To act like you can't make a film on a budget without AI is absurd

I hear it used to be possible, back in the 2020s.

But ever since the YouWatch app came out in 2029, consumers could just say what they wanted to watch and get a personalized film tailored to their exact personality type. You just couldn't make money with single-version films any more, and nobody did. They shut down all the film schools, and destroyed all the archived knowledge online.

It was hard to get your hands on a camera anyway, after the passage of the Protecting Children And Securing American Economic Development Act (BIGGEST PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST Act) in Donald Trump's fourth term, which criminalised possession of a computing device capable of supporting independent thinking.

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echelon 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I want to make films that look like Denis Villeneuve's Dune. (Just to cite one example, not that I'm interested in replicating his style.) How am I supposed to do that?

You know what my sci-fi films look like? This is one of my productions, and it cost over $10,000 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-24s-AmqR5k (I don't even have a real link to the finished film, apparently. I don't typically do sci-fi because it's so inaccessible to do the things we want to do.)

We actually did a bunch of rotoscoping and VFX work for this. It was not bad for our budget, but I'm so tired of this. I have always dreamed of having my films look exactly like what I see in my mind's eye.

Why should I have constraints, and why should my audience dictate my constraints? It's my life, and I have a desire for my own creative output. My number one judge is myself, not you or anyone else. I make things to satisfy me.

I'm especially disheartened (?) angered (?) by non-artists stepping in to tell me this. People who haven't spent ten thousand hours on it.

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fenwick67 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> I want to make films that look like Denis Villeneuve's Dune. (Just to cite one example, not that I'm interested in replicating his style.) How am I supposed to do that?

As an artist you should know that being able to achieve whatever you want with whatever level of effort you want and get the reception you want is often not achievable

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echelon 10 hours ago | parent [-]

> As an artist you should know that being able to achieve whatever you want with whatever level of effort you want and get the reception you want is often not achievable

I love being told this over and over.

> the reception you want

I'm doing this for me. I live my life for me.

I'm lucky that I get to make friends and meet amazing collaborators in this journey.

	▲	fenwick67 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Then what is your objection. You're doing it

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parasti 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The tech that you are defending is going to put your profession out of work. If you can write a prompt that gets you exactly what you have imagined for your movie, then your entire craft has been obsoleted and can now be achieved by anyone with an imagination (or even without).