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ProTools v. Audition (now vs. 10 years ago!) by MordantWastrel • last post Mar 6th
Hiya Reddit, I'm a former NYC stage actor that got into voice acting about ten years ago and made a little money before joining a local theatre company in central Texas, which scratched the itch a bit more than bank commercials at the time. Life circumstances (and the theatre scene) have changed and I'm looking to get back in, but have a couple questions about DAW strategies (primarily for commercial, but eventually narration and maybe some anime/game auditions) Last time around, I took a semester of audio engineering at the local community college and learned Pro Tools. I'm a software engineer so this was a lot of fun. I never 'used' a lot of Pro Tools for VO - just some basic compression, de-essers, occasionally gates. My VO coach this time around said that she doesn't recommend doing very much at all in the way of editing besides adjustments for timing or silence, that even the 'fairy dust sprinkle' we might've done ten years ago not only isn't necessary, but isn't desirable, because the folks doing post want everybody's audio to be as raw as possible so they're not dealing with three different people's ideas about what constitutes fairy dust. This makes sense to me but I'm curious how consistent this strategy is, or if it applies across different sectors of the VO world. How much editing do you, and why/ Secondly, I have a Pro Tools perpetual license so the cheapest way for me to get back in is to just keep using that. However, I'm going in on this with my partner, who is from the on-camera world and new to VO. Our coach recommends Adobe Audition (but has no problem with Pro Tools - just that it's overkill). My partner is coming from a non-technical background and has to learn 'the basics' for VO DAW usage. Is saving a few bucks by not having to subscribe to Audition worth the learning curve of Pro Tools? I tried Audition ten years ago and found it fine but all the advice I got back then was that Pro Tools was 'better' in a way that I'm not hearing today. She's willing to invest the work either way, but Pro Tools is either free (if she's with me) or cheaper (Pro Tools Artist at $99/yr vs. Adobe Audition at $21/mo) so I'm just curious how much value y'all assign to Audition being 'easier' since that's not a ton of money but it's not pocket change. Thanks everybody! This reddit has been great and now I have to go pick up a lot of PVC pipe at Home Depot to start building my booth!
Protocol for offering smaller roles to actors who applied to larger roles (but already said they would want a smaller role if not chosen)? by CrazyVegetable3187 • last post Mar 6th
This is my first big production and the audition process has come to an end. I've had it easy so far in just meeting with the protagonists and secondary characters to offer them roles. Now I have six people I have to meet with that I'm offering smaller roles than the largest they auditioned to. Two of the six auditioned for the smaller roles they are going to be offered, three of the six already told me earlier on in the process that they want any role given and so even though they didn't audition for these roles it seems like it's likely they'll take them, and then one didn't audition for the role/never told me they wanted a smaller role but I figured I would offer anyways. How would you best suggest going about this? I assume they will all be disappointed that they didn't get the biggest role they were interested in. I'm just wondering what the most polite and professional way of going about it is - for example do I even acknowledge that someone else was given the protagonist/secondary role? It really did just come down to me and my team liking certain pairs the most in chemistry reads and/or just feeling like the actor/actress that was chosen for the bigger role did a much better job than the other candidate, but I don't want to say this or anything even remotely similar as I'm very sensitive to people's emotions/don't wanna hurt anyone's feelings but also don't know what to say given the big elephant in the room. Also, lastly, will it be awkward at rehearsals and on set when these actors (assuming they accept) are together with the people who got the bigger roles?
Agent Ghosted and then Reappeared? by Big_Classroom_9719 • last post Mar 6th
Hi all! I’ve been working to get an agent for about a year now, had a few “almosts” and meetings and then finally had a meeting with someone who was really interested and offered to sign me on for a 12 month contract. I asked him to send the paperwork over as PDFs first so I could have some friends look at it make sure it was all legit. It was all good. I got back to him right away and said I was ready to docusign (his preferred method of signing) and linked up my actors access to him and gave him a list of casting directors that knew my work, which he responded to promptly. Then nothing. No docusign. No emails. Nothing. For 3.5 weeks. I kept submitting myself. I sent an email to him about an EPA I attended that I thought went well. Nothing. Just radio silence. I emailed another agent at his agency, nada. I haven’t given him a dime, nor have I signed anything. So if it was a scam it’s a bad one. Then out of the blue today, he sends me an audition for a film on actors access. I haven’t signed a lick of paperwork for this man, and if he just wanted to freelance me that hasn’t been made clear…. Am I crazy or is this not normal?
