Since Feb 2024
Develop the film
Script, shot list and prompts, written with a language model.
Before a frame is generated, someone has to decide what the film is. From 2024 many AI filmmakers wrote with a chatbot at their side: it pitched, drafted the script, broke it into a shot list and wrote prompts for the shots. Apps like LTX Studio packaged the same chain, and in 2026 an agent started holding the whole development in a project folder.
Tutorials2
Creating an AI short film, full workflow: character, location, coverage, dialogue, story with Claude, consistent voices
Runway · YouTube · Aug 2026
How it works
- Write the script with a language model, then keep the parts that sound like you. PJ Accetturo co-wrote the Kalshi spot's jokes with Gemini and ChatGPT.
- Break it into a shot list: one line per shot, with the time of day, lighting, characters and any dialogue.
- Turn the list into prompts, five or ten at a time, each written as if the video model remembers nothing about the last shot.
- Generate far more than you keep. The Kalshi spot took three to four hundred generations for fifteen usable clips, over two to three days.
- Or hand it to an agent. A brief in a project folder becomes the script, the cast and the shot list (Runway Agent, invideo Agent One), or Claude Code reads it and runs the production from there.
Behind the scenes2
How films were actually made, from the people who made them.