daughter's reading abilities are impressive as well, but that's because she's only 6. If I were comparing her to adult readers I'd conclude that her reading sucks. In reality there is lots to criticise, but compared to the vast quantity of "AI Movie Trailers" with no meaningful narrative, or story, then absolutely, I think these guys have done a great job. That said, there were several finalists that I didn't review because their "stories" were still missing a central protagonist, and instead focused entirely on the wider background problem of, say, global destruction. Armageddon is a problem, sure, but it doesn't become a relatable story until the big problem is viewed and tackled through the eyes and experiences of a protagonist that we can experience the big problem through as an avatar.
@@HaydnRushworth-Filmmaker Yeah, but if you're judging these as trailers, a trailer has one single goal - make you want to watch a movie. As far as that goes, I can confidently declare that 0% of these make what they are doing look even watchable. They look awful, they are 100% devoid of humanity and soul and the story-lines they portray are trite and simplistic to put it kindly. I don't know how to put it outside of it is slop on every single level.
Well you bring up the point that we need good writer to make the story...but all the writing in hollywood in rubbish. You cant make a masterpiece starting with rubbish
Touche, it's definitely a problem, but that's a bigger discussion, and to be honest there are a lot of stories that get made because somebody is sleeping with a producer etc, and then we end up with average stories being turned into cinema or TV. My hope is that AI will allow better writers to bubble up to the surface.
So just to be clear you want writers and Ai film makers to produce conceptual trailers… why not Ai writers? Why have you forsaken the artists and film makers?
I'm not sure I understand correctly, but I definitely am rooting for human writers, directors, filmmakers and human actors to use AI tools to enhance their skills and capabilities rather than to replace them.
On that note I've seen people use this AI trailers for book trailers. We are entering a whole new world.
Agree entirely. Authors especially have an incredible opportunity to bring to life stories that have only existed in their imagination and as words on a page. As a fiction writer, it is incredibly exciting to see the things in your imagination starting to come to life in a whole new dimension.
11:14 yes!!!! As I work on projects it becomes clear to me we will still need experts in different fields, just less of them for each project. The result? Less bureaucracy and Hollywood shenanigans and more creative inventive projects.
Not sure how to find musicians to help score films withiu having to breakout the ole checkbook so its gonna be solo projects for me for a while. Luckily AI like Claude 3.5 are pretty good at explaining things.
"Less bureaucracy and Hollywood shenanigans and more creative inventive projects. " That's my dream too.
I really liked the video, how you explain while the stories appear and what is good and what can be improved.
Of the 3rd trailer I would go see it.
It is very true that the story is important, AI is only the tool to tell it.
Thanks very much indeed. I really liked that third trailer too :-)
Yes its a great way to make a case for your films to be made with real actors.
I'm inclined to think some of these AI films work as is. Something about the pure indie approach without lots of fundraising also appeals to me.
Lots of new options and avenues.
Absolutely, it's a brave new world filled with new opportunities.
first one reminded me of the Stanley Kubrick style meets The Moon. I like the psychological horrors, sci fi is a great setting for horrors imo.
"Stanley Kubrick style meets The Moon"... Oooooh, good call. I can see it.
I would love to see you on Curious Refuge someday, I've been following Caleb for a little while and it would be awesome to hear more from your experience in the film industry and how AI can be used or how it will affect the industry. I have a story I have been working on, I'm new to filmmaking but have always wanted to write and create something. I finally found my idea and now am fleshing out the world. So I love watching things like this and learning as much as I can about the process. Being that I am a one man band so to speak and have pretty much no budget, I am forced to be as resourceful as possible often using a combination of free tools from 3D to AI to bring my ideas to life visually and my storytelling from my days of being a lyricist and hip hop freestyle performer. I certainly appreciate your insight and look forward to hearing more from you as I look to soak up as much as I can. You will see me around a bit more. Thank you for sharing this video my friend!
"Being that I am a one man band so to speak and have pretty much no budget, I am forced to be as resourceful as possible"... I'm right there with you, my friend. I personally don't see AI tools "replacing" Hollywood or mainstream filmmaking techniques for a long time, but I do love the possibility of lone-writers, yearning to bring their creative visions to life, finally being able to visualise their stories in ways that are otherwise closed off to them for one reason or another.
