OPEN KNOWLEDGE / BAI-LEY
THE PRODUCTION
ARCHIVE.
For the people commissioning and making the work.
Practical guides, precise definitions and production experience.
Professional AI production
Direction, artists, continuity and delivery.
What is professional AI film production?
A practical guide to AI-native filmmaking, human direction, shot development, continuity and delivery.
↗PROFESSIONAL AI PRODUCTIONBAI-LEY AI Academy: the historical announcement
A preserved record of the Academy announcement, with current availability kept separate from the original programme proposal.
↗Rights, provenance & compliance
Permissions, authorship and work you can account for.
How should rights and provenance be handled in AI production?
Separate permissions, authorship, production history and delivery approvals before commissioning AI material.
↗RIGHTS & PROVENANCEWhat do broadcasters need before accepting AI-generated material?
Prepare a commissioner-specific review of editorial purpose, source permissions, approvals, provenance and technical delivery.
↗RIGHTS & PROVENANCEHow do you establish chain of title for AI-generated film content?
Build a reviewable rights trail through source material, contributors, agreements, versions and delivery.
↗Planning & budgeting
Cost, scope, schedules and the questions worth asking.
How do you plan and budget an AI-native production?
Plan shots, approvals, revisions, dependencies and delivery before estimating an AI film or television project.
↗PLANNING & BUDGETINGHow much does AI film production cost?
What drives an AI film quote, how to compare proposals and why a price per generated minute is incomplete.
↗PLANNING & BUDGETINGWhat should you ask an AI production company?
A buyer’s checklist for evaluating production capability, continuity, permissions, review and final delivery.
↗AI VFX & virtual production
Where to generate, where to shoot and how to combine them.
How do AI VFX and virtual production fit together?
Choose generated imagery, live action and virtual production according to the needs of each scene.
↗AI VFX & VIRTUAL PRODUCTIONWhat should you capture for AI-assisted filmmaking?
Plan reference and performance capture around the intended scene, permissions and later production tasks.
↗AI VFX & VIRTUAL PRODUCTIONAsa Bailey’s virtual production workshop announcement
Historical record of the RED and British Society of Cinematographers virtual production workshop announcement.
↗Glossary
Precise definitions for a clearer production conversation.
What do the terms in professional AI production mean?
Plain definitions of the language used in AI filmmaking, rights, approvals and production governance.
↗GLOSSARYWhat is a Generative Artist?
A Generative Artist develops images, moving images or other production material using generative tools in response to a brief and creative direction. The role includes interpretation, selection, revision and preparing work for the next production stage.
↗GLOSSARYWhat is provenance in AI film production?
Provenance is the record of where production material came from and how it developed. It can connect sources, transformations, versions, decisions and the people or organisations responsible for them.
↗GLOSSARYWhat is a chain of authority?
A chain of authority identifies who is entitled to instruct, approve or permit a particular action. In production it connects decisions to the people or organisations authorised to make them.
↗GLOSSARYWhat is chain of title for a film?
Chain of title is the documented rights trail supporting the proposed exploitation of a film. It connects the relevant creators, rights holders, agreements and permissions to the work being offered.
↗GLOSSARYWhat is multimodal IP?
Multimodal IP is a creative property expressed across connected forms of media, such as scripts, characters, visual designs, environments, performances, voices, music and finished sequences.
↗GLOSSARYWhat is AI-native film production?
AI-native production plans generated material as part of the filmmaking method from development onwards. Design, direction, shot development, editorial, approvals and delivery are organised around that approach.
↗GLOSSARYWhat is production governance?
Production governance is the arrangement of responsibilities, permissions, review stages and escalation that lets a production make accountable decisions. It establishes who can do what and how exceptions are handled.
↗GLOSSARYWhat is a creative approval?
A creative approval is a decision accepting specified material for a stated creative purpose. It should identify the reviewer, the material and version reviewed, the decision and any conditions.
↗Case notes & proof
Production experience, with the contribution made clear.
What can production work tell you about an AI film company?
Read production examples with clear credits, specific contributions and limits on what the evidence proves.
↗CASE NOTESSilo Season II: bringing virtual production decisions onto set
An updated archive note on Asa Bailey’s virtual production supervisor credit and the relationship between on-set decisions and post-production.
↗CASE NOTESSomething Pointless: live action and AI VFX
Asa Bailey’s short film, starring Owen Teale and Sophie Thompson, provides a context for discussing AI VFX within live-action filmmaking.
↗CASE NOTESAsa Bailey and the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
A preserved membership announcement, linked to Asa Bailey’s current author profile.
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