Collapsing the Cost of ProductionThe media landscape has been fundamentally altered by the arrival of hyper-realistic generative video models like Sora 2 and Google’s Veo 3.1. These tools are collapsing the traditional costs of B2B marketing and cinematic production by replacing expensive stock footage and long pre-production cycles with instant, high-fidelity renders. We are seeing the rise of the "AI Cinematographer"—a new professional role that uses multimodal editing to control camera angles, lighting, and pixel-level changes via text prompts. Imagine typing "change the background to a sunset in Dubai" and seeing the video pixels shift instantly. This...