Studio Brief

The past decade has seen a rapid explosion in the development of generative artificial intelligence tools used to instantly produce powerful, polished images, coherent written text, and life-like audio. Collaborative Futures is a speculative film studio that will examine and critique the rapid adoption of these tools and other potential applications of AI in every day life. We will envision the potential impact of AI on different facets of life in the approaching years, such as health care, societal roles, and human creativity. 

Ripple Effect is a video essay exploring the ways that A.I. is affecting work in America. Through a mix of research, interviews, and historical analysis we will observe our present to make predictions about our future.

Thesis

A.I. is Here

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Creative Controversy

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Suits, Ties, and Suburbs

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Technological Unemployment

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Confusing Futures

Table of Contents

A.I. is Here

"What are the unforeseen effects of A.I. entering the labor market?”

Creative Controversy

Topic is ai a useful tool or is it a threat to the industry

Research

AI is a tool that has many uses in animation but it

• First hand accounts

a look through social media for animators perspectives

• How is AI used?

How AI is currently being used modern animation

• Is A.I. always a detriment to workers?

Deskilling in the age of A.I.

* Research element to highlight: First hand accounts

Creative Controversy

Script Writing

Precedents

Filming + Post

Suits, Ties, and Suburbs

• The effects of mass economic exodus

• The rise of the white-collar worker

• Building the suburbian population

* Research element to highlight: Interviews with experts

Union busting, Boulwarism, and middle managers

How layoffs, rising corporate powers, and racism populated the suburbs

What can the story of the American rust belt teach us about A.I.

Suits, Ties, and Suburbs

Mood Board

B-roll + Precedents

Production

Technological Unemployment

• The outcomes of technological unemployment

• The Industrial Revolution

• The "Useless class" and its ramifications

The coining of the term "technological unemployment"

The story of bank tellers and automotive manufacturers

Where does the money go when there's no jobs?

* Research element to highlight: Historical Analysis

Technological Unemployment

Tech Unemployment 

Technological Unemployment, as coined by John Keynes, refers to the percentage of unemployment caused by advancements in technology. Factory workers were replaced by automated assembly lines, bank tellers were replaced by ATMs, stable workers were replaced by motor cars. Technological Unemployment can be, unsurprisingly, damaging. Take the

Script Writing

Mood Board

Confusing Futures

• Labor is changing...

Plan for OI

Interviews

Script finalization

B-roll

Mary Gray, Heidi Solberg

Industrial films, period animation, 1950s stock footage.

Plan for OI

Editing

Filming

Lighting test/film start

Set dressing

Theater black box rehearsal room

Industrial films, period animation, 1950s stock footage.

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Ripple Effect is a video essay exploring the ways that A.I is affecting work in America. Through a mix of research, interviews, and historical analysis we will observe our present to make predictions about our future.

1). A.I. is Here...

2). Creative Controversy

3). Suits, Ties, and Suburbs

4). Technological Unemployment

5). Conclusion

Table of Contents

A.I. is Here - Pose the question

"What are the unforeseen effects of A.I entering the labor market”

A.I. is Here - Shot selection

B-roll - "Plagerism and You(tube)" Hbomberguy.

Medium Shot- "How Spotify Manucators Gay Culture" Alexander Avila.

Creative Controversy - Content

• How the gig economy has contributed to layoffs, increased production, and the use of A.I.

• Capturing the current controversy reguarding the use of A.I in animation

• Pros and cons of A.I. in creative spaces

Creative Controversy - Shot Selection

Medium Shot- "I read every Halo novel and became the Master Chief of loneliness" Polygon.

Suits, Ties, and Suburbs - Content

• The effects of mass economic exodus

• The rise of the white collar workforce (Interviews with experts)

• How the white collar workforce shaped suburbs

Suits, Ties, and Suburbs - Shot Selection

B-roll - Adobe

Digital Interview - New York Times

Technological Unemployment - Content

• Techno-optimism

• What is "Technological Unemployment"

• "The Useless Class"

• What choices are being made and whos making them?

Suits, Ties, and Suburbs - Shot Selection

Medium-close Shot- "Solving the Zelda Timeline in 15 Minutes" Polygon.

Next Steps - Research

Next Steps - Writing

• Intro
• ‘What are the unforeseen effects of A.I entering the labor market”
• Who are we
• Animation
• Current controversy around AI in creative work
• First-hand account
• Companies inclusion of AI in animation pros/cons
• A.i workflow in the animation field
• Job consolidation with the inclusion of AI in animation
• Layoffs
• The gig economy
• Increased output with decreased team size
• White Collar Jobs
• Interview with Heide / The development of the white-collar job
• Deplatforming Unions
• Hierarchy in the workplace/isolation workers
• Post-war economy
• Those jobs have funded the culture of white suburbia
• History of the Suburbs and Urban Decline
• Higher education institutions
• What happens when a bunch of money leaves all at once/reliance on corporations 

• Future/digital proletariat/ Useless Class
• “Technological Unemployment”
• Fear
• The problems with unemployment
• Conclusion
• So what…
• Thesis

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