The AI video looked incredible. You forgot it four seconds later.

Polish was never the problem.

On Saturday, October 17, 2026, I’ll be teaching an in-person AI Filmmaking and Creative Video Generation workshop at Bellevue College. Over four hands-on hours, we’ll explore what it takes to move beyond generating impressive clips toward making deliberate cinematic choices.

The workshop is designed for anyone curious about AI video. No filmmaking background is required.

What We’ll Be Doing

We’ll work hands-on in Google Flow, Google’s AI filmmaking environment powered by Veo, and look closely at what these systems can—and cannot—do.

Rather than treating prompting as a matter of describing increasingly elaborate images, we’ll focus on the decisions that help a shot hold together:

• How to prompt for a coherent shot rather than simply a beautiful frame
• Why generated characters, spaces, movement, and visual details drift
• What to look for when a generated clip almost works
• How to diagnose problems instead of endlessly rerolling
• How to make intentional choices about continuity, perspective, movement, and meaning

The goal isn’t simply to generate more video. It’s to develop better judgment about the video we generate.

AI Cinematic Realism in Practice

The workshop draws extensively from AI Cinematic Realism (AICR), the framework I developed for approaching generative filmmaking as an act of authorship rather than automated image production.

AICR asks us to look beyond surface polish and consider whether a generated shot is coherent perceptually, environmentally, emotionally, and cinematically.

Or, put more simply:

Images can be generated. Cinema must be authored.

We’ll use those ideas practically throughout the workshop to evaluate footage, identify where a shot breaks down, and decide what to change.

A CHAIRES Educational Initiative

This workshop also grows out of my work through CHAIRES: Center for Human–AI Research, Ethics, and Studies, where we explore human–AI collaboration across research, ethics, culture, and creative practice.

AI filmmaking is a particularly rich place to have those conversations. These tools raise creative possibilities, but they also require human judgment around authorship, representation, copyright, transparency, and responsible use.

The technology matters. What we choose to do with it matters more.

Workshop Details

📅 Saturday, October 17, 2026
🕐 1:00–5:00 PM
📍 Bellevue College Main Campus, Building T, Room T122
🎟️ $69 | 0.4 CEUs
💻 Bring a laptop. No filmmaking background required.

Registration closes October 10.

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For the full course description and registration:

I’d love to see you there.