Issue 011
CineSight Briefs
CineSight Briefs 011
AI filmmaking is moving beyond demonstrations and into productions that have to be written, revised, edited, delivered and shown to audiences.
CineSight Briefs
What changed. Why it matters. What to do about it.
The complete CineSight archive of reporting and commentary on filmmaking, AI, education, and the technology changing the craft.
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No manufactured urgency. No pretending every demo changes filmmaking. Each issue is now readable here, with the original Substack edition linked at the end.
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Issue 010
CineSight Briefs
CINESIGHT BRIEFS 010
The flashy part of AI video gets most of the attention: prettier images, longer clips, better motion.
Issue 009
CineSight Briefs
CineSight Briefs 009
For the past couple of years, much of the AI filmmaking conversation has revolved around capability.
Issue 008
CineSight Briefs
AI FILMMAKING IS MOVING FROM SHOTS TO JOBS
Cameras creating 3D assets, editors working under rules, custom production tools and a growing AI-film education market point toward the same shift.
Issue 007
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CineSight Briefs
AI IS MOVING INTO THE EDIT BAY
Adobe, Avid, Blackmagic and a new generation of tools are pushing AI deeper into the actual filmmaking workflow.
Issue 005
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Industry Analysis
We’re Not Making This Shit Up
Hollywood creatives are training AI to do production work, dead and living performers are being digitally recreated, and one expert witness left a 350-page paper trail with ChatGPT.
Essay
Film Education
How the Hell Do You Teach Film or Broadcast to Students Who Don’t Show Up?
A recent article in The Conversation reports that nearly one in four American schoolchildren is chronically absent. The researchers found that students are more likely to attend when they feel safe, supported, connected, and part of their school community. That makes sense. Nobody is arguing…
Issue 003
Industry Analysis
AI Filmmaking Is Becoming a Business
Studios are shooting, microdramas are earning, festivals are creating new lanes, and some of the most useful developments have nothing to do with generating pictures.
Essay
Film Education
How do you teach AI when some students refuse to use it?
Student resistance isn’t imaginary.
Issue 002
AI Workflow
The Machine Is Learning the Workflow. A Human Still Has to Make the Decisions.
AI is moving beyond generation into editing, production, cameras, and classrooms. At the same time, audiences are getting sick of synthetic slop. Both trends point to the same thing: judgment matters
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Film Education
The Students Coming to Film School Have Already Met AI
K–12 schools are writing the rules now. The students shaped by those rules will soon arrive in film programs with their own ideas about assistance, authorship, cheating, and creative responsibility.
Essay
AI & Filmmaking
The Pretty-Picture Problem Is Nearly Solved. The Filmmaking Problem Isn’t.
Neill Blomkamp’s NIGHTBORNE is an impressive experiment in AI filmmaking. It also reminds us that much of the craft still takes place in what happens between the shots.
Issue 001
CineSight Briefs
The Tools Are Becoming Ordinary. Judgment Isn’t.
AI is moving into filmmaking infrastructure, contracts, classrooms, and everyday workflows. That makes human responsibility more important, not less