Ep. 11 – Aristotle Meets AI: A Conversation with Filmmaker Peter Frelik

Peter Frelik’s path to becoming a storyteller began seeing a matinee of a James Bond film as a kid and eventually led him to becoming a feature film editor for Hollywood and a director of commercials. AI image generators will soon make it possible for most anyone to produce a blockbuster from their own living room. But instead of crowding the field, Peter believes AI has the power to help established filmmakers and creatives to better succeed. In this episode of The Upgrade, the Peters talk about everything AI and film.

(5:12) Why TikTok will stand the test of time

(6:27) Aristotle and the three-act narrative

(8:11) It’s all about the story beat 

(11:12) How the AI explosion has influenced Peter’s filmmaking 

(15:21) Potential competition between established filmmakers and AI wannabes 

(17:30) Copyright issues between LLMs and creatives 

(22:20) The ways in which AI is reshaping the creative process

(25:20) How AI will cause filmmaking to evolve in the next year

(27:09) Peter describes his new podcast Virtually Everything!

Follow Peter Frelik:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterfrelik/?utm_source=www.theupgrade.ai&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=media-experts-reflect-on-ai-in-2023

Frelik’s Virtually Everything! podcast:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/virtually-everything-podcast/id1732098353

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