“Now, YOU can create cartoon versions of your favorite movies”
Summary
Inspired by the marvellous work of Victor Wendt, this project provides opportunities to look at involving AI tools for the Year 9&10 Media Arts curriculum looking at the achievement standard:
It is intended to look specifically at:
AC9AMA10D01 -experiment with ways to construct representations that reflect ideas, perspectives and/or meaning, and/or use of media conventions, media languages and media technologies,
AC9AMA10C01 - design and structure media arts works that examine and communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning.
Key Questions:
How does a depiction of film style/genre affect perceptions and expectations of a film?
How can a image representing a scene from a film be used to attract specific audiences?
Overview
Students are to:
Select a well known film and a scene that represents the film’s key message and/or the character(s)
Find a static image online that shows that scene, download or screenshot that image
Decide on a film style that is different from the original
Upload the saved image to a chatbot with image generation facilities or a specific AI image generator
Write prompts to recreate a new version of the image in a different style
Iterate until the new version is as intended
Provide evidence of the new image, prompts used and reflections on their work to answer the key questions
Scroll down to see examples of this work using Microsoft Bing Chat (CoPilot)
Truman Show
A man ascending a staircase he has discovered in what he thought was the sky but it is in fact the backdrop to a movie studio he is living in. He touches the backdrop as he ascends. Recreate this scene in the style of a Science Fiction image with a Film Noir style. The image should be dark and moody, with a futuristic setting. Use blue, black, and grey colors to create a sense of mystery and intrigue.
The Matrix
A cartoon image, family friendly for a comedy genre, of a futuristic man with dark hair and dark clothing standing in the foreground looking cool with another bald man behind him, partially shaded out. Both men are wearing sunglasses and looking mean. The background is columns of binary code in hazy green.
Possible adaptions & variations
This project could be modified to recreate scenes using AI text-to-video tools such as Pika or more traditional video editing tools where images generated by AI are compiled and edited to form a dynamic, video trailer.