Oh, and thanks for the "Curious Refuge" plug... I'd love to chat to Caleb about all of this, I think it would be fascinating.
I just have a problem with real movie trailers in general. No matter what genre the film is the trailers are all the same and its so tiresome.
Good point.
Ah, I'm not one of the two kinds of people watching this video. I fit into the "lunatic with a laptop" category".
Thanks for putting together another video with great advice for novice film and video makers, and more professional people alike. I am reconsidering elements of a current project in part due to having watched this video.
That's all great advice and will undoubtedly improve people's trailers. However, it's a great big world with all kinds of art and all kinds of approaches, and a completely new medium with limitless possibilities may allow for, or even favor in some cases new approaches. Y'know, kind of like how punk rock or rap musicians started making music without going through the usual learning process and proper channels. That said, my favorite music of the 70's is prog rock, and other music where the musicians were consummate, and often classically trained musicians.
But there is also the freedom of breaking all the rules from the get-go, and that can sometimes be more interesting for some of us who see creativity also exploring the fabric of the medium itself. A curious lesson I learned from the band, Ween, who deliberately made bad songs, was that attempting to do something bad was so liberating that the end results were not only good, but unique.
Whether one needs to do it right first, or needs to know how to do it right is debatable. I'm definitely a fan of understanding and appreciating the fine details of traditional approaches, which is just one of the many reasons I'm subbed!
Woaahhhhh, have I told you about my other channel yet? If not, check out "Shocks & Feelers Showbiz Academy". You and I would have a bucketload to talk about on this subject!!
www.youtube.com/@shocksandfeelers
Glad to see that an AI has generated a white only period drama even if it is just a trailer. AI knows how to do it properly more than humans.
Ultimately, one of the great strengths of AI SHOULD be to allow us to create stories that we wouldn't normally see, like a Jane Austen novel set on another planet, with completely different, alien characters (for example).
Beautiful ❤ 4:58
Agreed.
You sure do attract a lot of disgruntled Luddites to your comment sections. I see AI, in all its forms, as just another tool. Thanks for your videos - they have been most helpful. Is like to use some of these but we aren't quite there yet, especially for continuity.
Thanks very much for the morale-boosting vote of support 😁😁
I agree entirely, we’re far from “there” yet, but raging against AI would feel like going back to the early days of CGI and raging against that too.
I thought this was the driest sarcasm ever and was enjoying it when I realized that you actually DO think this stuff is good!
😂😂😂😂😂 I'm really sorry to disappoint. It's worth pointing out that I also think my 6-year-old daughter's reading abilities are impressive as well, but that's because she's only 6. If I were comparing her to adult readers I'd conclude that her reading sucks. In reality there is lots to criticise, but compared to the vast quantity of "AI Movie Trailers" with no meaningful narrative, or story, then absolutely, I think these guys have done a great job. That said, there were several finalists that I didn't review because their "stories" were still missing a central protagonist, and instead focused entirely on the wider background problem of, say, global destruction. Armageddon is a problem, sure, but it doesn't become a relatable story until the big problem is viewed and tackled through the eyes and experiences of a protagonist that we can experience the big problem through as an avatar.
@@HaydnRushworth-Filmmaker Yeah, but if you're judging these as trailers, a trailer has one single goal - make you want to watch a movie. As far as that goes, I can confidently declare that 0% of these make what they are doing look even watchable. They look awful, they are 100% devoid of humanity and soul and the story-lines they portray are trite and simplistic to put it kindly. I don't know how to put it outside of it is slop on every single level.
Well you bring up the point that we need good writer to make the story...but all the writing in hollywood in rubbish. You cant make a masterpiece starting with rubbish
Touche, it's definitely a problem, but that's a bigger discussion, and to be honest there are a lot of stories that get made because somebody is sleeping with a producer etc, and then we end up with average stories being turned into cinema or TV. My hope is that AI will allow better writers to bubble up to the surface.
So just to be clear you want writers and Ai film makers to produce conceptual trailers… why not Ai writers? Why have you forsaken the artists and film makers?
I'm not sure I understand correctly, but I definitely am rooting for human writers, directors, filmmakers and human actors to use AI tools to enhance their skills and capabilities rather than to replace them.