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Film Courage: What were some of the first AI filmmaking tools you used many years ago?
What are some of the tools that you use now?
Blake Ridder, Filmmaker/Writer/Actor/YouTuber: I haven’t really used any AI tools many years ago.
Only recently I obviously used ChatGPT and Claude and Gemini to help me bounce ideas and help me perfect the right dialogue because, as I said, my English isn’t perfect.
Then visually most of recently, I use a lot of video generation AI tools such as Higgsfield which have different platforms and models.
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I can use from Kling, Seedance, Runway, etc and Google Veo to help me really enhance the visuals that I couldn’t normally get with the budget or time that I had.
But I found recently that I also use AI more in the post-production side where there was a scene that you shot on set because you rushed it and then you missed a shot of a POV of an object or something that’s pretty quick.
Like there was a scene where I had a character…(Watch the video interview on YouTube here).
About:
Blake Ridder is a filmmaker, writer, director and actor, born in Shanghai and raised in the United Kingdom from the age of nine. He began acting in 2017, then wrote and directed his first short a year later. His feature debut, Help (2021), picked up multiple festival prizes and marked him as a fresh voice in contained psychological thrillers. Ridder’s horror follow-up, Manor of Darkness, was released in December 2025, while his third feature, the California-set suspense thriller Spill, is completed and heading for festivals/distribution. Across more than 70 shorts he has written, directed, and appeared in award winners such as The English Teacher (2020). He founded Ridder Films, an independent production company operating in Los Angeles and London, and launched the Ridder Film Festival in 2024 to spotlight emerging genre filmmakers. His behind-the-scenes filmmaking content has attracted an online audience of over half a million followers. Ridder speaks English and Mandarin fluently.
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