AI in Motion Picture Production

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AI in Motion Picture Production

Dr. Flip Phillips
Professor, School of Film and Animation
School or Art and Design
Rochester Institute of Technology

Cinematography encompasses a wide range of parameters that can be manipulated through various means.  Traditionally, these parameters were controlled by physical hardware, chemistry, and optics.  WIth computer graphics, nearly limitless control over cinematography becomes available, appearing ideal but often abused to the extent that the resulting work can be an incoherent, atonal composition that may be innovative but is generally lost among the vast possibilities.  Sometimes, even worse, it serves merely as an end in itself.  To address this, we explore how image manipulation across various aspects of cinematography and beyond will shape the future of live-action production and storytelling.  We envision a future of cinematography that employs machine learning and artificial intelligence pragmatically, not as a substitute for the creative and expressiv skills of the humans involved.