1. Instrumental / BGM Category
This new category introduces a one-of-a-kind competition format. Creators are provided with an "Official Video Asset" (approx. 3 minutes, featuring narrative and animation sequences) provided by the festival, and are tasked with composing and applying the optimal AI-generated music track (pure music data excluding visual alterations).
It is a new style of "Reverse-Scoring" competition that asks how highly AI can construct the synergy between visual and musical elements.
Submission Flow
Download Video
Download the "Official Video Asset" file from the official website.
Compose Music
Utilize Generative AI tools to compose a score optimized for the visual's emotion and pacing.
Mix & Sync
Dub, mix, and synchronize your composed music data tightly with the provided official video asset.
Submit
Upload your final video file to FilmFreeway and enter it into the AIFJ 2026 corresponding category.
Official Prompt and Guidelines
A unique format where creators compose and apply AI-generated music tracks (pure music data) to a designated "Official Video Asset" provided by the festival. We will comprehensively evaluate cinematic synchronicity and musical completion.
[IMPORTANT] Handling of the Ambient Audio Layer
Participants are explicitly welcome and permitted to keep, lower, adjust, replace, or completely mute the original ambient audio layers (environmental sounds and sound effects) provided from the start in the Official Video Asset, depending on your creative direction.
Please feel free to conduct open and unhindered sound design to make your music resonate as beautifully as possible, maximizing the emotion and narrative of the visuals.