Students from rural and urban areas in Colombia use artificial intelligence to create films, animations and tell stories.
Dozens of students from remote areas in Colombia make films, animations and audiovisual productions, with the help of artificial intelligence and overcoming resource and infrastructure barriers.
From urban and rural areas, young people participate in training camps Computers for Educationwhere creativity intersects with technology and AI becomes an ally to transform ideas into audiovisual content that reflects their territories, views and realities.
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Young creators
Laura Jimena, a Nuevo Colón student at Colegio Llano Grande, spoke about her approach to the audiovisual world.
“At school we have tools for creating short or feature films, but we always live with the difficulty that, for example, we are going to record something or some ideas that are very difficult to record with our classmates,” he said.
Sara Monsalve, a student from a rural area in the municipality of Chiquinquirá, Boyacá, also referred to the creation through the AI.
“Right now I’m making an animation, and I imagined this animation. It’s something very abstract, and animating it would take me like a week or a month, or even more, but here, through AI, well, I gave her instructions, and she helped me make a prompt, to give it to MetaAI“, said.
Young people develop animations from abstract ideas that could take weeks or even months to complete. Today, thanks to the use of AI, this process is reduced to seconds through the creation of prompts and the support of platforms such as Meta AI.
Training aspect
The training process is supported by teachers. Julio Ricauteprofessor specialized in artificial intelligence, highlighted that one of the great advantages of these tools is the elimination of creative barriers.
“We are involving young people, so that they feel like they use it in a positive way, and not that they just tell him like, hey, do my homework for me and I didn’t learn anything.but simply come, understand how it is used and how we can transform, through AI, an entire universe, which is cinema,” he explained.
Rural areas
Carla Lowe, filmmaker and professor of film and artificial intelligence, spoke about the barriers that students have in rural areas that are difficult to access.
“When we work with communities or in the region, we always have to bring from the nearest city, which can easily be 8 hours away, 2 boats, etc. So With the Internet and a computer we can generate short and feature filmsvideo clips and institutional videos. I find it fascinating because they have different layers of creativity, of imagination,” he said.
The teachers pointed out that this is an evolution similar to other technological changes of the past. They stated that well used, AI does not replace human talent, but rather allows access to the audiovisual world and opens new possibilities for more young people to tell their own stories.
