AI Media Production
Teams produce a film trailer built on a collision between the culture they arrive with and the culture they are working in. Structure is fixed in writing before any asset is generated.
Main project Film — Six crew roles produce one trailer for a film that does not exist, built on a collision between the culture the team arrives with and the culture they're working in. The plan, a logline and a six-beat spine, is locked in writing before a single image is generated. From there the team locks a style bible, generates and curates keyframes and motion, cuts to a scored track, and finishes the film to a delivery spec. It premieres at a live screening: four to five minutes, the whole trailer, a pitch, and a fixed critique from the room.
The Plan
2.1Planning a film trailer in writing before any image is generated. Students write a logline and a six-beat structure, then use a model to expand and refine story ideas by hand into a text-only plan.
Deliverable
The Plan
Fix the trailer's logline and six-beat structure in writing before any pictures are created. A text-only plan: one logline sentence, plus a sheet listing the six beats.
Image Generation
2.2Specifying a film’s visual style in words and generating a consistent image sequence from it. Students define aesthetic, lighting, mood and palette, train a reference for character consistency, and control drift and cost across a twelve-image spine.
Deliverable
Image Generation
Produce twelve images that look like they belong to the same film, forming the visual spine of the trailer. A set of twelve final-quality images, all in one fixed aspect ratio, covering the world of the film and the main character.
Editing to Sound
2.3Editing picture to sound and acquiring the vocabulary of camera direction. Students generate a music track to a chosen mood, cut the picture to its beat, and chain a text model into an audio model to produce narration and score.
Deliverable
Editing to Sound
Make a section of the trailer with music, where the picture is cut to match an AI-generated music track. A piece of music made to match a mood and cut together with the picture, plus a task list where every job has one named person responsible.
Animating Stills
2.4Turning still images into controlled motion, and diagnosing failed generations. Students read camera movement from real trailers, write four-part motion prompts, and cull a large set of clips down to the few that hold together.
Deliverable
Animating Stills
Turn a still image into a short moving clip with controlled movement. Name any problem before you change the prompt to fix its cause. A set of short moving clips. Each one is saved with its four-part motion prompt and a written review.
The Oscairs
2.5Assembling, presenting and evaluating a finished trailer. Students cut to the soundtrack, build a one-page promotional site, and defend their creative choices at a live premiere judged against a shared evaluation spine.
🏆 Capstone deliverable
The OscAIrs
Show a finished trailer and its promotional website at a premiere, and explain every choice made using an AI tool. The six items brought to the stage, including the finished trailer (edited to fit the soundtrack from topic 2.3) and a one-page promotional website, plus one shot posted as before and after with its instructions and an evaluation.
CAPSTONE
The OscAIrs
Six crew roles produce one trailer for a film that does not exist, built on a collision between the culture the team arrives with and the culture they're working in. The plan, a logline and a six-beat spine, is locked in writing before a single image is generated. From there the team locks a style bible, generates and curates keyframes and motion, cuts to a scored track, and finishes the film to a delivery spec. It premieres at a live screening: four to five minutes, the whole trailer, a pitch, and a fixed critique from the room.