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From inception, artificial intelligence (AI) helped in the planning of this documentary.
The planning journey began with the simple notion that AI might help chart the journey—in the form of a rough, one-page outline of the most crucial elements. After an hour of rigorous prompt refinement to clarify the essential project components, I had a solid working outline.
That was the starting point for the project. Then, I started doing preliminary interviews to find people who had good stories to tell and who were also good storytellers. Quickly, it became clear that the narrative I was discovering in conversation with the caretakers of these classic boats was far more captivating than the AI-generated outline. Yet it was also clear that AI had provided a valuable starting point.
After conducting 40+ preliminary interviews, I came back to AI with transcripts from those interviews. I spent a couple of hours of working with the transcripts and writing various AI prompts, which proved fruitful. The result was a three-act structure populated with genuine content.
Listen to Jon Leland and I discuss how AI came into the documentary—on his podcast, Video Mojo. The episode is called, "How Google AI is Revolutionizing Documentary Filmmaking!"
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