Michael Jackson's Neverland Sleepover: An A.I. Powered Short Film

THE NEW MACHINE CINEMA: Foundational Essays in AI Film Theory: https://tinyurl.com/4f2mb6kf

“Three children are whisked away to a wondrous tour of Neverland Ranch for a sleepover, but the dream turns into a nightmare when Michael Jackson receives a call from the police, casting a shadow of doubt over the night's events.”

This is my first A.I. film that is 100 % generated off Midjourney V6, as well, it uses new voice-acting technology that allows me to voice any character in the film, so I got to make my acting debut as Michael Jackson. The film also experiments with A.I. editing; there is one scene that was edited by ChatGPT fed with still images.

Note, that while the image quality has improved substantially, there were compromises in lip motion and animation. I had been pushing companies to solve lip motion for months, at the time, there were few options. "Window Seat" remains my best work in A.I., because it was 100 % generated from a video algorithm, with the lip motion baked directly into the visuals. For every step forward, there is a step back.

Still, I continue to document the technology on the field as a narrative filmmaker, and bit by bit the A.I. filmmaking space is getting better.

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