20/10/2025
AI is transforming film production by automating tasks across pre-production, production, and post-production to increase efficiency and unlock creative possibilities. It is used for script analysis, AI-powered casting, generating visual effects, streamlining editing, and even creating entirely new scenes from text prompts. While still developing, AI is a tool that helps filmmakers, from increasing the accessibility of filmmaking to augmenting the capabilities of large studios.
Pre-production
Script development: AI can analyze successful screenplays to help identify trends and suggest ideas for new scripts.
Casting: AI tools can analyze databases and facial recognition software to find actors who fit a specific role based on performance, features, and other criteria.
Production design: AI can be used to quickly generate production design elements like set props and posters.
Budgeting: AI can assist in managing budgets by analyzing various costs and warning of potential overspending.
This video discusses how AI is changing filmmaking, including its potential uses in scriptwriting and storyboarding:
Production
Automated cinematography: AI-powered camera systems can perform autonomous movements and optimize lighting, enabling complex shots.
On-set support: AI can provide real-time feedback on lighting and camera angles, assist in decision-making, and help monitor performances.
Post-production
Visual effects (VFX): AI can generate complex visual effects and environments more quickly and cost-effectively than traditional methods.
Editing: AI can automatically correct errors, make color adjustments, and even identify and suggest the best takes, which speeds up the editing process.
Scene generation: AI is becoming capable of generating entire video scenes based on text prompts.
QUESTION:
SHOULD AI BE ADAPTED AS A GAME CHANGER TOOL FOR ZAMBIAN FILM OR BE NEGLECTED AND STICK TO THE ORDINARY WAY OF PRODUCTION?
Below is a video from photo illustration generated using AI...