Get the latest tech news
AI is the sixth great revolution in filmmaking (and maybe the most important)
AI is a revolution because for the first time in history, ordinary people can transform their imagination into a film.
The birth of filmmaking in the late 1800s was all about transforming what had been the prior dominant immersive art format, live theater (which dates back 5,000 years ago to Ancient Greece), into recorded entertainment that could be shown to audiences without the original performers or directors present. The fourth great revolution, depicted aptly near the end of Paul Thomas Anderson’s Boogie Nights, was the development of commercially available camcorders and video cassette players and recorders (VCRs) in the 1970s-1980s, which brought both filmmaking and viewing into many more homes and non-theatrical venues, dramatically democratizing both the creation and consumption of the art of cinema. Thanks to relatively affordable camcorders, it was possible for everyday people with middle-class incomes to capture humble yet significant human moments from their lives and those of their loved ones — graduations and birthdays and parties and other life milestones, even playing outside in the yard, mundane occurrences that the creators wanted to remember and intended to share with small, select private audiences going forward.
Or read this on Venture Beat