Creators Gonna Create
About using an AI Platform
Filmmakers often have visual ideas which create a spark for an entire story that can be told cinematically. The chance of that idea becoming a film depends on drive, talent, connections and resources. Some ideas take a back seat because any of the above might be in short supply.
That's why I could only carry around this scenario for decades in my mind's eye. Variations of it manifesting from a flip-book to cookiemation to Second Life machinima were considered, but life, work and other immediate things needed more attention. But I loved this story of an ever - looping interaction and the creation of room for romance to grow.
When I stumbled upon an AI platform called LTX, which transforms ideas into film, I wanted to try it out and see if I could make this idea come to be. Honestly, I was in some conflict over using a touch of a button to create what has previously come from years of study. But seeing my creation finally move from "just an idea" I would describe to friends and strangers, to actual cinematic representation was and is, profound.
In this new world of AI having a story matters just as much as it ever did, but getting the machine to read the right prompts can be another issue. Painstaking effort is still a test of patience, editing, luck and nuance in adapting stories to the machine. It isn't perfect, but the process of bringing it to life was awesome and addictive too, if I'm being honest.
Yes, more to come.
The AI machine has freed me, but the principles of filmmaking are the same: How to honor the contract with the audience by economizing shots while maximizing emotional impact? What is "hits the spot?" What's too much? Or too little?
About The Woman Who Planted Heels
The high heels are the inciting moment, the holes they dig in the ground leave an environment for growth, the seed planted in the ground represents love, bounty, beauty and / or the possibilities. All will grow, be harvested, then presented to the "Woman Who Planted Heels."
By putting them in water she nurtures, enhances and appreciates them / it.
And she is both inspired and inspiring again.
When new High Heels grow out of the center of the flower, someone else will wear them, walk in the Earth where seeds will be planted in their wake.
P.S. The gender of the heel wearer and grower of the flowers are fluid... .
I spoke of this idea to someone whom I had immortalized in a cookiemation, he told me of a book written by Jean Giono called "The Man Who Planted Trees" an incredible moving tale of one shepard's influence in a desolate valley.
Please watch the hand-drawn animation of Giorno's book, realizing that we should all plant trees and keep our eye to hand contact going. What we make, see and do has physical ramifications. For me now, AI is the tool I use to seed the stories that I'm telling, free to do so in ways I never could before, while coaxing the machine along to present some entertainment. Stay tuned!
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