Production
How a scene gets made. Workflow, shot lists, continuity, and the craft decisions that separate a scene from a set of clips.

Luca Guadagnino made a film about Sam Altman for Amazon MGM. It world-premieres at the New York Film Festival. Where it goes after that is unclear.

Not an IP deal, not a training deal, no obligation to put a generated frame on screen. The reaction happened anyway, and that's the part worth reading.

Forty terms you'll meet making AI video, each defined from the source that actually defines it.

Whether it applies to you turns on a scope test most coverage skips — and fiction gets a lighter obligation than you'd expect.

YouTube's own description of what it demonetizes is, read backwards, a specification for short drama.

Two disclosures, two different reasons, and neither satisfies the other. One is federal law applied; the other is one state's statute.

YouTube split its inauthentic content policy into three named categories in July 2026, and its own trust and safety lead says the policy didn't change.

Six decisions. Three of them can't be changed later at all, and one of those surprises almost everyone.

Owning your output and holding copyright in it are two different things, and your platform can only give you the first.

The category numbers are solid and widely misquoted. The production numbers barely exist. Knowing which is which is the whole skill.

Your shots look good individually and wrong together. That's a coverage problem, and film has solved it for a century.

Three platforms, one EU regulation and the FTC all want something different, and your generation tool probably provides none of it.
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