How AI frame your Cinematic story?

Dovilè ALÈBAITÉ, Nicolas BRAS, Brieuc GUFFENS, Emelyne JOUGLET, Shafi KARIMI, Sirkku KOTILAINEN
(extra materials Saija Salonen & Sirkku Kotilainen)

Concept

A workshop on cinematic storytelling with the usage of AI through creative prompting. 
A workshop where participants engage in a collaborative and creative process to produce using AI generation and storytelling to create a storyboard for three-five shot cinema.

Priorities

Priority 2: Addressing AI-Generated Biases and Ethical/Deontological Implications
Priority 3: Developing Skills as a Critical AI Prompter (in Media Reception and Production

Objectives

To provide the basic principles of storyboarding and the cinematic language. 
To improve awareness of AhuilI issues such as biases, stereotypes, data protection, aesthetics, copyright.
To introduce learners with the basic principles of generating images with AI.

Target

Practitioners (teachers, educators…) that works with people under 16 years old.

Modalities

Steps and duration for four (4) hour workshop

1. Creation of a short story using keywords as a written idea (30 min.)

Participants are grouped 4-5  
They are introduced as a list of key words such as feeling, context and character and, assigned to use max 3 of them

Objective: Starting to imagine and create a (audio)visual story. 

2. Generation of three (3) first images of a storyboard (30 min.)

Teacher listing examples of GenAI tools with creative prompting for visual pictures.
With using storyboarding tools, participants create three first images of a storyboard with GenAI.

Objective: Practical testing and usage of creative prompting with AI tools for storyboarding images. 

3. Analysing generated images and identifying AI errors and biases based on the key words (30 min.)

Participants presenting in groups their storyboards in class. 
Teacher led discussion of errors, bias and representation together with prompting and cinematic narrative.

Objective: Critical awareness of AI errors, bias and AI-based representation.

4. Introducing the basic principles of a storyboarding and cinematic language (30 min.)

Teacher presents basics of cinematic language and tools for storyboarding by using examples.  

Objective: Basic information of cinematic language and storyboard.

5. Challenging the AI and regeneration of the first images and completion of a storyboard: selection, AI errors etc. (60 min.)

Each group presents their story to the others, choosing the use AI (for example, through voice generation) in the narration. 

Objective: Share creative outcomes while reflecting on the visible and hidden roles of AI in storytelling.

6. Sharing and evaluating the work (60 min)

Presenting the storyboards to the class
Self and peer evaluation in class; educator questioning the storyboard images like cinematic principles and AI usage, especially critical prompting

Objective: Raise participants critical awareness of AI; how creative prompting affects the cinematic story.