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AI
Background


I work with AI as part of film and image-based production workflows, using it to support visual development, concept testing, and production planning. The focus is practical: using AI to explore ideas, generate visual environments, and help teams make clearer decisions before and during a shoot.

My background in photography, design, and painting shapes how I approach these tools.
I use AI selectively and in dialogue with existing film processes, treating it as an extension of visual thinking rather than a replacement for craft or collaboration.

In practice, this includes AI-assisted storyboards and visual references for pitches and treatments, early concept exploration, and the generation of visual environments used within production contexts.
For example; on a commercial shoot for Ackermans, I generated AI-based background visuals for large-scale LCD screen projection. The shoot took place in studio, with the projected environments used to create a summer setting in-camera. This allowed the production to control light, tone, and atmosphere on set, while reducing the need for location-dependent variables.
AI-generated summer environments used for large-scale LCD screen projection on set. 
This kind of work sits between development and production; using AI to prototype, test, and supply visual material that can be integrated directly into a shoot, rather than deferred entirely to post-production.

I’m interested in expanding this approach across projects where AI can support visual planning, environment generation, and continuity between concept, shoot, and post.

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Research & Development
- AI Filmmaking course,
Curious Refuge, 2025.

The programme focused on using AI within real filmmaking contexts — developing short-form films, testing visual ideas, and exploring how AI can support storytelling, art direction, and production workflows.

The course strengthened my understanding of how AI tools can be integrated thoughtfully into film processes, from early concept development through to production-facing experimentation, without separating them from analogue craft or collaborative practice.
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R.A.W. Exhibition
Alongside commercial workflows, I also use AI as a tool for critical and artistic thinking. 

In R.A.W., I explored the tension between tactile painting and machine-generated imagery, combining hand-rendered works with AI-generated portraits and video. I treated AI output as material; intervening through drawing, paint, and physical printing on perspex to question what authorship, identity, and intimacy look like in a machine age.

View R.A.W.