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Team 5

Nina Heimel
Annalisa Rhein
Franziska Herzog
Janek Beau

  • Tutorial 19.12

    By

    Annalisa Rhein

    ,

    Janek Beau

    ,

    Nina Heimel

    and

    Franziska Anna Herzog

    Saturday 13.12

    Read through and script rewrite

    Tryouts with lighting

    First SnorriCam Shot

    Tuesday 16.12

    Setting up the location

    Shooting

    Final Test Results

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lhXs3-VspYypB2AqD7TG2Si-xn_XwJpa/view?usp=sharing

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/11yD2-N5Jf_SYeVBDicqcgqwqepZckokh/view?usp=sharing

  • tutorial november 28th

    By

    Franziska Anna Herzog

    Recap of Concept

    In a future shaped by AI-generated intimacy, people rely on synthetic warmth that feels comforting but ultimately hollow. A narrator grows increasingly unsettled by Models that mimic affection through borrowed fragments of online desire. While most accept this artificial closeness without question, the narrator begins craving real imperfection, hesitation, and vulnerability. The search for genuine connection reveals how demanding and fragile true intimacy becomes when contrasted with the optimized ease of AI. At its core, the story follows someone who refuses to give up on the kind of human warmth that cannot be engineered.

    What is the Echochamber?

    Talking about Script

    Male Protagonist → because of of the faulty data training set

    Building a routine = showing what the echochamber is, and how it shapes our world as well digital intimacy

    Breaking the routine = breaking out of the echochamber and embracing real human closeness and intimacy

    Experiments

    Experiment: Instagram – Accounts for AI-Personas: every Team member created 2 Instagram accounts for 2 imaginary Personas, created by AI. We are texting each other without anyone knowing who’s who. The texts are written by ChatGPT roleplaying each persona. This is a try on simulating the Echochamber. 

    Playing with Camera Angels, Lenses and AI Tools

    style of filming: body mounted Camera rig

    different focal lengths can cause distortion of face 

    fisheye lense

    initial picture & AI picture using Nano Banana

    AI video using Kling AI

    AI video enhancement

    Individual Inspirations

    Requiem for a dream

    Best Friend, GOBELINS

    Todd Hido

    Storytelling via room

    Work in progress:

    script

    techniques

    camera and mood inspo

    trying out different things

    continuing AI-Instagram-Experiment

  • Research

    By

    Annalisa Rhein

    Reaching out to people in the sex work industry to ask them about the impact of AI in their field:

    Questions:

    • What is intimacy?
      • What are the sociological and psychological aspects of it?
      • What is digital intimacy?
    • What is sexual autonomy?
      • How did feminist movements create sexual autonomy for women?
    • …

    Intimacy is not a fixed state, but a process of negotiation. It arises through relationship, communication, and consent. Feminist and queer productions portray intimacy as something real, contradictory, sometimes imperfect — and that is their strength. Especially in times of AI, intimacy is being renegotiated — also between humans and technology.

    – Jasmin Hagendorfer

    Second Session with Soph

    • choosing Intimacy as our broad topic (keeping the porn industry aspect in the background)

    Saeed’s workshop

    Workshop product itself: Satirical aspect

    • We didn’t like that our video “made fun” of people that want to experience sexuality in ways common people are not used to

    => Led our community towards activism

    In the ‘solved world’, the image of women, their bodies and sex is twisted and warped into unrealistic standards

    • our community would fight against that

    for us: difficult to imagine how that could look like, still explicit because of the porn aspect

    Matthew’s workshop

    (see other post)

    We moved away from sex and toward intimacy through gestures (specifically hands and touch), including intimacy outside of romantic relationships, for example: friendships, family, intimacy in comforting and listening, etc. Also intimacy in encounters with strangers, and so on.

    Creating a story

    • instead of creating a community around intimacy => focus on creating intimacy (and maybe community) throughout the story
      • focus on one or fewer characters = more personal
    • What’s the situation and environment for our character?

    We decided that in our film, we want to represent intimacy through storytelling rather than focusing directly on a community.
    We want to show one or two people in our documentary who, in some way, are involved with AI companions (owning AI companions, “programming” or finalizing AI companions for others = character trainers) and portray their intimacy as well as the related problems, questions, lifestyles, and so on.

    We moved away from the porn industry, but we’re not completely ruling out that it might still have an influence on our subjects or on the AI companions.

    • How does intimacy appear for our character?
    • What is the message we want to convey with our movie?

  • Touch

    By

    Janek Beau

    First tryouts

    Library of gestures

    Generated hands

    Ainimate with sora2 and wan 2.2

    Poem

    What is it for if not for the warmth shivering down your spine descended from the hand on your shoulder?
    If not for the comfort you feel being stroked on your cheeks?
    If not for the safety being wrapped around you in a hug?
    If not for the fear being carefully wiped away along with your tears?
    If not for the beat your heart skips as lips meet your forehead?
    If not for the courage ascending from the hand that tightly holds yours?
    What is it for, if not for the touch?

    Elvenlabs

    Video

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/11-DitPjLeOkOVA1L8CcCqL-rlY0psgyE/view?usp=sharing