Media Tech Crossroads

Aaron Choi Ramos

Media Tech Crossroads is a podcast for working professionals in film, video, and media production. Each episode is a long-form conversation with someone doing the job. We talk about the tools they use, the ones they've dropped, how AI and new formats are changing their workflow, and what they've learned about staying employed and creatively sharp. If you shoot, edit, color, direct, design, score, or otherwise make media for a living, this show is for you. New episodes regularly. Follow to get them as they drop.

Episodes

  1. May 12

    Sam and Chloe — A Commercial Director and a Colorist on the Crafts AI Eats — and the Ones It Can't

    A commercial director and a colorist on the question that splits the room in modern film and post: which crafts is AI eating, and which is it nowhere near touching? Sam is a commercial director who came up the technical way — one of the first Ronin II gimbal operators in Malaysia, then cinematographer, then director, now moving from international agency work into narrative features. Chloe is a freelance colorist running Frenchie Color Grading on YouTube, a DaVinci Resolve certified trainer, working with global brands. Before color, she spent time as an AI consultant — and walked away because the work was empty. Sam encouraged her to pick up a cheap camera and shoot her village. She came back with a photo where she'd turned every summer tree from green to brown. He told her to be a colorist. They sit on opposite sides of the AI question. Sam thinks the advertising industry will be obliterated — one client, a hundred AI-generated variants targeted by demographic, no shoot needed. Chloe argues that color grading is protected, because perception itself is the job and AI has no concept of subjective reality. They don't fully agree, and the disagreement is the episode. What's in the conversation: The Ronin II and the democratization of camera work From AI consulting to color grading — Chloe's pivot, and why she left AI as utility vs. AI as generator — and why beginners getting over-reliant on the "sexy tools" is a problem Sam on what AI does to a director's conviction when it drafts your screenplay in two days The TV dinner, the Italian restaurant, and the charcoal artist — Sam's metaphor for why authorship survives What AI obliterates (advertising), what it doesn't (cinema, color, craft with a story behind it) The "AI fatigue" comeback and why concert revenue is at record highsFind Chloe:Frenchie Color Grading on YouTube@frenchie_ct on Instagram Find Sam:@samkoaycreates on Instagram Recorded in Bangkok at The Red Door Podcast Studio. Follow Media Tech Crossroads for new episodes with working media professionals.

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Media Tech Crossroads is a podcast for working professionals in film, video, and media production. Each episode is a long-form conversation with someone doing the job. We talk about the tools they use, the ones they've dropped, how AI and new formats are changing their workflow, and what they've learned about staying employed and creatively sharp. If you shoot, edit, color, direct, design, score, or otherwise make media for a living, this show is for you. New episodes regularly. Follow to get them as they drop.

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  • Creator
    Aaron Choi Ramos
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  • Episodes
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    © Aaron Choi Ramos
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