The AudioCraft Revolution: Text Into Music
By: Alex Silverman From Text to Tempo: The AudioCraft Revolution comes to us from Planet Classroom’s own Emily Brooks as part of its Problem Solvers series. With AI slowly taking over the media landscape, this latest entry examines AI’s impact on audio creation. Developed by Meta, we are introduced to AudioCraft, an AI platform that turns text into music and audio effects for content creation. Three tools are featured: MusicGen, a...
Solving World Hunger with Innovation: the Power of AI
By Sadie Judd Solving World Hunger with Innovation from producer Marta Antonio is a highly informative short film that broadens the scope of how AI and technology can help address global crises. By describing the processes different companies use to tackle this consistently serious issue, the film promotes a new, technologically advanced future that we can believe in. Though the film doesn’t delve too deeply into how this AI...
Companionship in the Digital Age: A Review of ElliQ: Filling the Void of Loneliness for the Elderly
By Sadie Judd This short film, ElliQ: Filling the Void of Loneliness for the Elderly produced by Alexander Wasti, revitalizes what it means to have companionship, examining why ElliQ (a care companion Robot) is an innovative and unique product. Through this film, the audience is taken on an engaging journey of how the AI can impact feelings of loneliness and just how far this technology might go. Assessing the folds of...
A Musical Masterpiece: The Bard Percussion Studio Recital Spring 2021
By Rhea Mursalin The Bard Percussion Studio Recital, presented by the Bard College Conservatory of Music, unfolds as a cinematic experience through the lens of percussion mastery. This musical showcase, divided into four distinct parts, is a mesmerizing journey that can be viewed as a conventional concert and a musical masterpiece. The talented performers of the Bard College Conservatory of Music are a testament to unparalleled...
Searching For Something Deeper: A Review of Xiaojing Wang’s Weather Forecast
By Zachary Klein Xiaojing Wang’s Weather Forecast is contemplative. Long takes and wide shots initially call to mind the phenomena known as slow cinema, but as the film wanes on, it’s clear the similarities are only skin-deep. While not entirely without merit, Weather Forecast ends up being a meandering short film in search of an ethereal truth about humanity and ultimately just comes out as a twee story about faith in… something....
A Review of Huanshuo Wang’s Film Attraction
By Alex Silverman Attraction is written, directed, edited, produced, and cinematographed by Huanshuo Wang. It was made as a final project for the 2022 NYU Tisch Summer High School Filmmakers Workshop. Taking place in China, we find a young high school boy who discovers a deaf girl who has feelings for him. What follows are several attempts to impress the girl, but every plan he has seems to fail. It isn’t until he’s finally about to...
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