A.I. Mock Commercial

I’ve been wanting to dive into A.I. video creation tools for a while and directing commercials even longer. I recently created this (very meta) A.I. mock commercial. If you can’t tell from watching it I thoroughly enjoyed the process. Spoiler: If you haven’t seen the 1988 movie “They Live” consider this your nudge.

Credits:

My human self: Writing, Directing, Editing and Voiceover for the main characters.

A.I. parts: Video, Images, Music, Woman’s voice.

Apps:

Voices: Woman’s voice I used an #ai from Higgsfield, main characters voices just me, old school.

Image apps:
Nano Banana, Mid Journey, Grok, Chat GPT 2.0

Video apps: Higgsfield, Kling, SeedDance 2.0, LTX, Veo 3, Topaz for upscaling.

Voice Recording:
Garage Band.

Music:
Suno for creation. Audacity for editing. Eerie music for the Obey part came from my buddy @colorblindfish

Editing:
iMovie (I Know…) Premiere IS on my to do list, stop yelling at me.

Graphic Design:
Adobe Photoshop. Could not have made this without a lot of hands on old school Art Direction and Photoshop skills as well as using Adobe’s new object rotate tool.

Learned:
I have a lot to learn, A I is cool but wonky and of course still charges you for credits when they hallucinate or ignore details in your prompts, I guess that’s where post and creative editing and storytelling comes in, however dealing with a very detailed client project could get problematic for edits unless the budget allows for more some FX artist time to clean up or edit specific details.

** No humans were harmed in the making of this commercial, at least I think so.