I Wrote a Book: AI-Assisted Cinema
A year of production notes finally stopped fitting in blog posts. My first book is out now on Amazon.
By Alexander Kiesel, film producer, director, and founder of Periti Studios.
For about a year I have been keeping notes on what AI tools actually do inside a production. Not what the demos promise. What holds up on a Tuesday when a deadline is close and a shot still is not right. At some point the notes stopped fitting in blog posts, so I turned them into a book. It is called AI-Assisted Cinema: How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Film Production, and it went live on Amazon on July 2.
What is in it
The book walks through the production loop the way I actually move through it at Periti Studios: script development, previsualization, 2.5D animation, editing, VFX, sound, then marketing and release. Each chapter covers what the tools are good for, where they fall over, and what that means if you run a small studio instead of a large one.
There is also a chapter on credit, consent, and taste. I kept it in because those questions come up in every serious conversation I have about this work, and pretending they are settled would make the rest of the book less honest.
Why a book and not another essay
The Hollywood Is Cooked essay made one argument: cheap iteration changes who gets to make things. A book gave me room to show the mechanics behind that argument. How a visual world gets tested before money is committed. Why the filmmaker stays the author when a machine sits in the workflow. The essay made the claim, and the book carries the evidence.
Who it is for
Filmmakers, producers, creative directors, and digital storytellers, mostly. If you make things with a small team and you are tired of coverage that treats AI as either an apocalypse or a magic trick, I wrote it for you. It is short on purpose. You can read it in an evening and argue with me by morning.