After years of illness, I’m starting from scratch. Rewarding ways to use radio? by WFoxAmMe • last post Mar 5th
I am burning to perform. I don’t care about money, career, or connections. I just want to do good work. I have a weekly radio show at a non-profit station, and I feel I should be using it more creatively than playing music. But I’m not sure what I could do by myself every single week. Background: I wanted nothing but to be an actress since I was three years old. I spent childhood in intense acting classes, onstage, performing, until my dad made me stop in my teens. I was good, man. I always got the lead. I would have gone back to it as an adult, but I contracted Lyme Disease around age 12, and by 18 my health was haywire and disbelieved. I told myself I had to focus on getting a job with health coverage and diagnosed and fixed before pursuing my creative aspirations (yay America!). But I kept getting sicker and didn’t get diagnosed until after I ended up on Disability in my 30’s. Now I’m 46. I’m in better shape than I was, but my health still isn’t great. My memory is impaired, and I’m working on it, but I’m not sure how much I can get back. I don’t think stage is an option for me anymore, sadly. I’m thinking of going to community college just for the acting classes. I’ve had a small part in a B movie, pre-pandemic. I have a small part in an indie film next month, and another B film this summer? But those have been through friends of friends, and I’ve no idea how to properly audition. I’m in NYC, which seems an advantage, but being a 46 year old woman and competing for dwindling female roles against professionals who have been working for decades seems a losing proposition. Audio plays seem an obvious solution, but it’s not legal to perform pre-existing radio plays. Also, I don’t have any actor friends. Also, one week is a super short turn around. (I’m no Joe Frank, much as I wish I were.) Is there a secret source of contemporary public domain plays and monologues somewhere? Any ideas, suggestions, advice?
What is the average rate for a starting voice actor? (1000-2000 words) by JensonVDP • last post Mar 5th
I (very recently) started a youtube channel promoting fantasy authors and their. But I got an offer from a few authors with a story but without audiobook. I got the idea to maybe get a voice actor to a voice over for some shorter stories, but I have no idea what the cost will be for a short story of 1000 to 2000 words. (I currently can't do full audiobooks as I don't earn money doing this, so the proce would be to great) Thanks in advance for your input! Edit: and where do I post such an offer?
AA/CN Feature Request by External-Chemical380 • last post Mar 5th
I've been discussing with a few people about the need for post-audition notifications on when the casting process has completed for roles that we've auditioned for. It would be a greatly appreciated professional courtesy to let actors know, particularly ones who have been called back or put on avail, that the role has been booked and thus allow people to continue to plan their lives without the unofficial (but expected) soft-holds that many of us take on in the later stages of being considered for a part. I've submitted a feature request to Actor's Access with the hopes of having them implement an easy, push button system that poses the minimal burden on all parties while allowing for these notifications to exist, and **I encourage you to also submit a request to them if you agree that having this information would be beneficial.** This was my request: >I'd like to submit a feature request that I've been discussing with a number of other actors. Can you please implement a push-button feature on the casting side of breakdowns that allows casting directors to update the status of a role? I.E. "Auditioning" "In Callbacks" "Offers Made" "Casting Complete" > >This status should be viewable from an actor's submission and ecocast/audition pages. > >There is a fundamental lack of communication after auditions that are submitted which affects how actors go about their lives. Closing that gap is a courtesy to the actor, just like the "confirm audition" button you added to the audition page. > >Thank you
What/who made you want to start acting? by AnalystUsual3241 • last post Mar 5th
Personally my desire to act has been on and off FOR YEARS since i was about 11 i think, it started when i was OBSESSED with Dylan O'Brien in the Maze Runner lol. But anxiety overruled that dream so so much and it hadn't come back, especially this strongly until I saw Pedro Pascal in TLOU. I love the show so so much and him as an actor is amazing, it made me want to be like that too. I want to be surrounded by people like that, people that have more experience, so that I can learn from them. But for right now, it will all have to be local, no complaining there though, just because it's local doesn't mean it's bad. Take care guys!
2 Bedrooms for $800 & $900 available for rent in Astoria, NYC for April 1st, looking for other actors in their 30s by WealthSuccessLove • last post Mar 5th
Hey guys, I'm not getting a ton of great responses for some reason via craigslist / facebook housing groups so I figured I'd bring this on here. My buddy and I have two bedrooms, one for $800 and one for $900 in a 4 bed 1 bath with a big living room & kitchen, in Astoria, available for an April 1st move in. $800 security deposit. We are both in our 30s, I'm an actor with a 9-5 and my buddy is a journalist who travels a lot. We are looking for 2 people in their 30s, preferably with a 9-5, but I'd also love to live with actors so we can help each other out reading for tapes, etc. It's a killer location in Astoria, a couple blocks from the park, and about at 10 minute walk from the last 2 stops on the N/W train in Astoria. Plenty of bars / laundromats / grocery stories nearby. Also plenty of street parking, thank god, I have a car and it's the easiest parking I've ever had in NYC. If you're interested, hit me up and I can send you some pictures, etc.
Thoughts on the ‘seven steps to heaven technique’? (screenshot provided) by Saaaintniiiick • last post Mar 5th
Newbie voice actor trying to start a career but really dont know how by Nerc0n1c • last post Mar 5th
I want to start voice acting since all my friends have told me I have good control over my tone and pitch and have told that i should try voice acting but dont know where to start and how. Any advice?
