Anyone can
generate it.
Making it land
is the job.
Twenty years of motion design. Twelve years directing corporate film. Four hundred productions for the brands below. Now pointed squarely at the thing almost everyone is getting wrong about AI video.
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Turn Up To Eleven
Severn Trent
A full AI film delivered in eight days for an internal comms conference. Briefed as a stock-footage assembly. Delivered as something the client did not know was available to them.
- AI conference opener
- 8 days
- Not producible
The Ten-Point AI Content Check
Ten failure modes that make AI video read as cheap. Every one is observable, gradeable — and none of them can be spotted by the team that generated the content, because spotting them is what the twenty years were for.
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3D spatial continuity
Geography breaks between shots. The room quietly reassembles itself and the viewer stops believing the space.
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Actor performance
Faces that emote at nothing. Gesture without intent. The uncanny stillness behind the eyes.
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Scene continuity
Props, wardrobe, weather and time of day drifting shot to shot.
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Voice-over consistency
Tone, pace and mic character shifting mid-film, so the narrator becomes several people.
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Character consistency
The same person, subtly different every time they appear. Audiences clock it instantly.
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Colour grade consistency
Every shot looking like it came from a different film — the single fastest tell of AI assembly.
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Story structure
No spine. A sequence of impressive images that never becomes an argument, so nothing lands.
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Joins in long shots
Visible seams where generations were stitched to reach the required duration.
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Iteration control
Fixing one detail destroys everything that was already working. The most expensive failure on this list.
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Motion graphics control
Type and motion that cannot hit brand specification, a beat, or an accessible contrast ratio.
- PwC
- Deloitte
- Accenture
- CGI
- Infosys
- Grant Thornton
- Cisco
- Vodafone
- BT
- Openreach
- Softcat
- Toshiba
- Ricoh
- Epson
- Panasonic
- Xbox
- Amdocs
- HSBC
- AXA
- Barclaycard
- Schroders
- Prudential
- BNY Mellon
- FTSE Russell
- Old Mutual
- Quilter
- Allianz
- State Street
- Direct Line
- Severn Trent
- Scottish Water
- ExxonMobil
- BP
- Castrol
- EDF
- British Gas
- Stryker
- AbbVie
- Johnson & Johnson
- Bupa
- Norgine
- McDonald's
- Domino's
- Kellogg's
- Mondelez
- Danone
- Campari
- Estée Lauder
- New Balance
- Adidas
- Levi’s
- BMW
- Audi
- Subaru
- Specsavers
- Virgin Active
- The Body Shop
- Pets at Home
- FedEx
- DHL
- Royal Mail
- TUI
- CNN
- CNBC
- Thomson Reuters
- BuzzFeed
- United Nations
- Formula 1
- Goodwood
- Weber Shandwick
- VCCP
Craft
- Full video production
- Direction
- Video editing
- VFX
- 3D animation
- Motion graphics
- Colour grading
- Graphic design
- Illustration
AI-native
- AI film production
- AI content audit
- Content rescue & rebuild
- AI content standards
- Concept & previsualisation
Digital
- Web design
- Managed websites
- Brand identity
- Presentation & event graphics
Craft first.
AI second.
Never the other way round.
Send me the film that isn’t working. You’ll have a verdict in 48 hours.
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