Filmmaking Production Advances

The article kind of says this, but I suspect the process of editing films and composing shots has gotten easier over the years as the industry has refined tooling and techniques. Not just CGI, but the ability to arrange and view scenes is probably much more fluid today than it used to be. This also seems like something where incremental editing improvements lead to incremental changes in shot duration.

Yes, agreed.If I'm watching a video tutorial from someone who understands the medium and is using it to its full advantage (including understanding editing and visualisation) that's a different story.But - speaking as a former filmmaker - I know that doing something like that is neither quick nor cheap. It's "I wrote you a long letter because I didn't have time to write a short one" x1000.

You look back at old movies, and on a technical level they really aren’t as good as contemporary trash productions. But they knew how to weave the camera and a script into something amazing back then even if they didn’t have resolve and aftereffects to polish every shot. A good script writer, editor and cinematographer have a huge impact on the quality of a movie. But these roles are only a small portion of the operating budget of a movie. Filming every single scene is an exhausting undertaking

It's still quite difficult and extremely time consuming to create a visual effect. And the technique to film actors and blend them is additionally quite difficult. If you get to the point one person can make a movie, yes you will be limited by your own creativity, but the number of people who can do that is still a lot greater than the number of people who can do that, and manage a 200 million dollar budget production and get an end product that meets their vision.

It's not laziness!It's the fact that shooting is enormously expensive per-minute, and time-constrained. Think of the sheer number of crew involved. And then think of the sheer number of shots you have to get per day, to stay on schedule and on budget.If there was a mixup and it's going to take half an hour to get and set up a longer hose, it's much cheaper to have 1 person do it in post if it takes a day, versus delay the shot for half an hour while 50 people wai

It would still be possible though - it would be more like older movies, where you had to nail a shot in the take, post production was mostly cutting.Cutting would still be more resource intensive anyways for this new tech, because you would have to evaluate if the scene works from all plausible angles.

No, poster above you had it right. You've got it backwards.We just can't afford the extensive investment into cinematic technology (cameras, lenses, props, etc) we used to...So now we're reduced to just actually doing it. A shame really.

But what they're describing is a case where someone with the storytelling ability but not the money or technical skills could create something that looks solid.You're imagining "pls write film" but the case of being able to film something and then adjust and tweak it, easily change backdrops etc could lead to much higher polish on creations from smaller producers.Would the green mile be any less hard hitting if the lights flickering were caused by an AI alteration to a

I tend to think of videos like these as creations that are maybe technically possible today, but not in a package that's affordable, and compact enough for general sale. It's like Pixar making some of their movies. They'd save the production of some scenes till the end of production because they presumed the technology they'd need to pull off what they wanted to do would be available by then.

What? You're serious?Script => Video baseline. Take a frame of any character/prop/room/etc you want to remain consistent, and one shitty photoshop and it's part of the new scene.Incredibly overstating. That is an incredible lack of imagination buddy. Or even just basic craftsmanship.