I advise you all aspiring actors, filmmakers, artists, and so on to stop pursue your goals because you're all going to be replaced by AIs very soon and become useless. by Block-Busted • last post Mar 5th
I mean, there was this article from Vulture: > **Soon You’ll Be Able to Make Your Own Movie With AI. Artificial intelligence isn’t about to change the movie industry. It already has.** > > There’s a new Knives Out movie on Netflix, and I still haven’t seen a few of this season’s awards contenders. But the film I most wish I could watch right now is Squid Invasion From the Deep. It’s a sci-fi thriller directed by John Carpenter about a team of scientists led by Sigourney Weaver who discover an extraterrestrial cephalopod and then die one by one at its tentacles The production design was inspired by Alien and The Thing; there are handmade creature FX and lots of gore; Wilford Brimley has a cameo. Unfortunately, though, I can’t see this movie, and neither can you, because it doesn’t exist. > > For now, Squid Invasion is just a portfolio of concept art conjured by a redditor using Midjourney, an artificial-intelligence tool that creates images from human-supplied text prompts. Midjourney was released into public beta over the summer and for months belched out mostly visual gibberish. “I was trying to make a picture of Joe Rogan fighting a chimp, and it just looked like nightmare fuel,” says the Reddit user, OverlyManlySnail, whose real name is Johnny Weiss. Then, in November, the software was upgraded to version four. It began effortlessly translating complicated suggestions (“DVD screengrab, ’80s John Carpenter horror film, an alien squid attacking a horrified Sigourney Weaver, blood everywhere, extra wide shot, outstanding cinematography, 16-mm.”) into imaginary film stills that look good enough to be real. Some of them look better than anything in Hollywood’s current product line: stranger, more vividly composed, seemingly less computer generated even though they’re completely computer generated. > > Soon, Hollywood could be in direct competition with generative AI tools, which, unlike self-driving cars or other long-promised technologies that never quite arrive, are already here and getting better fast. Meta and Google have announced software that converts text prompts into short videos; another tool, Phenaki, can do whole scenes. None of these video generators has been released to the public yet, but the company D-ID offers an AI app that can make people in still photos blink and read from a script, and some have been using it to animate characters created by Midjourney. “In the next few years,” says Matthew Kershaw, D-ID’s VP of marketing and growth, “we could easily see a major movie made almost entirely using AI.” Someday, instead of browsing our Rokus for something to watch, we might green-light our own entertainment by pitching loglines to algorithms that can make feature-length films with sophisticated plots, blockbuster effects, and A-list human actors from any era. One hurdle to this future is that whimsical user prompts are no substitute for good scripts. Somebody (or something) needs to tell the video generators what to generate for two hours. But progress is underway on that front, too, because it turns out that ChatGPT — the new AI chatbot that can write code, college essays, and instructional rap songs on how to change your motor oil — is also an aspiring screenwriter. > > With Weiss’s permission, I asked ChatGPT to develop a plot for Squid Invasion. I described the concept images and told it to create an outline for the movie, which I’ll summarize: At a remote research lab in the ocean, scientists discover a species of alien squids, which are hyperintelligent and can regenerate their bodies after injury. The squids escape their containment tanks and kill several researchers. The humans fight back with guns and other weapons, but it only makes the squids angrier. The scientists destroy the lab with a reactor explosion that they hope will kill the squids too. The film ends with the survivors celebrating their narrow escape — and mourning their colleagues. That may not pack much narrative surprise or subvert genre conventions, but it does imply that ChatGPT understands basic story logic in a way that eludes plenty of humans. It even, at my request, suggested a decent twist ending: Another alien race contacts the survivors and reveals the squids were a peaceful and misunderstood species. > > What ChatGPT can’t do yet is write an actual screenplay. The software that powers most current AI language generators can process text of only 1,500 or fewer words, which makes it hard to produce coherent works of their own that are any longer. But after many failed attempts, I got ChatGPT to draft some of Squid Invasion’s first scene. > > **Samantha Carter**: These squids are incredible. > > **Dr. James Jones**: Yeah, they’re definitely something. But we need to be careful. These deep sea creatures can be dangerous. > > **Dr. Mike Smith**: I agree. We need to study them carefullyand make sure they don’t pose a threat. > > **Dr. Carter**: Oh no! The squids are attacking! > > **Dr. Jones**: Grab the flamethrower. > > Those lines are bad. But not so bad that I can’t imagine them being delivered in a perfectly enjoyable Gerard Butler movie. AI may never be Robert Towne, but with next-gen language bots expected next year, the writers of Black Adam should be nervous. Some have argued that AI tools aren’t as clever as they seem, that they’re incapable of original thinking and can only parrot their training material. That may hinder them in some fields. But in Hollywood, shallow riffing on preexisting intellectual property is a cherished and lucrative skill. Some of the most acclaimed movies of 2022, including Top Gun: Maverick and Elvis, have the hermetically nostalgic tinge of AI creations. > > A few filmmakers have already embraced the tech for certain applications. The director Scott Mann used machine learning in his 2022 thriller Fall, altering the actors’ mouths to eliminate swear words and avoid an R rating. It was used in next year’s Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny to make 80-year-old Harrison Ford look 45. South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone recently landed a $20 million investment for their new start-up, Deep Voodoo, an entertainment studio that will provide low-cost deep-fake