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A media outreach move – storytelling via video complements the written word
Pyalla Technologies
Andy Vasey
Pyalla Technologies, LLC
A media outreach move – storytelling via video complements the written word
With as much discussion as there is going on today about AI and its likely impact on Nonstop customers, I was wondering what might be the best way for me, a storyteller, to leverage AI? Surely, I asked myself, I could work with AI to assist me with the transition from the written form to a visual representation. Could I tap the resources of AI to create easy-to-view short-form movies to tell a story? Without movie cameras and actors portraying actual characters, creating the product just using photographs, pictures and messages – would that work?
Prior to Nonstop Technical & Business Conference 2026 I started experimenting with ChatGPT. The operative word here being experimenting. With the first interactions involving the transformation of photos into caricatures, it seemed to me that it was just for fun. But as I continued to interact with my chosen AI client, I began learning more about making movies. Central to the creation of any movie was the story and while I have been happily creating stories for over two decades, moving onto creating screenplays was a completely different discipline. And like anything new, my screenplays were initially quite crude. But I had to start somewhere!
As this year’s Nonstop TBC 2026 included ten-minute Lightning Sessions, I worked with my client to close the session with my first primitive video. That primitive video can now be viewed on my YouTube channel, Richard and Margo media channel, simply by following this link:
I then followed with the exploration of interactions between my chosen AI Client, ChatGPT, and select AI tools. The first such tool that I was introduced to was Topview.ai. Revisiting this earlier 30 second video (above) and exploring the subject in a little more detail, I began the journey taking me from a glorified slideshow to something more akin to a real movie where characters interacted more realistically with each other. The idea of the 90-second short-form video appealed to me as this typically is the amount of time any of us is prepared to spend looking at anything that appears on the internet. This updated video can now be viewed by returning to my YouTube channel or better still, just by following this link:
Posting the YouTube on LinkedIn attracted numerous viewers to comment and to like. It was with the encouragement I received that I then embarked on a much larger project – creating a video capturing the spirit of Nonstop TBC 2026. Given how the punchline I particularly liked, coming as it did from a keynote session speaker, What was old is now new it seemed only logical to dress up the chosen actors as though living in the prewar era of the Great Gatsby. As the video progressed it placed less emphasis on the old with the last frames taking us into the world as we know it today. A world where Nonstop resilience is just as important an attribute as it has ever been these past fifty years. To watch this video, follow this link:
With that video being equally well received as my initial foray into the world of video, I then tackled the presence of Nonstop. From its role in the early days to when Client/Server computing emerged where Nonstop and Client/Server computing, working together, was readily embraced by the Nonstop community. The subsequent video played with a metaphor – driven by portraying this evolution from just Nonstop, to Nonstop with Client/Server and then to Nonstop with AI, through the eyes of cars. As cars evolved, so did their respective technologies so much so that they played a perfect foil to what transpired with computing. For this production, I turned to a voiceover AI tool Elevenlabs.io – that filled in the blanks should the metaphor prove less than intuitive. Again, simply follow this link to see the final product:
The short-form 90-second video is now being added to my options for telling stories. From posts and commentaries to articles and now to video, they will all become accessible to my clients. When it comes to video form, then these assignments will be pursued on a project-by-project basis. If this is a format that interests you and you have such projects in mind for 2027, then reach out to Margo and me as we will be only too happy to entertain delivering on the ideas you might just be mulling over today.
You can contact either one of us at any time via email – we would love to hear from you:
Pyalla Technologies, LLC
rkbuckle@gmail.com
margo_b_holen@msn.com
