Writing A Shooting Script For AI: Shot Lists A Generator Can Follow
I used to write scripts the way I was taught: flowing prose, scene headings, dialogue in the middle of the page, descriptions that read like a short story.
I used to write scripts the way I was taught: flowing prose, scene headings, dialogue in the middle of the page, descriptions that read like a short story.
Every AI video creator has the same hard drive: a folder of beautiful orphans. Shots that were too long, too weird, or too good for the video they were
This is the comparison I am actually qualified to be unfair about. Seedance 2.5 is my daily driver — the reference-driven workflow my story work is built on.
Every creator I know has a version of this story. The shot is not working. So you generate again. And again. The credits tick down, the takes pile up, and
A good loop feels like it could play forever and you would not mind. A bad loop has that little hitch — the jump, the light change, the click — and once a
Here is a strange thing about AI video: you can generate ten technically clean shots of a conversation, cut them together, and produce a scene that feels
Runway is the tool other tools get measured against, mostly because it has been around long enough to have opinions. Gen-4.5 is its current generation model at
A rough cut is not a bad version of your video. It is the honest version. Before colour, before captions, before anyone argues about a title font, the rough
Play two generated clips back to back with the sound up and you will hear the giveaway that has nothing to do with how the dialogue sounds. It is the nothing
Nobody asks for your paperwork on the good days. The request arrives attached to a problem: a platform wants evidence for an appeal, a client runs a rights
The most expensive button in AI video is “generate again” pressed without a thought in between. I know, because I used to press it professionally. A shot would
It happens innocently enough. A short did well on TikTok last month. You want it on Reels, or back on TikTok with a new caption, and the file is right there in