visual effects. And for James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way of Water, the FX studio Weta deployed AI to give Na’vi characters realistic facial muscles that move in concert. “In previous systems, if we wanted to change a character’s smile, we had to go in and move all the pieces, and it was a lot of work to keep it from looking rubbery,” says Weta senior visual-effects supervisor Joe Letteri. > > “This got us to a natural place much sooner.” Letteri doesn’t expect AI to generate any Avatar movies by itself, though, at least not soon: “We had 1,600 VFX artists working on this movie and another 1,600 people in live action. We worked on it for five years. You’re not going to get that from a logline.” > > But Hollywood agencies and law firms are preparing for a future in which clients like Weaver could be unwittingly cast in some redditor’s fever dream. “These tools are exciting, but what’s most important to us is that the companies behind them respect the talent and get consent for names, images, and likenesses,” says Joanna Popper, CAA’s chief metaverse officer. “We want to protect creators so that they have the opportunities to monetize their work and images and so others aren’t able to exploit them.” The names of non-consenting artists could be banned as user prompts by AI generators. But that wouldn’t change the fact that many of the tools have already been taught by those artists’ work. > > The reason Squid Invasion is able to nail the aesthetics of sci-fi from the late ’70s to early ’80s is because Midjourney’s training– data likely includes stills from real movies of that era, among millions of other copyrighted images. “We’re talking about software that learns from content but doesn’t necessarily present the content that it learned from,” says Jeffrey Neuburger, an IP lawyer at Proskauer Rose LLP. “So who owns the copyright for the work it creates? This raises questions of fair use and also rights of publicity. This is one of those situations where the law is going to have to catch up” to new technology > > In other words, we need to study these tools carefully and make sure they don’t pose a threat. Grab the flamethrower. https://www.vulture.com/2022/12/ai-art-midjourney-chatgpt-phenaki-movies-hollywood.html#comments And there are these comments related to this article: > I watch a lot of old movies. From between about 60-20 years ago, Hollywood made tons of movies about people doing realistic, adult things, and acted by real, honest to goodness, breathing human actors! They shot on real life locations, and held our interest with original stories. > > The AI pictures that accompany the article look fake, but no more so than today's Hollywood blockbusters themselves look. Nothing but a bunch of actors with computer manipulated faces wearing motion capture suits, saying formulaic lines in front of CGI generated backgrounds. Human cartoons, more or less. And the stories themselves? Well, original ideas are too risky, from a financial standpoint. So why not just redo something that was popular 20 years ago? > > At this point, I'm all for AI generated movies. Once it becomes possible for almost anyone with an internet connection to generate a feature length film by tapping out a few prompts on their computer or tablet, maybe we'll actually start to see some original ideas again. https://www.vulture.com/2022/12/ai-art-midjourney-chatgpt-phenaki-movies-hollywood.html#comments > Give it a year. Or maybe a month. They’ll keep looking better… and better… and better… https://www.vulture.com/2022/12/ai-art-midjourney-chatgpt-phenaki-movies-hollywood.html#comments And there are these related comments as well: > The Genie is out of the box, in another 10-15 years time artists will be able to make movies using AI tools. https://old.reddit.com/r/boxoffice/comments/106anta/soon_youll_be_able_to_make_your_own_movie_with_ai/j3giqwd/ > This is different though, the advancement in AI/ML is truly frightening. This should be obvious if you have been paying attention, deep fakes, voice impersonation, so on and forth. > > As someone within the industry I think it is scary as fuck. https://old.reddit.com/r/boxoffice/comments/106anta/soon_youll_be_able_to_make_your_own_movie_with_ai/j3gn05k/ > Humans can create the story-board framework and ask the AI to create the video and sound that's necessary. So, for example, if I feed the GPT engine a AV feed of all the superhero movies, it should enough for it for it to learn a thing or two. > > Deep learning AIs using neural networks to learn, that's something similar to what we do, however they do learn things incredibly fast. So, you don't require sentience to produce an incredibly sophisticated fan-film in the near future. > > Legal troubles are ONLY if you charge people monies to watch your movie. None of the fan films do that currently. However, imagine a future where you can pay a nominal fee to watch a movie with your own dream casting. > > It is an extremely disruptive technology, most people don't realize the extent of this as yet. https://old.reddit.com/r/boxoffice/comments/106anta/soon_youll_be_able_to_make_your_own_movie_with_ai/j3l9jl9/ > Give it time, the next 10 years is a long long time as far as computing tech is concerned. https://old.reddit.com/r/boxoffice/comments/106anta/soon_youll_be_able_to_make_your_own_movie_with_ai/j3ldmiv/ > I am looking at the current rate of advancement of technology. Self driving cars are already in place now, 10 years ago that would be be considered amazing. These algorithms have the ability to learn and improve themselves, that's what makes all this a real possibility. > > AIs need to be trained, but once trained, they are incredibly good at pattern sifting, concept recognition and everything else that only humans could do. > > For instance, you can feed it whole essay and get a neat little summary. https://medium.com/geekculture/a-paper-summarizer-with-python-and-gpt-3-2c718bc3bc88 > > This would have been unthinkable a few years ago. I am saying the rate at which AI/ML tech is advancing is pretty scary, it has the ability to disrupt our society in a very big way. > > AI/ML developers both implementers and algorithm architects are very much in demand. The latter more than the former. All this advancement is not automatic, there are people working on these techs. > > It won't be far fetched to have AIs write scripts for