Team One decided to add some comfort and warmth to the stressful holiday season with the charm of a holiday carol. In the spirit of Technolidays, Team One added to the tradition by partnering with an Artificial Intelligence. By merging the technology of the future with the musical style of the 1800s to create a new kind of carol.
Behind-the-scenes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfYvWmjavY0&t=261s
The tech behind the Carol:
We used TensorFlow to create an LSTM (Long Short Term Memory) Neural Network that reads all of the lyrics of 200 years’ worth of holiday carols. The network learned the style of how the different carols where written – the context of words, rhymes, line/stanza breaks, etc.
The team behind the video includes
Team One:
CCO: Chris Graves
ECD: Alastair Green
CD: Phil Henson
Copywriter: Jason Whitehead
Art Director: Ryan Davis
Executive Content Producer: Bryan Cook
Associate Director, Multimedia: Gina Grosso
Associate Producer: Kevin Warnecke
Editor: Brendan Carney
Assistant Media Editor: Sergio Maggi
Motion Graphics Editor: Rob Johnston
A Camera Operator: Brendan Carney
B Camera Operator: Matt Hartz
Lighting: Sergio Maggi
Photography: Matt Hartz
Music Supervisor: Neil Cleary
“Music Producer”: Chadwick Daniel
Composer: Brendan O’Connell
Arrangement: Kevin St. Clair
Carolers: Charles Dickens Carolers: Ricky V. Mckillips Jr., Andrew Nguyen, Laurel Sanders, Allie Tyler
Project Managers: Stacy Horwitz, Brooke Bauer
Producers: Sarah Marie Glass, Kristen Little
Special Thanks: JUICE Studios
The lyrics to the carol:
