Video Concept :
The Bot Show : Intern Application for Terri & Sandy
When Dylan sent the prompt asking us to prove we were human, I sat with it for fourteen days. Not because I didn't have ideas. I had too many. AI roasts, voice notes, montages of things robots can't do. All of them fine. None of them felt like me.
So I made a documentary instead.
A 90-second nature doc, shot and edited in a single afternoon, narrated by a bot who is studying a human in her natural habitat. The human is me. The bot is calm, curious, and slightly confused. Between us sits a plastic anatomical brain, carried, cradled, set in the grass, pressed against a forehead, standing in for the thing we're all quietly trying to protect right now.
The Thought Behind It
The brief said prove you're a human. But the more I sat with it, the harder the real question underneath became: what does that even mean anymore?
We spend our days accepting cookies we don't understand, clicking traffic lights to prove we aren't robots, and handing our thinking over to models that finish our sentences before we've started them. The line between human and machine isn't blurry because machines got more human. It's blurry because we got quieter about the parts of us that were never supposed to be optimized.
So I didn't want to make a video that performed humanity. I wanted one that noticed it.
The bot narrator was the way in. A calm, slightly detached voice, the kind that describes a fox on a BBC special, applied to the smallest human things. Writing by hand. Touching the grass. Choosing a quote because you liked it, not because it performed well. The comedy comes from the mismatch. The feeling comes from what the bot keeps almost understanding and not quite.
The brain model started as a prop and became the whole point.
She carries it everywhere. It's what she's promising to use. By the end, it isn't a bit. It's a small, stubborn act of protection. Which is, I think, what being human looks like right now.
Shot in two hours on a Sony A7IV and an iPhone 16 Pro. Scored with Clock Numbers by Daniel Pemberton, from the Project Hail Mary soundtrack, because the track sounds the way the feeling feels. I wrote the script and ran it through a bot voice to narrate it, which felt like the correct kind of irony.
It's 90 seconds. It's not perfect. It's mine.
Credits :
Scripted, Directed, Edited : Prapti | Clock Numbers by Daniel Pemberton, from the Project Hail Mary