movies, dialogues and everything, that's going to happen in the next few years. We are doing all this with conventional silicon chips and software, once we have specialized hardware it will be even faster. > > Basically, humans will have machines which can do a lot of the work that they need other humans for. This is what I am actually talking about. https://old.reddit.com/r/boxoffice/comments/106anta/soon_youll_be_able_to_make_your_own_movie_with_ai/j3liqjx/ > Hurdles will be overcome faster, it's all about training data. In 10 to 15 years, AI generated films ( with obvious human input ) won't be far fetched. AI will help artists generate content that will be almost at par with studio generated content. > > Even now we have fan-films made with shoe-string budgets that look pretty damn good, now imagine those films being render with the help of AI algorithms. It is going to greatly cut down the time and the effort needed for creative artists. > > I am not claiming that my idea is superior because it is something new, I am saying this as a software developer. You are going to see major disruption in many industries in the next 10 to 15 years. This is a given. > > BTW, I am not saying that AIs will be churning out movies by themselves, I am just saying they are going to create a radical paradigm shift. https://old.reddit.com/r/boxoffice/comments/106anta/soon_youll_be_able_to_make_your_own_movie_with_ai/j3pfeq5/ > Who am I to advise those guys? I am sure many of them realize the importance of these things and are preparing for it in their own way. > > I am just an anonymous software developer, I interact regularly with professionals in healthcare and other industries and am familiar with the incredible advances made. > > Whatever I said is simply an extrapolation based on the current state of affairs. I think it going to help creative individuals to create good content with lower investment of time and money. > > This is not a promise, it just the way the curve is advancing as of now. Look at the kind of hardware advancements being made. > > https://research.aimultiple.com/ai-chip/ > > It's only going to get faster and more efficient, in 10-15 years many of the human jobs will be done by AI programs, all this is inevitable. https://old.reddit.com/r/boxoffice/comments/106anta/soon_youll_be_able_to_make_your_own_movie_with_ai/j3pl755/ > Unfortunately turning your back on this development is not going to deter the evolution of AI, nor its widespread use. Deleting articles like this is absurd. https://old.reddit.com/r/Filmmakers/comments/zwlygy/soon_youll_be_able_to_make_your_own_featurelength/j1xbs0i/ > You know, humanity goes through the cycle constantly where people refuse to look reality in the face right up until they’re undone by advances. https://old.reddit.com/r/Filmmakers/comments/zwlygy/soon_youll_be_able_to_make_your_own_featurelength/j20ht5j/ > It is all about the money. AI created Super Squid Monster Invasion costs 2 million dollars, makes a billion at the box office. > > Avengers 7 costs 500 million dollars makes a billion at the box office. > > Which method do you think studio executives are going to choose for their next movie. https://old.reddit.com/r/flicks/comments/106gm65/do_you_think_every_single_actors_directors_crews/j3gretj/ > Even indies have huge crews, temperamental actors, shooting permits, catering, completion bonds etc. > > If you are a writer/director and have an idea for a movie it is also going to be cheaper and less hassle to make your vision in a computer than to actually go through the physical prosses of making it in the real world. > > Hollywood is about to go through the same realization the buggy whip makers and blacksmiths did 120 years ago. https://old.reddit.com/r/flicks/comments/106gm65/do_you_think_every_single_actors_directors_crews/j3gt6st/ > Other than Central Park and living history museums not much call for horse drawn carriages anymore. > > Most movies will be made in computers with established actors licensing their image and voices to the production. > > You can stick your head in the sand or find a way to thrive in the new reality. It won't happen tomorrow but, in 20 years the old way of doing things is finished. https://old.reddit.com/r/flicks/comments/106gm65/do_you_think_every_single_actors_directors_crews/j3gv5a3/ > The money is always going to win. https://old.reddit.com/r/flicks/comments/106gm65/do_you_think_every_single_actors_directors_crews/j3gw1dv/ > Watch this. > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DaXgveiQvE https://old.reddit.com/r/flicks/comments/106gm65/do_you_think_every_single_actors_directors_crews/j3lpsml/ > Stable Diffusion, Midjourney etc, exist. Motion pictures are just a series of still images projected at 24 frames per second. It should not take much work to jump from still images to motion pictures. This will happen much faster than people are anticipating. https://old.reddit.com/r/flicks/comments/106gm65/do_you_think_every_single_actors_directors_crews/j3mqmrw/ > There are armies of people who make a film: writers, directors, cinematographers, actors, focus pullers, drivers, costumers, carpenters, grips, best boys, electricians, stunt coordinators hair and make and many, many more people too many to list who contribute to even low budget films. All to create a flickering image of projected on a screen at 24 frames per second. > > Imagine a much smaller group of people say 10 to 20 people who will make the exact same image at a fraction of the cost with no reduction in quality. > > This will not be a fad like 3D or Cinerama it will be a fundamentally new way of film making. Immensely cheaper and more profitable for the studios. > > We are standing at the filmmaking equivalent of Kitty Hawk. The Wright brothers flew one man about 120 feet. Not all that impressive. Less than 50 years latter supersonic jets were streaking across the sky and bombers were capable of making intercontinental flights. > > After Warner Brothers produced the first sound picture, silent movies were finished in about four years. > > You don't have to believe me but, if you are in the film business and get caught flat footed by this technology you may find yourself unprepared and out of a job. https://old.reddit.com/r/flicks/comments/106gm65/do_you_think_every_single_actors_directors_crews/j3obmrx/ > The truth is film makers will be worthless. A lot of people will be