Artificial intelligence is making it easier and easier to create videos. In these videos, people say or do things that they have never said or done. In the super election year of 2021, this raises the question: Is our democracy in danger? We - an international team of 17 journalism students and 12 tech students – started an experiment: Can we create convincing deepfake videos of politicians in a few weeks? And if so: How would they react?
Script & Direction
Tom Kollmar
Fiona Mathewson
Julia Ruck
Lore Schulze-Velmede
Host
Tom Kollmar
Heads of Staff
Florent Comtesse
Anna Parrisius
Benedikt Rüschen
Katerina Zafeiri
Camera
Maxim Westermann
Edit
Maxim Westermann
Edit Trailer
& Teaser
Vincent Göler
Sound
Robin Harff
Music
Volkan Baydar
Color Grading
Bow Couleur
Research & Planning
Beatrice Achterberg
Nameer Alkhayyat
Victor Bellu
Florent Comtesse
Matias Cardone
Behnaz Derakhshani
Anna Chiara Doil
Ferdinand Heimbach
Suad Kamardeen
Tom Kollmar
Lilliana Lee Chung
Danny Mahlig
Fiona Mathewson
Sebastian May
Christian Mayer
Eduardo Nogueira
Samuel Nzekwe
Saidusmon Oripov Anna Parrisius
Juliane Reuther
Julia Ruck
Raphael Siems
Sonja Sönnichsen
Merlin Sugue
Jonas Uhlig
Katerina Zafeiri
Special Thanks
Defudger
Resemble AI
Wav2Lip: Accurately Lip-syncing Videos In The Wild
Executive Producer
Kristin Schulze
Justin Vanessa Reichelt
Simon Sticker
Riza-Rocco Avsar
Marc Thomas Spahl
Rudolf Porsch
Dr. Ulrich Schmitz
A Production of
FreeTech - Axel Springer Academy of Journalism and Technology
© Axel Springer SE 2021
This documentation is part of the project "The Deepfake Report" of the FreeTech - Axel Springer Academy of Journalism and Technology in Berlin, Germany.
