What do we say to stock footage? Use it!

"I want b-roll that shows robots solving problems…like Skynet, but not!" Um…okay! Our editors already had b-roll of little baby robots solving games, learning to walk, all that awesome goodness, but the producers wanted something more. What to do? Lets have a shot from the perspective of the problem-solving computer. I surfed some stock footage for inspiration, until I found footage of a rubics cube on black. What better problem to solve? I thought of how a computer might handle solving the problem of the rubies cube, I thought of a chess player - analyzing the setup and calculating a number of future steps to make. So…voila! Throw in the Iron Man inspired computer thoughts and throw it over the stock footage, and you have this piece featured in Season 3 of The Truth About Money!

Artificial Problem Solving from Amanda Newcomb on Vimeo.