out of a job not just film makers. You can prepare or be caught flat footed. Having situational awareness is not a bad thing. Forewarned is forearmed. I'm sorry I made you feel bad but, being a luddite is not going to stop this. https://old.reddit.com/r/flicks/comments/106gm65/do_you_think_every_single_actors_directors_crews/j3oil7q/ > Art is information. Information will be much easier to manipulate by AI than things in the physical world that is why it will happen quite rapidly. People working desk jobs will also be put out of work much more quicky than McDonald's workers. > > It won't require years of development. It takes many people currently to make a film. However, the end product is quite simple really. The software is nearly here. > > Have you seen this? > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxXpB9pSETo > > We are very, very close. https://old.reddit.com/r/flicks/comments/106gm65/do_you_think_every_single_actors_directors_crews/j3oru0a/ > I used AI. I watch two minute papers. I know this will happen before the decade is over. Hollywood has been dead for 20 years, yes - but in ten years, there will be no humans involved in entertainment, except for celebrities who are famous for being famous, who rent out their likeness. https://old.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/107kz7u/do_you_think_every_single_actors_directors_crews/j3n4363/ > I do tell my design students to not even consider illustration as a career anymore. started in early summer, when I first played with Disco diffusion and dalle2 and it became clear to me that this was going to end careers before they got started - at that point I wasn't prepared for SD, but when I get back to teaching next term, I will tell them to go demonstrate for UBI because I don't knowwhat they should study instead. Law maybe, I have a feeling lawyers will defend - and will be able to defend - their profession to the detriment of everyone. > > also: yeah, thestudents all think they are the ones that will prevail despizte everything. - like climate change: it will affect everyone, but for some reason, not me and I will be fine. https://old.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/107kz7u/do_you_think_every_single_actors_directors_crews/j3ngh4m/ > I'm teaching at a design faculty and an art school, neither have explicit filmmaking courses or actors... plus, actors somehow thini theatre is still a thing, and it is, kinda, in that it's publicly funded and exists... just no one under 50 actually goes there.... https://old.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/107kz7u/do_you_think_every_single_actors_directors_crews/j3o193b/ > I like the way you think. Personally I would add that 'entertainment' will likely be something completely different, and humans will find some NEW new tech to squabble about using. > > maybe smell-o-vision. https://old.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/107kz7u/do_you_think_every_single_actors_directors_crews/j3neln0/ > the squabble will be about how to reorganize society once the fundamentals of capitalism have been upeneded in some fields- but not others. > > imagine you're working in a bank, a young couple comes in, they want a mortgage for a house, both have college degrees, well-paying jobs. But the mortgage is for thirty years. will their careers still exist in thirty years? how do you price in the risk for them losing their jobs in their late thirties, with small children, at a point where going back to college is just not an option? > > this is a housing crisis and an unemployment crisis waiting to happen, in our current system. systems, in the past, have never changed peacefully. > > I don't like the way I think. https://old.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/107kz7u/do_you_think_every_single_actors_directors_crews/j3nhuhg/ > oh! uhhh. > > well at least in 20 years my game might be almost finished. I hope AI citizens enjoy it. https://old.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/107kz7u/do_you_think_every_single_actors_directors_crews/j3ni5vk/ > Absolutely, the issue is how soon? > > What could be better than The Office, right? > > This has a huge fan base, and there's people who watch the show yearly. > > So, let's assume, THIS IS AN ASSUMPTION, let's be clear on that. And let's say it's very generous assumption, that in five years, there is a way to create new office episodes out with Artificial intelligence. > > You already have programs that can write scripts. > > You already have programs that can generate images. > > You already have programs that can synthesize voices. > > If you take some basic film, the tech just has to get good enough to generate 24 frames a second, and in a show like the office, let's say, has 43,200 frames an episode. > > Okay, so by today's fading standards, how long does it take to generate 43,200 pictures, ASSUMING these pictures could be used for frames in a video. > > I can generate 100 in five minutes on my rig. So that means about 36 hours to generate 43,200 pictures/frames > > Modern, fading standards, mind you. > > GRANTED, there is so much more that needs to be done than rendering frames, voices, and writing a script, the issue is people don't think someone is going to figure out how to combine all these forces into one thing. It's not a if, it's a when. > > Most of the moving parts needed are here, they just need the additional components to make such an idea functional, plus power, and these technological advances are not leaps, they are just a hop or two away. > > For some perspective, it took 800,000 machine hours to render Toy Story. This was a combined effort made by people, who's absolutely can have that work be automated by a machine. Because you're NOT having to make everything by scratch, you just have to make a picture, one after another, that make sense as you put them together, and if you get enough put together, you have a FUCKING UNIVERSE, how insane is that? > > So, why the office fan base? > > If there was a chance to watch office episodes that were 1:1 with the real thing, and you could not tell the difference, you can see your favorite characters in moments that the show could not catch due to the limitations of the budget, time, and the actors, how could anyone stop themselves? > > Thus, this would create a entire new world of entertainment, where people would submit their computer