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This guy is using AI to make a movie — and you can help decide what happens next - CNN
Sep 25, 2022 1 min, 30 secs

"In my little home office studio I can make a '70s sci-fi movie if I want to," Stelzer, who lives in Berlin, said in an interview with CNN Business from that studio.

Eventually, he hopes to cut the pieces of "Salt" into one feature-length film, he said, and he's building a related company to make films with AI.

To get AI to generate the images, he crafts prompts that include phrases like "a sci-fi research outpost near a mining cave," "35mm footage," "dark and beige atmosphere," and "salt crusts on the wall."

The look of the film is also fitting for Stelzer's editing style as an amateur auteur.

Because he's using AI to generate still images for "Salt," Stelzer uses some simple techniques to make the scenes feel animated, like jiggling portions of an image to make it appear to move or zooming in and out.

Some of them have asked Stelzer to show them how he's making his films, he said.

Savannah Niles, director of product and design at AR and VR experience builder Magnopus, has been following along with "Salt" on Twitter and said she sees it as a prototype of the future of storytelling — when people actively participate and contribute to a narrative that AI helps build.

She hopes that tools like those Stelzer uses can eventually make it cheaper and faster to produce films, which today can involve hundreds of people, take several years, and cost millions of dollars.

"I think that there will be a lot of these coming up, which is exciting," she said.

It's also being used as a teaching aid.

David Gunkel, a professor at Northern Illinois University who has been watching the films via Twitter, said he's previously used a short sci-fi film called "Sunspring" to teach his students about computational creativity.

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