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In an industry often characterized by time pressure and creative challenges, transparency and employee wellbeing are key. How can we ensure that all employees work in a safe and supportive environment?

It is essential that production companies develop mechanisms to receive regular feedback on working conditions and respond quickly to issues. This is where the "Call It!" app, which was launched in the UK in 2021, comes in. It makes it possible to anonymously evaluate everyday working life and thus draw attention to concerns about health, safety and the working environment at an early stage.

bildundtonfabrik (btf) in Germany is committed to making this transparency the standard and supports the app developers. The aim is to promote a culture in which regular reflection on working conditions is a matter of course.

Sarah van Holt (btf GmbH) and Kate Wilson (Callit! App) talk about the challenges and opportunities of their collaboration.

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Sarah van Holt has been working as an HR Manager at btf GmbH in Cologne since September 2023. Prior to this, she spent 13 years at M.E. Works GmbH, where she held various positions, including Head of Production, HR, and Production Management. Her career began at @d art medienproduktion GmbH & Co. KG, where she worked for over four years as a Junior Producer and Production Manager. Sarah completed her apprenticeship as an audiovisual media clerk and has extensive experience in production, personnel, and administrative management.

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Kate works in film and TV as a writer, producer and consultant. She worked with the Film and TV Charity on their mental health project and Covid relief strategy, raising more than £9M from industry partners. She is a graduate of UCLA and RADA and a Member of the Bar of England and Wales.

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Hannes Jakobsen and his digital studio DRIVE beta are exploring the boundaries of the fusion between humans and machines. What potential does this offer? What happens when AI is seen not just as an assistant, but as a partner?

Based on three extraordinary projects, he provides insights into the integration of artificial intelligence in the production of new film projects: Documentary: "Better Than Human? - Life with AI" How is artificial intelligence changing our lives? Can it replace emotional caregivers? This documentary sheds light on the ethical, social and emotional challenges associated with the integration of AI into our everyday lives. Experience the controversial question: Are machines better than humans? Film: "BOOM - One band, 1000 problems" An AI chatbot is part of the ensemble cast of this feature film, which tells the story of a successful girl band. Dynamic and spontaneous interactions made possible by the chatbot's continuous behind-the-scenes prompting take the story to a whole new level. Documentary: "The AI Manifesto" Four filmmakers come together to write a manifesto for the future of film in the age of AI. This film shows what new paths open up for the film industry when creativity and technology complement each other.

Let us inspire you and discuss the future of artificial intelligence in the creative industry with us.

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Hannes Jakobsen was born in 1984 in Munich. He studied Film and Media at the University of Copenhagen, as well as Media Management at Copenhagen Business School and Hamburg Media School. His career led him to the YouTube team at Google, where he worked as a Partner Manager and Creative Strategist. Later, he became the Chief Creative Officer at the MCN DIVIMOVE, which is now known as We Are Era. Today, Hannes is the co-founder and CEO of DRIVE beta, a creative digital studio and production company based in Berlin.

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AI-powered tools are taking story and project development by storm, promising to boost creativity, efficiency, and speed. They assist, next to plenty of other applications, in creating visuals to illustrate ideas, written material, styles, and visions. But (how) does AI-assisted pre-visualization really work, beyond the hype? In a live experiment and working with the results achieved in the previous Explorer Impuls, graphic designer and visual artist Julie Wieland will go from idea to draft to concept in 30 min and explore how AI PRE-VIZ PROMPTING can be used in story and project development. This session is a follow-up to Explorer Impuls #9 on Sept 5 on AI STORY PROMPTING.

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AI powered tools are entering the story development and script writing scene, promising the end to the writer’s block and to boost creativity, efficiency and speed. But (how) does AI assisted story development really work, beyond the hype? In a live experiment and starting with a newspaper article Thomas Kornmaier authorfor film TV and audio serials will go from idea to concept in 30 min and explore how AI Story Prompting can be used to brainstorm ideas and develop storylines and characters. The aim of this experiment is to explore how AI can be used in the development of films and series.

The Explorer Impuls #10 on Sept 19 will focus on pre-vizualising the results achieved in this session.

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The media is ubiquitously talking about the great revolution caused by AI. Just: which AI tools can be used in a (film) professional context - and what for? From free text tools like ChatGPT 3.5 and Claude to commercial and open-source audio and video tools, Timor Kardum, Chief Creative Technologist at the design and technology company MAGIG, will share an insight into some of the tools he uses himself and how they can be applied with no or little previous knowledge.

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Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg has recently added a groundbreaking functionality to their streaming platform and offers audiences an in-stream experience: rbb xplore allows viewers to dive into a whole universe behind the scenes. Without a second screen, viewers can explore additional information and content about actors, locations, historic events etc. without leaving their player. Florian Hesse from rbb and Claudia Wolf, COO Metadata at transfermedia production services, present how rbb xplore was used for the docu-drama “Kennedy’s Love for Europe”, introduce the technology behind rbb xplore, dive into requirements and benefits of automated data management during film production and discuss how audiences (and producers) can benefit from this new technology.

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Vor dem Hintergrund der Serien-Projekte REEPERBAHN SPECIAL UNIT FD65 (Gebrüder Beetz Filmproduktion, Premiere auf dem Filmfest Hamburg 2022) und HERRHAUSEN (Sperl Film, in Produktion) werden in dem Explorer Impuls #6 am 19. Sept (14:00 - 16:00) grundsätzliche Fragen zu Finanzierung, Herstellung und Auswertung von deutschen High-End Serien diskutiert.

