Assistant director agents
Slate turns scripts and source material into scene logic, coverage options, continuity notes, references, and shot-level work that can be directed instead of guessed.
AI filmmaking for commercials, proof-of-concepts, shorts, and features.
Jason Thomas Ferrell directs, produces, edits, and builds AI film workflows for teams that need finished moving images fast enough to pitch, finance, greenlight, or ship.
Commercials and POCs
under a week
Short films
one to two weeks
Feature builds
six to eight weeks
Public-domain remake proof
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
A Roger Avary collaboration taking a low-budget 1964 public-domain film and reimagining it as a Pixar-style children's adventure with modern production value.
Slate
The AI film production system behind the work.
Jason built Slate as a full AI filmmaking studio: assistant-director agents, screenplay parsing, scene planning, model orchestration, continuity tracking, generated shots, reels, and review workflows. It turns AI video from isolated prompts into a directable production process.
Multi-model orchestration
The system coordinates image, video, audio, music, and editing workflows so a production can use the right model for the right creative problem.
Continuity control
Characters, locations, props, coverage, style references, and generated runs are organized around the film, not scattered across prompt history.
A better directing surface
The point is to make AI filmmaking faster, more legible, and more fun: choose the shot, adjust the performance, review the reel, and keep moving.
Available for the film work that has to move now.
Producers, directors, studios, agencies, and brands can bring a script, campaign, remake, treatment, or feature idea and get footage that can be watched, argued over, revised, funded, or released.
Commercials and brand films
under a week
AI-directed spots, UGC-style concepts, political ads, social launches, and campaign footage built for rapid review.
Proof-of-concept videos
under a week
Pitchable scenes, remake studies, tone tests, table-read-to-animatic packages, and development footage for financing or greenlight conversations.
Short films
one to two weeks
Script-to-screen short-form films with direction, visual continuity, edit rhythm, music, and finished presentation handled as one workflow.
Feature film builds
six to eight weeks
Direction, producing, editing, coverage planning, continuity control, and AI production systems for full-length feature development.
Reels across remakes, commercials, action, animation, and campaign work.
These samples are not prompt one-offs. They are direction tests: screenplay adaptation, source-film modernization, continuity, tone, edit rhythm, brand pacing, and feature-scale workflow design.
Directed AI sequence / 4K sequence study
Night of the Living Dead
An adaptation from the 1968 screenplay, using long takes and a slow tension build in the first half before pushing into an action climax in the second.
Solo AI direction, sequence assembly, multi-model production
Public-domain remake proof / Feature study
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
A Roger Avary collaboration taking a low-budget 1964 public-domain film and reimagining it as a Pixar-style children's adventure with modern production value.
Collaboration with Roger Avary; AI direction, shot regeneration, score-backed proof
Historical feature proof / Feature study
Wings
A Roger Avary collaboration updating a 1927 silent aviation film with action, speed, music, and spectacle calibrated for modern audiences.
Collaboration with Roger Avary; regeneration, music-driven edit, cinematic assembly
Prestige remake proof / Feature study
The King of Kings
A Roger Avary collaboration using Cecil B. DeMille's silent biblical epic as a test for updating archival spectacle, reverence, and coverage for modern audiences.
Collaboration with Roger Avary; visual regeneration, tone matching, production-system test
Continuity and source analysis / Scene study
Dementia 13
A Roger Avary collaboration using Francis Ford Coppola's first film as a test for modernizing older source material through a rotoscope-inspired animation style.
Collaboration with Roger Avary; scene parsing, source analysis, shot-boundary workflow
Private crime-film proof / Private study
Mr. Scarface
A Roger Avary collaboration showing modern remake capability with AI for a 1976 low-budget Italian crime film; created as a targeted demonstration for Quentin Tarantino.
Collaboration with Roger Avary; AI direction, remake strategy, scene reconstruction
Commercial proof / Portrait UGC study
YETI UGC Concept
A vertical commercial concept testing UGC grammar, product-centered lifestyle beats, and short-form brand pacing with AI-generated production.
Concept, AI direction, vertical commercial production
Comedy proof / Portrait joke study
McGregor the Goat
An explicit classic bar-joke concept used to test character comedy, punchline timing, and vertical short-form AI video.
Concept, AI direction, comedy timing, edit supervision
Explicit comedy sample.
A director with a production system.
The advantage is not just knowing which model to prompt. It is having the judgment and software stack to move from script to shot plan, from source material to remake strategy, from generated footage to edited sequence.
Direction
Script interpretation, shot language, blocking, pacing, tone, genre grammar, and the editorial choices that make generated footage feel directed.
Continuity
Character looks, locations, props, scene logic, coverage, source references, and visual consistency across a sequence or feature-length workflow.
Post
Scene assembly, music-driven edits, dialogue and action rhythm, polish passes, export discipline, and reviewable reels for stakeholders.
Bring the script, treatment, brand, or public-domain source.
For film: proof-of-concepts, proof-of-concept videos, commercials, shorts, remakes, animatics, and full feature workflows. The point is to make footage that can change the next production decision.