generated episodes, and they would be voted on, just like we vote on post on reddit, and the ones that get to the top get the most views, the most shares, etc. > > At some point, the generations would outnumber the series itself. > > And this isn't just for the office, remember there's a lot of popular shows, a lot of favorite characters, a lot of potential to create things that never were, so you can have a chance to see what could be. > > It's insatiable. People will not be able to help themselves. If you look at the current history of people, they consume a lot without much thought. This isn't going to be any different. > > So, time wise, It might be outrageous to say within the next ten years, but not impossible. https://old.reddit.com/r/midjourney/comments/107kz9d/do_you_think_every_single_actors_directors_crews/j3obawf/?context=3 > This sentence creates a cieling for growth that https://old.reddit.com/r/midjourney/comments/107kz9d/do_you_think_every_single_actors_directors_crews/j3oh5g6/ > People is way too generous of a word to use, because "People still use and collect vinyl" gives this impression that it's a lot, when it's not, and it's very few. And most people who buy vinyl, cannot bring it into their car and listen to it to and from places. I mean, you would have a point if that was true. > > But it's not. https://old.reddit.com/r/midjourney/comments/107kz9d/do_you_think_every_single_actors_directors_crews/j3o4vgc/ > " I show my friends my mj art and they are amazed, then I tell them I can get them started in the hobby with a quick five minutes instruction and they shrug their shoulders." > > You understand why, right? You get why they shrug their shoulders? Please tell me you at least understand that. https://old.reddit.com/r/midjourney/comments/107kz9d/do_you_think_every_single_actors_directors_crews/j3o4ms0/ > This reminds me of someone who posted a while ago about StoryPrism which was in Beta at the time and I assume still is. I wondered how this would actually work but with everything that's happened these past few months it's looking more realistic. > > Very curious how this will play out. https://old.reddit.com/r/midjourney/comments/107kz9d/do_you_think_every_single_actors_directors_crews/j3pd95n/ > Not yet. https://old.reddit.com/r/midjourney/comments/107kz9d/do_you_think_every_single_actors_directors_crews/j3pedyf/ > OP have you had a chance to check out Unreal Engine virtual production > > This was unthinkable until recently and the wild thing is, the software is free. Anyone can have access to it as long as they have a gaming computer or equivalent. https://old.reddit.com/r/midjourney/comments/107kz9d/do_you_think_every_single_actors_directors_crews/j3pfj0n/ > This is going to be moot when AI subverts the need for Hollywood completely. https://old.reddit.com/r/boxoffice/comments/11iqpzi/im_worried_about_big_data_and_hollywood/jazl94w/ > Then you just refeed the output through the AI Hand fixer. https://old.reddit.com/r/boxoffice/comments/11iqpzi/im_worried_about_big_data_and_hollywood/jb1udzx/ > Does a photo like this hit uncannily?: > > https://i.redd.it/stolen-asked-an-ai-to-show-me-a-wh40k-movie-by-paul-v0-9wbj02y53k3a1.png?width=1682&format=png&auto=webp&s=c7b907efd1602f8119da1f4686282113b462ab9a > > The only leap of technology is temporal coherence and generating it faster so you can output 24 frames per second. And it's already happening. https://old.reddit.com/r/boxoffice/comments/11iqpzi/im_worried_about_big_data_and_hollywood/jb1uzfi/ > Thats the beauty of it - why do you need actors and actresses anymore? Like I said, this is going to decimate the whole media landscape. https://old.reddit.com/r/boxoffice/comments/11iqpzi/im_worried_about_big_data_and_hollywood/jb23scd/ > And has that stopped the rapid progress we've been seeing? A lot of this new development is happening underground because of this, but it is happening. It's obvious. You type in a script idea for a show and it makes it. That's it. You've circumvented the entire development and release progress of Hollywood. Do I expect V1 to be good? Hell no. But V4 is gonna blow your fucking socks off. We already have Nothing, Forever, which takes humans out of the equation completely to frankly middling results, but its results all the same. https://old.reddit.com/r/boxoffice/comments/11iqpzi/im_worried_about_big_data_and_hollywood/jb28oly/ Based on that article and these comments, every single actors, directors, crews, writers, staff members, and so on will all be permanently replaced by AI very soon, so I advise you all to stop chasing your dreams and become something/someone else like YouTubers instead. In fact, you can even talk to these guys directly: https://old.reddit.com/user/TheSecretAgenda https://old.reddit.com/user/Dangerous_Dac ...since they're the guys who posted a lot of those comments above. Keep in mind, everyone will easily be able to create these AI films for free and since your faces can and will be easily recreated by anyone and shown on places like YouTube or Twitch for free as well, they wouldn't be making any money, so you will not be able to sue them at all, meaning that they can do whatever they want with your own faces even if you don't like what they're doing. Please. Stop being a bunch of Luddites who are stuck in the past and think for your future. P.S. I advise you all to read these comments carefully before answering them.
Does iBooch Productions exist? by Independent_Tail9378 • last post Mar 5th
I applied to a listing "Athletic Wear Launch Campaign" by iBooch Productions ([https://www.backstage.com/casting/athletic-wear-launch-campaign-actors-2584582/](https://www.backstage.com/casting/athletic-wear-launch-campaign-actors-2584582/)). They initially asked for a few normal photos. And then once I moved on to the second round, they were asking for photos of yoga poses, but taken from angles that could be provocative. From the back to be exact. It's especially odd because the original listing just said "Photos and videos, without audio, of every day activities such as drinking coffee, stretching, running, reading, and working on a laptop will be taken." The emails look legitimate, but I can't even find this production company when I google. They've been emailing me from [iboochproductions@gmail.com](mailto:iboochproductions@gmail.com) with the name "Izzy Booch." Has anyone else had experience with this? Thanks!
Where to go from here? by GoodOleMatt • last post Mar 5th
Hello all! I’m an actor in Texas, and in recent years, I’ve been experiencing success in the local city scene. I’ve been continuously cast and have received great reviews, but I almost feel like I’m hitting a plateau. I’m so grateful to be in the position I’m in here, but I can’t help but feel like there’s more steps to be taken. I’m just not sure how to go about it from here. Any suggestions? Thank you.
Been thinking about what I want to do after high school and want to seriously consider becoming a voice actor. How do I start? by Naive-Employment9742 • last post Mar 5th
I'm 15 (I'm borrowing my brother's account for this) and I've been thinking I want to become a voice actor after high school. My parents probably won't be thrilled to hear this since they really want me to have a stable job that I can go to college and get a degree for. However my dream since I was pretty young was to voice act I'm a Disney movie. Now at 15 I'm really considering this as something I want to do. I adore the work of voice actors like James Earl Jones as Darth Vader and Mufasa and Robin Williams as the Genie. Even video game voice actors like Joe Zieja as Claude von Riegan from Fire Emblen Three Houses, Harry McEntire as Noah from Xenoblade Chronicles 3, and Adam Howden as Shulk from Xenoblade Chronicles. So how do I get started, I looked at some of the stuff that this subreddit provided and was just curious if there was anything else I should know especially since I'm on the younger end. Thanks!
Stage Name Advice by benpretends • last post Mar 5th
Hello acting redditors! Please help me pick the stage name that will follow me my entire career. I’m 28. My first name is Ben, which I like very much and intend to keep. My last name starts with an L, and for whatever reason I get tongue tied trying to say my full name (something about getting from the N in Ben to the L), so that’s no bueno. Looking for something that rolls off the tongue (literally) and preferably doesn’t exceed 2-3 syllables? I feel like a long name is asking for trouble unless you’re Daniel Day Lewis lol. Hopefully it’s unique enough that I won’t run into a name that’s already taken once SAG time comes along. Just imagine you could create a character who is an actor with the first name Ben. “Ladies and gentlemen, Ben So and So!” If I go with your pick I’ll be sure to thank you in any acceptance speeches down the road
Did my middle school principal cross a line by injecting himself into our play at the last minute? by fergi20020 • last post Mar 4th
In middle school, I was cast in the school play. On the night on of the play, 5 minutes before it started, the principal told me and my fellow actors that he wants to insert himself into the play with a few lines to make the audience laugh. He gave us a new script for the scene which changed some of the actors lines. It might’ve been a small change for the principal, but it was a major change for us actors. Not surprisingly, a fellow actor made a mistake with his new line and forgot it. It was all last minute. The new scene wasn’t even that funny. It was all about the principal making a surprise cameo. Did he have to insert himself into the play at the last minute while ruining the joy for so many of us young aspiring actors? That’s aside from the fact that it butchered The Sound of Music which isn’t supposed to be a comedy with a campy cameo. Did the principal cross a line? I feel like might’ve had unfulfilled dreams of acting or that he just wanted attention. But why at the expense of ruining our play and taking away our joy?
ATL actors, what's your opinion on Get Scene? by TheGuiltyMan1414 • last post Mar 4th
I've been looking into them lately as they offer a lot of workshops from Atlanta's biggest talent agencies and casting directors, but I worry that it's a 'pay-to-play' gimmick. It looks legit since I had a friend of mine attend a workshop taught by one of these big agents and is now repped by them, but I had a friend of mine whose friends with an entertainment lawyer and apparently he says what they do is 'borderline illegal' because of this 'pay-to-play.' One of my top agencies is teaching a workshop with them. I'm debating whether or not to sign up but wanted people's opinions first. I've been hearing mixed reviews, but a lot of reputable people teach these workshops. What do you guys think? EDIT TO ADD: It doesn't look like they make promises of getting signed with these agencies or cast by these people, so maybe that's what gets them in the clear of this, but I still wanna know from those who know more.
When backstage or actor’s access is seeking worldwide actors, are they willing to help with their visa ? by Sugarbitzz • last post Mar 4th
I’m not an actor but I’m curious. When I set my location to my city (in Canada) sometimes the filming location is LA, or some other states.
Casting call is only looking for lgbtq+ or non binary actors, should I say my sexuality or should I just say I am lgbtq? by No_Landscape_1019 • last post Mar 4th
It says “lgbtq+ or non binary actors” but in the slate the only instructions are to say how you relate to the character- who’s description also says “either lgbtq+ or non binary” lol. I’m a lesbian, so I’m not sure if I should just say that since it seems like they haven’t decided on what the characters going to be, or just say lgbtq+ identifying!
Is it a bad idea to be an actor and review films as a film critic? by Potential-Pea4857 • last post Mar 4th
I think it’s obvious that actors shouldn’t badmouth films because that’s basically ruining your career before it even starts, but what if I could review films without doing that? I’m earning a BA in Film and Media Studies and becoming a film critic is definitely an option if I ever decide to, I just don’t want to hurt my acting career.