Dabei geht es u.a. um den Bedarf für Eckpunkte zur Beteiligung der ARD an TV-Koproduktionen (vergleichbar mit den Eckpunkten für Kino-Koproduktionen und TV-Auftragsproduktionen), die zu hohen Zugangsschwellen zum DFFF, die lange Dauer der Vertragserstellung durch die LRA und der dadurch erschwerte Zugang zum GMPF, den Umgang mit non-linearen Rechten, den Produktionsrealismus…

CHRISTIAN BEETZ (Reeperbahn Special Unit FD65), GABRIELA SPERL (Herrhausen), CHRISTINE STROBL (Programmdirektorin der ARD), MARTINA ZÖLLNER (Programmbereichsleitung Kultur und Fiktion beim RBB) und THOMAS GRAVE (Legal Counsel OneGate Media) diskutieren, wie die Bedingungen insbesondere für die Finanzierung so gestaltet sein müssen, dass deutsche fiktionale und dokumentarische Produktionen international erfolgreich und konkurrenzfähig sein können. Moderation: CHRISTIAN BALZ (Neue Bioskop).

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While the masterful work of make-up artists has been supported by visual effects houses for the last decades, a whole new era in VFX dawns with the emergence of automated visual effects created by artificial intelligence.

Timor Kardum, Co-Founder, Managing Director, and Chief Creative Technologist of design and technology company MAGIG, explores the use of AI in aging, de-aging and cloning of actors faces (and voices) and how this new technology impacts storytelling and the film industry at large.

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Anlässlich des 100. Geburtstags von Sophie Scholl holte das Instagram-Projekt @ichbinsophiescholl die Widerstandskämpferin ab dem 9. Mai (2021) aus den Geschichtsbüchern in die Gegenwart und begleitete sie in nachempfundener Echtzeit und u.a. mit fiktional gedrehten Sequenzen durch die letzten zehn Monate ihres Lebens. 300 Tage später, ca. drei Stunden bewegtes Videomaterial, dazu täglicher Content durch Posts, Reels und eine wöchentliche Zusammenfassung auf IGTV, mit durchschnittlich 840.000 Follower:innen und im Schnitt 630 Kommentare unter jedem der 401 Posts, endete die Serie am 18. Februar (2022), dem Tag der Verhaftung der realen Sophie Scholl im Jahr 1943.

Jochen Laube (Produzent, Sommerhaus Serien) und Katja Siegel (Head of Production, VICE Media) sprechen in diesem Explorer Impuls über dieses einzigartige, auch kontrovers diskutierte Projekt und geben Einblicke in die Produktion von Instagram-Storytelling (mit einem 40-köpfigen Gesamtteam), dem Aufbau und Management einer aktiven Community, dem Umgang mit teils heftiger Kritik und ihren wichtigsten Erkenntnissen zur Produktion von plattformbasiertem Storytelling.

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Produktion: Sommerhaus Serien GmbH Content Development: Unframed Productions Content Production: Vice Media im Auftrag von SWR und BR

Fotocredit: ©Rebecca Rütten / Sommerhaus Filmproduktion und VICE Media / SWR und BR

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Virtual Production enables filmmaker to tell stories in unprecedented ways. It combines live action and computer graphics in real time and dissolves the traditional workflow of pre-production, production and post-production. Actors can now perform in front of large LED screens, virtual and real elements merge in real time, virtual locations and VFX are pre-produced for the shooting ... This radically different production philosophy is a real game changer, not just for high budget productions.

Producer Raymond van der Kaaij (Executive Producer and Managing Partner of Revolver Amsterdam) and director Hugo Keijzer will give an exclusive insight into the production story of their upcoming Sci-Fi feature film THE OCCUPANT.

On a desperate quest for her dying sister’s survival, Abby finds herself stranded and alone in the icy Russian wilderness, where a mysterious helper offers her the choice between accepting the inevitable or abandoning reality.

Watch the teaser here: https://revolver.nl/film-tv/2225/the-occupant

Proof of concept selected for Frontieres Platform Cannes 2020, Sitges Filmfestival, 23rd Bucheon International Fantastic Filmfestival.

The project has received an Epic MegaGrant from Epic Games. The MegaGrant will be used to accelerate the developmental use of groundbreaking filmmaking technologies with Unreal Engine in the real-time graphics and virtual production space for the film. The effective use of revolutionary gaming technology coupled with years of experience telling impactful stories will take the vision of this film to new heights.

Revolver is an Amsterdam based production house with a global reach. The company creates content operating at the intersection of entertainment, advertising & digital.

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Durch Virtual Production entstehen neue Möglichkeiten filmische Geschichten zu erzählen, ebenso wie neue Berufsbilder. Virtual Production kombiniert Live-Action und Computergrafiken in Echtzeit und löst die traditionelle Reihenfolge des Filmemachens aus Vorproduktion, Produktion und Postproduktion auf. Sets werden nur noch teilweise real aufgebaut, Darsteller*innen agieren vor großen LED-Leinwänden, virtuelle und reale Elemente verschmelzen in Echtzeit, die virtuellen Locations ebenso wie VFX werden für die Dreharbeiten vorproduziert…

Während Virtual Production bei Hollywood-Produktionen bereits weit verbreitet ist, hat der große Durchbruch im Bereich der Independent- und Arthouse-Produktion noch nicht stattgefunden.

Produzent Andreas Schlieter, Regisseur Pascal Schröder und DoP Daniel Schua geben einen detaillierten Einblick in die Produktionsgeschichte ihres unabhängig produzierten Hamburger Debütfilms The Social Experiment, der zur Zeit fertiggestellt wird. Sie erläutern wie sie Virtual Production bereits während des Drehbuchschreibens eingesetzt haben, wie Location Scouting auf dem Mond funktioniert, wie man ein Set aus virtuellen und realen Elementen baut und wie es sich insgesamt anfühlt, Pionierschritte beim Filmemachen zu gehen.

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