04.02.01
Who Made This?
Make authorship and assistance legible.
- AI Filmmaking
What the Instructor can readThe Instructor reads your written work as text. This lesson's feedback rubric is new and has not been reviewed by an instructor yet.
The Idea
Make authorship and assistance legible.
A film can include original footage, collaborators' performances, licensed music, stock assets, templates and generated material. Authorship becomes clearer when you can say what each contribution is and how it entered the work. Credit, permission and provenance answer different questions: who contributed, what use is allowed, and where the material came from.
A credit line does not automatically grant permission. A generated asset is not automatically free of restrictions or an accurate record of a real event. Keep a simple asset ledger while working rather than reconstructing it at the end. State meaningful assistance plainly. You do not need to inflate a small tool use into the film's whole identity, but do not present generated images as camera-captured evidence. Specific, accurate disclosure builds a more useful account of your choices.
Watch
Watching is optional. The worked example below is a complete route through the lesson on its own. These links identify the films — they are not a promise of free streaming, and the questions are FILMCRAFT's own.
The Red Balloon
Albert Lamorisse · 1956
Inspect available credits and distinguish named roles from your guesses about production.
In the Mood for Love
Wong Kar-wai · 2000
Do the same for another work. Credits reveal some contributions; they are not a complete account of every tool, agreement or creative decision.
Break It Down
Original ledger: hallway footage—recorded by Rae; performance—Sol, agreed for this project; key sound—recorded by Rae; music—third-party track, permission unresolved; mood-board image—generated reference, not in final film. The unresolved track must be replaced, cleared or omitted before the intended release. “Music found online” is not a usable source record. A reference image excluded from the final cut still belongs in the process disclosure if it materially shaped the work.
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Worked example
Original ledger: hallway footage—recorded by Rae; performance—Sol, agreed for this project; key sound—recorded by Rae; music—third-party track, permission unresolved; mood-board image—generated reference, not in final film. The unresolved track must be replaced, cleared or omitted before the intended release. “Music found online” is not a usable source record. A reference image excluded from the final cut still belongs in the process disclosure if it materially shaped the work.
Frame Lab
Visual mission
Build a five-column ledger: asset, creator/source, role in project, permission/license status, required credit/disclosure. “Unknown” is an honest temporary status, not approval to publish.
FILMCRAFT stores your observations and source links — never other people's images.
Try It
Try It
Submit a 180–250-word audit of five assets in a real or hypothetical short. Include at least one original, one external and one assisted/generated item. Mark unresolved questions explicitly. You may use a fictional project rather than expose private agreements.
Constraints
- Separate credit from permission
Deliverable
your asset ledger (180–250 words)
Make It
Make It
Submit a 300–450-word authorship packet: asset ledger, proposed credits, concise AI-assistance disclosure and a resolution plan for every unknown. If all assets are original, explain contributions and permissions without inventing external items. Do not publish as part of the exercise.
Constraints
- Unresolved rights stay listed as unresolved
Deliverable
your disclosure and unresolved items (300–450 words)
AI Lab
Ask AI to identify missing ledger fields and unclear disclosure language. It cannot establish ownership or grant permission. Verify source terms yourself; where needed, obtain qualified advice for the actual release. Test whether your disclosure tells a reader what was made, transformed and selected without marketing language.
Sign in to sketch reference frames for this lesson.
Reflect
Go Deeper
Read the actual license attached to any reused asset. Record its link and access date, and preserve the relevant permission record. Requirements depend on that source and intended use; this exercise does not certify legal clearance.