Leon Dean
ABOUT
Nestled in London’s busiest hospital is a Piano donated by Noel Coward that anyone is free to play. This the story of three pianists John, Steve and D, whose lives have been saved by the piano.
PROCESS
This is a hybrid documentary and AI film. We see the pianists at the piano in a mixture of live video and AI enhanced shots. As the pianists start talking about their past, we transform the live action video (using AI) into an art style that represents their style of music and their personalities (Romantic for John, American Realism for Steve and Oil Painting for D) and use AI to show the backstory they tell whilst playing the piano. We finally come back to them in live video as they arrive at the moment of truth, understanding what the piano means to them. Live video, interviews recorded and cut into their piano performances in the hospital. Gen-4 Aleph and Seedance 2.0 to initially transform the hospital video into the art style of the performers. AI rotoscoping from Premiere. Gen4 and Nanobanana for backstory AI image generation Gen4.5, Veo3.1, Kling 3.0 and Seedance 2.0 (from inside Runway) for backstory AI video generation.
Credits
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