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The client needed a video to announce the launch of his new app: a markeplace that leverages blockchain technology (stablecoins) to simplify international transactions to Africa. He had a limited budget and a tight deadline. So, naturally, I suggested an AI-generated video. I gave him two proposals. The following is the draft of the discarded one:
Client was impressed with the outcome & validated one of the concepts on which we did the final edits and it's now pending the launch of his campaign.
Upon Chabaka's request, I collaborated with the Tunisian National Television Team (our client) to come up with a concept that we can work on together. I pitched some ideas, among which a series where we use AI to upscale, colorize & restore historic footage & audio recording of historical Tunisian artists & use that to create a documentary. The following is the pilot:
All of this was done in 3 weeks, right on time for the ASBU conference on AI and its use in journalism.
It was very challenging to work with the videos I received from the archive but Topaz was powerful enough to change them drastically. I then used an AI colorizer on a cloud GPU to colorize the videos. It wasn't perfect, but it was huge compared to the initial state.
For the audio, I cleaned up the artists' voice and cloned it, then made him sing a more recent Tunisian classic while keeping his expression.
I also used another TTS to generate the narration for the documentary & video generators to create scenes for the music video part.
The clients loved it so much and want to go forward with this series. They're currently gathering a team to work on it. We displayed the episode to showcase the collaboration in ASBU conference, which opened up the possibility to get a lot of new customers.
Here's the interview link
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