See what an AI film is, and what you still decide.

Play the film on this page from start to finish before you read on. Turn the sound on.

It runs 58 seconds: right in the 30 to 60 seconds this course has you aim for.

You decide the story: what happens, and in what order.

You decide the people: who is in it, what they look like and how they sound.

You decide the words. Every line of dialogue comes from you.

You decide what to keep. The computer makes many tries. Each try is called a take, and you pick the good ones.

AI makes the pictures, the voices and the motion.

You tell it what to make by typing a prompt: plain words that describe what you want.

A person still directs every film. The AI does not decide what is good. It makes what you ask, and some tries come out wrong.

That’s why this course has you plan before you make anything. A clear plan means more good tries and less money wasted.

From words: text to video. You type what happens, and it makes a short clip.

Example: “A woman closes a front door at night and leans against it.”

From a picture: image to video. You give it a picture, and it makes the picture move.

The picture becomes the first moment of the shot. You say what happens next.

From reference pictures: you give it pictures of a person, a place or an outfit to copy. They stay the same in every shot.

Most films use all three. Module 8 shows each one, step by step.

In the box below, write one sentence about the film you want to make. Who is in it, and what happens?

For example: “A grandmother finds out her grandson has been lying to her.” It doesn’t have to be good yet.